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	<description>wordsmith &#38; bibliophile</description>
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		<title>This Blog is In Stasis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Nature of Forget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst I drive this stunning vehicle to Mongolia with team mate Victoria as part of the Mongol Rally. We have another blog where you can monitor our progress. We are leaving from Goodwood on Saturday at the Festival of Slow and taking the 19:45 ferry from Dover to Calais. From Calais we&#8217;ll drive through France [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNEAK PEEK: Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[A Musing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filming has begun&#8230; Exciting stuff. I&#8217;m not sure her hair is as out of control as I&#8217;ve imagined it when I&#8217;ve been reading but perhaps I have visualised her as a bit of a cartoon character&#8230; Regardless, I think the Heigl is perfect for this role &#8211; I can&#8217;t think of another actress (apart from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Line: &#8216;The Lacuna&#8217; by Barbara Kingsolver</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[First Lines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the beginning were the howlers.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Empanades Dulces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Literary Recipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From our most recent bookclub read and recent Orange Prize winner, Barbara Kingsolver&#8217;s &#8216;The Lacuna&#8217;. It&#8217;s a large book and I suspect I won&#8217;t have finished it by Friday. Full review when I do, though. I remember the excitement of my Grandparents buying a box of these and us sitting at a small, cast iron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rejection #15 for &#8216;Thirty Seconds Before Midnight&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Thirty Seconds Before Midnight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By email. I am off for six weeks on Saturday and wondering whether to try and cram in another round of submissions before I go&#8230; I have 2 outstanding at the moment and have become very focussed on finishing the new novel &#8211; it is, after all, a year since I finished TSBM. Decisions, decisions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Trailer: &#8216;Imperial Bedrooms&#8217; by Bret Easton Ellis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Book Trailer]]></category>

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		<title>Rejection #14 for &#8216;Thirty Seconds Before Midnight&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Thirty Seconds Before Midnight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By email: &#8220;Thank you for writing to us.  I do apologise for the standard email; we have been so inundated with submissions recently that we are unable to give each one an individual reply. I do assure you that we have considered your work carefully and I am sorry to say that we feel that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephenie Meyer &#8211; The Twilight Saga</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[On Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see the new Twilight movie yesterday, Eclipse. The global phenomenon that is Twilight is so fascinating &#8211; here&#8217;s her interview with Oprah on the release of the previous movie, New Moon.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;How I Write&#8217; by Janet Evanovich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted a profile of Janet Evanovich in the success stories section of this site, and in it mentioned that I had ordered a copy of her non-fiction work detailing her approach to writing. Typically no nonsense, this was an excellent read, and even though I have read several books on the craft of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Line: &#8216;The Pregnant Widow&#8217; by Martin Amis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[First Lines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They had driven into town from the castle; and Keith Nearing walked the streets of Montale, Italy, from car to bar, at dusk, flanked by two twenty-year-old blondes, Lily and Scheherazade&#8230;&#8221;]]></description>
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