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    <title>incipit vita nova</title>
    
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    <updated>2013-03-20T15:13:03-07:00</updated>
    <subtitle>"Incipit Vita Nova" means Enter A New Life - writing from Amy Sterling and "Issue of the Day" from Professor Casil</subtitle>
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        <title>Book Reviews &amp; Bestsellers: Still a Man's World Baby</title>
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        <published>2013-03-20T15:13:03-07:00</published>
        <updated>2013-03-20T15:16:36-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">For a few . . . months? . . . years? . . . more. But hardly forever, gentlemen. People are still documenting who reviews what, etc. Book reviews make little different to book sales, with a few limited exceptions....&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/AT0r2cgw2x8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
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            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>Make 2013 The Year of the Woman</title>
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        <published>2013-01-01T16:32:31-08:00</published>
        <updated>2013-01-01T16:32:31-08:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">In keeping with my concept of "just change one thing," I've decided that this year, women should take any and all opportunities that arise. Any job, any activity, any organization. Any time a man has had the slot in the...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/1zwA7tD5Ipc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
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            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>Jumpstart Your Creativity By Changing One Simple Thing</title>
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        <published>2012-12-21T11:22:55-08:00</published>
        <updated>2012-12-21T11:22:55-08:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">Over here at ASterling, I'm going to be adapting my business information for a writing and creative audience. Here is this morning's information about how you can make a single change or do one small thing in order to get...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/4rWDJjsR4hM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
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            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>Success as a Writer: Is it Based in Conformity or Creativity?</title>
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        <published>2012-10-14T12:16:31-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-14T12:16:31-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">Successful writers are conformists, not iconoclasts. The "Way of the Cookie" may be mysterious and yummy; the way of the storyteller is much less mysterious. It's all about telling stories that people want to hear. I woke up in the...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/grQOMIbcFh4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
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            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>We Only Have One Book In Our House</title>
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        <published>2012-10-01T20:10:54-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-01T20:10:54-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">My daughter Meredith attended a Christian school. When she was in third grade, I was waiting outside her classroom for parent marching orders, and thought I’d make small talk with another mom, a lady whose child had attended school with...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/Lqi-m1tdDWE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
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            <name>ASterling</name>
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        <title>It's Better to Go to Hell Than to Ban From Hell: Banned Books Week</title>
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        <published>2012-09-27T15:08:08-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-09-27T15:08:08-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">More ads for Banned Books Week - starting Monday! Just saw new cosmetic surgery pix of J.K. Rowling. Holy mackerel what went into that? Fillers, facelift, dermabrasion, hundreds of dollars of hair color . . . I think she's had...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/dGbD6a4BAwI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
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            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>Fun with Polls from History - Elections 2000 and 1980</title>
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        <published>2012-09-26T13:09:32-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-09-26T13:09:32-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">Researching today, it was easy to pull up different articles by date in various political campaigns of the past. In this case, I did the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and the 2000 election, George W. Bush and...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/rNGmi23VwnY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
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            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>Eat Pastry Vegan Cookie Dough! Nom Nom Nom</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ed39853ef017c31e48611970b</id>
        <published>2012-09-15T20:05:04-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-09-15T20:05:04-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">Eat Pastry Vegan Cookie Dough is . . . amazing! I got some because it is completely vegan and the non-peanut butter cookie dough is also nut free (for Meredith's boyfriend Tim, who can't eat nuts). Even if you are...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/cvzr4VX-BCs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
        <author>
            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>Banning Books Is Un Sexy</title>
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        <published>2012-09-10T18:39:15-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-09-10T18:39:15-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">BANNING BOOKS is very unsexy. Did you know that all of Mark Twain's books have been banned at one time or another? Most people have probably heard about the more recent banning attempts against the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/Q9Eb5POucoY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
        <author>
            <name>ASterling</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>New Cover: Sherwood Smith Fantastic Regency Romance</title>
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        <published>2012-07-27T11:01:20-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-07-27T11:01:20-07:00</updated>
        <summary type="html">For my ultra-talented, wonderful friend Sherwood Smith, I tried to capture the spirit and nature of the main characters in her Regency romance, Danse De La Folie, soon to be published by Book View Cafe. This is the eBook embedding...&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/livejournal/MAIg/~4/lZuLBX4a-c0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</summary>
        <author>
            <name>ASterling</name>
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