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		<title>teaser Tuesday, now with cursing children</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/teaser-tuesday-now-with-cursing-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done one of these in a while, but I figured, since I&#8217;m doing a not-too-terrible job of keeping up with the NaNo folks (no, I am not doing NaNo, but I am kind of jogging along on the side of the road as they sprint by me) that I&#8217;d let myself have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=919&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a fabulous blog contest and two fabulous authors!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lovely, talented and hilarious Lisa and Laura Roecker over at Lisa and Laura Write are holding a blog contest with an awesome prize: a Kindle.
That&#8217;s fun enough, but the reason for it is even more fun &#8211;their mystery novel THE HAUNTING OF PEMBERLY BROWN has been bought by Sourcebooks, and will be coming out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=915&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an apology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apology to the gay comunity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the gay community, in Maine and in all of America:
I apologize for my state. I apologize for the groundless  fear that apparently still lives in so many of us: fear of what isn&#8217;t like us, fear of what we don&#8217;t understand or were taught is wrong, or never gave enough thought to. I&#8217;m sorry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=911&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling all Mainers: VOTE!</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/calling-all-mainers-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever put anything flagrantly political on this blog. And I&#8217;m probably going to regret this later, because I think that was a deliberate choice on my part: but I just read an article saying that the voter turnout for today&#8217;s referendum election is predicted to be a whopping 35%, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=906&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Craft and Caring</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/craft-and-caring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a pretentious title for you, eh? Sorry, I&#8217;m feeling slightly ugh today, and this is all I got.
I was catching up on Nathan Bransford&#8217;s  blog this morning and read this piece on writers and sensitivity. It was such good subject for a post that I felt like doing my own about it. Nathan&#8217;s post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=897&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>spreading the book lurve</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/spreading-the-book-lurve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lovely Lisa and Laura posted a challenge on their often hilarious blog (which if you haven&#8217;t yet visited, you definitely should) &#8212; post something online about a book you&#8217;ve read and loved. That seemed like the sort of throwdown I could get into, since I do it every now and then anyway, so I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=891&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>and now, back to your regularly scheduled program</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/and-now-back-to-your-regularly-scheduled-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[electronica]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Which is to say Yours Truly is hacking her grumbly, angsty way through the perils of BookMiddleLand, that long dark night of the novel, that valley of the shadow of the plot hole, that&#8212;
Yes, I really am trying to earn this blog title tonight, aren&#8217;t I?
It&#8217;s not my fault, I swear. I&#8217;m listening to Muse, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=888&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>show vs. tell: or, pictionary for novelists</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/show-vs-tell-or-pictionary-for-novelists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://amybai.wordpress.com/?p=866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t tell it, show it. One of the first pieces of advice I got when I started on this crazy road &#8211;and that would be 8th grade, and a short story I wrote that just didn&#8217;t have an ending. An unthinkable seventeen pages in I brought it to my English teacher, who was cool that way, and she told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=866&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>one of those random moments</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/one-of-those-random-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autumn in Maine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn in Maine is usually worth seeing, when it&#8217;s not so rainy-windy you have to walk with your eyes closed, that is. I took this pic with my cell phone last week, driving from work to pick up the laundry (yes, I know: bad girl for messing with my phone while driving, but it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=863&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaser Tuesday, getting supernatural hypothermia, baby</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/teaser-tuesday-getting-supernatural-hypothermia-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t done one of these in a while. From the current WIP, again, and Our Heroine Dari in trouble, yet again.
She spends a disproportionate amount of time in trouble, this girl.
***
&#8220;It&#8217;ll be ok,&#8221; Neil said, sounding so confident I almost believed it, except I could see that his hands were shaking. He pulled my shredded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=859&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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