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		<title>In which I explain my absence using overblown language</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This seems like it should be the time I&#8217;d be pushing out frequent updates to the three or four of you dedicated readers. Instead, I have temporarily deserted you and experienced the last whirlwind month without you in my front pocket. What a terrible, negligent virtual pal I have been. I have been ensconced in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Octavia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the writers in the world that I would have liked to have known, Octavia E. Butler tops my list for a hundred different reasons.  I will be in attendance at the Carl Brandon party celebrating her deserved induction into the Hall of Fame. I hope you&#8217;ll join me and spread the word.   CARL BRANDON [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Things I Glommed From Watching My Cats That I Try And Apply To My Working Life These Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m officially FUCT (like it? I just thought of it)&#8211;a freelance, urban, cat-owning thirty-something.* Yes, going full-frontal freelance, instead of just dabbling as I have over the years (since the first dot-com boom left me gobsmackingly underemployed and staring down the face of bills). This time**, I&#8217;ve sat down and written myself a business plan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potlatch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potlatch, the convention, is coming March 5-7, 2010 to Seattle, WA. Potlatch, an all-volunteer, non-profit, literary event for the readers and writers of speculative fiction. Proceeds from Potlatch benefit Clarion West. And this year, I will be acting as the workshop administrator for the Friday writing workshop&#8211;open to all speculative fiction writers, regardless of experience, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My mini space opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[is now live at Birkensnake. I wrote this story at Clarion West (in week 5), after a joking dare from Connie Willis on whether I could write a hard SF space opera in less than 2000 words. &#8220;Correspondence&#8221; weighs in at just over 1500 words, and was inspired by an idea seeded to me by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For real, people</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in Seattle and are not attending the Tuesday night Clarion West reading series, you are out of your piehole. Karen Joy Fowler&#8217;s reading last night was awesome. Next Tuesday, 7pm, University Bookstore = Elizabeth Bear. Also: I am working hard. Tonight, there will be no writing. There will be no reading, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summertime, when my life is one big glamourfest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a crazy week, crazier weekend&#8211;both crazy good. I started a day job as a community management consultant for Projectline, who recently made the list of Washington&#8217;s 100 Best Companies to Work for (by Seattle Business Magazine)! That&#8217;s been a bit all-consuming, but pleasantly exciting. My co-workers are very smart, engaged, and interesting people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The writeathon is underway&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s still plenty of time to sponsor me. I diddled around with ideas for my first story, which I think will have to do with comedians, integrating organic and inorganic substrates, a failed love affair, and lightning. It&#8217;s hard to think about new folks over in the Clarion West house, getting ready, setting up their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News and my fuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My natural impatience is showing, these days, like a slip I just can&#8217;t keep from sliding down. I feel like the universe set me and mine on some sort of divergent path last year, in fact, right about this time&#8211;beginning with the apartment fire (still traumatized), then Clarion West (the summer heat is making me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quickie pointing y’all to something I couldn’t have done a better job doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor John Joseph Adams wrote a very generous and excellent blog post cataloguing the SFF writing and writing-related programs and workshops. I was thinking of doing something similar, but he totally beat me to the punch and kicked ass. And my excuse for being scarce? I&#8217;m over mucking around with Brain Harvest. We launch Sunday, [...]]]></description>
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