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      <h1>About Angie</h1>
      <p class="tagline">Author. Tool-builder. Powered by spite and caffeine.</p>
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      Hi. I'm Angie. I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. I ended up writing about
      them instead, which is close enough if you don't think about it too hard.
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      I've been in the publishing business for fifteen years, which is long enough to learn
      exactly which parts of it I love and which parts make me want to fake my own death and
      move to a cabin. The writing? Love it. The fiddly, repetitive, do-it-again-by-Tuesday
      tasks that pile up around the writing? That's where things get personal.
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      Here's the thing about me: I am genuinely terrible at mundane tasks. I get bored, I
      lose the thread, and I would rather build a robot to do something than do it twice. So
      that's what I started doing. My day job is as a financial investigator, which gets more
      chaotic by the week, and somewhere in the middle of all that I decided that if I ever
      wanted to actually <em>publish</em> the books rattling around in my head, I'd have to
      automate the parts that were eating my time. Spite is a renewable resource. So is
      caffeine. I run on both.
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      The tools you'll find around here &mdash; Seedsmith, The Backroom, the Publishing
      Command Center, the Writing Room &mdash; all came out of that same impulse. Sometimes
      I got tired of doing a thing. Sometimes I genuinely could not remember what I was doing
      from one day to the next. And sometimes, if I'm being honest, I tried to make my life
      better by spending two weeks building something I <em>may</em> never actually use.
      Some of them are polished. Some are still wearing their seams on the outside. I'm
      sharing the whole messy, caffeinated process, not just the highlight reel.
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      I'd rather build a robot to do it than do it twice.
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      Full disclosure: I identify as a Slytherin, so there's usually a long game running in
      the background. And any typos, stray commas, or punctuation that's wandered off to do
      its own thing? Not me. That's the Typo Fairy. We have an arrangement. It is not going
      well.
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      If you came here and thought either &ldquo;huh, I could probably do that too&rdquo; or
      &ldquo;wait, when did this woman last sleep?&rdquo; &mdash; honestly, both are correct,
      and you're exactly the kind of person I built this for.
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