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		<title>Respecting Your Natural Rhythms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are your natural rhythms&#8211;in life and in writing? How well does the reality of your life support those rhythms? I am writing this from Breckenridge, a very small Colorado village in the Rockies. It&#8217;s known for skiing, but I don&#8217;t ski and dislike the heavy crowds in the wintertime, so I come now, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>31 Authors, 1 Model of a Writers’ Cooperative: Author Tawny Stokes on the Bandit Creek Series</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/21/tawny-stokes-on-the-bandit-creek-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan O'Hara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, there’s been a self-publishing experiment taking place in the Calgary branch of the Romance Writers of America. (CARWA, members of which are known under the apt moniker “Carwackians.”) I’ve been an interested observer. Now that the Bandit Creek Series has matured, and can provide lessons and data, CaRWA’s third-time president joins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking for the Cowardly and Terrified</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/19/networking-for-the-cowardly-and-terrified/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/19/networking-for-the-cowardly-and-terrified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yuvi Zalkow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it should start becoming more and more obvious that I&#8217;m going through a writer-identity crisis as things get closer to the release of my book. And lucky you &#8212; you get to be a witness to my crisis. In this episode of my crisis, we walk through my attempt at networking even though I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>You say Potato, I Say Potato, You Say Tomato, I Say Book Sales</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/17/you-say-potato-i-say-potato-you-say-tomato-i-say-book-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/17/you-say-potato-i-say-potato-you-say-tomato-i-say-book-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kath here. We&#8217;re thrilled that novelist Liz Michalski is back to guest with us! Liz&#8217;s last guest post with us was just terrific, and we&#8217;re so pleased she agreed to return and discuss a quite unusual way of marketing your book. Her haunting debut novel Evenfall has received praise and buzz. Booklist says, &#8221;EVENFALL is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Old, Something New</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/16/something-old-something-new/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/16/something-old-something-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most writers, whether new or established, I have folders—physical and electronic—filled with stories that either never quite got to publication but that your instinct tells you are still worth something; or else were published long ago and whose details might be a bit dated, yet whose core is still strong. These aren&#8217;t dead stories, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Characters Welcome</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/15/characters-welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest is bestselling Kindle author Kathleen Shoop. Her second historical fiction novel, After the Fog, is set in 1948 Donora, Pennsylvania. The mill town&#8217;s &#8221;killing smog&#8221; was one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, triggering clean air advocacy and eventually, the Clean Air Act. Kathleen&#8217;s debut novel, The Last Letter, sold more than 50,000 copies and garnered multiple awards in 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Advertise with Writer Unboxed</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/13/advertise-with-writer-unboxed/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/13/advertise-with-writer-unboxed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Writer Unboxed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed something new recently at Writer Unboxed: advertisements at the top of the left-hand column. (We just finished running an ad for Chris Abouzeid, author of Anatopsis.) With the help of our assistant, we&#8217;ve created informational kits for both authors and businesses who might be interested in advertising with us. Bonus: They [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Independent Booksellers Nimbly Stay Afloat</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/10/independent-booksellers-nimbly-stay-afloat/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/10/independent-booksellers-nimbly-stay-afloat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here. It’s the second Thursday of the month, which means it’s #IndieThursday&#8212;a day dedicated to independent bookstores here at Writer Unboxed. Today&#8217;s guest is historical author and creative writing coach Cynthia Morris, a former bookseller with Denver&#8217;s Capitol Hill Books&#8211;a store that specialized in ways to thrive. Cynthia sent us an enthusiastic email following the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seven Out-of-the-Box Author Blogging Ideas</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/04/seven-out-of-the-box-author-blogging-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/04/seven-out-of-the-box-author-blogging-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here. Please welcome today&#8217;s guest, Shari Stauch. Shari is the CEO of Shark Marketing Co. and has been involved in publishing, marketing and PR for 33 years. As president of Charleston&#8217;s Center for Women, she moderates the Women Writers Forum, and conducts seminars on website marketing and image branding. Under her leadership the Center for Women [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time Out</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/03/time-out/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/03/time-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Marillier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Talk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[barbara o'neal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Juliet Marillier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to write a whole post without using a certain 8 letter word describing something short people and aspiring writers can build and climb up on in order to be more visible. That’s not to downplay the value of other contributors’ recent posts about balancing your writing time with your visibility time, or the [...]]]></description>
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