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		<title>Announcing DUSTBORN</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2020/dustborn/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have neglected this blog for a very long time, but it&#8217;s time for an update, because I have exciting news! I have a new YA novel coming out with HMH! Text version of the above image for accessibility: Kate O’Sullivan at HMH has bought Erin Bowman’s Dustborn. With flavors of Mad Max, The 100, and the author’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>CONTAGION Preorder Campaign</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2018/contagion-preorder-campaign/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had every intention of posting this on the 24th—exactly three months before Contagion hits shelves. But then my baby arrived ten days before his due date and all my plans went out the window. But hey, we&#8217;re still roughly three months from launch, so it&#8217;s time to kick off the preorder campaign! I&#8217;m so excited to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>RETRIBUTION RAILS Preorder Campaign</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2017/retribution-rails-preorder-campaign/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re roughly three months out from Retribution Rails hitting shelves. I&#8217;m so excited to share this book with y&#8217;all, and I want to give a little something to everyone who pre-orders a copy. And yes, I mean EVERYONE. This is open internationally. If you preorder Retribution Rails before November 7th, you&#8217;re eligible to receive*: Kate &#38; Jesse — an exclusive [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Contagion</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2016/contagion/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 01:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today I am so excited to share some incredible news that I’ve been sitting on since April. Yes, that’s right, April. I’ve been dying to talk about this for the past eight months and now I finally can… I’m writing a sci-fi duology with HarperTeen! Text version of the above image for accessibility: Erica Sussman [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vengeance Road e-book sale!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2016/vengeance-road-e-book-sale/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Epic Fun]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Emerging from the drafting cave to pass along a great sale! For a limited time only, the Vengeance Road e-book is just $2.99 across all platforms. If you&#8217;re looking to load up your e-reader for the summer, don&#8217;t miss out! Buy for: kindle / nook / kobo / iBooks / google]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Taken Trilogy is out in paperback!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2016/the-taken-trilogy-is-out-in-paperback/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How did that happen? It feels like just a year ago that the idea for the Taken series fell into my lap, but that was actually way back in 2009. Time flies. To celebrate, and to thank all you hard-working book bloggers/reviewers, I’m hosting a giveaway. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s up for grabs: » One (1) winner will receive [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Retribution Rails</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2016/retribution-rails/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Howdy, y&#8217;all. I&#8217;m stepping away from the drafting cave to share some incredible news&#8230; Vengeance Road is getting a companion—Retribution Rails! In case that image doesn&#8217;t display properly, it says: Erin Bowman&#8217;s RETRIBUTION RAILS, a companion novel to VENGEANCE ROAD, set in 1887 Arizona and about a boy in possession of a mysterious gold coin [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>#WriterResolutions for 2016</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/writerresolutions-for-2016/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2015 was a crazy year for me. Baby Bowman changed just about every routine I&#8217;ve come to rely on, plus I had two books published. I learned a lot in 2015. I also stressed a lot&#8230; Recently I was chatting with author-bud Susan Dennard about new year&#8217;s resolutions resolutions. As writers, what did we want to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>7 lessons I&#8217;ve learned so far&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/7-lessons-ive-learned-so-far/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alas, Pub Crawl readers, the time has come for me to make my exit. I’ve been writing for this blog since 2012 and it’s been a blast. From sharing publishing insights and craft advice, to engaging in wonderful discussions via the comments, to just geeking out over books and pop culture, I’ve had so much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>VENGEANCE ROAD Blog Tour</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/vengeance-road-blog-tour/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vengeance Road releases in just eleven days! Can you believe it? The official blog tour is hosted by RockStar Book Tours and kicks off next week. It will run on weekdays only: August 24-28 and August 31 &#8211; September 4. Here&#8217;s the full schedule: WEEK ONE 8/24/2015- Creatyvebooks&#8211; Review 8/25/2015- Ohana Reads&#8211; Review 8/26/2015- Novel Novice&#8211; Guest Post 8/27/2015- Two Chicks on Books&#8211; Interview 8/28/2015- A [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Querying Dos and Don&#8217;ts</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/querying-dos-and-donts/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2015 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi, guys! Erin here. Last month I asked what we could do to make PubCrawl a better, stronger, more useful resource for our readers. Over a hundred fifty of you took the time to fill out our survey and give us some feedback.&#160;We&#8217;re still in the process of sifting through all your comments and implementing&#160;changes, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>VENGEANCE ROAD Preorder Contest!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/vengeance-road-preorder-contest/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[message_box title=&#8221;THE PREORDER CONTEST IS OVER!&#8221; color=&#8221;yellow&#8221;] [column col=&#8221;1/2&#8243;] Winners of a Vengeance Road cover print: Timothy Moore Mercedez Clewis Anna Weimer Jada Holtkamp Monica Aguilar Christine Ho Christopher Carbajal Laura Pohl Rebekah Diehl Lisa Bretherick[/column] [column col=&#8221;1/2&#8243; last=&#8221;true&#8221;] Winner of the Grand Prize: Abbey Brown[/column] Congrats, all! Abbey, I will email you to get your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Introducing the Vengeance Road Posse!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/introducing-the-vengeance-road-posse/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 16:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Loading&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>A TAKEN trilogy recap to prep you for FORGED</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/a-taken-trilogy-recap-to-prep-you-for-forged/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[recap]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I did a recap last year before Frozen&#8216;s release. It seemed like a good idea to do another for Forged. This final installment jumps right into the action, so if you don&#8217;t have time for a series re-read (and who does with the height of our TBR piles?), this post should be useful. BUT PLEASE BE WARNED &#160; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>6 weeks til FORGED!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/6-weeks-til-forged/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You read that right. Just six weeks until FORGED releases and Gray&#8217;s story concludes. (*sniff* This is very bittersweet for me.) I&#8217;ve been promising folks an international giveaway for awhile now, and I figure the 6-week-til-pub marker is as good an excuse as any. Here&#8217;s what you can win: An ARC of FORGED and a finished [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Difference Between ARCs and Finished Copies 101</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/the-difference-between-arcs-and-finished-copies-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These are my pass pages for Vengeance Road. This is the first time my book has been typeset (read: not been a .doc file), which is very exciting. Pretty fonts! Chapter headings! Crop marks! Advance reader copies (ARCs) are printed from pass pages. While the ARCs are produced and distributed to early reviewers, the pass [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One Word for 2015</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2015/one-word-for-2015/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!!! I&#8217;m a few days late, but Baby Bowman has been keeping me busy. For the last couple years, I&#8217;ve been picking a &#8216;word of the year&#8217; instead of declaring a traditional resolution. In 2014 my goal was focus-related, in 2013 I aimed to be more present, and the year before that I strived for balance. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Favorite Books of 2014</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/favorite-books-of-2014/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2014 favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[year in review]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog has been woefully silent these past few months, but I did have a baby, so I hope you can forgive me. I can&#8217;t believe 2014 is nearly over. I have lots to look forward to in 2015. Baby Bowman is already growing like a weed and I&#8217;m sure there will be tons of &#8216;firsts&#8217; happening [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Switching genres — Can it hurt your author brand?</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/switching-genres-can-it-hurt-your-author-brand/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I asked for blog topic suggestions on twitter yesterday, and one of our readers posed the following (paraphrased): There’s the idea of author brand and books readers expect from that author. But what happens if the author wants to write in a new genre? As a YA author who debuted with a sci-fi/dystopian trilogy and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Back to School Giveaway for Educators!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/back-to-school-giveaway-for-educators/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I did this last year, and I&#8217;m doing it again for 2014! If you are a teacher, educator, or librarian, fill out the below widget for a chance to win copies of TAKEN and FROZEN for your school/classroom/library. a Rafflecopter giveaway ABOUT THE BOOKS : TAKEN was a 2014 Bank Street &#8216;Best Children&#8217;s Book of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: August</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/what-im-reading-august-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another month come and gone! Here&#8217;s what I read in August: THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE by Leila Sales Elise has never quite fit in. That is, until she stumbles upon a warehouse dance club and discovers the world of DJing. I heard so many good things about this contemporary, and I&#8217;m so glad I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week12}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week12/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ve be checking in weekly to share [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week11}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week11/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking in weekly to share [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Announcing my newest project</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/announcing-my-newest-project/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on this &#8220;project&#8221; since early 2014, and am happy to report that it will debut this year. October, to be exact. Oh, did you think it was another book? Mwuahaha! The Engineer and I are equal parts excited and terrified. We have no clue what we&#8217;re doing, but hey, no parents do at the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week10}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week10/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week9}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week9/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: July</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/what-im-reading-july/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe how quickly this summer is going. Here&#8217;s what I read in July: EVERYTHING LEADS TO YOU by Nina LaCour I&#8217;m a big fan of Nina LaCour&#8217;s books, and her newest work is no exception. Emi works as a set designer in San Francisco. After discovering a letter from a deceased Hollywood icon at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week8}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week8/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week7}</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week6}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week6/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week5}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week5/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: May + June</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/what-im-reading-may-june/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July and I&#8217;ve been a bad, bad blogger—I haven&#8217;t reviewed a book since April! I blame deadlines and crazy schedules. I&#8217;ll keep this bulk review post brief, because I need to dive back into proofing VENGEANCE ROAD (due to my editor on July 8th. Eep!). Here&#8217;s what I read in May and June: RAGING STAR by Moira [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week4}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week4/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crafting the perfect critique sandwich</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/crafting-the-perfect-critique-sandwich/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The topic of critique partners is something that&#8217;s been covered several times on Pub Crawl. But today I want&#160;to&#160;talk specifically about giving feedback. The best critique partner relationships occur when there is trust and respect between the two writers. If you&#8217;re working with someone whose work&#160;you&#160;despise, you&#8217;re never going to trust their feedback about&#160;yours. Similarly, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week3}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week3/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready. Set. WRITE! {week2}</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/ready-set-write-week2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Ready. Set. WRITE!, you ask? It&#8217;s a summer-long writing intensive that encourages goal setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for writers to cheer each other on at any point in the process—be it planning, drafting, revising, and/or polishing. The event is hosted by Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I&#8217;ll be checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Updates (or why I&#8217;ve been MIA lately)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/updates-or-why-ive-been-mia-lately/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog has been pretty stagnant the past few weeks, and I apologize. Between deadline hell (multiple deadlines, I might add), and general life craziness, my blogging has suffered. I think this calls for a run-down on where I&#8217;ve been and what I&#8217;ve been up to. Back in April, FROZEN launched, which resulted in lots [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proofing like a pro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 17:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Revising]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Proofing is one of the last steps before any major writing milestone. About to send a manuscript to your betas for feedback? Proof it first. Turning in a revision to your editor? Proof it again. Reading through your pass pages (aka &#8220;your last chance to make changes&#160;ever!!)