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Article: This Book Is Only Half the Story
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 31, 2009
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A video game blogger named Rachael Webster created a minor stir
in the blogosphere last year, when it turned out that she didn't
exactly exist.
Sure, Webster has been cranking out interesting enough commentary
at a site bearing her supposed nom de blog, PixelVixen707. She even
got herself quoted in an article or two at other gaming news sites
along the way. But you probably won't bump into her at, say, the
video game industry's big trade show in Los Angeles this week. After
all, she's a character in a book.
"Personal Effects: Dark Art," published next month by St.
Martin's Press, is a creepy page-turner about an art therapist in a
mental institution trying to figure out whether one of his ...