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		<title>Navigating the Changing Book Industry — what writers should know to sell their book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doris Booth, founder and agent with the Authorlink Literary Group and Authorlink.com, presented a workshop at the DFW Writers Conference, May 2, 2009 entitled:
Navigating the Changing Book Industry
— an insider&#8217;s view of what writers should know
Doris Booth has been an agent for over 13 years. She actively follows the changes occurring in the publishing industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the DFW Writers Conference Agents&#8217; Panel, May 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 2, 2009, the DFW Writers Conference (sponsored by the DFW Writers&#8217; Workshop) hosted a Question and Answer Session with a panel of literary agents. Agents  on the panel were Doris Booth, Sally Harding, Al Longden and Dr. Uwe Stender. The following are highlights from my notes during the session. It is by no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing for Writers is really phishing for suckers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;ve learned to recognize the come-ons by snake oil sales people on the Internet, I sometimes give one a chance to prove me wrong. (I&#8217;m actually planning a post on how to recognize at a class an obvious bottom-feeder.) So far, none of them have.
A disappointment this morning was Marketing for Writers (marketingforwriters.com; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware Freelance Home Writers Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You! Yes, YOU! Can make thousands of dollars a week writing articles, blog posts and the occasional short story from the comfort of your home! Thousands of smart people like you are doing it!
And if you believe that I&#8217;ve got some desert property in South Louisiana to sell you.
About once a week I check my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Writing: the value of journaling for writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is irony (unlike the song &#8220;Ironic&#8221; by Morissette)! My first post-lunch (a vast hoard of potluck foods and beverages from the Richard Hugo House volunteers and Costco) workshop was canceled, however, the workshop I wanted to attend at the start of the day replaced it. It&#8217;s enough to make me believe in being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ordinary People: a writing exercise to capture characterization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer and teach Margot Case offered a brilliant workshop at he Richard Hugo House Write-O-Rama workshop entitled Ordinary People. We read excerpts from “Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning” by Donald Bartheleme, Sixty Stories.
I&#8217;d tried The Dead Father by Bartheleme, but found it at the wrong time and had never tried Donald Bartheleme again. What a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory Babe: a writing exercise inspired by Jack Kerouac</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! The beat goes on! Molten meltdown of mental memes send me searching shelves for slender volumes.
I&#8217;ve tried reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac three times in my life. I forced myself to finish it last time. But apparently I was reading the wrong Kerouac or the wrong format.
My 1st choice for second period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pare It Down: a workshop on strong writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first Write-O-Rama workshop was &#8220;Pare It Down&#8221; with Anne Leigh Parrish. A workshop to get us to write simply and therefore strongly. Think Hemingway. Not one of my favorites. Not as pathetically macho as Mailer, but too focused so-called &#8220;masculine&#8221; values for me.
The idea was to choose strong words;  words of one syllable. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write-O-Rama at Richard Hugo House Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Write-O-Rama is a full-day smorgsbord of 1-hour workshops run as fundraiser for the  Richard Hugo House.  I arrived early. You never know about traffic and ferries coming from the Olympic Peninsula. Whenever I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ll make a specific ferry that&#8217;s when I end up behind a caravan of RVs driven by near-sighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Medievel in P.A. About Write-O-Rama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of those &#8220;Be Careful What You Wish For&#8221; parables, I&#8217;ve spent most of this year being terribly useful. Shortly after I started working on my NaNoWriMo revisions in February, I was hired to fill-in as Interim Executive Director for an area Chamber of Commerce during a particularly nasty internal dust-up. (Bit like the [...]]]></description>
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