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		<title>City of Night cover and publication date</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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City of Night, as some people have noticed, was originally announced as a March 2010 release &#8212; but in happy news, it&#8217;s been pushed forward a month, to February 2010.  (In the publishing industry, forward=earlier; back=later; I found these terms confusing when I first started working in a bookstore because forward implied, to me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=337&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opening week butterflies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron asked, in the previous comment thread:  Do authors get nervous when their works become accessible to the masses? With this book, perhaps less so, considering this is a series work in progress with an avid readership. However, I can&#8217;t help but wonder if you (in particular) get butterflies the first &#8220;opening days&#8221; of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=333&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confluence 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted this over on my LiveJournal as well, so if you read that, you&#8217;ve already seen it :).
I really like Confluence, and my husband and I will be heading there this coming weekend, the 24th-26th of July.
My programming schedule for the weekend is:
Friday 5pm Oak
Why are there so many Twits on Twitter?
John Scalzi, Laurie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=331&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cast in Silence is in the wilds!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of last night, Cast in Silence was listed as in stock at Amazon and B&#38;N, and one reader emailed to let me know that it&#8217;s hit bookstores in Illinois.  So, we&#8217;re live!
There are four things that are always exciting, even after all this time:
1.  Finishing the first draft of a novel
2.  Getting the cover [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=329&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polaris 2009 schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit late, for which I apologize, and it&#8217;s probably not of interest to anyone who isn&#8217;t already attending the convention, but my schedule for the weekend at Polaris 2009 is as follows:
Print book vs E-book
E-book sales have been steadily increasing over the past few years. Will they endanger physical, paper books, or is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=327&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cast in Silence Chapter &amp; a question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at best a haphazard and slightly under-organized person.  I didn&#8217;t realize just how close July the 1st was until, well, today.  June has disappeared in a trail of words, chapters, and the end of school.  I&#8217;ve done a fair amount of writing, and I&#8217;m three quarters of the way through Cast in Chaos (which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=324&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Author&#8217;s copies have landed</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/authors-copies-have-landed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is book news: I now have real, live copies of  Cast in Silence beside my computer. I really like the cover, although it&#8217;s changed just a little bit since I posted the cover-flats a while ago.
These copies, which are author&#8217;s copies, are usually shipped at the same time as review copies of the real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=315&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming appearances</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/upcoming-appearances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who live in, or around, Toronto, I&#8217;ll be attending Polaris 23, which will be held between July 10th and 12th this year.
I haven&#8217;t got a full list of panels yet, but hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to post a list closer to the date.
Hope to see you there,
Michelle
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		<title>State of the Writer</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/state-of-the-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to thank the people who&#8217;ve taken the time to visit and comment here in the last couple of weeks.  I have had one younger child birthday party, one twentieth wedding anniversary gathering (mine), and older child exams (which, to be fair, are mostly my long-suffering husband&#8217;s task), so I&#8217;ve been absent from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=308&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short stories, part one</title>
		<link>http://msagarawest.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/short-stories-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 04:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sagara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for your comments, emails, or input on the West group list.  I&#8217;ve added a page to the sidebar, called Downloads.  On it, you will find three short stories.  
The first, Echoes, is a West-universe related story about Kallandras, the Master Bard.  The second, Birthnight, is the first short story I sold; it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=msagarawest.wordpress.com&blog=2942243&post=304&subd=msagarawest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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