? Proof it with extra care! As writers, we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>RT Convention &#8212; Where I&#8217;ll Be</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/rt-convention-where-ill-be/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 14:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m heading to NOLA next week for the annual Romantic Times Booklovers Convention. I&#8217;m super excited. One, because I&#8217;ve never been to NOLA, and two, because I just finished my very first draft of VENGEANCE ROAD (wahoo!!) and am looking forward to a week of panels, workshops, and bookish fun with fellow authors and readers. If you&#8217;ll [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Announcing the title of TAKEN3&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/announcing-the-title-of-taken3/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 20:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you were just on twitter with me, I played a little game of hangman to release Taken3&#8217;s title. So what is it? The title of the final book in the Taken trilogy is&#8230;. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. &#8230;.. &#8230; .. . . . FORGED!!!! &#160; This threw a lot of people, because it doesn&#8217;t have the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>FROZEN is officially in the wild!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/frozen-is-officially-in-the-wild/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday marked Frozen&#8216;s release—hooray! I was able to stop by a few bookstores in my area and sign some stock, but nothing beats seeing your book on the shelf after months of toiling over a word document. To those of you who preordered copies, or picked one up yesterday, THANK YOU! On that note, it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vengeance Road</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/vengeance-road/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those of you who follow me on twitter or instagram have probably seen me posting about a #westernYA recently. If you also follow me on pinterest, it&#8217;s likely you&#8217;ve caught an influx of my western pins. Well&#8230; I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that #westernYA (henceforth known as VENGEANCE ROAD) sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! * If image is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A TAKEN recap to prep you for FROZEN</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/a-taken-recap-to-prep-you-for-frozen/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the problematic issues with series is the wait between books. After a year (heck, even after two or three months), the finer details of a story begin to escape most readers. In Frozen, I made a deliberate decision to not spend too much time summarizing the events of Taken. Being in first person, excessive recapping felt [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: March</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/what-im-reading-march/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s April 1st! Frozen releases in just two weeks. This makes me happier than Olaf in summer. A quick reminder while we&#8217;re talking about my sequel. If you preorder a copy of Frozen by 4/14, I&#8217;ll send you free swag, plus you&#8217;ll be eligible to win a bundle of books. For the official rules and entry form, click [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>FROZEN preorder contest!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/frozen-preorder-contest/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Epic Fun]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m already drafting this post. I feel like Taken launched barely a month or two ago, but somehow nearly an entirely year has passed. And that means Frozen&#8216;s release is right around the corner. I have a few events coming up to celebrate. If you&#8217;re in either area, it would be great to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: February</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/what-im-reading-february/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 22:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s March already. Frozen releases in less than 50 days!! This doesn&#8217;t seem possible because I swear I was debuting just a few weeks back. Anyway&#8230; Here&#8217;s what I read in February: THE WINNER&#8217;S CURSE by Marie Rutkoski Kestrel is the daughter of a prestigious general, and has a choice to make in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Where to turn when it&#8217;s time to research</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/where-to-turn-when-its-time-to-research/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[RETRIBUTION RAILS]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[They say&#160;write what you know&#160;but you&#8217;ll never know everything. This is especially true if you&#8217;re writing about an era decades past, or on the opposite end of the spectrum, the distant future. Even if your novel is set in a contemporary setting, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;re going to have to do a little research [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Birthday Giveaway</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/a-birthday-giveaway/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s my birthday. As confirmed on twitter, I&#8217;m not a day over twenty-four! ;) To celebrate such a miracle, I think it&#8217;s time for a giveaway. I&#8217;ve had Frozen arcs sitting on my shelf for quite some time now. The book releases in a little over two months, so it&#8217;s high time I sent these into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Birthday, STOLEN!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/happy-birthday-stolen/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some stories come out almost effortlessly. Others you have to wrestle on to the page. Stolen was one of the former. Simply put, this novella was an absolute joy to write. Stolen will give you a peek at what made Bree the hardened girl Gray meets in Taken, and it will provide a ton of insight as to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: January</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/what-im-reading-january/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another month has flown by. Here&#8217;s what I read in January: INTO THE STILL BLUE by Veronica Rossi Saying goodbye to a series you love is never easy. I hate having to part with these characters, and yet I am so grateful for having gone on a journey with them. I enjoyed the first two books a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Snowy Sunday Morning</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/a-snowy-sunday-morning/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Engineer and I woke up to a half foot of fluffy, powdery snow. Before the wind or sun could knock it from the branches, we hiked the conservation land behind our house. I could not stop taking photos. Hope you&#8217;re having a lovely Sunday. &#60;3]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: December</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/what-im-reading-december/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With all the end-of-2013 posts, I nearly forgot to do my bulk reviews for last month. Better late than never, yes? Here&#8217;s what I read in December: SCARLET by A.C. Gaughen This Robin Hood retelling was such a treat. Scarlet is a female thief within Robin&#8217;s band of men, hiding behind men&#8217;s clothing and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One word for 2014</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2014/one-word-for-2014/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!!! How is it possible that we entered a new century fourteen years ago?! I swear 1999 still feels like yesterday. But on to the topic at hand&#8230; For the last few years, I&#8217;ve been picking a &#8216;word of the year&#8217; instead of declaring a traditional resolution. In 2013 I aimed to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Debuting, or Lessons Learned in 2013</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/debuting-or-lessons-learned-in-2013/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After spending days/weeks/months counting down to Taken&#8216;s release, my debut year is finally coming to a close. It unfolded with a lot of highs, lows, surprises, and everything in between. I&#8217;m incredibly grateful for all the experiences I&#8217;ve had, but gosh, I wish I&#8217;d been prepared for the emotional roller coaster of putting a book [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Favorite reads of 2013</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/favorite-reads-of-2013/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First and foremost: TAKEN is the kindle deal of the day! For today only, you can download it to your kindle for a mere $1.99! (That&#8217;s less than a penny a page!) Go grab a copy for yourself, for a friend, for someone who still needs a holiday gift. I have no idea if Taken [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: November</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-november/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2013 20:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How on earth is it December already? With Thanksgiving falling so late this year, and Christmas only mere weeks away, I feel like we are flying through the remaining days of 2013. And between getting settled at the new house, holiday shopping, project revisions, and eating lots of turkey with friends and family, my reading [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: October</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-october/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is overdue, but things have been a little crazy on account of The Move. But the Engineer and I are finally in our new place, mostly unpacked (although it did look like a packaging store exploded in the house for a few days), and we are absolutely loving it. Best of all? I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>STOLEN cover reveal!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/stolen-cover-reveal/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Novellas seem to be all the rage in YA these days, and I am so very happy (and grateful!) that I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to write one set in the TAKEN universe. STOLEN is a prequel e-novella releasing February 4th. I&#8217;ll tell you all about it in a minute, but let&#8217;s look at the shiny [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: September</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-september/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fall is upon us! I am under deadline (two of them, to be honest). As such, this will be the speediest monthly reading recap ever! Here&#8217;s what I read in September: THE QUEEN OF ATTOLIA by Megan Whalen Turner I enjoyed the first book in this series, THE THIEF, but I loved QoA. I&#8217;m sort [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Spectacular Now</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done a one-off book rec in a long time, but that&#8217;s changing today. Because I  haven&#8217;t stopped thinking about Tim Tharp&#8217;s The Spectacular Now since I put it down last week, and then yesterday I saw the movie and was hit with the feels all over again. This is one of the most [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: August</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-august/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another month has come and gone. It&#8217;s September, and school is back in session, which reminds me&#8230; If you&#8217;re a teacher or librarian, I am giving away hardcover copies of TAKEN for your school/library/classroom. Enter to win here. Also, if you are a Harry Potter fan you might want to check out this podcast episode, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On &#8220;strong&#8221; female characters</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/on-strong-female-characters/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about strong female characters a lot lately, and almost as though the universe was on to my post plans for Pub Crawl, the internet exploded with some fabulous discussions on this very topic earlier in August. Namely, Sophia McDougall&#8217;s ovation-worthy article on&#160;why she hates strong female characters. Go on and read it. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Back to School Giveaway</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the year again. The air is crisp. The days are growing shorter. I can see the school buses making their rounds when I peer out the window in the morning. My favorite season is nearly here. But the first signs of Fall also mean that a new school year is upon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Site Redesign!