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	<description>Reflections by Mary Anne Graham</description>
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		<title>The Used Car/Myrtle Beach Vacation of Genres</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post may be a bit brief (for me) because we&#8217;re editing the first part of Duke of Eden, the serialized novel I&#8217;m going to publish exclusively on Kindle for the amazingly low price of 99 cents per installment.  I&#8217;ve still got to write the product description but, Yes Virginia &#8211; the man tittie cover will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/07/25/the-used-carmyrtle-beach-vacation-of-genres/</link>
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		<title>Romance &#8211; What Makes Us Close The Book?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article by a psychology researcher who thought she could explain why women read Harlequin romance novels. Such articles often intrigue me and this one, in particular, drew me in because the author and I share the same name (Mary Anne) &#8211; albeit, she doesn&#8217;t spell hers the way my namesake Granny told me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/07/18/romance-what-makes-us-close-the-book/</link>
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		<title>AOFM-MWU &#8211; It Should Just Work, Dammit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angry Old Fat Dude here, and I&#8217;ve been especially steamed recently. Why? Because computers suck and everybody knows it, that&#8217;s why. How strange this is coming from a computer guy, right? 24 years in the industry. I was there at the birth of both the home computer and the publicly accessible Internet. You know what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/07/15/aofm-mwu-it-should-just-work-dammit/</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Indie Revolt:  Why It Matters &amp; Will It Spread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no doubt about who&#8217;s winning the  American Indie Revolution.  The castle walls of the old publishing royals stand in ruins.  Even former staunch allies like Barnes &#38; Noble have defected to the insurgent writers.    “Digital publishing and digital book selling will soon become the most explosive development in the history of our industry and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/07/11/americas-indie-revolt-why-it-matters-will-it-spread/</link>
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		<title>Independence Day 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/07/04/1102/</link>
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		<title>AOFM-MWU &#8211; Unveiling of the Man-Titty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the cover that Mary Anne wanted for one of her serialized e-books is done; I have finally completed it. Behold, the first man-titty cover from Quacking Alone Romances &#8211; click the thumbnail, look upon it, and despair: I feel soooooooooo dirty. I think I need to loofah my entire body with a Black &#38; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/06/30/aofm-mwu-unveiling-of-the-man-titty/</link>
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		<title>What The Indie Revolution Means To Readers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a buyer&#8217;s market for almost everything, right?  So, lets say you are better off than most of us (me, especially) and you decide that this is the time to buy a house.  You hire a realtor and she drives you out to Neighborhood A to see a traditional ranch.   It turns out to be too traditional for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/06/27/what-the-indie-revolution-means-to-readers/</link>
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		<title>AOFM-MWU &#8211; Gestalt, Zeitgeist, and Fruition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi. That Angry Guy here. Feeling better, hence more angry. If you haven&#8217;t heard about it yet, there is a huge price war going on among companies that sell e-reader devices. It seems that the Apple cart (via the iPad) has upset a bunch of people, mainly those people who thought they had the e-book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/06/24/aofm-mwu-gestalt-zeitgeist-and-fruition/</link>
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		<title>If Michael Jackson Wrote Romance Novels&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the upcoming anniversary of Michael Jackson&#8217;s passing, I repost the following which originally appeared on the blog shortly after his death.  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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/06/24/if-michael-jackson-wrote-romance-novels-3/</link>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s FUBAR Agitates The Already Agitated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God knows, I understand that even in good times people need weekends to stay sane.  In my world of today, which is the polar opposite of &#8220;good times,&#8221; sanity is mostly a fond memory, but I still need my weekends.  My family and that little two-day break from work are the only things keeping me from jumping.  So I rarely hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quackingalone.com/blog/2010/06/20/amazons-fubar-agitates-the-already-agitated/</link>
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