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<p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2016-12-13T00:40:05-06:00">December 13, 2016</time> By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="//schema.org/Person"><a href="//conradzero.com/author/zero/" class="entry-author-link" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Conrad Zero</span></a></span>  </p></header><div class="entry-content"><p>On  Nov 20, 2016, I hosted the 4th annual Local Author Showcase at Acadia Cafe in Minneapolis, MN. This year, we called it Wordbrew, and it was a huge success.
Speed Dating For Speculative Fiction
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<p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2016-11-07T11:55:52-06:00">November 7, 2016</time> By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="//schema.org/Person"><a href="//conradzero.com/author/zero/" class="entry-author-link" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Conrad Zero</span></a></span>  </p></header><div class="entry-content"><p>From  their press release:
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<p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2016-10-18T18:00:43-05:00">October 18, 2016</time> By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="//schema.org/Person"><a href="//conradzero.com/author/zero/" class="entry-author-link" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Conrad Zero</span></a></span>  </p></header><div class="entry-content"><p>From  Squick To Library-Friendly in Six Easy Spices
Blame it on the word, "Eviscerated."

More specifically, blame it on this bit of dialog:
"Did you kill him?"

"Heck no! I just eviscerated him. He died all on his own."
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<p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2016-08-15T19:31:11-05:00">August 15, 2016</time> By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="//schema.org/Person"><a href="//conradzero.com/author/zero/" class="entry-author-link" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Conrad Zero</span></a></span>  </p></header><div class="entry-content"><p>I've  been attending the Speculations series readings at Dreamhaven Books for years, and it's an honor to be invited to read there myself!

On Aug 31, I'll be reading at Dreamhaven books in Minneapolis.

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