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	<title>Blogging the Muse</title>
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		<title>Author Interview &#8211; Joe R. Lansdale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About four years ago, I launched this blog into an author interview project that included interviews with over sixty working authors at various stages of their careers. One of the things I learned from this project is just how many authors out there are darn fine, gracious people. I also learned a lot about how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Away a Copy of Heart of the Ronin</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=673</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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Goodreads Book Giveaway


Heart of the Ronin
by Travis Heermann

Giveaway ends April 24, 2012.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.


Enter to win



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		<title>Giving Away Two Copies of &#8220;Snakes&#8221;!</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=671</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Goodreads Book Giveaway


Snakes
by Travis Heermann

Giveaway ends April 24, 2012.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.


Enter to win



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		<title>Rogues of the Black Fury Cover Preview</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=668</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s the new cover preview for the E-Reads edition.  I feel like seven barrels of black powder about to go off&#8230;
Cover artist Alan M. Clark.
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		<title>World Horror Convention Appearances</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=663</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to report that I&#8217;ll be participating in two panels at the World Horror Convention next week in Salt Lake City.

Writing for RPGs and Video Games &#8211; Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
H.P. Lovecraft: the Short Stories &#8211; Sunday at 11:00 a.m.

This will be my first trip to World Horror, so I&#8217;m really looking forward to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CINEQUEST Film Festival: Screenplay Success</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=654</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About three hours after my blog post yesterday, at the CINEQUEST Film Festival Writers Celebration, the eight finalists in attendance were coming back to the theatre from lunch, and one of the assistants pulled me and Mozhan Marno, one of the other finalists, aside and took us back stage.
Internally, I was about to explode with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CINEQUEST Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=652</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is the first blog post in a loooong time that hasn&#8217;t been a podcast episode or a reminder about some upcoming appearance. A job in academia tends to preclude a lot of basic writerly pursuits.
I&#8217;m sitting right now at a Starbuck&#8217;s in San Jose, CA, across from the San Jose Repertory Theatre, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Interview at Podioracket</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=650</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryHyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this new interview with yours truly at Podioracket.com!
Which brings up a good point! I have been terribly remiss with keeping up with this blog, and I have also been remiss at putting out new episodes of Rogues of the Black Fury, in spite of my best intentions. The biggest reason for the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Support Your Favorite Author&#8221; Holiday Shopping List</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=646</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t you just love to shop for people you love and support your favorite starving artist at the same time?
Allow me to suggest the following gift ideas.

Heart of the Ronin &#8211; Historical fantasy novel from E-Reads. Publisher&#8217;s Weekly calls it &#8220;a page-turning folkloric narrative of epic proportions.&#8221;

Available also as an Ebook!

&#8220;Snakes&#8221; &#8211; Horror novella, available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Interview at Writerly Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=643</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sally Franklin Christie&#8217;s Writerly Wednesday blog has a new interview up with yours truly about my novella &#8220;Snakes&#8221; and other writerly topics.
Check it out here.
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		<title>Constravaganza</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=637</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next two weeks are going to be CrAZy. Two convention weekends back to back.
I&#8217;ll be attending MileHiCon this weekend in Denver, CO and the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego over Halloween weekend. I&#8217;m seriously looking forward to both conventions.
I&#8217;ll be doing a number of panels at MileHiCon, as well as reading.

Friday 3:00 pm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Waves &#8211; Charity Anthology for Japanese Tsunami Relief</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=634</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was heartbroken when news of the Japanese tsunami came across the U.S. airwaves, even more so when news of the radioactive catastrophe began to leak. I still have many friends in Japan and cherish my memories from when I lived there. So when I heard about an anthology where all proceeds go to tsunami, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rogues of the Black Fury &#8211; Forthcoming from E-Reads</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=632</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just breathed an enormous sigh of completion as I finished the final edit/copyedit of Rogues and sent it off to the publisher. That was a bigger job than I anticipated, especially when some conversations with the cover artist sparked a frenzy of re-mythologizing.
I&#8217;m delighted to have Alan M. Clark on board as the cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road &#8211; Great Rocky Mountain Walkabout</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=627</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just returned from a ten-day trip through the Rockies, northern plains, and Black Hills. Some might call it leaf mold, others, refilling the well, others, story fodder, but it was indeed an awesome trip.
2709 miles from start to finish. I do have stories to tell involving empty fuel tanks, wild life, breathtaking mountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rogues of the Black Fury &#8211; A new fiction podcast from yours truly</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=617</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbnormalPeace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only been talking about this for a year, but I&#8217;ve finally launched my next audio fiction podcast.  Now available on iTunes!  It will soon be available also on Podiobooks.com, and I&#8217;ll make an announcement when that happens as well.  if you want to subscribe via RSS feed, go to the podcast&#8217;s website.
Rogues of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panels and Reading at OSFEST 4.0</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=608</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbnormalPeace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, July 22-24, is the 4th Annual installment of the Omaha Science Fiction Education Society&#8217;s convention, OSFEST, and I&#8217;ll be hanging out down there all weekend.  You&#8217;ll also find me in the Dealer Room at the Author Table at various times, where I&#8217;ll have books to sell.
Here&#8217;s what on my agenda.