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/site-redesign/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to redesign my website for well over a year, and after turning in my first draft of STOLEN earlier this week, I finally implemented a long overdue face-lift. For those of you viewing this post in your rss readers, here&#8217;s a peek at the new homepage: It wasn&#8217;t easy getting everything in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lessons learned while writing a trilogy</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/lessons-learned-while-writing-a-trilogy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My work on the&#160;Taken&#160;trilogy is pretty much complete. Sure,&#160;Forged&#160;doesn&#8217;t come out until&#160;April, but as far as writing and revision is concerned, I&#8217;m off the hook. All that remains is printing and production of the book. And then of course, promotion. As I move on to new projects, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the process [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: July edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-july-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finally! A month in which I managed to read a decent number of books. Here&#8217;s what I enjoyed this July: To start, some nonfiction for a change. Michael Pollan&#8217;s IN DEFENSE OF FOOD is an illuminating read. The mantra, printed right on the cover, is simple: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Well of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Updates, eight of them</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been totally MIA lately, and I apologize. I miss the days when I was able to blog about fun topics&#8211;be it craft posts, industry insight, or even just freebies like dusk jackets. Hopefully some more of those will pop up in the future. Until then, a dull but straight-forward list of news: 1) The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: June Edition (plus a giveaway!)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-june-edition-plus-a-giveaway/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent the first half of June on the road for the YAGB Tour, and the second half, unfortunately, wasn&#8217;t filled with a ton of reading. (More on that later). But first, the two books I did get to this past month: Having heard so many amazing things about Megan Whalen Turner&#8217;s The Queen&#8217;s Thief series, I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>YAGB tour recap and other fun news!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/yagb-tour-recap-and-other-fun-news/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After 2.5 weeks on the road, I&#8217;m (finally) home! The Young Authors Give Back tour was exhausting, but a huge success. We visited a bunch of cities, did some sight-seeing, and sold books. But without a doubt, my favorite part of the tour was the reason we did it in the first place: the giving back. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: May Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-may-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m actually at BEA right now, but because technology is fancy, I wrote this before hitting the road and set it to auto-publish. Win! That said, I spent most of May recovering from TAKEN&#8217;s launch, slogging my way through book three&#8217;s first draft (there is still much slogging to come), and packing for my upcoming [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s almost BEA time!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/its-almost-bea-time/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 21:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Next week is BEA!!! For those living under a rock, Book Expo America is a gigantic book fair/publishing conference (the largest in North America, I believe), and this year it takes place 5/30-6/1 at the Javits Center in New York City. All sorts of industry professionals will be present, and it&#8217;s basically a book-lovers dream [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>TAKEN2 title reveal!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/taken2-title-reveal/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Look at all these RTs about the Young Authors Give Back tour! Thank you, thank you!!! I promised to reveal the title of TAKEN&#8217;s sequel after 50 RTs, and as you can see above, you guys met that challenge like pros. Rather than continuing to ramble, I&#8217;m just going to say thanks one last time&#8211;THANK [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Young Authors Give Back Tour (and how you can help unveil TAKEN2&#8217;s title)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/the-young-authors-give-back-tour/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been given the green light to share TAKEN2&#8217;s title, but because I&#8217;m evil, I&#8217;m going to make you work for it. (But not too hard, I promise.) I&#8217;ve got a lot coming up in the next few weeks. I&#8217;m heading to BEA for some fun events, and then hitting the road with fellow writers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Some creative philosophies are universal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having spent my college and then pre-publication years studying and practicing web design, I&#8217;ve been answering a certain question a lot these last few weeks:&#160;Did being a designer change and/or shape how you write? This question has popped up in multiple interviews, and at signing events, and while I&#8217;ve answered it in those various instances, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: April edition (plus the #TakenWithTAKEN winners)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/reading-april-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How on earth is it May already?! I swear, April passed by in the time it takes to blink. If you follow this blog, you know I&#8217;ve had a super busy month, and that didn&#8217;t leave much down time for reading. Here are the three books I read in April: Natalie Whipple&#8217;s TRANSPARENT, which I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A photo recap of the last two weeks</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/a-photo-recap-of-the-last-two-weeks/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The days since my book launched have flown by&#8211;perhaps even faster than the ones leading up to it did.*  Launch day itself was low key and wonderful. I got a massage, spotted TAKEN on a bookshelf for the first time ever, and the Engineer and I went out for a nice dinner. My house was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On outlines, and diverging from them</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/on-outlines-and-diverging-from-them/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E.L. Doctorow (as quoted by Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird) Some writers live and breath outlines. They detail out every plot point and twist and scene and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Debut week wrap-up, plus event reminders</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/debut-week-wrap-up-plus-event-reminders/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once again, my thoughts are with Boston as I write this post. I&#8217;m hoping the next bit of news we hear is GOOD news, because seriously, this week has been a shocking, sad series of events. I hope everyone in and around the city is staying safe. In the TAKEN world, a lot has happened [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Birthday, TAKEN!!!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/happy-birthday-taken/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First and foremost, I need to take a moment and offer my condolences to the city of Boston. I lived in Boston for a few years after college. I know exactly how much the marathon means to the city, how the day is a holiday and celebration. The entire incident left me saddened and shocked. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tomorrow&#8217;s the day!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/tomorrows-the-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been staring at the screen for the better part of an hour. I&#8217;m not sure where to start. Heck, I don&#8217;t even know what to say. To be honest, my mind hasn&#8217;t really been on TAKEN for awhile now. Promotion of it, yes, but not the actual writing. When it comes to manuscripts, my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: March edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/what-im-reading-march-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s April! It&#8217;s the month my book (finally) comes out! It&#8217;s the month Winter will (hopefully) stop being a jerk and let Spring finally have her moment! I&#8217;m super busy these days (surprise, surprise). So much so, that I&#8217;m a little amazed I&#8217;m still able to string together coherent sentences and even more amazed at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The #TakenWithTAKEN Contest</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/the-takenwithtaken-contest/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two years today, TAKEN sold to HarperTeen. Two weeks from tomorrow, it will finally be on shelves. Putting a book into the world takes not only many months, but many people, and I can sense a long-winded thank you post in the near future. But until then, I want to kick off Taken with TAKEN, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>After the Editorial Letter, Part 2: a peek at pass pages and beyond</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/after-the-editorial-letter-part-2-a-peek-at-pass-pages-and-beyond/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A while back I pulled aside the publishing curtain to discuss the process of revising under contract. That &#8220;After the Editorial Letter&#8221; post ended with Step 4, Copy Edits, or, as I like to call it, The last step where your book still looks like a word doc. Today we&#8217;ll take a peek at what happens next&#8230; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Announcing the TAKEN chapter reveal tour!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/announcing-the-taken-chapter-reveal-tour/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Upfront, I want to say thank you for the support many of you have shown TAKEN so far. We&#8217;re less than a month to pub now, and all the tweets, blog comments, early reviews, and general levels of enthusiasm have been so, so amazing. You guys all rock. That said, I realize there are a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>1 Month &#8217;til TAKEN!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/1-month-til-taken/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just one more month &#8217;til TAKEN! *cue flailing* I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re at this milestone already. I feel like two days ago my release date was still 24 months off. I&#8217;m really excited. And anxious. And scared. And thrilled. This is the last ARC of TAKEN I&#8217;ll be giving away, and like last month, this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>TAKEN Launch Party (and other upcoming events)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/taken-launch-party-and-other-upcoming-events/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow, so that was a surreal post title to type! I&#8217;m going to cut right to the chase because I&#8217;ve been running around like a crazy person lately trying to juggle five million things. (Slight exaggeration. But only by a little.) I set up a handy events page which you can check any old day, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>That one about touring</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Things are getting a little hectic on my end. I&#8217;m drafting book three, working on side projects, prepping for TAKEN&#8217;s release (so close now!) and finalizing my tour plans. What&#8217;s that? I never told us you I&#8217;d be touring? Well this is me officially announcing that come May 29th, I&#8217;m hitting the road with fellow [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: February edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/reading-february-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s March already! How did that happen? You know what this means, right? Six weeks til taxes are due. Oh, I&#8217;m sorry. Was that depressing? How about this instead: SIX WEEKS TIL TAKEN COMES OUT! Ahem. Maybe I should just move on to reviews. Here&#8217;s what I read in February: I enjoyed Marie Lu&#8217;s LEGEND. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In defense of love triangles interests</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/in-defense-of-love-triangles-interests/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about love triangles ever since YALSA&#8217;s&#160;BFYA Teen Feedback Session&#160;at ALA Midwinter. More specifically, ever since these two tweets, paraphrasing what one of the teens said during the panel, showed up in my feed: Many tweets followed, all seeming to confirm that teens are love-triangled out. Now I&#8217;m not trying to discount the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>2 months &#8217;til TAKEN!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/2-months-til-taken/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gah! The days are starting to fly. Just 2 measly months &#8217;til TAKEN! As we continue to near April 16th, TAKEN ARCs have been finding more and more readers. Some are friends, others are strangers, but all are awesome. It is still incredibly surreal for me to receive a tweet where someone mentions Gray, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pitch Dark Days tour visits Boston</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/pitch-dark-days-tour-visits-boston/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending one of the Pitch Dark Dark Days tour events. This was especially exciting for me because not only did I get to meet four fabulous HarperTeen authors, but I got to meet a few of my favorite authors, period: Veronica Rossi, Tahereh Mafi, Cynthia Hand, and Brodi Ashton. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: January edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/reading-january/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Given the fact that I&#8217;m in the process of drafting book three and usually avoid reading while in draft-land, I got a ton of reading done this month! I&#8217;m going to try to keep these mini-reviews as &#8220;mini&#8221; as possible or I&#8217;ll be here all day&#8230; Here&#8217;s what I read in January: I found Karen Thompson [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>3 months &#8217;til TAKEN!