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		<title>I have a new web-site!</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/i-have-a-new-web-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new web-site (and a new blog, although I think I&#8217;ve imported almost everything from this one). The URL, which is imbedded above is: http://michellesagara.com. I will be blogging there in future. Go and take a look :).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=811&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Writer, April 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAW]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing was severely truncated for about ten days while I and a strep bug had a heated battle over who was in charge of my throat and ears. I won. I fell behind in, oh, everything, while I was sick. I have an on-sale date for Cast in Peril, as the sell sheets arrived at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=808&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answering email: Release Weeks &amp; me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two people, because of discussions elsewhere on the internet, have sent email asking me questions about release weeks, and how when a reader buys a book affects me, personally. I thought I would take the opportunity to answer them here. But, as usual, before I answer a question, I need to explain the context. (This [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=800&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Silence, cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silence, the first book in the Queen of the Dead trilogy, will be published in hardcover in May, 2012. In any practical sense, this means the book will be available in North America sometime at the end of April, 2012. People have asked me what it’s about; some have assumed because of the cover, that it’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=791&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick, quick update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essalieyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grovelling apology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just had word from DAW about Riven Shield: THE RIVEN SHIELD will be put out for distribution Friday, so that should start appearing at vendors in the next ten days or so. As I’ve mentioned previously, DAW, while being distributed by one of the ‘Big Six’, is actually a small, privately owned publisher, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=785&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>State of the Writer, February 2012 edition</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/state-of-the-writer-february-2012-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/state-of-the-writer-february-2012-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audio books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DAW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elantra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luna]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First: Joey Shoji has mentioned here and elsewhere that there’s a cover for Silence posted elsewhere on-line, but only in thumb-nail. I will be doing a post &#8211; and uploading the cover image &#8211; later this week; possibly later today, depending on how the writing goes. And now onto the report: Cast in Peril is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=782&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Skirmish: Spoiler discussion thread</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/skirmish-spoiler-discussion-thread/</link>
		<comments>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/skirmish-spoiler-discussion-thread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who post here are going to be discussing evens in the book itself, so if you hate spoilers, this is not the thread for you :).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=779&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>105</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Skirmish Summary, part 2 of part 3, and a note about the differences between reading and writing</title>
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		<comments>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/skirmish-summary-part-2-of-part-3-and-a-note-about-the-differences-between-reading-and-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Essalieyan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the final part of the summary of the events of The Sun Sword: Skirmish Summary 03.b. There are &#8212; as I think Michael pointed out in the previous thread &#8212; events that I didn’t mention, in part because it would add enormously to the length of the summary, and if I hit 60k words, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=774&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skirmish, and the story so far</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/skirmish-and-the-story-so-far/</link>
		<comments>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/skirmish-and-the-story-so-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essalieyan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, noting the tags, I want to apologize for a number of things. I did not intend to write a series of books that would break in the middle this way. What kind of an idiot writes a series that requires another entire series to be read in the middle? Apparently, me. Had I realized, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=757&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Happy New Year, and Skirmish Prologue and first chapter</title>
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		<comments>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/happy-new-year-and-skirmish-prologue-and-first-chapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well. The end of 2011 was hectic, and I&#8217;ve been a little snowed under with work. I&#8217;m an introvert by nature. People who&#8217;ve met me in real life often find this description a bit confusing, because in real life, I don&#8217;t generally strike people as shy. But introversion is not synonymous with shyness. I like [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2942243&#038;post=749&#038;subd=msagarawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>67</slash:comments>
	
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