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	<description>Reflections by Mary Anne Graham</description>
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		<title>Will Vampires &amp; Zombies Exit Stage Right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Upset Hubby Alert &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember where I read it!)
Read somewhere (hence the hubby alert above) that some of the editors at the big publishing houses are now looking for contemporary romances.  Actually, I think I read in a couple of different places over the last week or two, news that contemporaries may be the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/03/07/willvampires-zombies-exit-stage-right/</link>
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		<title>Griffin&#8217;s Law &#8211; To Compare Or Not To Compare?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The book that, to date, I had the most fun writing, Griffin&#8217;s Law, is being published as I type. It&#8217;s out there on Smashwords and almost out there (it should be through the publishing grinder shortly ) at Kindle. It&#8217;ll take a couple of weeks or so for us to get the paperback version out.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/02/28/griffins-law-to-compare-or-not-to-compare/</link>
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		<title>Creating a Book Cover, Seriously This Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The not-so-jolly fat man here again, peeps. Apparently Mary Anne had wanted a serious post, even though she knows I hate serious. I think everything should be fun and funny, especially for an audience. I&#8217;m not so different from my wife in that aspect; she&#8217;s trying to provide her readers an escape from their humdrum everyday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/02/21/creating-a-book-cover-seriously-this-time/</link>
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		<title>How AOFM Creates a Romance Novel Book Cover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone, it&#8217;s Mary Anne&#8217;s husband, Angry Old Fat Man (AOFM for short).
If you&#8217;re a regular reader of this site, you probably know that I, AOFM, create all of Mary Anne&#8217;s book covers for her. She expressed her desire to let you, the reader, have a peek behind the scenes of the creative process I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/02/14/how-aofm-creates-a-romance-novel-book-cover-2/</link>
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		<title>Grey&#8217;s &amp; Griffin&#8217;s &#8212; The Power Of Dirt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Grey&#8217;s Anatomy was the first after a wee hiatus and it gives a glimpse into where the show is headed down the trail and possibly to the end of its run.  Ellen Pompeo (Meredith) hinted this week that the show would last about 2 more years.  If that&#8217;s the case, it looks like Shonda Sunshine is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/02/07/greysgriffins-the-power-of-dirt/</link>
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		<title>Amazon/Macmillan Update &#8212; Pacifier Anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon announced that it is capitulating to Macmillan&#8217;s demands. The e-tailer essentially says it has to capitulate but that its customers will make the ultimate decision at the cash register.
Maybe I&#8217;ve been a lawyer too long, but this looks a lot like a marketing ploy cooked up at the end of a negotiation. Kindle users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/01/31/amazonmacmillan-update-pacifier-anyone/</link>
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		<title>Marketing Madness &amp; The Price War of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[E-books have arrived.  There&#8217;s no longer any doubt about that because in the wake of the plethora of e-readers, Apple&#8217;s iPad is about to enter the market.  The bigs have stopped throwing down over whether e-books should exist.  Now they&#8217;re throwing down over how much they should cost.  The journey from whether to how much marks the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/01/31/marketing-madness-the-price-war-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>Fate &#8211; From Meyer&#8217;s Twilight To Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d never realized it until yesterday, but I&#8217;ve been a literary segregationist.  Oh I&#8217;ve never had a mental partition over race, or at least, I&#8217;m not aware of one, but yesterday I realized I had one over age.  Books written about high school kids are intended for that age through college age kids, right?  That means they&#8217;re not meant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/01/24/fate-from-meyers-twilight-to-me/</link>
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		<title>Muse Working Overtime, Mr. Brick Suspected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello again chiljens, it&#8217;s me the angry old fat dude. Just popping in to tell you Mary Anne has been very busy not working on one book, but two books. Her muse is working overtime, swinging her back and forth between two time periods. Hell, I have trouble keeping up with what year it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/01/04/muse-working-overtime-mr-brick-suspected/</link>
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		<title>If Michael Jackson Wrote Romance Novels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[**Originally posted July 5, 2009**
Okay, get your mind off of all the weirdness of MJ&#8217;s latter years.  As for the criminal charges, don&#8217;t go there.  Think about the music and the performances.  Get yourself in that mind space.  Maybe it&#8217;ll help if you squeal &#8220;Ooh&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Bad&#8221; three or four times.  Okay, focused now? 
 His death was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2009/12/31/if-michael-jackson-wrote-romance-novels-2/</link>
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