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/3-months-til-taken/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yup, you read that right. TAKEN hits shelves in exactly 3 months! I can&#8217;t tell you how so excited I am for you all to meet Gray! (Excited, and also a bit terrified. ;)) To me, April 16th seems like it&#8217;s just around the corner, but I understand that to an anxious reader, a 3-month [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: December edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/reading-december-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks to some down-time over the holidays, I cruised through a good amount of books in December. The theme seems to be black, purple, and pink (in the cover department), although I promise it was unintentional. Here&#8217;s what I read in December: Laini Taylor&#8217;s sequel to DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE, DAYS OF BLOOD AND [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One word for 2013</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2013/one-word-for-2013/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!!! It&#8217;s finally January, or rather 2013, or should I just say&#8230; THE YEAR MY BOOK COMES OUT!!! (That statement is both exciting and terrifying all at once.) Last year, rather than making a traditional resolution I picked a single word to focus on throughout the year: balance. I wanted to better juggle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2012: my year in review</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/winding-down-2012-my-year-in-review/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overall, I have to say that 2012 was a pretty rocking year. I finished TAKEN and got to hold it in ARC form (So surreal!). I drafted and revised TAKEN2 (Lots of blood, sweat, and tears, but so worth it). I went on an awesome trip to Europe (bucket list item checked off!) and met [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2012: some thoughts on Harry</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/winding-down-2012-some-thoughts-on-harry/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, because you were following along on twitter with #HPAlways, I recently reread the Harry Potter series. All seven years. Back to back. I knew I wanted to do some sort of recap post when I finished, and now that I&#8217;m here finally typing it, I don&#8217;t know where to start. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2012: fave reads of the year and most anticipated in 2013</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/winding-down-2012-fave-reads-of-the-year-and-most-anticipated-in-2013/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 wind-down]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m writing this post. It feels like just a month ago I was doing my 2011 wrap-up. Before I get to the goods I just want to give a belated congratulations to anyone who attempted NaNo last month. GO YOU. If you&#8217;re looking for a critique partner to help you whip [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding a Critique Partner: insights and an opportunity to start your search NOW!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/finding-a-critique-partner-insights-and-an-opportunity-to-start-your-search-now/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Critique partners. They are such an important resource for any writer. A sounding board. An honest opinion. A critical eye. I&#8217;ve seen many writers make the analogy that finding the right critique partner is a lot like dating. You have to go on a lot of dates before you find The One. If you&#8217;re on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: November Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/what-im-reading-november-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulk review]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[How is it December already? Seriously? This time of year always seems to fly. I&#8217;ve been bad with blogging recently; there was only one post between last month&#8217;s bulk review post and this one. To be fair, I was under deadline for TAKEN2 (which is now turned in&#8211;hooray!) and I participated in NaNo, so I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On writing full-time</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/on-writing-full-time/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[careers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A twitter follower recently emailed me with a great question&#8211;so great, in fact, that I wanted to answer it here on the blog. Colleen asked: &#8220;I&#8217;m wondering how you knew it was safe to leave your day job. When did you feel secure enough in writing as a career?&#8221; The short answer is I didn&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: September &#038; October edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-september-october-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been super busy lately and realized, only as I sat down to write my bulk review post for October, that I missed my review post for September. I just finished my Harry Potter series rereadathon, but I&#8217;ll save my words for a Harry-centric post in the coming weeks. Until then, here are the other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk about NaNo</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/lets-talk-about-nano/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A week from today is the first day of November. And you know what November means in the writing community, right? NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. The goal of NaNo is simple: Write 50,000 words in the month of November. I participated for the first time two years ago and had a blast. One [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Six months and counting&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/six-months-and-counting/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Epic Fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blurbs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[TAKEN comes out exactly six months from today! This doesn&#8217;t seem possible because I swear my agent called just yesterday to tell me my release date. (Truth: she called back in April.) Where does the time go? I&#8217;ve been busy these past few months&#8211;working on TAKEN&#8217;s sequel, writing some Shiny New stories, designing lots of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Write what&#8217;s in your heart</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/write-whats-in-your-heart/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know this has been said before, by many others, countless times over, but I want to spend a little time on it because the concept is so clear in my mind today. I had a lovely Skype chat with Sarah Enni last night. We got to talking about book ideas and how we each [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>You deserve a vacation</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/you-deserve-a-vacation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vacations are important. They help a person unplug, de-stress, and rekindle their love for their profession. And lets face it, even a person who loves their job can&#8217;t love it 100% of the time. For some reason, I&#8217;ve been really terrible at grasping this concept when it comes to writing. When my &#8220;day job&#8221; still [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: August edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-august-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bulk review]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was September 1st. I&#8217;ll admit I didn&#8217;t even realize this until about 7:30 at night. Until then, it was still August in my mind&#8230;probably because I was on revision, and when I work under a deadline the days seem to fly by and blend together until I reach a point where I couldn&#8217;t tell [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Summer is coming to a close</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/summer-is-coming-to-a-close/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Labor Day weekend is upon us. The sun is setting earlier and earlier. I&#8217;ve spotted a few orange leaves in the lawn and the air is starting to taste crisp and snappy in the mornings&#8211;just like the apples I&#8217;ll soon be picking. Gosh, when did summer slip away on us? One moment it was 98 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Love Lists</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/love-lists/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[While I read YA Highway religiously, I don&#8217;t usually participate in their Road Trip Wednesdays. However, this week&#8217;s prompt is so much fun that I couldn&#8217;t resist. Especially given how long I&#8217;ve gone without blogging. (I&#8217;m so sorry! Shame on me!) The prompt this week was to create a &#8220;love list&#8221; for your story/WIP/book/etc. What&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The words you cut are the most important</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/the-words-you-cut-are-the-most-important/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Revising]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A quick confession: On average, I end up cutting about 10% of my manuscript during the revision process. TEN PERCENT! Am I the only one that thinks this number seems huge? To put this in perspective, I&#8217;m nearly done revising&#160;Taken&#8216;s sequel, and I&#8217;ve currently cut 14k (15%) from the story. With&#160;Taken, the novel shrunk by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everything happens for a reason</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/everything-happens-for-a-reason/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fate]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I really, truly believe this. Heck, my current WIP has this very theme at its core. I still haven&#8217;t decided if believing that things happen for a reason is the same as believing in fate. Because the idea of fate, the notion that you are on a preconceived path and there is nothing you can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m reading: July edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-july-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulk review]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was a painfully slow reader this month. (Example: there are two books on my nightstand right now that are still stuck around the 50% mark! I keep reading one chapter and setting them back down. Eek!) I got through just four novels this month, but they were a blast. Here&#8217;s what I read in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Celebrating Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/something-strange-and-deadly-outbreak/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Epic Fun]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a big week. Tomorrow, my good friend Susan Dennard&#8216;s debut novel, SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY, hits shelves. (Please pardon me while I flail for a moment!!) I read an early version of this novel on my iPad months ago, and fell in love almost instantly. It was hard not to, given the plot, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facing the blank page</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately, whenever I &#8220;finish&#8221; a novel I find myself thinking, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t possibly have written that story. Someone else sat down at my computer and did it for me. How did I make this happen?&#8221; I submitted my first draft of&#160;Taken&#8216;s sequel to my editor about a month and a half ago, and just a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Friday the 13th! (and books I wish I wrote)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/friday-the-13th-and-books-i-wish-i-wrote/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy Friday the 13th, all! Truthfully, this day is no different than any other day for me because I&#8217;m not a terribly superstitious person. I also don&#8217;t have a black cat, nor have I left the house since yesterday around noon, which means my chances of coming across one, or walking under a ladder, are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My writing space: before &#038; after</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/my-writing-space-before-after/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always interested in learning about writer&#8217;s work spaces&#8211;offices, coffee shops, the couch! It&#8217;s so interesting to get a glimpse at where (and how) the magic happens. Back in December, when I was still working part-time at my web design job but had every intention of eventually writing full-time, I decided I wanted a dedicated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The cliffhanger dilemma</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/the-cliffhanger-dilemma/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it comes to series, people seem to either love or hate cliffhangers. I&#8217;ve always been in the camp that prefers a cliffhanger-free story. This doesn&#8217;t mean I expect all plot threads to be tied up in a neat bow by the final page, but I do expect the story&#8217;s main conflict to be resolved. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>TAKEN ARCs have arrived!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/taken-arcs-have-arrived/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The UPS man brought me a gift today. Typing is difficult right now because my hands are still shaking with excitement, so let me just jump straight to the goods. Check out this boxful of gorgeousness: It&#8217;s my book!!! In book form! With pages! And a spine! Speaking of spines, look at this bad boy: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m reading: June edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-june/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every book I read this month was phenomenal. Phenomenal! Here was my June: I&#8217;d heard numerous people rave about E. Lockhart&#8217;s THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS, and I finally picked it up this month. Why did I wait so long?! This novel is hilarious, moving, strange, and brilliant, all wrapped into one. Frankie is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s all starting to feel real&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/its-all-starting-to-feel-real/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By that, I mean, it&#8217;s hitting me. A little more each day. That this is actually happening. That my story is one day going to be printed and bound and very much in book form. The cover reveal last week was just the start. Thank you, to everyone that dropped by Pub Crawl to comment [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In which TAKEN&#8217;s cover is revealed!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/in-which-takens-cover-is-revealed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Remember last week when I said I&#8217;d be revealing TAKEN&#8217;s cover? And we all got excited? And I was so pumped I jumped around like a crazy person? Well &#8220;Reveal Day&#8221; has finally arrived. Wahoo! (Now instead of flailing, I&#8217;m more or less dancing with glee.) Oh, what&#8217;s that? You actually want to see said [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>As promised: pictures from Europe (plus exciting other news)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/pictures-from-europe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It took me a very long while to dig through the hundreds of pictures I took during my trip to Europe last month, but I finally have a small sampling to share. It rained for much of our vacation, and while that didn&#8217;t keep us from having a fantastic time, it unfortunately resulted in lot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m reading: May edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-may/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent two weeks of May in Europe, but that didn&#8217;t seem to slow my pace! Here&#8217;s what I read last month: Elizabeth Fama&#8217;s MONSTROUS BEAUTY is only the second mermaid story I&#8217;ve ever read, but I&#8217;m not sure another will manage to top it. This book was beautiful and haunting and dark. And a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m reading: INSURGENT by Veronica Roth</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-insurgent-veronica-roth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This book is being reviewed as a part of Tracey Neithercott&#8217;s YA Book Club. This month we&#8217;re talking about INSURGENT, which picks up right where DIVERGENT left off. Here&#8217;s the summary from the inside jacket: Tris&#8217;s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m Home! (and a peek at TAKEN&#8217;s page passes)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/im-home-and-a-peek-at-takens-page-passes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you follow me on twitter, you may have noticed a long bout of silence these last two weeks. Well, I was off in Europe with the Engineer, traversing through Paris and rural Germany and then wrapping things up in Amsterdam. It was a blast, filled with delicious pastries, coffee, beer, wine, cheeses, sight-seeing, hiking, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: April edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-april/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent most of this month revising book two based on my critique partner&#8217;s brilliant feedback. But somehow, I still managed to plow my way through a pretty solid stack of books. Let&#8217;s get to it! Books I read this April: After the killer cliffhanger at the end of Robison Well&#8217;s VARIANT, I&#8217;ve been super [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>10 things I learned while writing a sequel</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/10-things-i-learned-while-writing-a-sequel/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The experience of completing my first draft of TAKEN&#8217;s sequel has come with many ups and downs. The simplest thing I can say is this: Book Twos are strange beasts. Strange, strange beasts. My experience is not universal, but I do know a handful of writers that faced some of the same struggles (and epiphanies) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Links, Vlogs, and TAKEN Updates</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/links-vlogs-and-taken-updates/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve posted a lot of tutorials and dust jackets and book reviews, but I feel like it&#8217;s been awhile sine I wrote a simple update of what&#8217;s going on in the Land of Erin. (And maybe you guys don&#8217;t want these types of posts. Maybe they are boring. Let me know in the comments [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: March Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-march/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lots of books this month! Lots of books with&#8230;dark covers. THE DISENCHANTMENTS sticks out like a sore thumb ;) Anyway, let&#8217;s get to it! Here&#8217;s what I read in March: Sarah J Maas&#8217; second novella in the THRONE OF GLASS series, THE ASSASSIN AND THE DESERT, came out just two days ago and I&#8217;ve already [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Steal Like an Artist</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/steal-like-an-artist/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I was at the day job (web design), when a link to a blog post made it&#8217;s way around the office via AIM. The post was basically one man&#8217;s manifesto when it came to creativity. He listed out ten things he wished he knew when he was starting out as a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One step back, two steps forward</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/one-step-back-two-steps-forward/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I always struggle to find balance when I write a first draft. I&#8217;m either tweaking adjectives and commas so obsessively that I fail to move forward, or I&#8217;m plowing ahead so blindly that I write myself into a complete mess of poor pacing, character inconsistencies, plot holes, the works. I think many writers fight this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Go Away, I&#8217;m Reading: Hunger Games inspired dust jackets</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/go-away-im-reading-hunger-games-inspired-dust-jackets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Remember when we made those snarky dust jackets so you could tell people to bug off while reading? Well the response has been so amazing that Sarah, Tracey, and I have been thinking long and hard about how to move forward with the project and give you guys more goodies. We are seriously considering opening [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Scrivener tutorial: character worksheets and freeform corkboard</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/a-scrivener-tutorial-character-worksheets-and-freeform-corkboard/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[brainstorming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[characters]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re taking a look at character and setting worksheets in Scrivener, as well as how the application can be used to help brainstorm visually. (What, you didn&#8217;t know you could brainstorm visually in Scrivener? I didn&#8217;t either until recently, but then I discovered the freeform corkboard. It&#8217;s pretty nifty. Watch and see.) I&#8217;m thinking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: February Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-february/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulk review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairy tale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paranormal romance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Copy edits really slowed me down this month. They arrived mid-February and were due just this past Tuesday. I only got through a couple novels in the process, but they were good ones! Here&#8217;s what I read in February: I love a good fairy-tale retelling, so I was so very excited to get my hands [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A letter from the past</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/a-letter-from-the-past/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memories]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had a different blog post planned for today &#8212; my February reads, which still may happen &#8212; but then this letter arrived in my inbox and I had to share it. A year ago, today, I used a service called FutureMe.org to write myself a letter. I&#8217;m not sure how I heard about the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The grass is always greener</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/the-grass-is-always-greener/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[milestones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perspective]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in a bit of a funk lately. While drafting book two, all I wanted to do was get my copy edits for book one. Book two wasn&#8217;t necessarily being problematic, but gosh, this writing this was hard. I&#8217;d forgotten how scary the blank page can be. How you are typing the words for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/happy-valentines-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is a very commercial holiday, but in a weird way, it always reminds me of Thanksgiving. Each and every Valentine&#8217;s Day I find myself reflecting on the number of wonderful people in my life. Friends, family, loved ones. I am truly blessed. I can&#8217;t help but feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Go away! I&#8217;m reading.</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/go-away-im-reading/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art + Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dust jackets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freebies]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some people just don&#8217;t understand that when you have your nose deep in a book, it means just that. You are deep in a book. You do NOT want to be interrupted. The other day, my friend Sarah Enni found this amazing pin on etsy: I thought it was genius, but Tracey Neithercott promptly pointed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>After the Editorial Letter, Part 1: a peek at revising under contract</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/after-the-editorial-letter-part-1-a-peek-at-revising-under-contract/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revising]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is my birthday! (*does happy dance*) A year ago this time, I had just finished signing with my agent. My how things have changed! A huge milestone these past twelve months was selling my book, and after that, it was surviving my editorial revisions for&#160;Taken, which are finally nearing completion. So I thought we&#8217;d [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Birthday celebrations &#038; a book recommendation</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/birthday-celebrations-a-book-recommendation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is my birthday! Another year gone by, and yet, I don&#8217;t feel any older. Some delusional part of me still thinks I&#8217;m 16. In celebration of aging numerically but not at heart, I&#8217;m giving away some goodies over on Pub(lishing) Crawl and talking about the revision process that follows an author receiving their editorial [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: January edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/reading-january-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulk review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This past month was perhaps my busiest in a very, very long time, and yet I somehow read a record number of books. Go figure! Here&#8217;s what I read in January: CATCHING JORDAN by Miranda Kenneally was such a pleasant surprise! I could really relate to Jordan because I was one of those &#8220;jock&#8221; girls [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Scrivener tutorial: outlining</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/a-scrivener-tutorial-outlining/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corkboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outlining]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago on twitter, Sarah Goldberg mentioned how she loves Scrivener but has trouble outlining in it, which made me want to share my personal approach to outlining with you. After much screen-shotting and writing of instructions, I decided a video would be better; simpler to follow, more succinct, more fun. I scrapped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Some updates</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/some-updates/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FROZEN]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[January has been a crazy month, and it&#8217;s not even half way done yet. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; January has been fabulous. Just crazy. Let me update you on a few things. I joined The Lucky 13s! The Lucky 13s is a giant group of all children&#8217;s writers debuting as the Class of 2013, much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A new venture</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/a-new-venture/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[About a year and a half ago, I had a finished manuscript and a crazy idea that included pursuing publication. I didn&#8217;t have a critique partner or an agent, I&#8217;d never written a query letter, and I had absolutely no clue what it meant to &#8220;be on sub.