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	<description>The Worlds of Laura E. Reeve, SF/F Writer</description>
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		<title>For Writers: New Models in Publishing (Tomorrow Night)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a writer who&#8217;s published or close to publishing, and if you&#8217;re in the Colorado Springs area, check out this Pikes Peak Writers presentation (&#8220;Write Brain&#8221;) tomorrow night. Join the Pikes Peak Writers for a FREE Write Brain session on new models in publishing. Presenters include Deb Courtney of Courtney Literary, and authors Robert [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/for-writers-new-models-in-publishing-tomorrow-night/' addthis:title='For Writers: New Models in Publishing (Tomorrow Night) ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Thermodynamics of Magic Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was at a writer&#8217;s conference in Denver, I pitched to a science fiction and fantasy (SF/F) editor for a NY publisher. After expressing disappointment that I wasn&#8217;t pitching an SF manuscript, he brightened and said, &#8220;But I usually like Fantasy written by SF authors.&#8221; &#8220;Because their magic systems make sense?&#8221; Being an avid [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/thermodynamics-of-magic-systems/' addthis:title='Thermodynamics of Magic Systems ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>B&amp;N Signings This Weekend to Benefit the Pikes Peak Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be participating in two booksignings this weekend to benefit the Pikes Peak Writers (PPW), and I&#8217;d love for you to stop by: Saturday, November 12th, from 4 to 6 pm, at the Boulder Barnes &#038; Noble. This will be the first time I&#8217;ve signed in Boulder, my home town. (Why? I don&#8217;t know&#8212;just never [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/bn-signings-this-weekend-to-benefit-the-pikes-peak-writers/' addthis:title='B&#38;N Signings This Weekend to Benefit the Pikes Peak Writers ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>QQ: 2B R N2B?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Happenin's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Writer's Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Craft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a purveyor, buyer, and all-around user of the English language, my attention was caught by The Telegraph article &#8220;Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for &#8216;eroding&#8217; language.&#8221; The headline pointed at Twitter but Mr. Fiennes, an English actor, blamed social networking and our society, as a whole, for dumbing down the English language. Speaking at the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/qq-2b-r-n2b/' addthis:title='QQ: 2B R N2B? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Here Come the Ambulance Entitlement Chasers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agency Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t hear, initially, about this suit filed against Apple and New York Publishers in early August of this year (bold-facing emphasis is mine): This evening, Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and five of the “big 6” publishers claiming that they illegally fixed e-book prices (through the agency [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/here-come-the-entitlement-chasers/' addthis:title='Here Come the &#60;s&#62;Ambulance&#60;/s&#62; Entitlement Chasers ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Website redesign is coming [UPDATE: It&#039;s here]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you know that I maintain my own website. I&#8217;m a retired software engineer that created web applications and dad-gum-it, I should be able to keep it up to date! But my two-week redesign stretched into two months. I did let my website get &#8220;behind&#8221; the technology. I had to upgrade to HTML5, some [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/website-redesign-is-coming/' addthis:title='Website redesign is coming [UPDATE: It&#039;s here] ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;plethora&#8221; of authors must mean there&#8217;ll be plenty of books&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happenin's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Per the announcement by Who Else? Bookstore: Big author event coming up Friday, September 9, 2011 at the Renaissance Hotel, I-70 and Quebec, Denver. The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers will be holding their weekend-long annual Colorado Gold Conference. There’s one free event that the public is welcome to attend. On Friday evening, from approximately 7:30 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/a-plethora-of-authors-must-mean-therell-be-plenty-of-books/' addthis:title='A &#8220;plethora&#8221; of authors must mean there&#8217;ll be plenty of books&#8230; ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the current state of the SF/F genre?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Writers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the current state of the SF/F genre? Where&#8217;s it going? My answer: nobody knows. However, I hope to get some insight into this next week at Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention. Lately, I&#8217;ve been feeling my genre &#8220;presents&#8221; like a case of Multiple Personality Disorder (to use House diagnosis-speak). The publishers appear [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/whats-the-current-state-of-the-sff-genre/' addthis:title='What&#8217;s the current state of the SF/F genre? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Business decisions made by Borders hurt more than readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Promotion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to draw your attention to an analysis of what did in Borders&#8212;yes, yet another analysis. However, this article titled &#8220;<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/business-decisions-made-by-borders-hurt-more-than-readers/' addthis:title='Business decisions made by Borders hurt more than readers ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>SF Signal&#8217;s Mind Meld: What&#8217;s your favorite big dumb object in SF?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SF Tropes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Join me and other (much more esteemed) SF authors as we answer the question, &#8220;What&#8217;s Your Favorite &#8216;Big Dumb Object&#8217; in SF?&#8221; over at SF Signal. The SF trope &#8220;Big Dumb Object&#8221; was coined for any mysterious, large, and often powerful object discovered near the beginning of a novel and used as plot device. Originally, [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.ancestralstars.com/wp/events/sf-signals-mind-meld-whats-your-favorite-big-dumb-object-in-sf/' addthis:title='SF Signal&#8217;s Mind Meld: What&#8217;s your favorite big dumb object in SF? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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