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		<title>Midair musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 22:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that one of the best things a plane could have would be a scenery camera. I&#8217;m very sure that I&#8217;m stating the obvious, but it&#8217;s cross-country flights like this one where I get reminded exactly why I adore flying as much as I do. Taking off from NYC, I get a bird&#8217;s eye [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3180&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t even tell you how ecstatic I am to be aboard a plane again. I came to the conclusion that I&#8217;m not flying enough. I need to explore more cities, more destinations&#8230; Hopefully, with the real estate thing, I would be able to get myself enough money to actually do all the exploring I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3177&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 03:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while, I would go out of my way for a show, knowing that I&#8217;m in for a treat, and this show right here has to be one of the highlights of this year&#8217;s jazz season. And it occurred to me that I&#8217;ve dug so deep into my photography that I forget to write [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3155&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Your Audience?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we the writers do our job and write our story, we focus more on plot nuances, grammar, spelling &#8211; all important things, and all essential in creating a good book. But we cannot discount than, when we endeavor to write a book, we have to keep our audience in mind and market to it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3170&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When publishing goes wrong...Starring Undead Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Mandy DeGeit: You all know I&#8217;ve been ranting about my first ever publication coming out for the last little while&#8230; &#8220;She makes me smile&#8221; was picked up by Undead Press (Anthony Giangregorio) to be published in their anthology called Cavalcade of Terror and the book was released May 1st 2012. I waited&#8230; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3169&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Anthony T. Caplan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to host a blogger once again! Please read on for some words from Anthony T. Caplan on balancing a writing life. &#8212;- The Balancing Act of the Writing Life Anthony Caplan &#160; One of my earliest memories is my mother calling me over to the sofa where she was reading a Time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3140&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-book vs. Print Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, better put, more on the &#8220;real book&#8221; illusion. You may have noticed that a lot of self-pub authors are not releasing print versions of their books anymore, but instead are going right to the e-book process. As a result, they are apt to hear, &#8220;But it&#8217;s not a real book!&#8221; for various reasons. I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3151&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, sometimes I love HuffPo. They take a topic and sometimes hit the nail on the head. Like this one. And you know what, it&#8217;s the fastest way to cheese a writer off. I heard most of them. And honestly, I&#8217;m surprised that we writers aren&#8217;t shooting back with comebacks! I mean, come on. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3146&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Retrospect on Book 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, the proof files got approved and I bumped up the release date a little. In other words, please welcome my baby: the wrap-up of the first arc, and the fourth book in The Index Series: Revival. Press Release Hard Copy Kindle I released four books since 2009. And now that I&#8217;m back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3143&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 18:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be Option 2: Release them simultaneously as soon as I know that the print version is up to par. Which, actually, will be in a few hours. I&#8217;ve been approved for the proofing stage, and am looking over the digi-proof to make sure everything is up to par and as it should be. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=katherinegilraine.com&#038;blog=7735422&#038;post=3137&#038;subd=katherinegilraine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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