&#8221;* We&#8217;re all clueless at the beginning of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One word for 2012</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2012/one-word-for-2012/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a new year. (Oh my gosh &#8212; happy new year, guys!!!) It&#8217;s a little shocking it&#8217;s here already. It shouldn&#8217;t be. Not really. Not when January 1st comes after December 31st, each and every year without fail. But it always sneaks up on me, this changing of the calendar, having to write a new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: December Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-december/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult fiction]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the end of 2011! Thanks to a long week of vacation between Christmas and New Years, I managed to get through a decent number of books this month. Here&#8217;s what I read: WHY WE BROKE UP by Daniel Handler and illustrated by Maira Kalman. Min and Ed were an improbably match; him the star [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2011: My year in review</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winding-down-2011-my-year-in-review/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simply put, this year was amazing. Some highlights included: getting an agent, getting a book deal (!), watching my CP get a book deal, celebrating a best friend&#8217;s marriage, meeting twitter friends IRL, finishing TAKEN revisions and sending it to copy editing, hosting Read for Relief, spending Fourth of July at the lake house with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Best of 2011: Most anticipated in 2012</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/best-of-2011-anticipated-in-2012/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 wind-down]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of Sarah Enni&#8216;s Best of 2011 Blog Circus. Up today: the five most anticipated books to be released in 2012. There are a few books that have been on my radar for almost all of 2011. Books that I am dying to read. Books that I can&#8217;t wait to hold in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2011: Class of 2011 Superlatives, part 4</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winding-down-2011-superlatives-part-4/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 wind-down]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the Class of 2011 Superlatives Blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. Up today: best in show. I had way too much fun making the graphics that went with these. They appear a little small within the blog post, but you can click through to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Best of 2011: Recommended YA books</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/best-of-2011-recommended-books/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 wind-down]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of Sarah Enni&#8216;s Best of 2011 Blog Circus. Up today: the top five YA books recommended this year. This list is not the same as my top five favorite releases of 2011, mostly because books that I tend to recommend the most, to almost anyone, are always a bit more commercial, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2011: Class of 2011 Superlatives, part 3</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winding-down-2011-superlatives-part-3/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the Class of 2011 Superlatives Blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. Up today: the elements of fiction (or: the kings of the craft). I had way too much fun making the graphics that went with these. They appear a little small within the blog [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Best of 2011: YA books</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/best-of-2011-books/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of Sarah Enni&#8216;s Best of 2011 Blog Circus. Up today: the top five YA books released this year. I read just over 50 books this year. Only about half of those were released in 2011, so know that I&#8217;m not selecting from a super large pool. But even still, these books [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2011: Class of 2011 Superlatives, part 2</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winding-down-2011-superlatives-part-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the Class of 2011 Superlatives Blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. Up today: the head of the class (or: characters that stand out from the crowd). I had way too much fun making the graphics that went with these. They appear a little small [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Best of 2011: YA girls &#038; boys</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/best-of-2011-girls-and-boys/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of Sarah Enni&#8216;s Best of 2011 Blog Circus. Up today: the top five girls and boys to grace the pages of YA in 2011. I think dimensional, realized, layered characters are a big deal. If I am unable to connect with a character while reading, the book will ultimately fall flat [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2011: Class of 2011 Superlatives, part 1</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winding-down-2011-superlatives-part-1/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the Class of 2011 Superlatives Blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. Up today: the head of the class (or: books that came out on top in their genre). I had way too much fun making the graphics that went with these. They appear a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Best of 2011: Music to write to</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/best-of-2011-music/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is part of Sarah Enni&#8216;s Best of 2011 Blog Circus. Up today: the best music released in 2011 (complete album or single track) to write to. I&#8217;m sticking to single tracks, mostly because it is very rare that I find an entire album fitting for writing. I&#8217;m a big fan of making playlists [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2011: a year in photos</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winding-down-2011-year-in-photos/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Words aren&#8217;t really necessary for this post. Click the image to see it in its full-size glory.   And a quick reminder: I&#8217;ll be offline for much of the upcoming holiday week, but I have a ton of end-of-year posts pre-drafted. I&#8217;ll be slow to respond to any comments, but like always, I will be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winding down 2011</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winding-down-2011/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The year has almost come to a close. (How did this happen?) This time next week I&#8217;ll likely be headed to visit family and friends, meaning I&#8217;ll be spending a lot less time online checking emails, tweeting incessantly, and updating the blog. I want to host one last game of #namethatbook on twitter before the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I have author photos!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/i-have-author-photos/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know, I still work a day job. It used to be my full-time job, but now I&#8217;m down to three days a week (Mon-Fri). We are a web design/development shop, but everyone there seems to have a vast array of talents, many of which extend beyond the realm of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: November Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-november/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[November was a very busy month and it seems like it flew by. How is it already December? Seriously, some one consult a calendar and tell me how this happened. I only got through four books this month, but seeing how I also had to turn in my second round of revisions on TAKEN, I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: THE SCORPIO RACES by Maggie Stiefvater</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/what-im-reading-the-scorpio-races-by-maggie-stiefvater/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This book slayed me. It cut my heart out of my chest and left me breathless. What an absolutely beautiful story about love and sacrifice and the things that bind us together. Summary from the inside jacket: It happens at the star of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On book ratings (the one-to-five star variety)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/on-book-ratings/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently went onto goodreads and deleted every rating I had ever given a book. Crazy? Let me explain. Giving a book a rating that can fall into only one of five categories is, at least for me, one of the most ridiculous processes ever. First of all, how often in life do you ever [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>LAICOS has a new title!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/laicos-has-a-new-title/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right. A new title! I want to talk a bit about why the book got retitled, as well as my adventurous process of finding the right one, but let me get to the goods first. (I know that&#8217;s what you want. You&#8217;re welcome.) So without further adieu, THE LAICOS PROJECT is now&#8230;.. . . [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Snowtober (or: a near weeklong adventure in patience)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/snowtober/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First of all, let me just take a moment to relish in the fact that I finally have power back. It came back last night around dinner time and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. Thank you service workers and road crews and town people and everyone else that worked over-time to get us back on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: October Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-october-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those of you following me on Twitter, you know I have been without power since Saturday. Hooray, Snowtober! In some wonderful stroke of genius (read: luck), I had drafted this review post on Friday before the storm, and was able to quickly push it live from work today. This is perhaps the one thing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE by Laini Taylor</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-laini-taylor/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A story so delightfully weird, wonderfully strange, and masterfully written, that you trust the author entirely and devour ever word as though it were fact. Summary from the inside jacket: All around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a little while</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/its-been-a-little-while/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I apologize, blog readers. Truly, I do. We won a new piece of business at the day job, and it&#8217;s going to have me on a train to NYC once a week for meetings for the next few months. As you can imagine, this on top my revisions (I just started working on my second [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ten random facts (+ guest blogging)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/ten-random-facts-guest-blogging/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;m over on the Crowe&#8217;s Nest, talking about online friendships and my undying love of Twitter. Check it out! And in other news, the lovely Katy Upperman &#8220;tagged&#8221; me in a post the other day, requesting that I share ten riveting (and random) facts about myself. Here they are: ONE &#8212; I have never [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why buying books is like gaming</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/why-buying-books-is-like-gaming/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OK, it&#8217;s not really, but hear me out. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, I am a web designer by day. I work at a wonderful little shop in Boston where we design and build all sorts of interactive experiences (web sites, applications, iPhone apps, etc). Because we are small, everyone wears lots of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A little story about my critique partner</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/about-my-critique-partner/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Around this time last year, an agent blogged about the importance of critique partners – having one, finding one that matched your needs and gave the type of feedback you required, was honest and trustworthy, etc, etc. The agent then graciously invited people in need of a critique partner to post their book blurbs, their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: September Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-september/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My reading pace was down a bit this month. Work at the day job was incredibly crazy – any of you following me on Twitter know what I&#8217;m talking about – and as a result, I got through fewer books than I would have liked. There&#8217;s just never enough time! If a magic genie appeared [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: MISS PEREGRINE&#8217;S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-ransom-riggs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vintage photos so creepily wonderful, you might want to read the book solely for them. Summary from the inside jacket: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very peculiar photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales where he discovers Miss Peregrine&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk about cliffhangers</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/lets-talk-about-cliffhangers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it comes to book series, cliffhangers are inevitable. That being said, I believe there are two very different types of cliffhangers: 1) The kind that leave you hanging, but settle the main conflict/plot before doing so 2) The kind that leave you hanging at the ultimate climax, with little or no resolution Personally, I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Birthday, baby blog!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/happy-birthday-baby-blog/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A year ago, today, I wrote my first blog post. I&#8217;d spent the two years prior typing feverishly at my computer, separated from and uninvolved in the online writing community. And the industry in general, for that matter. I hadn&#8217;t once taken a look at an agent&#8217;s blog or submission guidelines. I didn&#8217;t know what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Building a bookshelf</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/building-a-bookshelf/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve sort of become the library at my day job. My co-workers will ask me what I&#8217;m reading and if it&#8217;s any good, and any time I rave about a certain title, they go pick it up. Sometimes I even bring a copy in and loan it out. THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE – if you&#8217;re [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On NOT knowing my characters, and why it works for me</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/on-not-knowing-my-characters-and-why-it-works-for-me/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone says &#8220;know your characters,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t like to know my characters, at least not fully. Let me explain. I&#8217;ll start with a confession: I despise character worksheets. I think they are the worst type of pre-writing homework. I&#8217;ve tried to like them. Years ago, before I started writing my first novel, I used [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Read for Relief</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/read-for-relief/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, I mentioned a side-project that I&#8217;d been working on with Caroline Richmond, Tracey Neithercott, and Sarah Enni. Today I am happy (and excited) to tell you what we&#8217;ve been up to. As many of you know, Hurricane Irene did a lot of damage on the east coast several days back. Some areas escaped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: August Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-august/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before I get into this month&#8217;s reviews, I wanted to let you all know that I&#8217;ve been working on a secret side project with some of my wonderful writing friends (Caroline Richmond, Tracey Neithercott, and Sarah Enni, if you must ask) and I am incredibly excited to share it with you.