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		<title>Persistence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m getting the chance to practice what I preach.  I&#8217;ve said that the most important part of being a writer is actually writing, butt in chair, day in and day out.  Right now it would be very easy for me to slack off.  I have one proposal and a full MS in my agent&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/09/persistence.html</link>
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		<title>Book Stuff and Blog Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For audiobook fans, I have good news.  Blackstone Audio has just contracted to do an audiobook version of Wolf&#8217;s Cross.  I&#8217;ve also added buy links for the Audible.com versions of Prophets and Heretics.   I also finally added this widget:
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To the Wolf&#8217;s Cross page.
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		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/book-stuff-and-blog-stuff.html</link>
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		<title>A Webcomic you should follow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gunnerkrigg Court: If you took Harry Potter, tossed it a blender with some of Girl Genius and some Neil Gaiman, you&#8217;d end up with something in the same genre as this.  The story goes from cute, to creepy to heartwarming in the space of a couple of panels.  And, if you pay attention, everything that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/a-webcomic-you-should-follow.html</link>
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		<title>And Now A Word From France</title>
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		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/and-now-a-word-from-france.html</link>
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		<title>Writing Linkage: Queries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, lately, I&#8217;ve been running across a lot of info on writing query letters.  I&#8217;ve written myself about them, but I thought I&#8217;d pass on linkage to some of the items I&#8217;ve run across lately.
Joe Moore at Kill Zone gives 8 tips on writing a strong query letter.
A.C. Crispin from Writer Beware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/writing-linkage-queries.html</link>
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		<title>5 Terms From TV Tropes We Really Could Use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TV Tropes is a massive time sink, but there are some gems in the general pop-culture amusement that I think could use some wider currency with those of us who workshop or otherwise talk about the nuts and bolts of story construction on a regular basis.  Some of these are just too useful not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/5-terms-from-tv-tropes-we-really-could-use.html</link>
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		<title>Two random bits of writing advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From conversations I had at a party this weekend:
1) After you establish a character in a story, make sure you ask yourself the following two questions before every subsequent appearance of that character:  Where were they since we last saw them?  And what were they doing during their time off-screen?  It&#8217;s easy to lose track, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/two-random-bits-of-writing-advice.html</link>
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		<title>Well, it&#8217;s better than a Nigerian scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a while since I posted some writing-related spam.  Unlike a lot of fly-by-night endeavors designed to separate a newbie writer from their money, this one is not really a scam.  At least, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re giving you something for the money.   A lame something, but something.  That is perhaps the best thing I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/well-its-better-than-a-nigerian-scam.html</link>
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		<title>The Permanent Floating Publishing Apocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cue REM.
Dorchester Publishing looks at its bottom line and decides OMG we can&#8217;t afford to do this anymore, switches to e-publishing launching the Greek Chorus chanting &#8220;death of print, death of print.&#8221;
This is premature for a number of reasons. (Not the least of which is the technical reasons I listed in an earlier blog post.)  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/the-permanent-floating-publishing-apocalypse.html</link>
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		<title>Keep Your Laws off my Starship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tend to write libertarian-themed Space Opera, which means that when I read this recent blog post by Charlie Stross, I had a bit of a reaction.  Here’s the money quote:
“In other words: space colonization is implicitly incompatible with both libertarian ideology and the myth of the American frontier.”
Okay then.  I guess it should come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/keep-your-laws-off-my-starship-2.html</link>
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		<title>Truffle Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, Truffles has begun taking a turn for the worse.  Again, she can no longer walk, and still no firm diagnosis.  The steps outside were really becoming an issue, especially since I&#8217;m going to cons and such and Michelle can&#8217;t lift Truffles all by herself.  So, now we have the Trufflevator:

Going up:

Top floor, everybody out:

That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/truffle-update-3.html</link>
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		<title>Matters of Taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up in the reviewish theme, I thought I might make a little point that will aid many writers in navigating the dangerous waters of throwing your work out there for everyone to see.  I’ve mentioned before (with absoludicrous examples) that it’s always a bad idea for a author (at whatever level) to engage in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/matters-of-taste.html</link>
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		<title>Wherein I note reviews of Wolf&#8217;s Cross</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I try and keep my book pages up to date with review links as i come across them.  However, since Wolf&#8217;s Cross has been out less than a week, I&#8217;ve gotten more ink electrons devoted to it recently than my other stuff, even aside from the self-promotional Big Idea I mentioned last post. So here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/08/wherein-i-note-reviews-of-wolfs-cross.html</link>
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		<title>My Big Idea. . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wolf&#8217;s Cross is out this week, and coinciding with that, my Big Idea piece is up on Scalzi&#8217;s Whatever:
When I wrote Wolfbreed I wasn’t concerned for markets, or genre, or much else beyond having my  muse promise not to beat me senseless.  It was written outside of my  contracts for DAW, so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2010/07/my-big-idea.html</link>
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		<title>Me &#8211; Beard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here I am at Confluence this past weekend, minus some facial hair:
On the Writing panel:


Signing books (note the cat-shaving battle scars):


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