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Carla H. Krueger

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in The United Kingdom

March 01

Website

http://carlakrueger.com/

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Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

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Douglas Adams, Bret Easton Ellis, Iain Banks, George Orwell, Irvine We ...more

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February 2012

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Dear readers,

I’m Carla and I write short and long fiction, depending how much ink is in the pen. I grew up in an unconventional family in an unconventional community surrounded by wild, wonderful and sometimes pretty weird people and, yes you’re right, a lot of that stuff does end up in my fiction. When it comes to stories – those I read and write – I love seeing ordinary people flirt with unexpected danger. I get excited about outrageous books and hilarious books. I like darker fiction, the kind that occasionally shocks. I also enjoy meeting unlikely heroes and discovering people’s secrets. My work has already appeared in Crime Fiction Lover’s “New Talent” section and on a handful of small press shortlists. I’ve written six short novels, t ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 67 ratings · 49 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Slaughterhouse 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Never More Than 24 Hours 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Even the Young Can be Warriors 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Broken Shells 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Carla H. Krueger's Blog: Kill Boring, Embrace Daring

I Gave Up The Day Job Five Times (For Fiction)

I’ve been a dancer, an art dealer, a till worker, a physicist, a mortuary volunteer and a career consultant (and I’m still the latter), but the question is, how do those jobs help me write?

To set one record straight immediately, physics impacts my writing minimally. I discovered early on that mentioning it led people to wrongly assume I write sci-fi. The only aliens I write about are humans with o Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 30, 2018 05:38 • Tags: art-dealer, careers, dancer, day-job, exploration, humour, inspiration, life, writer-jobs, writing

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Series by Carla H. Krueger

From the Horse’s Mouth Collection (5 books)
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The Gormenghast Trilogy (Gormenghast, #1-3)

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“Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.”
― Carla H Krueger

tags: art, artists, creativity, everyone-belongs, graffiti

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“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.”
― Carla H Krueger, From the Horse’s Mouth

“Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.”
― Amaya Ellman

tags: break-rules, disobedience, disorder, rebel, rebellion, rebellious, rule-breaking

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Carla’s Quotes

“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity

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“Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun