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		<title>The Power of Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what a bottle tree is? They figure prominently in Karen White&#8217;s On Folly Beach, which I&#8217;m in the middle of reading. Before I started OFB, I&#8217;m not sure I knew what a one was, but, of course, now I want one for my garden. Yesterday on my usual morning walk, I got <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=362'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it. Most of us dream about writing the big books that shoot to the top of and linger on all the bestseller lists. Then Hollywood snaps them up and makes them into megahits that set new box office records. But what makes a book big? There are how-to guides out there that propose <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=352'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>And the winners are!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the gala 30th anniversary celebration in Orlando Saturday night, Romance Writers of America® announced the winners of the coveted Golden Heart® and RITA® Awards for 2010. Please join me in congratulating this fabulous group of write And a special shout out to Laura Griffin and Sherry Thomas of Austin RWA for their RITA wins!]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s an honor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My script, &#8220;Package Deal,&#8221; just won the Romancing the Script competition here at the RWA conference in Orlando, so I&#8217;m having my little taste of Hollywood. At the Oscars, the stars always say that it&#8217;s an honor just to be nominated. Whether they all mean it or not, for me, it is profoundly true. Being <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=331'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big week, I should say. This afternoon, I&#8217;m off to Orlando for the Romance Writers of America® (RWA) national conference. Not only is my manuscript Fortune&#8217;s Fool up for a Golden Heart®, but my script &#8220;Package Deal&#8221; (aka &#8220;The Blue Jay&#8217;s Egg&#8221;) is one of three finalists in the RWA Scriptscene Romancing the Script competition. <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=327'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Practice Makes Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost a year has passed since screenwriting teacher and script consultant Blake Snyder died. To commemorate that sad anniversary, the Save the Cat! folks have repeated his last blog post, which reminds us to be patient with ourselves as we learn any craft. It&#8217;s the kind of wise advice that bears rereading.]]></description>
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		<title>Wood smoke and biscuits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In just a bit, I&#8217;m off to the airport and on to Tennessee for the gathering of my father&#8217;s family, the Taylors of Tabernacle. Each year, 500 or so of my cousins converge on his home town from all over the world. We stay in unairconditioned camp houses, share two communal bath houses, eat too <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=316'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nashville Needs You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May has been a tough month. I&#8217;m an 8th generation Tennessean and a former Nashvillian, and watching what the floods have done to my beautiful state breaks my heart. Mystery writer J.T. Ellison lives in Nashville and writes movingly about what it was like to have her world suddenly submerged. Read this piece and find <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=308'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>By Any Other Color</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The color pink usually leaves me cold. I&#8217;m just not a fan of most of its shades and tints. Bubble gum pink. Sorority girl pink. Pepto Bismol pink. No thanks. I&#8217;m more a blood red kind of girl. Deep, rich, bluish reds like crimson. Scarlet. Ruby. When it comes to roses, my tastes run along <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=293'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a book geek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Joanne told me she wants to venture into reading mysteries and asked for a few recommendations. I tried not to overwhelm her, but it was like opening the flood gates. Here&#8217;s what I told her. I love the Victorian-era-set Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters that starts with Crocodile on the Sandbank. If <a href='http://www.janesevier.com/?p=280'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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