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		<title>Bret Lott on Detail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bret Lott is the best-selling author of 13 books (Jewel was an Oprah&#8217;s Book Club selection, numerous essays and stories. He has been a Fulbright Senior American Scholar and writer-in-residence at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, and is a member of the National Council of the Arts. Her teaches at the College of Charleston, South [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=358&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Things I learned about Publishing &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; at the Geneva Writers’ Conference Some quotes, insights and advice I gleaned from attending various panel discussions and Q&#38;A events from the following experts: Colin Harrison; vice-president and senior editor at Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, New York David Applefield; guerilla publisher, media specialist and online publisher at Creating Bestsellers Dinah Lee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=353&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten things I learned from Patricia Duncker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Duncker taught a workshop at the Geneva Writers&#8217; Conference called Beginnings. Here&#8217;s what I picked up. Patricia Duncker is the prize-winning author of five novels. Miss Webster and Chérif was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2007, and The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2012. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=350&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vandalism or cultural artefact?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dad wouldn&#8217;t even let us turn down the corners of books, we always had to use a bookmark and never left them open face down. Respect, he said. And I respected. But making notes in books, a habit I picked up at university, has acted like a diary for me. Looking back through my copy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=340&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cat&#8217;s Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My eclectic reading is coming on apace &#8211; I&#8217;ve read three of the twelve challenges for the year and it&#8217;s only January. This was a present and a handsome one at that. &#160; The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje Ondaatje accomplishes something unusual in this novel. The child narrator seems an independent character, a third [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=336&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Tragic Universe, by Scarlett Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confession: I avoided people just to be able to finish this. This book has an atmosphere and a depth that wholly absorbed me. The opening is terrific, thrusting the reader right into the middle of a drama and utterly compulsive. Then, as the book unfolds, you realise that the real dramas are rare, but the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=331&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Eclectic Reader Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two posts in two days? I&#8217;ll shut up for a bit now, but when I saw this, I just couldn&#8217;t wait. My partial list is at the bottom &#8211; any suggestions for fantasy, horror, sci-fi or romance? Eclectic Reader Challenge 2012 I hope you will join me 2012 for the Eclectic Reader Challenge! Grab this badge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=320&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going off on one</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that dreaming and wakefulness are the pages of a single book, and that to read them in order is to live, and to leaf through them at random, is to dream. Paintings within paintings and books that branch into other books help us sense this oneness.&#8221; Jorge Luis Borges on Flann O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=312&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Mind the Year, Here&#8217;s the Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about this, while grieving with my little sister. I&#8217;m making a resolution &#8211; yes, I&#8217;ll use that word &#8211; not to think of years as good or bad. Shit happens and will happen at any time of the year. Recent Christmases have brought their own set of surprises. 2005: Dad’s suicide 2006: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=301&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Da Doodah Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Writer and QR While talking to some clever friends about book marketing, Chris used his Definitive Voice. &#8220;QR&#8221; he said. I asked him to explain. He obliged. QR. Stands for Quick Response. Pixellated barcodes popping up everywhere? Your link from print to digital. Possibilities are endless. Chris thinks full sentences are a waste of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjmarsh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23246037&amp;post=285&amp;subd=jjmarsh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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