* Stay tuned for details [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Drafting: my approach and general process</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/drafting-my-approach-and-general-process/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post, I said I&#8217;d be willing to answer some reader questions. Emy Shin (who is lovely, mind you. You should all go follow her on twitter) asked: How long does it take you, on average, to write the first draft of a novel? Do you revise as you go along? How [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winner of FAIRYLAND and a sneak peek at LAICOS!</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/winner-of-fairyland-and-a-sneak-peek-at-laicos/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Giveaway Winner! I hosted a little giveaway last week for THE GIRL WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED FAIRYLAND IN A SHIP OF HER OWN MAKING by Catherynne M Valente. This book is so imaginative and rich and full of some of the most beautiful writing I have devoured in quite some time. I shared some of my favorite [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why you should read every hardcover with the book jacket OFF</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/why-you-should-read-every-hardcover-with-the-book-jacket-off/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Besides not wanting to crinkle, bend, bruise or blemish the lovely jacket, of course.) One of my favorite parts about buying a new book is peeling off the jacket and seeing what&#8217;s underneath. Many times, the jacket-less version of a book is not terribly exciting. A plain front, a title and author on the spine, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading (and a giveaway!): THE GIRL WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED FAIRYLAND IN A SHIP OF HER OWN MAKING by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-the-girl-who-circumnavigated-fairyland-by-catherynne-m-valente/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A tale so beautifully entrancing I want to crawl into the book and live in the margins. Summary from the inside jacket: September is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn&#8217;t you?) But Fairyland is in turmoil, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One down, an unknown amount to go</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/one-down-an-unknown-amount-to-go/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Revision #1 is done! I finished late Friday night and let me tell you, they should bottle up how I was feeling and sell it in bulk. Holy crap, did I feel amazing. It was relief and pride and awesomeness and sheer joy all rolled into one. I pretty much felt like this: And let&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: July Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-july/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It pains me to do a bulk review post, but the number of books that are stacking up in my &#8220;read&#8221; pile are currently rivaling my &#8220;to be read*&#8221; pile, and if I ever want to catch up on my reviews, this is the only option. Actually, if I were to be honest with myself, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two years</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two years ago today, this happened: Me and The Engineer, Photo by Victoria Souza Photography I really can&#8217;t believe this was two years ago. It feels simultaneously too short and too long. In some ways I feel I&#8217;ve been married to this wonderful man for years and in others, I feel we&#8217;re still going on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thank you, Harry</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/thank-you-harry/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And thank you, Jo. So much. For everything. It&#8217;s taken me over a week to write this post because I&#8217;ve been dreading it. It&#8217;s the end of an era. Everyone spent the last two weeks posting their Harry Potter stories. This series has touched so many lives, young and old, and I&#8217;m not quite sure [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest blogging on Let The Words Flow</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/guest-blogging-on-let-the-words-flow/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m guest blogging over at Let The Words Flow today. The very lovely Vanessa Di Gregorio approached me about writing a post for LTFW a few weeks ago, and as a long-time follower and reader of the blog, I was both humbled and excited to contribute. Vanessa mentioned that readers had been asking for some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is it dystopia? A flowchart for decoding the genre</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/is-it-dystopia/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, the lovely Maureen Johnson started a conversation on twitter about the dystopian genre and how it is defined. An #isitdystopia hashtag emerged. There were talks of flowcharts. One made the rounds, and while it was amusing and had me smiling, it made me think more critically about how I define the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Revision Cave is my new home</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/the-revision-cave-is-my-new-home/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Fourth has come and gone. I had a fabulous holiday weekend up in the Adirondacks with the Engineer and some of my family. It consisted mostly of sun and reading and swimming off the boat. There was also beer and grilling and sparklers, in typical Independence Day fashion. It was really quite lovely. Raquette [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Author business cards and a guest post</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/author-business-cards-and-a-guest-post/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First off, I&#8217;m guest posting over on Ellen Oh&#8216;s blog today. Ellen is a fellow YA writer (her debut, Prophecy: The Dragon King Chronicles, comes out from HarperCollins in Winter 2013, just like me!) and she&#8217;s currently running a series aptly titled: &#8220;What&#8217;s the Best Writerly Advice You&#8217;d Give Your Younger Self?&#8221; I discuss, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: SHIP BREAKER by Paolo Bacigalupi</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/what-im-reading-ship-breaker-by-paolo-bacigalupi/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A fast-paced adventure that&#8217;s a little too close for comfort. Summary from the inside jacket: In America&#8217;s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota–and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: INVINCIBLE SUMMER by Hannah Moskowitz</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-invincible-summer-hannah-moskowitz/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A beautiful, gritty story about family. Summary from the goodreads: Noah’s happier than I’ve seen him in months. So I’d be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It’s not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah’s happiness because of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The contract</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So it came. I read through it – I surprisingly understood most of the fancy legal lingo – and then called Sara to walk me through the few clauses I needed clarification on. Two people have to sign this document: the president of HarperCollins and yours truly. Let me just say that while the legalities [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Summer Fridays, Revisions Letters, and a Giveaway Winner</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/summer-fridays-revisions-letters-and-a-giveaway-winner/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Summer Fridays! Today begins Summer Fridays at the day-job. This means that if I have met all my deadlines and finished all my designery work for the week, I can leave at 2pm. Score! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this wonderful treat. As someone who drives in at the crack of dawn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading (and a giveaway!): THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE by Jandy Nelson</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-the-sky-is-everywhere-jandy-nelson/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 23:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Love and grief are companions through life, entwined as clearly as the sky is blue. Summary from the inside jacket: Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: Dystopian Edition</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-dystopian-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 22:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am so very behind on my &#8220;What I&#8217;m Reading&#8221; posts. I really despise doing bulk reviews, but these three just seem to fit together so well, it was hard to resist.  Pictured above: Wither, Lauren DeStefano; Delirium, Lauren Oliver; Matched, Ally Condie I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a dystopian kick lately, and based [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Story first</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 02:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The purpose of young adult literature is often twofold: to tell a story, and to send a message, usually in the form of a much-needed lesson. This is the first line of a recent New York Times Sunday Book Review by Lisa Belkin. The article reviewed two YA novels about abusive relationships – Jennifer Brown&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Like an artist</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/like-an-artist/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 21:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This comic by Ida Eva Neverdahl got passed around the internet today, and for obvious reasons. Take a look: Ida, how did you do this? How did you so perfectly capture the struggles of pursuing a creative life? How did you capture the process and the love and the doubts and the uncertainty? And how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Keep calm and carry on</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 22:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve seen the poster I&#8217;m talking about, right? This one; designed to keep morale up in Britain during the WWII, but never really put into use. It wasn&#8217;t until years later, after the propaganda slipped into public domain, that the Internet saw a resurgence of this &#8220;keep calm and carry on&#8221; slogan. Chances are you&#8217;ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Name That Book, a Twitter game</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/name-that-book-a-twitter-game/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 01:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I initiated a little game on Twitter the other evening, cleverly (or unimaginatively) referred to as Name That Book. This game was pretty straight-forward. I posted a photo snippet from a book (interior pages) and the first person to tweet me with the correct title and author won. We played five rounds and at the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Foreign Sales!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 01:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nearly a day to the month since my book sold, the good news keeps rolling in. This was announced on Publishers Marketplace today: Rights to Erin Bowman&#8217;s THE LAICOS PROJECT, to Carsten Polzin at Piper in Germany, in a three-book deal, in a pre-empt, by Friederike Biesel at Thomas Schlueck Agency, and in Italy to Ornella Robbiati at Sperling &#38; Kupfer, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Battling Fear</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wanted to talk about something that has happened since landing my book deal: The Fear. Hear me out. You spend all this time writing, perfectly, querying, revising and submitting your story, all in pursuit of the elusive book deal. And then, after months of patience and hard work and perseverance, everything falls into place. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Marathon Monday! (and, giveaway winners)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/its-marathon-monday-and-giveaway-winners/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is Marathon Monday in Boston. As far as I am aware, it is one of the larger annual marathons in the country. People come from all over to race through the suburbs of Boston, facing Hearbreak Hill in the final miles and ending on downtown Boylston Street, just outside the Boston Public Library. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crutches in writing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all have them. Certain words we use more than others. Phrases we rely on. I am aware of a good number of mine, and even though I consciously try to keep them in check, they always sneak into my work. Especially first drafts. I&#8217;m working on something new at the moment, and my goodness, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest Blogging on Crowe&#8217;s Nest</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/guest-blogging-on-crowes-nest/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m guest blogging over on my agent&#8217;s blog today, the Crowe&#8217;s Nest. I wrote a fancy post – &#8220;As Nike says, &#8220;Just do it&#8221; – where I ramble about finding the time to write, and then no matter what, starting. The Nike slogan is pure genius, and while its focus is on running, I think [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thank you!!! (and, let&#8217;s celebrate)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/thank-you-and-lets-celebrate/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wanted to give a big thank you to everyone who has taken to the time to congratulate me on my book deal these last few days. From emails and blog comments to twitter messages and RTs, you guys have been amazing. I have been so touched by how genuinely thrilled and excited everyone seems [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Amazing News!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I will attempt to refrain from using an excess of exclamation marks in this post, but I&#8217;m fairly certain it will be impossible. I have a book deal!!! The deal was announced on Publishers Marketplace late last night, and it read something (well, exactly) like this: Erin Bowman&#8217;s THE LAICOS PROJECT, about a 17-year-old who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: PLAIN KATE by Erin Bow</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-plain-kate-erin-bow/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A beautifully poetic tale of one plain girl and some very dark shadows. Summary from the inside jacket: As the wood-carvers daughter, Plain Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden charms are so fine that some even call her &#8220;witch-blade&#8221; – a dangerous nickname in a town where witches are hunted. