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Liam Sweeny

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I was born in a rotted wooden shack by the moonlight on a cold winter's night...

Okay, so I was born in a hospital in March on the nation's bicentennial year of 1976. People were partying and I was unleashing bio-terror on my parents every changing time.

Born and raised in the Capital District of New York, Albany and it's environs, I grew up with the pride of knowing that "going to the city" never meant Albany.

I didn't start writing fiction until I got back from Louisiana after Katrina. It took that to launch me from stanzas to scenes.

I've written three Sci-fi/Fantasy novels, a few collections and novellas, and I drifted to old haunts, to the most fun parts of my life - delinquency. So now I write cops and crimes.

I like making great charac ...more

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Black Friday Mayhem

Okay, so I stayed home on Black Friday. I also stayed home on "Grey Thursday" (a.k.a. Thanksgiving) and unfortunately, I'll be online on Cyber Monday (but with the tax office, so I should be okay.)

Whew! Police pepper-sprayin' folks in an Odessa, TX Walmart, some melee in a mall somewhere that involved a Taser... a shopper's taser, not a cop's... And ya know what? No one got arrested in that last i Read more of this blog post »

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	Dark Yonder: Tales & Tabs by Liam Sweeny (Goodreads Author), Eric Beetner (Goodreads Author), Frank Zafiro (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 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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Now, I am not sure if this has been done before, so I apologise if this already exists (I'd be surprised if it hasn't). I wanted to make a group dedic ...more

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