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	<title>Novelists, Inc. Blog &#187; Popular Fiction</title>
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		<title>Writing heresy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia McLinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a tale of two books. These two were not the best and worst of books, but rather two books that each received outstanding reviews. Each was billed as suspense, and shelved with mysteries. Each was written by a well-known author. I can be a cranky reader, but both authors displayed writing skill that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time!  Time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Isaak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this great scene in J. R. R. Tolkein&#8217;s The Hobbit where Bilbo is exchanging riddles with Gollum.  It&#8217;s Gollum&#8217;s turn, and once again, he has delivered a long, rich, poetic monologue&#8211;and Bilbo is stumped.  Gollum comes to eat him, as is their bargain, and Bilbo starts asking for more time.  He is so frightened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Agent Laurie McLean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlogMistress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry Guests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Fantasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AGENTS IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL PUBLISHING By Laurie McLean, Larsen Pomada Literary Agents To steal a line from my colleague Michael Larsen’s playbook, now is the absolute best time ever to be a writer. This is something I truly believe. The opportunities for writers to get their work published are more varied and numerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OOPs – Out of Print, or Not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Lyons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found out that my very first book, Champagne Rules, which was one of the launch titles in Kensington’s Aphrodisia line in February 2006, is out of print – meaning that it’s not available in print from either my publisher’s website nor any of the major online stores. As it turns out, the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Research Becomes Reality or The Other Crystal Meth</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/research-becomes-reality#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marianna Jameson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Writing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frozen Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marianna Jameson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Marianna Jameson discusses the eerie similarities that exist between the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and Frozen Fire, her novel that was published a year before the disaster happened. ]]></description>
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		<title>Another Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Isaak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many writers at one time or another adopt pseudonyms for a variety of reasons.  Many long running series are written by multiple authors using the same name to make it easy for readers to find them, and lend a sense of continuity to the work.  Other authors use different names to distinguish between different series [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conferences of the Month</title>
		<link>http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/conferences-of-the-month</link>
		<comments>http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/conferences-of-the-month#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca York</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ken Follett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I ask myself, “Am I crazy?” There are a lot reasons why I might make that inquiry. This week, as I sit in a NY hotel room writing a blog entry, I’m wondering why I’m going to two conferences in July. The simple answer is that both International Thriller Writers and Romance Writers of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dressing the Part</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Isaak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Twitter chat at #scifichat, I was asked about how my former career as a costumer and puppet maker affects my writing.  I realized that making and wearing costumes can actually be a great psychological tool for authors.  In fact, I think many of us do it subconsciously already. Think about the opening [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meet Author Robert Gregory Browne</title>
		<link>http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-author-robert-gregory-browne</link>
		<comments>http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-author-robert-gregory-browne#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlogMistress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Gregory Browne is a former screenwriter who ran screaming from Hollywood and found a home in writing novels, the fourth of which, DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, is being released this month by St. Martin&#8217;s Press. His book, WHISPER IN THE DARK, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, who called it &#8220;a taut [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Name Fits</title>
		<link>http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/the-name-fits</link>
		<comments>http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/the-name-fits#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 04:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia McLinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Writing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright-infringement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parasites]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=5176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend Tweeted recently, saying “illegal downloaders/pirates SUCK. That is all.” I absolutely agree with the first sentiment. And, sure, the Tweeter meant “That is all” as a sign-off, but in its other sense, it’s not all. Not anywhere close to being all. A blog I posted here in January  about trying to pull the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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