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		<title>CONGRATS &#8211; All Finalists in the 2010 Touch of Magic Contest!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 01:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vikings Rule the World &#8211; Or They Should, Anyway As y&#8217;all know, I really do think Vikings should have ruled the world. . Since I don&#8217;t have history on my side, I was thrilled to get word from Lorena Streeter from the Central Florida Romance Writers that Odin&#8217;s End has finaled in the 2010 Touch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=836&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My First Workshop &#8211; and Another Contest Final!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 02:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viking Ship at Hogmanay   Well, just got word that Odin&#8217;s End &#8211; my little tale of the last throes of the Vikings &#8211; has finaled in the Mainstream with Strong Romantic Elements category of the Central Florida Romance Writers Touch of Magic Contest. Barbarian hotness does it again! Final placement is still TBD. The irony? I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=829&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every Writer&#8217;s Bane: Criticism&#8230; or PRAISE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Criticism&#8230; or PRAISE?? As y&#8217;all may know, Odin&#8217;s End has enjoyed reasonable success in its contests. And I&#8217;m inordinately, pathetically grateful to the many folks who have taken the time to act as contest judges. Now that I&#8217;ve judged a contest myself, I know how time-consuming a quality judging effort can be. But I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=819&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Published Author Patricia Kay &#8211; The Emotional Connection Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Kay As you know, I drove down to Houston for the West Houston RWA&#8217;s 2010 Emily Awards . I was told that the West Houston ladies would &#8220;take good care of us&#8221; during the special Emily presentation, and they were right.   One of the speakers was USA Today best-selling author Patricia Kay, author of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=808&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The People You Meet Are FABULOUS (Or, Why You REALLY Should Visit Le Mans)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers &#8211; are you prepared to meet fabulous people?  And no, I don&#8217;t mean meeting Oprah (although that would be cool, too!)  What I mean is, you meet people every day who are truly awesome. But do you know just how great they really are? Y&#8217;all know that I hoofed it to France and Norway at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=794&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Contest Success &#8211; West Houston RWA&#8217;s Emily 2010!!</title>
		<link>http://thewriterssaga.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/more-contest-success-west-houston-rwas-emily-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[.  OK, peeps &#8211; just back from Houston, where the extremely wonderful folks from the West Houston RWA hosted the awards for their 2010 Emily Contest. .. Odin&#8217;s End took 4th place in the Contemporary Single Title category. And I also got a request for a full synopsis from Frances Jalet-Miller of Grand Central Publishing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=783&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Contest Tables Turn&#8230;. I&#8217;m A JUDGE!</title>
		<link>http://thewriterssaga.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/the-contest-tables-turn-im-a-judge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after a few experiences as a contestant, I&#8217;ll be a judge in my next writing contest! Scary, huh? . The irony is that this contest &#8211; which I&#8217;ll refer to as the Desperate for Feedback 2010 contest &#8211; was one that I almost entered myself. I&#8217;ll even be judging the category that I would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=774&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story Letdown and &#8220;What Went Wrong&#8221; Analysis</title>
		<link>http://thewriterssaga.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/a-story-letdown-and-what-went-wrong-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, I&#8217;ve uploaded even more pics from the research trip (taking me a while, I know, but y&#8217;all &#8211; I had 900 pictures!!!!) So have at &#8211; remember that any page on the left that says &#8220;NEW&#8221; has the uploaded pics. Luv y&#8217;all!! So I flew from Oslo to Paris at 6:00 a.m., which was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=759&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pics From The Research Trip &#8211; Vikings Live!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; so I&#8217;m finally getting back into the groove of things. Which means I&#8217;ve finally loaded a chunk of the photos from my research trip to Flickr. For the globally impaired, just a reminder that I visited Fontevraud Abbey, Saumur, LeMans and its Plantagenet City to research Adele&#8217;s world, which is France of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=738&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year &#8211; New Contest Updates!</title>
		<link>http://thewriterssaga.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/new-year-new-contest-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawna Rand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoops, I think I forgot to mention it, but I had entered Odin&#8217;s End in the West Houston RWA&#8217;s 2010 Emily Contest &#8211; and it finaled! Barbarian Hotness does it again. Final placement will be announced in February. Anyhoos, the finalists: 2010 Emily Finalists Single Title Finalists UNOPENED DREAMS by Jan Aldridge GETTING LUCKY by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewriterssaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7415095&amp;post=715&amp;subd=thewriterssaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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