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		<title>How authors can autograph their e-books!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorgraph, baby, the neatest author aid since the invention of electronic word-processing devices!  Okay, maybe I&#8217;ve been half asleep at the switch, but I hadn&#8217;t heard of Authorgraph (formerly called Kindlegraph) before.  I was so excited, I rushed out (electronically speaking) and signed up for the free app. What is Authorgraph? you might ask, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1362&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been tremendously active on my FantasyFic blog in 2012.  Still I had a few very loyal followers who came and looked whenever I had something new.  I appreciate you so much.  I will be more active this year. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1359&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Pets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Passionate about Pets: A tale of love and inspiration. Tessa suddenly went blind and her owners didn't know what to do so they gave her up to a Shelter. This is her story . . . After finding out what was wrong with Tessa and receiving the attention and rehab she needed from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1351&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Author Rights and Responsibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Author Rights and Responsibilities&#8221; by Rachelle Gardner was originally published on RachelleGardner.com This article was reblogged from Rachelle Gardner&#8217;s blog. I am a big fan of this blog, which is dedicated to providing information for writers and thought that you all would enjoy this particular article. Rachelle is a literary agent with Books and Such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1335&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine’s Day Special – 3 tips for writing romance fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Many years ago, I prided myself on my disdain for romance writing.&#160; I felt it was sensationalist escapism (not recognizing that all genre writing, if not all fiction, is escapism to some degree).&#160; Romance was overly emotional, I reasoned, and therefore not good literature.&#160; I was above that kind of writing, I told myself.&#160; And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1327&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Considering Self-Publishing Your Book?</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/considering-self-publishing-your-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of the changing attitude towards self-publishing (from red-headed stepchild to respectable offspring), this publishing alternative is being considered more often by writers around the world.  Especially with POD book outlets (Print on Demand) such as lulu.com, cafepress.com and amazon.com (to name a few of the better known POD book companies, the cost of producing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1323&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Step After Another&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/one-step-after-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, I don&#8217;t like to read stories in the present tense.  And more usually, I don&#8217;t like to write them.  I have only written one or two present tense fiction stories in my entire career.  To my surprise, this story demanded it, and only flowed if I wrote in the present.  If you don&#8217;t like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1313&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raw Emotion – Good or Bad for Your Story?</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/raw-emotion-good-or-bad-for-your-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won the challenge of NaNoWriMo again this year and ended up with around 52,000 words of unfinished novel.   The thing is, I fell in love with it.  It is a departure from my usual fantasy writing (either urban fantasy or epic fantasy).  It’s one of those hybrids that they’re calling cross-overs between fantasy and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1305&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo Without Power</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/nanowrimo-without-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I will be participating in NaNoWriMo this years, first time in a few years, I thought this article would be relevant to my fellow WriMos.  Warm wishes and thoughts go out to all the Eastern US and Canada people who have been affected by Sandy.  (The following article is reblogged from the NaNoWriMo.org blog post written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1302&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Writers Can Learn from the Rebranding of Batman</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/what-writers-can-learn-from-the-rebranding-of-batman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We writers have been told that creating our brand is important, that to be successful we must have the proper brand that will help sell us and our writing, that people need to recognize our distinctive brand.  So far, we&#8217;ve accepted that premise.  But what if we don&#8217;t like what we&#8217;ve started.  What if the general [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18388209&#038;post=1291&#038;subd=fantasyfic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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