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15 Minutes of Fame visited with Valente on the heels of her trip to Worldcon 2009 and a fresh nomination for a World Fantasy Award for A Buyers Guide to Maps on Antarctica. 15 Minutes of Fame: We understand you are quite the console gamer. What is your gaming background wow gold?

I am an inveterate console gamer since my first Nintendo -and I have hazy memories of my dads Atari. I grew up playing video games, obsessing over them. I know the layout of the first Zelda game like the streets of the town I grew up in.