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Owen Thomas has written seven books: The Lion Trees (which has garnered over sixteen international book awards, including the Amazon Kindle Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Book and Author Book of the Year, the Beverly Hills International Book Award and, most recently, a finalist in the 2020 Book Excellence Awards); Mother Blues (a novel of music and mystery set in post-Hurricane Harvey Texas); Message in a Bullet: A Raymond Mackey Mystery (the first in a series of detective novels); The Russian Doll: A Raymond Mackey Mystery (the second book in that series); The Big Dream: A Raymond Mackey Mystery (the third book in that series); Signs of Passing (a book of interconnected short stories, and winner of fourteen book awards, including the 2014 Pacific Book Awards for Short Fiction, also named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015 by Shelf Unbound Magazine); and This is the Dream (a collection of stories and novellas that explore that perplexing liminal distance between who we are and what we want). Owen lives and writes twelve hundred feet up the side of a volcano on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.