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  • Reading: Savages (Excerpt #2)

    I started my reading practice videos with Savages. Fitting as it is my first book. Months later, we are back at Savages again. Have I gotten any better? You tell me… You can find Savages here (including audiobook!): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C2T88RZ/ Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • Savages Apocalypse Years Later

    New mic, who this? Darth Vader, apparently 😆 I wrote Savages amidst the post-apocalyptic zombie craze. How do I feel about it years later after a global pandemic and watching people freak out over toilet paper? And how do you feel about it? Find Savages here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C2T88RZ/ Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • Savages: Inspiration in the Darkness

    Savages: Inspiration in the Darkness

    I don’t know why depression and writing walk hand in hand for me. Mania and writing surely do not, though I would love to fuel my craft with that energy. There is just a certain point in the descent, a certain shade in the darkness where my mind unfurls and all the words pour down…

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  • Tennessee Mini Tour

    Last weekend, I took myself on a little miniature tour through Tennessee. As with all things in my life, it was a whirlwind. Initially, this entire trip was planned around attending the Behind the Mask Author Event. I had never previously done a mass book signing event, so when the organizer invited me, I figured, why…

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  • My 2017 in Review

    When it comes to the state of the world at large and current events, I am with the majority in being ready and excited to say goodbye (and fuck off) to 2017. What a rollercoaster mess of a year. However, if I refine my focus down to something a little more narcissistic, the assessment of…

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  • Common Themes

    Every writer has common themes around which their brains and hence stories fixate. If you read any author long enough, you will see the same turns of phrase, images, scenarios. You can even chronologically identify a work based on the author’s fixations at the time, like stratifications in an excavation. I am no exception. I…

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  • Submitting Book #3

    Where have I been lately? What have I been doing these past months? Why have I sucked horrendously at this whole blogging, social networking business? Aside from my day job, my family, and my workout obsession, BOOK #3! Technically, this is the third book I have completed in three years. Additionally, this third book is…

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  • Book Clubbing and Comic Conning

    Being a published author, even on the smallest of scales, remains a perpetually surreal experience. A couple weeks ago, I attended my first book club. This experience was especially unique because it was also the first time (to my knowledge) that my book, Savages, was the book said club read that month. Even though this book…

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