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		<title>lucky seven meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was tagged by Nina for this. I rarely do memes but since I don&#8217;t have anything else more useful to post on my blog today, here it goes! Here are the rules: Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript Go to line 7 Copy down the next seven lines as they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/03/23/lucky-seven-meme/</link>
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		<title>week #1: daylight savings time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[daylight savings time: The clock has dust on it; I notice this as I take it down to change the time. One hour lost. Who dusts their clocks? I don&#8217;t have time to dust my bathroom of all its toilet tissue fluff. I&#8217;m lucky if I have time to clean the toilet at all. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/03/17/week-1-daylight-savings-time/</link>
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		<title>the indie author hat, part 2: a story of great responsibility&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the indie author hat comes a great responsibility. If you have the power to bring any words you want to the world, then you shoulder the WHOLE responsiblity of making sure they&#8217;re the best words you have to give. Self publishing is not the easy way out. Sure, it *can* be easy if you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/03/09/the-indie-author-hat-part-2-a-story-of-great-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>some days look like this&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need to do some edits&#8230; pour coffee #1, might as well get Tumblr, Pinterest, and Facebook out of the way&#8230; coffee #2, okay now work, chapter 4.2, read it, one scene, push a few commas around&#8230; what&#8217;s the weather like out there? (wouldn&#8217;t know because I haven&#8217;t even opened the blinds yet today &#8211; haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/03/09/some-days-look-like-this/</link>
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		<title>here&#8217;s something you can&#8217;t do with ebooks&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A book title poem, for Annie. This was much, much fun! Everyone should try it! Bad Behavior Jane sexes it up. Bad behavior for broken angels. Normal people don&#8217;t live like this. The life before her eyes was the odyssey, and then we came to the end. Black tickets on the road to where the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/02/22/heres-something-you-cant-do-with-ebooks/</link>
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		<title>guest post: a look back, by Jenna Anderson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I have a guest on my blog! Jenna&#8217;s newest book is Off Leash, which looks like a really charming and fun read! It&#8217;s currently waiting for me on my to-read pile. I&#8217;ve read her first book, Healing Touch, and loved it. Today she&#8217;s here to tell us about some of her first publishing experiences, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/02/07/guest-post-a-look-back-by-jenna-anderson/</link>
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		<title>going to a happy place for a couple weeks&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you remember back in this post, I promised a &#8220;part 2&#8243; to my self-publishing mini-series, and yes, that&#8217;s still coming. First though, I need to retreat to my editing cave. I&#8217;m passing off my final, FINAL draft to my proof-readers NEXT WEEK! (OMG, right?) We&#8217;re like, almost there, people! I could panic just thinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/02/06/going-to-a-happy-place-for-a-couple-weeks/</link>
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		<title>the indie author hat: worthiness reconfigured</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not going to be a post about what I think you should do &#8211; you&#8217;re the only one who can answer that for you &#8211; but this is a post about what I&#8217;ve decided to do, and why. It seems, since we all have these choices now, people feel inclined to vocalize what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/01/25/the-indie-author-hat-part-1-worthiness-reconfigured/</link>
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		<title>officially introducing: Exactly Where They&#8217;d Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s shocking to me how little I&#8217;ve managed to say publicly about this book so far, especially when I used to say so much about previous projects. I have my reasons &#8211; gun-shy about all those half-written books I didn&#8217;t finish (yet), which made me worry I&#8217;d never finish a project. That I was incapable. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/01/13/officially-introducing-exactly-where-theyd-fall/</link>
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		<title>2011, in retrospect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Song: &#8220;Someone Like You&#8221; by Adele This was one of the &#8220;soundtrack&#8221; songs I played on repeat while I wrote Exactly Where They&#8217;d Fall this year, so maybe I have a more emotional reason for considering it my favorite. If anyone was ever curious to know how my book feels in song form &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/12/31/2011-in-retrospect/</link>
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		<title>week #50-something: songs that remind me of the 90&#8242;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those fluffy posts, because I failed to have anything more significant to say. You can be assured I&#8217;m just pouring all of my brain-power into my fiction. Because if this post were edible, it would be cotton-candy. Modern songs that remind me of the 90&#8242;s: Silversun Pickups, &#8220;Lazy Eye&#8221; They remind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/12/18/week-50-something-songs-that-remind-me-of-the-90s/</link>
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		<title>week #33/52: fall in a snapshot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made it outside a couple weeks ago just in time to snap a few fall pictures before the colors were gone for good. Now it&#8217;s December, and freezing outside, and we&#8217;ve put up our Christmas tree. Wow, how did that happen? A rhetorical question, of course, because I know how it happened &#8211; I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/12/09/week-3352-fall-in-a-snapshot/</link>
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		<title>5 favorite spring/summer reads&#8230; a little bit late ;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is well done and over with, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to get these up here for a while now. These are not full reviews (because I don&#8217;t do real reviews, lol!), but just a few words on my five favorite reads from the first half of the year. Click through for the full GoodReads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/11/23/5-favorite-springsummer-reads-a-little-bit-late/</link>
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		<title>week #19/52: future Sims-neighborhood-building enthusiast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s more like his mommy than he knows.]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/10/16/week-1952-future-sims-neighborhood-building-enthusiast/</link>
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		<title>songs for stalking, a playlist for my writer friends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever written a stalker protagonist before? My friends and I were talking about this this evening, and they helped me compile a list of some more twisted love songs. Yes, I&#8217;ve written one. A short story. Her name is Lynn, she likes to jog (past people&#8217;s houses&#8230;), lol! Also pasting the list here. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/10/14/songs-for-stalking-a-playlist-for-my-writer-friends/</link>
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		<title>writing like a girl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a really good post, by Jane Roper over at Grub Street Daily: What is women&#8217;s fiction, and what does it mean to be a &#8220;women&#8217;s fiction&#8221; writer? This part struck the feminist in me particularly hard: As best I can tell, Women’s Fiction refers to fiction that focuses on the relationships and emotional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/10/14/writing-like-a-girl/</link>
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		<title>the politics of a school lunch box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[D started kindergarten this week, which is a full day program here where we live. I&#8217;m packing him a lunch from home, so far. I&#8217;d first been worried about his peanut allergy (come to find out, they only have one, very apparent, item that has peanuts in it &#8211; a peanut butter and jelly sandwich). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/09/08/the-politics-of-school-lunch-box/</link>
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		<title>week #17/52: reward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please pardon my abrupt absence. I *officially and completely* finished the second draft of my novel a couple weeks ago (!!!), and then promptly ran off with my boys to northern Michigan for a week of fun! I have a TON of pictures to sort through from the trip, and those will be posted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/08/30/week-1752-reward/</link>
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		<title>week #15: boys at the seaside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a small series of photos I found within other larger landscape photos I took in England. Most of these I hadn&#8217;t even known were there until I super-zoomed in and found these little candid moments that I never would have caught otherwise. Taken from very ordinary and uninteresting landscape photos like this one: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/08/06/week-15-boys-at-the-seaside/</link>
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		<title>DRM, fair use, and how to read (some) Kindle books on your Nook!&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be part rant on DRM, be warned, lol! (Other part on how I love my Nook, but I&#8217;m still a Amazon Kindle loyalist at heart! AKA how the Nook store sucks!) On DRM (digital rights management): I am in support of fair use of DRM-free ebooks. Meaning, if you purchase an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/07/26/drm-fair-use-and-how-to-read-some-kindle-books-on-your-nook/</link>
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