Has Urban Fantasy become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Slither of &#8220;Snakes&#8221; from Damnation Books</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=601</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m stoked to announce that my horror novella &#8220;Snakes&#8221; launches tomorrow, June 1, from Damnation Books. The publisher is running a special.  Order it quickly enough and you might even get your copy for free!  The pricing starts at  $0.00 and increases by 25 cents for each purchase until it reaches the full cover price. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Lines Revisited</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=599</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 17:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Write a more compelling first line and I&#8217;ll read your article!&#8221; was one Facebook comment on my post about first lines. Point well taken.  Could I have spruced up my first couple of lines? Certainly.  Do I intend every blog post to be a fine crafted work of art and a juggernaut of intellectual persuasion? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enraptured</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=585</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 22:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, I’m so surprised.  I’m still here.  According to a well-fueled media wave, the Biblical Rapture was supposed to happen at 6:00 p.m. yesterday, May 21.
Jesus was supposed to come back and spirit away a few million of the most faithful and thus signal the beginning of Armageddon, which was to culminate in Doomsday on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hook &#8216;Em With First Lines</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=582</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 20:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up (semi-) random assortment of novels from my TO BE READ pile today in a little exercise of curiosity.
A truism for writing fiction nowadays is that the writer must grab the reader’s attention from the beginning.  If the reader (or acquisitions editor) isn’t hooked by the end of the first page, she’s likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bin Laden is Dead, or How to Define a Decade</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=574</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 18:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is missing the point to think that the martial art is solely in cutting a man down.  It is not in cutting people down; it is in killing evil.  It is the stratagem of killing the evil of one man and giving life to ten thousand.&#8221; &#8211; Yagyu Munenori, The Life Giving Sword
How do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Lovecraft Anthology Now Available</title>
		<link>http://travisheermann.com/blog/?p=571</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Insert Author Happy Dance here*
Just got my author copy of Historical Lovecraft: Tales of Horror Through Time from Innsmouth Free Press.

Since &#8220;An Idol for Emiko&#8221; is my first Lovecraftian tale, I&#8217;m mighty excited to see it in print.  The story places some of Lovecraft&#8217;s iconic baddies in a 17th-century Japanese fishing village. Bad things ensue.
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		<title>Upcoming Appearance at ConStellation &#8211; Lincoln, NE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heads for those of you who might be attending ConStellation in Lincoln, NE, this weekend, 4/15-4/17.
I&#8217;ll be there doing a panels on podcasting, horror as a genre, plus two readings, all of which, I believe, are on Saturday, 4/16.
This will be my first time at this convention, so I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Aboard for Some &#8220;Malicious Deviance&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost popped a rivet &#8212; in a good way &#8212; on Saturday when a package came in the mail from Library of Horror Press.  Malicious Deviance, a new anthology that includes a short story by yours truly.  The story is called, &#8220;Punishment.&#8221;  How far can human beings&#8217; ability to become accustomed to pain and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird! What the hell happened to my posts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, I realize that I&#8217;m not exactly prolific with this blog, but all my posts since October have completely disappeared. This is mightily disconcerting.
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		<title>World Fantasy Convention Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found out today I&#8217;ll be participating the Asian Horror panel at the World Fantasy Convention in two weeks, Halloween weekend.  The panel takes place at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28. If you&#8217;re planning on being there, check it out!
No word yet on whether I have a slot for doing a reading, but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Excursions and Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rest of the month of October is going to be busy on Ye Olde Fiction Circuit.
October 22-24 &#8211; Mile Hi Con &#8211; Denver, Co: I&#8217;ll be doing a panel on the Resurgence of All Things Pulp, joining the SF Poetry Slam, plus doing a reading and a book signing.
October 28-31 &#8211; World Fantasy Convention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rockin&#8217; and Rollin&#8217; the Short Story Sales&#8230; Plus a Leap across the Pacific</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last month or so, my short story sales have kicked into high gear.  Look for these stories to appear in:
&#8220;Legs&#8221; &#8211; Nocturnal Emissions Anthology &#8211; Library of Horror Press
&#8220;Punishment&#8221; &#8211; Malicious Deviance Anthology &#8211; Library of Horror Press
&#8220;Incident in a Small Town&#8221; &#8211; Pulp Empire Vol. III Anthology &#8211; Pulp Empire Press
&#8220;The Song&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Interview Series #64 &#8211; Catherine Cheek</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Catherine Cheek, or Kater if you know her.  You gotta love a woman with pink hair (at least it was pink when we met at World Fantasy Convention last fall&#8211;my god, has it really been almost a year?). As so often happens at conventions like WFC, amidst a lot of &#8220;Where do I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Interview Series #63 &#8211; Lisa Goldstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall at the World Fantasy Convention, I took the opportunity to attend the banquet, where the World Fantasy Awards are presented.  One of my charming dining companions was author Lisa Goldstein, who won the American Book Award for her novel The Red Magician in 1983. Since then, her books span multiple genres and milieus, [...]]]></description>
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