TJ Klune

TJ Klune is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author (Into This River I Drown) and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company. His novels include the Green Creek series, The House on the Cerulean Sea and The Extraordinaires. Being queer himself, TJ believes it's important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive, queer representation in stories.  

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In the Lives of Puppets

In this excerpt from In the Lives of Puppets TJ Klune, ultimately inspired by The Adventures of Pinocchio, leads the reader into a mysterious drama unfolding in a world that is both familiar and radically different from our own, at the same time simpler and more complex. This is a world in which robots and humans co-exist, go about their business, interact and evolve. And all of them, even the... Continue Reading

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