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The Chase Tinker Series…it started with a dream…
One night, about eight years ago, I dreamed I was living in a gigantic, fancy house where every room had magic in it, and any room I went into I could perform the superpower that lived in there. For the life of me I couldn’t remember what powers I performed in my dream, but thank goodness the rest of it stuck with me. When I told my daughter about it the next day, she thought it sounded like an awesome idea for a Middle Grade/Tween book. Right away we both started thinking up other ideas.

First off, we needed a good family (The Tinkers) to live in the house, along with some evil guys to battle over it with (The Marlowes). We decided that every Tinker would have their own unique magical ability, and then whenever someone died their magic…
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