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		<title>The Elusive Real Book &#8211; The Boon of Being a Genre Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by a similar post by J.W. Manus, found here.  Okay. By a show of hands, how many people reading this blog write genre fiction? Or, basically, anything that doesn&#8217;t fall into the umbrella of contemporary literary fiction? Very good. Now how many of you have heard the phrase, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you write a real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2811&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Previous Post</title>
		<link>http://katherinegilraine.com/2012/01/25/2808/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been noodling around this idea of an anthology of music-themed stories, art, and poetry. I&#8217;m no poet, but I do know several who may do well being featured. This anthology will not be just mine. I have also signed up for Duotrope, and will attempt to find a paying market or two for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2808&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And so it begins&#8230;ABNA 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last night, between rampant coughing and inability to sleep because of said coughing, I entered the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. The beautiful thing about self-publishing is that you have the freedom to enter those sorts of competitions. Per the rules, your manuscript cannot be shopped around to publishers while it&#8217;s tied up in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2802&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d rather be &#8220;mean&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very recently, I had a small explosion of drama, which I have so far done without for the better part of a fair few years. I won&#8217;t name names. Said individual was promptly told off and blocked. Phone number was deleted as well. What he did was insult someone while trying to &#8220;be supportive&#8221; &#8211; his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2799&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Etta James</title>
		<link>http://katherinegilraine.com/2012/01/21/in-memoriam-etta-james/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blues legend, born Jamesetta Hawkins, had passed away yesterday at the age of 73. You may remember her cover of At Last, which was originally written in 1941. A lot of Etta&#8217;s music speaks to the heart. Hers is a voice that you can sink into and let it soothe away whatever&#8217;s on your mind. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2793&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The MegaUpload Shutdown</title>
		<link>http://katherinegilraine.com/2012/01/20/the-megaupload-shutdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story at USA Today. Now, while some people may view it as a mass overreach by the government, especially in light of the ongoing battle against SOPA (another post on that later on), but&#8230;there&#8217;s something to be said about copyright infringement. First of all, what you may not know is that Swizz Beats is involved with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2781&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woohoo!</title>
		<link>http://katherinegilraine.com/2012/01/20/woohoo-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juliet Kachyk had thrown my blog into the mix for The Versatile Blogger Award! &#160; Wow. I think this is the first award for this blog! Okay, so now I&#8230; 1. Thank those who nominated me. 2. Nominate 15 other bloggers who I think deserve it. 3. Share 7 random facts about myself. 4. Add a picture of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2776&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheikh Ndoye, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Life on the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But of course, it&#8217;s music season. :) Yes, early. Cheikh Ndoye &#38; Friends, Blues Alley, Washington, DC If you&#8217;ve not heard of this guy, I strongly recommend checking him out. Doubly so if you like Gerald Veasley&#8217;s brand of music: kicky, funky, with a strong bass lead. Unlike Gerald, however, Cheikh is less groove and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2758&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When You Just Have To (Re)Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My editor and I have a very cool arrangement for how we overhaul my books. She gets a PDF of a chapter, opens it up, rips it into shreds via the markup and highlight tools, then tosses it back to me. Then I pull that PDF side-by-side with its Word-document twin and work it over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2745&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is a rare political post.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Gilraine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(edited for tiny wording correction) It had to happen. Seriously, with some of the things I&#8217;m seeing in the news &#8211; and why I resumed watching the news, my blood pressure and I have no idea &#8211; if I don&#8217;t say something about it, I risk losing my mind completely. Now look: Obama had caved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&amp;blog=7735422&amp;post=2723&amp;subd=katherinegilraine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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