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	<title>Scott's Miscellany</title>
	
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	<description>MC Scott: Manda Scott, author of the Boudica: Dreaming series and The Emperor's Spy</description>
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		<title>First Draft Done…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rome: The Art of War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; finished the first draft of Rome: The Art of War (book IV in the series).  It&#8217;s not done. It&#8217;s not ready to send to my editor for the real work of editing, but there are 116,000 words all more or less in the right order with the ideas in skeletal form. If I get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JOTD: What welshmen do when they’re bored</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Miscellania]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t make up the title &#8211; it&#8217;s there on the video&#8230;. laughed till I cried&#8230; but it may be just the kind of day/week/month/year it&#8217;s been so far. At any rate &#8211; Sunday antidote to the god-bothering &#8211; we offer&#8230;. sheep-bothering. In the nicest sense.]]></description>
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		<title>Winter solstice 2011 – Exactly one year until 13 Baktun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[13 baktun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apocalypse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solstice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;.twelve months from now, to the day, we&#8217;ll hit the date the Maya named 13 Baktun, 4 Ahau, 3 Kankin &#8211; the date on which their calendar heralds the end of a &#8216;World Age&#8217; and the beginning of the next. The last world age turned over in August 3114 BC and nobody, not even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heartwarm of the day: Gender teaching in primary school</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is just gorgeous.  Click link for full thing, after you&#8217;ve read the excerpt below: Gender is not a subject that I would have broached in primary grades a few years ago. In fact, I remember scoffing with colleagues when we heard about a young kindergarten teacher who taught gender-related curriculum. We thought her lessons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waterstone’s: New Business Model:  Let’s Not Stock Books…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apocalypse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Daunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waterstone's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So - the '2012: Apocalypse' Stocking-filler book  is selling well. It's sold out on Amazon, and when my Secret Shopper (aka my beloved) went into the local branch of Waterstone's, it turns out they'd sold out too.  Perhaps not surprisingly, she wanted to buy a couple of copies for friends for the passing spasm of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heartwarm of the Day (3)  – I think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lines not to cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romantic fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say I have never yet read a novel in which there was any kind of suggestion by the primary character of, &#8216;I&#8217;m beating you because I love you.&#8217;  This may be (almost certainly is) because I don&#8217;t read &#8216;romantic&#8217; fiction.  It comes as rather a surprise that this exists. But given that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heartwarm of the Day (2) –</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[positive transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans girl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from yesterday&#8217;s gorgeous piece, comes this, in a similar vein (with thanks to Ali Smith for posting it) &#8211; the most heartbreakingly wonderful bit is that the father &#8211; a former Republican &#8211; is so utterly cool with his daughter.  Pity he had to renounce Republicanism to do it, but the two are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HeartWarm of the Day:  Read it and weep</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans true story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This needs no extras, just read the excerpt and then read the whole thing: When I was a kid I had a series of dreams that involved Immature. You know, that baby boy band starring Roger from &#8220;Sister, Sister&#8221;? Anyway, my dreams usually involved group member LDB (Little Drummer Boy) singing &#8220;Never Lie&#8221; to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books for Heroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Miscellania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books for heroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books4heroes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a copy of a press release that has just gone out &#8211; please forward if you know of anyone who might be interested. Books for Heroes Britain’s bestselling historical novelists show their support at Christmas for our frontline troops in Afghanistan A group of writers from the British Isles, all of whom are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s publication day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everything you ever wanted to know about the Apocalypse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This from my ever-kindly publishers: Happy Publication Day to Manda Scott. 2012: Everything you need to know about the Apocalypse is published today.]]></description>
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