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Open Letter to Winter</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/an-open-letter-to-winter/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Winter, Can you just let it go now? Please? Clearly you don&#8217;t know when to let something die. Must I remind you that tomorrow is April 1st? It&#8217;s not like I won&#8217;t see you again later this year. Chances are you will even show up early, stepping all over Fall&#8217;s toes and the like. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading (and a giveaway!): DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-divergent-veronica-roth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One choice can transform you. The tagline for this book could not be truer. Summary from the Roth&#8217;s site: In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>St Patty&#8217;s Day! (dishing on books and wearing green)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/st-pattys-day-dishing-on-books-and-wearing-green/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day! Boston is gearing up for the holiday it celebrates best and there is some 60-degree Spring weather rolling our way. As someone named after the wonderful island I have not yet visited (it is on my Bucket List), Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day has always been a fun holiday for me. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Abandoning a book</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/abandoning-a-book/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I put down a book the other day. I tried to like it; I really did. I gave it a lot of chances, but in the end, I chose to abandon it for a different read. There are just too many books on my TBR list and far too little time in each day for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Creativity is not a bottomless well</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/creativity-is-not-a-bottomless-well/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For a very long time, I was a firm believer that writing every day was the best recipe for staying sharp, focused and creative. Some days you write for hours, other days only a few minutes. But I&#8217;ve recently started to believe that writing every day may not always be the best approach. By all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: SISTERS RED by Jackson Pearce</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-sisters-red-jackson-pearce/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am a sucker for fairy tales, traditional or re-told. Summary from the inside jacket: Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris–the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister, Rosie, from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and a blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: SWEETHEARTS by Sara Zarr</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-sweethearts-sara-zarr/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This book was not what I thought it would be. It was better&#8230; Summary from the inside jacket: As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts. They were also each other&#8217;s only friend. So when Cameron disappeared without warning, Jennifer thought she&#8217;d lost the one person who would ever understand her. Now [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Battling the urge to check email</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/battling-the-urge-to-check-email/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So you sent the email. You hit send and it went flying off into the depths of cyberspace. Now what do you? Refresh gmail every other minute until the response comes back, right? (Don&#8217;t lie. I&#8217;m guilty of this too.) I saw this tweet earlier in the week and something inside me cringed a little: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-the-road-cormac-mccarthy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Things you will need while reading this: Deep breathes. Tissues. A strong stomach. Summary from the inside jacket: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Connected yet alone</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/connected-yet-alone/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last night I got overwhelmed by this feeling that tends to plague me. I was on twitter, conversing with a bunch of my writer friends, and suddenly, at that very same moment, I felt insanely alone. And I started wondering why it is, that as a writer, I can feel so supported by fellow writers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A message to my sixteen-year-old self (and to all teens, for that matter)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/message-to-my-sixteen-year-old-self/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I turned 26 this past week. It&#8217;s crazy to think that just ten years ago I was 16. A lot has changed since I was in high school and yet in many ways, I feel the same. Young, clueless, searching for meaning and purpose in life. Some days I feel no different than I did [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I love revising</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/why-i-love-revising/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I truthfully don&#8217;t mind revising. And now you&#8217;re probably thinking one of two things. Either A, that is a total lie. Or B, something is wrong with this girl and she&#8217;s not quite sane. But I really am being honest, so if truth exists in either theory, it lives in B and B alone. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two of my favorite things: Harry Potter &#038; Cupcakes</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/harry-potter-cupcakes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This story is proof that my co-workers are awesome. It was my birthday a few days ago. Dave told me he was going to make cupcakes and ran some flavor ideas past me. Then he asked me what I wanted on them. Our conversation went something like this: Dave: So&#8230; What do you want on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-anna-and-the-french-kiss-stephanie-perkins/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People said this book was sweet and romantic. They weren&#8217;t kidding. Summary from the inside jacket: Anna was looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she&#8217;s less than thrilled about being shipped off to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Groundhog Day (a very backwards holiday)</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/groundhog-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So today is Groundhog Day. That&#8217;s right, the day we put all our faith of an early Spring in some furry little rodent. OK, fine. He is a kind of cute, but still. This holiday is comprised of about .003% scientific fact and a whole lot of hoopla. Bill Murray knows what I&#8217;m talking about. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE by Beth Revis</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-across-the-universe-beth-revis/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What a ride! This story was jam-packed with twists and turns and it does not disappoint. Summary from the inside jacket: Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed&#8230;Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed&#8216;s scheduled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: THE REPLACEMENT by Brenna Yovanoff</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-the-replacement-brenna-yovanoff/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I pick up a book just for its cover. This was one of those times. Summary from the inside jacket: Mackie is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murkey water, a world of living dead girls ruled by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My query process, or, How to not lose your mind while querying</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/my-query-process/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maybe that title is misleading. I did sort of lose my mind a little while querying. But simply from the nerves and anxieties of the process. Otherwise, I was very organized, confident in who I was reaching out to, and happy with my process. So I&#8217;m going to share how I tackled this monstrous step [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beating a &#8220;Case of the Mondays&#8221; with fabulous news&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/beating-a-case-of-the-mondays-with-fabulous-news/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most Mondays I feel like Peter in Office Space and can hear that secretary woman running around in my head sputtering, &#8220;Sounds like somebody&#8217;s got a case of the Mondays!&#8221; But today&#8217;s Monday is perhaps the most exciting day that I have had in my career as a writer. Today&#8217;s Monday I can share some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>To judge or not to judge&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/to-judge-or-not-to-judge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They say don&#8217;t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes it&#8217;s difficult not to. I recently picked up Brenna Yovanoff&#8217;s The Replacement at the library solely because of the cover. It wasn&#8217;t that the inside jacket didn&#8217;t read well – it does – but the cover caught my eye and I couldn&#8217;t not take [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: HOW I LIVE NOW by Meg Rosoff</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-how-i-live-now-meg-rosoff/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard lots of amazing things about this book. It was about time I picked it up. Summary from the inside jacket: This is a story about love. It&#8217;s also a story about hate, which is why I left New York in the first place. You don&#8217;t fly halfway across the world to live with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: PAPER TOWNS by John Green</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-paper-towns-by-john-green/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another John Green book. What can I say, I&#8217;m an addict, I guess. It&#8217;s not my favorite by John Green. But it&#8217;s still pretty fabulous. Summary from the inside jacket: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s a blessing and a curse&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/its-a-blessing-and-a-curse/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;having an eye for words. Or an ear, that is. Although, I suppose this pertains to all crafts. Once you get deep enough in something, you can&#8217;t escape it. Lately, when I&#8217;ve been curled up on my couch with a book, I&#8217;ve found myself stumbling over sentences, editing it in my mind as I read. I&#8217;ll [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: HATE LIST by Jennifer Brown</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2011/reading-hate-list-by-jennifer-brown/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was quite a ride. An emotional one, too. Summary from the inside jacket: Five months ago, Valerie Leftman&#8217;s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list helped create. A list of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s another new year</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s 2011. I find this really odd, mostly because when someone mentions something from say, 1998, I still feel like this was just a handful of years ago. By handful, I mean like two or three years. Five, max. It&#8217;s weird to think that anything that occured during the 90&#8217;s is now over a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can you ever truly be finished revising?</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2010/can-you-ever-truly-be-finished-revising/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Putting the final touches on my MS before querying can only be likened to watching the last 5 minutes of a tied football game. Instead of taking 5 minutes, the game drags out for over an hour. Too many time-outs, and players running out of bounds to stop the clock, and yet the intensity is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2010/reading-looking-for-alaska-by-john-green/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read a few books by the talented John Green. This one is my favorite. Summary from the inside jacket: Before. Miles &#8216;Pudge&#8217; Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave &#8216;the Great Perhaps&#8217; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding a critique partner is kind of like&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[…blind dating. Not that I’d actually know &#8211; I’ve never been on a blind date. But even without any credentials to be making this statement, I deem them similar. » Step One Try to narrow your pool of candidates by “interests” (writing for your same audience and at least familiar with your genre). If they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding the time to write</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about this because I feel it&#8217;s been quite the buzz on the web this week. Lots of good advice/thoughts/personal experience floating around out there. Let&#8217;s jump right in, shall we? Elisabeth Black wrote a fancy little post a few days back about the difference between writing as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading: FEED by M.T. Anderson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Holy crap. This book was amazing. I read the entire thing in two short wholesale jerseys sittings, but not Paul because it was overly my simplistic or juvenile. I just couldn&#8217;t put it down. It was that good. Summary from the inside jacket: &#8220;We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Writing for young adults</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I never intended to write a young adult novel. Truthfully, my first novel (which I wrote over cheap NFL jerseys a year ago now), was originally geared toward adults. Then somewhere in the be middle of writing it, things started to shift, the target audience slowly change. This is half the reason why that cheap [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On my desire to be a published novelist&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://embowman.com/2010/on-my-desire-to-be-a-published-novelist/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Bowman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since this blog is going to chronicle my pursuit of publication, talking about why I want to get published (and what that milestone means to me), seems like a good place to start. » Deep Down, I’m a Writer I have been a writer since day one. When I could first talk, I was telling [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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