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		<title>Action, Aliens, Politics, and Romance: The Seeker Star by Susan Jane Bigelow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 02:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full disclosure: I was given a review copy of the Kindle edition of The Seeker Star as part of a review exchange. Author Susan Jane Bigelow did something I thought was impossible: got me to care about a socially conservative, misogynistic country. The country in question is protagonist Violet Grayline&#8217;s homeland Gideon on the planet [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Geology for the masses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in the New River Valley or Roanoke area and enjoy geology or just being outdoors, I&#8217;m leading a FREE geology walk along the Huckleberry Trail through the VT YMCA Open University. It&#8217;ll be on Sunday 10/28 from 1 pm &#8211; 3 pm. Here&#8217;s the writeup. Huckleberry Trail Geology Walk Stroll two miles of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The wholly unnecessary Stadium Woods controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that there&#8217;s a kerfuffle over the fate of Virginia Tech&#8217;s Stadium Woods. For those of you thinking &#8220;Stadium what?&#8221;, Stadium Woods is an 11-acre old-growth forest remnant in the middle of Blacksburg that miraculously has been left alone over the years. The VT Athletics Department plans to build an indoor football [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore bound</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 02:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday through Monday I&#8217;ll be in august company at Balticon 45, a long-running sci-fi/fantasy convention held in Baltimore, Maryland. (The con begins on Friday 5/27/11, but I won&#8217;t be there until Saturday.) If you&#8217;re within driving distance, please stop by and say hello! Balticon is a big event with lots of artists, entertainers, games, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy RaEW!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having trouble coming up with a catchy title for this post, so I decided to be cryptic. RaEW stands for &#8220;Read an Ebook Week&#8221;. Seeing how Smashwords crashed this morning from a deluge of hits, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s off to an enthusiastic start! In honor of &#8220;Read an Ebook Week&#8221;, I&#8217;ve made my [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy random happenstance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month a graphic design gig more or less fell into my lap. A Christian minister from Virginia Beach was looking for someone to design the cover of his latest book. He found my site and contacted me. We worked together to find stock artwork that suited his manuscript, and I revved up Illustrator. Dr. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Live for four days only!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Thursday March 3 through Sunday March 6 I&#8217;ll be a guest at SheVaCon 19 in the Sheraton Roanoke Hotel and Conference Center in Roanoke, VA. The guests of honor are Virginia Hey, Peter Beagle, Matt Busch, and Spat Oktan. If you&#8217;re within driving distance, please drop by and say hello! The con starts on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s antidote</title>
		<link>http://www.nancybrauer.com/2011/02/valentines-antidote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re weary of lovey-dovey Valentine&#8217;s Day mushiness, you may want to give Addison&#8217;s and Shane&#8217;s lusty, love/hate relationship in Strange Little Band a try. Here&#8217;s a taste. Shane stared idly at the few stars not blocked by the arboretum&#8217;s canopy. For once he didn&#8217;t wonder which his father had come from. With Addison laying [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth a Thousand Words: Book Cover Design 101</title>
		<link>http://www.nancybrauer.com/2011/02/worth-a-thousand-words-book-cover-design-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was originally published on Zoe Winters&#8217; blog as a guest post. Thanks again, Zoe! So you&#8217;ve written a book. Your imagination has flowed out your fingers into a computer or through a pen to paper. Now it&#8217;s time to create a billboard for your story. A good cover tells potential readers volumes about your [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to wake up, Tori.</title>
		<link>http://www.nancybrauer.com/2011/01/time-to-wake-up-tori/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tori and her fellow characters in the paranormal thriller Tori&#8217;s Row have had a long, long nap. That&#8217;s because life intervened for MCM and me, so the 18 chapters we&#8217;d written have been waiting for an ending. At long last MCM and I are banging out the last nine chapters. We plan to have them [&#8230;]]]></description>
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