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	<title>Writer Unboxed &#187; Kathleen Bolton</title>
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	<description>about the craft and business of genre fiction</description>
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		<title>A Swift Kick</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/03/15/a-swift-kick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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Some of you who follow me on Twitter may know that the current project I&#8217;m working on for Working Partners is a horror novel for the YA market.  I&#8217;d submitted sample chapters to them last year, was asked to revise, then asked to submit a lengthier sample in December.  This week I received the revision requests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Eugenia Lovett West, part 2</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/03/12/author-interview-eugenia-lovett-west-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/03/12/author-interview-eugenia-lovett-west-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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She had a highly-regarded editor pluck her out of the online equivalent of the slush pile and signed her two a two-book deal with St. Martin&#8217;s.  She&#8217;s also eighty-something years young.  But Eugenia Lovett West does not rest on her laurels or her age when it comes to writing tightly-plotted mysteries.  Her latest novel, OVERKILL, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUTHOR INTERVIEW:Eugenia Lovett West, part 1</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/03/05/author-intervieweugenia-lovett-west-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/03/05/author-intervieweugenia-lovett-west-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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Imagine entering a writing contest sponsored by a major publishing house, but not winning.  Then imagine getting an e-mail from a very A-list editor wanting to offer you a two-book deal because your writing captivated her.  An aspiring novelist&#8217;s fairy tale ending, right?
Dreams did come true for mystery novelist Eugenia Lovett West because [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Snippets</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/03/01/snippets-23/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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Tidbits of interest to writers from around the &#8216;net.
ETA: Here&#8217;s a fascinating article from the NYTs on what we are all wondering: how much it actually costs to produce a book
But publishers also say consumers exaggerate the savings and have developed unrealistic expectations about how low the prices of e-books can go. Yes, they say, printing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gut Check</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/02/15/gut-check/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/02/15/gut-check/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>

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The signs were not good.
Oh, I had a plan.  In December, I&#8217;d outlined the whole book from beginning to end.  Made sure I&#8217;d figured out the plot holes in advance.  Had a killer resolution in mind.  The plan was solid.
I knew I was getting into trouble around mid-January when my page [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/02/08/2572/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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The American Booksellers Association wrapped up their fifth annual Winter Institute meeting this weekend.  The ABA discusses trends that affect booksellers, and their forecast for 2010 is also of interest to writers.  The association commissioned Verso Advertising to conduct a survey of book-buying habits, breaking down demographics, frequency of purchase, and the impact of e-books.  The results are both [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Toy</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/02/01/new-toy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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My librarian husband, who regards e-book readers like Kindle and Nook with disdain (&#8220;and what will happen to libraries when there are no more books?&#8221; he asks rhetorically) said out of the blue the other day: &#8220;I want an iPad.&#8221; 
This is a guy who barely uses his cellphone and has a really old iPod Nano.  He&#8217;s a late adopter, this one.
I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest! and good news from Ray</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/25/contest-and-good-news-from-ray/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/25/contest-and-good-news-from-ray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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Uber-contributor Ray Rhamey just dropped us a line to let us know that he has launched his Buzz Blast contest to promote his new book The Vampire Kitty-cat Chronicles.  Click the link for details.  Prizes are:
First Prize: to the largest number of emails/tweets sent, a choice of gear (t-shirt, mug, water bottle, etc.) from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snippets</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/25/snippets-22/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/25/snippets-22/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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Writerly news from around the Internetz:
This is pretty cool.   Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries, chronicals what he calls &#8220;The DIY Book Tour&#8221; in the New York Times.  His experience mirrored mine when I was a guest at a mother-daughter book club chat to talk about CONFESSIONS OF A FIRST DAUGHTER.
The people who showed up for these events had usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switching voices</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/18/switching-voices/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/18/switching-voices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>
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I know a thing or two about writing in multiple voices.
My day job as a feature writer and editor requires me to write in a standard journalistic voice.   Before I was hired by Working Partners to write YA novels, I wrote historicals.  The First Daughter series is heavy on contemporary teenage lingo, like, OMG yannow?.  And now I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Author Interview: J.C. Hutchins, part 2</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/15/author-interview-j-c-hutchins-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/15/author-interview-j-c-hutchins-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The President of the United States is dead.  He was murdered in the morning sunlight by a four-year-old boy.&#8221;
Hooked?  Oh, but you will be when you continue reading author, innovator and WU contributor J.C. Hutchins&#8217; debut thriller 7th Son: Descent. 
Every novelist hopes to create a storyline riveting enough to keep the reader enthralled and a concept [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Movie Talk: AVATAR</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/11/movie-talk-avatar/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/11/movie-talk-avatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m a late adopter when it comes to entertainment. I don&#8217;t usually go to movies or buy books or music until I&#8217;ve read reviews or talked to trusted individuals that I&#8217;m not going to waste my money. Such as it was with the wildly popular new scifi movie Avatar. To be honest, I did not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Author Interview: J.C. Hutchins, part 1</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/08/author-interview-j-c-hutchins-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/08/author-interview-j-c-hutchins-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve never met another writer like J.C. Hutchins. And I&#8217;ve met plenty over these years as a blogger and novelist. Author, innovator, and just a darn nice guy, J.C. Hutchins does more in a day than the rest of us do in a month. And he&#8217;s breaking the mold in terms of what writers need [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Baaack!</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/04/were-baaack/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/01/04/were-baaack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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Happy 2010!  How are those New Year&#8217;s resolutions going?
Yeah, me too.  I&#8217;m stuffing myself with caramel apple pie right now.  I&#8217;ll go back to my newly resolved healthy eating plan tomorrow *crosses fingers*.
Mostly I think New Year&#8217;s resolutions are exercises in futility.  But I make them anyway.  For one week [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time Crunch</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re feeling the same way I am this holiday season: wishing that somehow there was more than 24/7 in a week to get everything done that needs doing.  It&#8217;s durn hard to fit day job, holiday shopping, your kid&#8217;s holiday play, office parties, sleeping and oh yeah, your writing career in 24 tiny hours.  But [...]]]></description>
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