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		<title>Have You Been to Rehab?</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/02/10/have-you-been-to-rehab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here. Today’s guest is author Catherine McKenzie. Catherine’s debut, Spin, which was an acclaimed novel in Canada, has just been released in the U.S. What&#8217;s it about? Katie Sandford has just gotten an interview at her favourite music magazine, The Line. It’s the chance of a lifetime. So what does she do? Goes out to celebrate — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn to Love the Pitch</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/02/09/learn-to-love-the-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here. Today’s guest is Sarah Pinneo, whose debut novel, Julia’s Child, was published by Plume / Penguin earlier in the week, to terrific reviews: Well written, well paced, and very absorbing.—Library Journal Pinneo skewers the cult of the child with an insider’s eye. A witty, well-plotted fiction debut.—Publishers Weekly That&#8217;s the happy ending. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Social&#8217; media: What isn&#8217;t in a name</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Porter Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time&#8217;s fickle glass, his sickle, hour&#8230; Sonnet 126 &#160; &#160; &#160; The so-called &#8220;social&#8221; media, currently our lovely boy of communication, hold in their darting packets of data, surely, unimaginable power. They collapse distance across continents and seas we once showed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Book Baby</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/02/03/happy-birthday-book-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[REAL WORLD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here. I&#8217;m so pleased to bring you today&#8217;s guest: author Sarah McCoy. Sarah&#8217;s second book, The Baker&#8217;s Daughter, about the daughter of a German baker during WWII and her continuing story in the present day, was released just last week by Crown (and with a deckle edge; I love a deckle edge). Said Tatiana de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Attitudes Toward Publishing You Should Avoid</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/27/5-attitudes-toward-publishing-you-should-avoid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes writers express sentiments that make me want to issue a red-flag warning: STOP. You are about to hurt yourself. Here are five of the biggest ones. 1. If I can’t get a deal soon, I’m self-publishing. Why are you in a rush? Does your book have an expiration date? Even if your book is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>70</slash:comments>
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		<title>Every Third Weekend: a way to save your local indie</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/25/every-third-weekend-a-way-to-save-your-local-indie/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/25/every-third-weekend-a-way-to-save-your-local-indie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I was crashing and my beloved knew it. He suggested we take Martin Luther King day off and go to Denver&#8211;wander through the new Ikea store to see if we might find some storage for our basement, maybe. More importantly, we would go hang out at The Tattered Cover bookstore. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do You Need Multiple Agents If You Write in Different Genres?</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/23/untitled/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/23/untitled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Sambuchino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GIVEAWAY: I am (again) excited to give away a free copy of the 2012 Guide to Literary Agents to a random commenter. Comment within one week; winners must live in Canada/US to receive the book by mail. Good luck to all! (Update: Julia Monroe Martin won.) I just got back from our awesome-yet-exhausting 2012 Writer&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>78</slash:comments>
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		<title>Making a Comeback in the Digital Age</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/19/making-a-comeback-in-the-digital-age/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/19/making-a-comeback-in-the-digital-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kath here. It&#8217;s such a thrill to be able to introduce one of the most courageous writers that I know, and a dear friend, historical romance novelist Elena Greene. Like most professional writers, Elena suffered ups and downs with a bit of sideways thrown in for good measure throughout her decade-long career writing Regency-set romances. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cover Story</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/18/cover-story/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/18/cover-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proverb says, Don&#8217;t judge a book by its cover, but whoever dreamed that one up can&#8217;t have been working in the publishing industry. It might be an indictment of human shallowness, but you can&#8217;t help first impressions. You will not judge a book by its cover once you&#8217;ve read it, of course; but first [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>3 Ways to Use Pinterest for Book Publicity</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/17/3-ways-to-use-pinterest-for-book-publicity/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/17/3-ways-to-use-pinterest-for-book-publicity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Patriarche</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publicity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like as soon as we tackle one hot “it” tool and capture ways to use it for publicity (first Facebook, then Twitter), something new and even cooler comes along and grabs everyone’s attention. Right now that “it” tool is Pinterest and I’ll admit – I’m hooked. If you’re not familiar, Pinterest is like an online [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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