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		<title>How much does author Jim C. Hines make?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear But-All-Writers-Are-Rich, Jim C. Hines is a hard working midlist author with a couple of fun series out. Hines reveals what he makes in his post 2011 Writing Income. More importantly he reveals what he&#8217;s been making for a few years. For more information on advances etc., please peruse my page on Writing Business Facts &#38; Figures. Sincerely, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Believe In Me, Cyber War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Man and a Team of Girls Back in 1964, Jim Keith took a job at an Oklahoma high school to coach boy&#8217;s basketball.  But when he arrived, the administrators changed their minds and gave his job to someone else.  Keith&#8217;s contract didn&#8217;t specify which gender he&#8217;d coach, just that he&#8217;d coach.  So they switched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nameless Thriller Started</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who check the progress bars, will notice that I&#8217;ve started the first draft of the thriller, which remains nameless.  Poor thing. You&#8217;ll also notice I haven&#8217;t finished the working outline. That&#8217;s because sometimes&#8211;well, often&#8211;I need to do some drafting to get the feel of the story and characters before I finish that working document. And also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The man will not be able to attend LTUE this year, alas</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2012/01/the-man-will-not-be-at-ltue-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was walking past the circulation desk of the Logan library last week, a woman, who had been tracking my movements, turned, pointed at me, and made a loud complimentary exclamation. I know you&#8217;re thinking she said something about my fabulous looks or the animal magnetism that pours off me sometimes in uncontrollable waves. But no, she was not talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buck, America the Vulnerable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buck About two years ago I was walking out in Round Valley and saw a rider on a horse coming down a hill through the brush.  I got to him just as he moved onto the road. Right away, I noticed that there was something a bit off with the horse&#8217;s gear—the rider was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Republican Amnesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blather]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask the &#8220;conservative&#8221; talking heads&#8211;Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc.&#8211;who THE best conservative president of the last 100 years was, they will say Ronald Reagan. If you ask their dogs, they will bark &#8220;Ronald Reagan.&#8221; Their gerbils will say other things, but everyone knows you can&#8217;t trust rodents. Ask the regular conservative Wanda and Mack (Jane and Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes, Mission Impossible, The Art of Shaving, Wages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes &#38; Mission Impossible I have been looking forward to two movies this holiday season. One of them was as good as I&#8217;d hoped it would be. The other disappointed me because the story tellers forgot to make things clear. The two movies were Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bartimaeus &amp; The Time Traveler&#8217;s Guide to Medieval England</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pure Delight One of the most delightful literary characters to appear in the last decade is the cheeky Bartimaeus&#8211;a five-thousand-year-old djinni (&#8220;genie&#8221;) who plays the lead role in Jonathan Stroud&#8217;s trilogy The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem&#8217;s Eye, and Ptolemy&#8217;s Gate. In Stroud&#8217;s world, magicians have no magic in themselves, but they do have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curse of a Dark God is Finished!</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/curse-of-a-dark-god-is-finished/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/curse-of-a-dark-god-is-finished/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished the 10% edit, going from 205,000 words to 185,000, this morning and emailed the finished manuscript to Super Agent Caitlin who will perform various incantations before sending it off to ye Editors for review.  While that&#8217;s happening, I will be switching gears and starting the thriller. I&#8217;m looking forward to this.  Not only am I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Story 5: Hunt Zing</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/generating-story-5-hunt-zing/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/generating-story-5-hunt-zing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even after you choose a genre, you still need to develop ideas for character, setting, problem, plot, and text. What do you do? How do you develop those ideas? The first thing you do is hunt zing. Feeding the beast Zing is any idea that turns you on, sparks your imagination, or stokes your desire. [...]]]></description>
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