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Location: Florida, USA
Anniversary: Aug 20
In My Own Words:
Victoria Tarrani is a freelance writer, editor, and graphic artist with a technical background and a love of science and fiction. This combination gives her the ability to write, review, ghost write, or edit almost any English language document. See I am a recommended editor and accept new clients. First five pages (double spaced) are free. I accept special requests, but will not review electro… Read moreVictoria Tarrani is a freelance writer, editor, and graphic artist with a technical background and a love of science and fiction. This combination gives her the ability to write, review, ghost write, or edit almost any English language document.
See I am a recommended editor and accept new clients. First five pages (double spaced) are free.
I accept special requests, but will not review electronic files -- they always put me into edit mode.
Philosophy: 'Yes, I can!' After a divorce, I returned to college where I earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Science degree from Coleman College in San Diego, CA.
While going through college as an adult I was the student activities president, tutor, and teaching assistant and graduated with a 3.9 average. I burned out and this caused the drop from 4.0 after eight months. I took 130 units in 13 months.
'Everyone can change their future. There is no age limit on self-determination.'
She is an eclectic Gemini who loves astronomy, physics, history, drums & rhthym, and whatever I find fascinating... I run out of time -- all the time. My insatiable curiosity is never quenched though I love research and study. I hate analogies that make no sense and the overuse of similes because 'not everything is like something else.' I love movies, and am able to suspend disbelief to enjoy the full impact; my favorites are action based.
My friends call me Viki, rarely aware that it is an acronym for Virtual Integrated Kinetic Interface, which I created as a joke. Her technical career included work as a network/systems engineer/business analyst for ten years. The last three years I focused on designing and writing business solutions and proposals. Her credentials include CNE, CLNE, MCP, ICE, ECNE, MCNE, WP Engineer, and others; I wrote a monthly column for San Diego Computer Journal when I lived in San Diego.
My greatest passion is creative writing. I won third for a short story 'Everything She Wants,' written for a special friend and published by Dream Forge. The award from Societatea Astronomica Romana de Meterori (The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy) for my Astro Haiku is treasured.
My graphic art appears on various web sites and has been cover art for Deviant Minds and Star Leaper. Like me, the artwork has a mystical feeling to it.
My reviews of books, booklets, chapbooks, movies, toys, software, and hardware reflect the diversity of my nature. They appear on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, New Hope International, Star Leaper, Deviant Minds, and DVDivas. The special request reviews are to help authors to promote their work. My commitment to help 'success driven teens' has sparked other reviews, and my work has been used (with full disclosure) for school projects.
My professional publications include poetry, stories or articles in: San Diego Computer Journal; Dreams of Dark Futures, an anthology; First Draft; Sixth Sense; Haiku 2000; Miss Lucy Westerna; Blood Coven; A Feast of Night, In Buddha's Temple; Blood Roses, and others.
Web work publications include: Zimmerzine, Hero's Journal, In Buddha's Temple, Miss Lucy Westerna, Millennium Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, Blood Coven, A Coven of Ghouls (Ghoulish Zombies), Star Leaper, Dream Forge, Pegasus Dreaming, Aabye's Baby, Grey Sun, After Thoughts, Nocturnal Postings, PolyphonyPress, Count Dracula, Wizard's World, and more.
I has finished four children's books, and think only the latest is ready for representation and publication. Books 1 and 2 of my Science Fiction/Fantasy trilogy are well into the development phase.
My Reality: 'I took off the rose colored glasses and wished I had been able to see through masks and subterfuge when I was younger; I would have made fewer mistakes. If I had not made those mistakes, however, I wouldn't be who I am. Such is the conundrum.'
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. Forty years ago a black man is lynched in North Carolina. Today, people who were connected to that murder through a boarding school, are dying. Douglas Quinn weaves the history into an excellent adventure. Quinn is a dynamic storyteller and keeps his readers riveted. Webb Sawyer, just out of an Army psychiatric hospital, craves a quiet, uneventful life. He lives in his his late father's fishing shack at Blue Heron Marsh where he knows the slow, easy life on the Outer Banks of North Carolina will heal his wounded psyche, which included killing the Serbian death squad leader. He basks in placid contentment, including a sultry romance with Nan, from the pub… Read more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Reviews are only subjective. Ford as Allie Fox is an inventor, a genius, a man too smart for the world around him. He is a mechanical engineer who takes his family to Central America in search of Utopia, as he defines it. Of course, his family does not want to leave behind civilization and all of the comforts that home brings, but no one can resist his will. Perhaps that and his abrasive irritating manner are aspects of his insanity. He does not expect to find another zealot, particularly in the form of Reverend Spellgood (Andre Gregory) who has determined to bring Christianity to the natives. Fox's goal is to bring his definition of civilization. The conflict and comparison… Read more
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I resisted reading Mystic River because I had not seen the movie - but I am delighted that I did. It is a first rate page-turner with rich details (scenes, characters, connections -- life, etc.) that a movie can only hint exists. I still have not seen the movie, but it is definitely on my "to see" list. The book's slow beginning paid huge dividends in character and relationship developments that provide significant plot interaction and clues. The book began with a traumatic event that happened when the three main characters were eleven. Mystic River captures the times and innocence of youth very well. Lehane tosses in clues to the killer like grape tomatoes in a spinach salad… Read more
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