Dec 26, 2011 10:01 AM

Kelly Link and her creative process

*One might have known from reading her works of fantasy that she was into the likes of this.

*I need to read her new book. It shouldn't be much trouble to find now that I'm in Austin.

http://fantasyscifibookreview.blogspot.com/2010/06/guest-post-giveaway-kelly-link-author.html

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