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The Cloud Captains

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Jul 24, 2022
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Once upon a time when I first dreamt of being an author, I wrote stories for children, mostly middlegrade fiction.

Many of them were terrible, as most early writing is, but I loved to make stories just because I could.

I wrote about soulful children who had tragic lives, about sailing and deserts and faraway places. My inspiration in those days were Le Gu…

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