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	<title>The Rules for Hearts</title>
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	<description>Promotional Site for the book by Sara Ryan</description>
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		<title>Ten things about the Mid-Ohio-Con</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Overheard in an elevator. Business casual woman: &#8220;Is this a Sci Fi Con?&#8221; Dealer wearing innocuous t-shirt and jeans: &#8220;No, comics.&#8221; Business casual woman: &#8220;Oh, comics&#8230;well, I just love the outfits!&#8221;
2. Speaking of elevators: there weren&#8217;t enough of them. After waiting for one for twenty minutes, at which point we took the stairs up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have invented a new measurement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I call it the Rockwell Deviance Quotient.
It measures how much one&#8217;s holiday experiences diverge from the media ideal.

I haven&#8217;t quite figured out the actual numerical part, but it might be like when you&#8217;re using a level and you assess how many bubbles off plumb something (or someone) is. So your holidays could be, say, four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://therulesforhearts.com/2007/11/i-have-invented-a-new-measurement/</link>
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		<title>ALAN report, finally.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at the Undisclosed Location (a.k.a. my parents&#8217; house in Ohio), catching up on email, deleting comment spam (Why, why are the spammers so deeply attracted to the post about Rules being a Junior Library Guild selection? It&#8217;s harder hit than any other post, by far&#8230;) preparing for another small, low-key Thanksgiving, it&#8217;s hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abiding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back from a fabulous weekend farther north in the Pacific Northwest. I have four (now three) days until I head East for the National Conference of Teachers of English and the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, and that panel I&#8217;m on with my awesome partners in YA novel crime.
One of which is my birthday.
I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules for Hearts podcast continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I told you it would. This scene was a little challenging to read because I can&#8217;t do guy voices so well and I have a bunch of unattributed bits of back-and-forth dialogue. But you do know that it&#8217;s Battle and her brother talking, so I hope you can tell who&#8217;s who.
Download Act I, scene ii.
ETA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of those obscure, overly dramatic posts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;re blithely going through your daily online reads, and suddenly, a post hits as though it fluttered down from the sky in a priority mail envelope addressed to you.
Never mind that the post&#8217;s author had no notion you&#8217;d respond this way. Regardless, the messages resonate: Knock it off. Get it together. Figure it out.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://therulesforhearts.com/2007/11/one-of-those-obscure-overly-dramatic-posts/</link>
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		<title>On the road again: West Coast, East Coast, Midwest, go!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I am just about to take off again for parts known and unknown.
2 pm Saturday, November 10th, I&#8217;ll be doing a Teen Writing Workshop at the Lynnwood Library in beautiful Lynnwood, Washington. (Thanks for making such a cool graphic advertising it, Lynnwood Library webfolk!)
Exactly seven days later, at 2 pm Saturday, November 17th, I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://therulesforhearts.com/2007/11/on-the-road-again-west-coast-east-coast-midwest-go/</link>
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		<title>Rules for Hearts podcast begins…now.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I like reading aloud to the Internet.
The first installment should be up soon in the iTunes store, or you can download it as an mp3.
And yeah, I&#8217;m planning to keep reading. Tell your friends. :)
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		<link>http://therulesforhearts.com/2007/10/rules-for-hearts-podcast-begins%e2%80%a6now/</link>
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		<title>Portland 1997/Stumptown 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 28th, 1997: I was on a train from Portland back to Ann Arbor. I&#8217;d just interviewed for a job. I&#8217;d done my first (and so far last) storytime. I read, among other things, Caps For Sale, a story featuring caps (as you might suspect) and monkeys.

September 28th, 2007: I wear Bill Mudron&#8217;s cap at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://therulesforhearts.com/2007/10/portland-1997stumptown-2007/</link>
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		<title>All the Empress of the World podcasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depending on how long you&#8217;ve been reading this, you may or may not know that I recorded myself reading my first novel, Empress of the World, as a series of podcasts.
For your convenience, therefore, this post contains links to all of them:
EOTW01.mp3
EOTW02.mp3
EOTW03.mp3
EOTW04.mp3
EOTW05.mp3
EOTW06.mp3
EOTW07.mp3
EOTW08.mp3
EOTW09.mp3
EOTW10.mp3
EOTW11.mp3
EOTW12.mp3
EOTW13.mp3
EOTW14.mp3
EOTW15.mp3
EOTW16.mp3
I realize that this post begs the question of whether I&#8217;ll do more podcasts [...]]]></description>
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