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		<title>The Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The busboy slid a stack of plates into the long grey plastic tub, careful not to bang them or rattle the big cup full of cutlery. With chapped hands and ropy arms, he hoisted the tub off the stainless steel countertop and muscled it between sous chefs intent on their red-wine jus and servers demanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry News: 3/13/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found out about two fun sites for writers. The Guide to Grammar and Writing and the WordCounter. For the latter, I loaded in a first chapter and it told me which words were used most and how many times. 
In an interview at Novelists Inc., Random House Senior Editor Shauna Summers says she works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/13/industry-news-31310/</link>
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		<title>Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops, and Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RWA Chapter Contests
The Kiss Of Death Chapter&#8217;s 2010 Daphne Du Maurier Award For Excellence In Mystery/Suspense deadline is March 15 for both published and unpublished contests. Judges for unpublished contest:  category (series) &#8211; Patience Smith, Silhouette Intimate Moments; Michelle Grajkowski, Three Seas Literary Agency; historical &#8211; Alex Logan, Grand Central Publishing; Kevan Lyon, Marsal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/10/writers%e2%80%99-corner-weekly-update-of-conferences-workshops-and-contests-5/</link>
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		<title>Agent Jennifer Schober on Women&#8217;s Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good morning!  Thank you for inviting me Edie—
I love women’s fiction.  WITH A PASSION.  Ever since I was a little girl, I knew the value of reading layered, juicy stories about women and their lives.  My love affair started with FOREVER by Judy Blume— (I snuck this book off my mother’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/08/agent-jennifer-schober-on-womens-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Member Announcements 3-8-10</title>
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Sales News 
Ellen Meister is excited to announce that her new novel, FAREWELL, DOROTHY PARKER, has been sold to Rachel Kahan at Putnam for hardcover publication in 2012, with a Berkley paperback to follow
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		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/07/member-announcements-3-8-10/</link>
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		<title>Industry News: 3/6/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re having our first agent guest blogger this Monday, the fabulous Jennifer Schober from Spencerhill Associates.  She&#8217;s written a great blog and she&#8217;s taking questions.  Be sure to stop off and comment.
Agent Jessica Faust from Bookends posted her New and Updated Publishing Dictionary.  She says it&#8217;s an &#8220;ever-popular post.&#8221;
Agent Donald Maass wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/06/industry-news-3610/</link>
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		<title>Shifting Mud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I couldn’t have been more than ten, and we were reading short stories in my class at school.  I don’t remember the name of the story, or who wrote it.  All I know is that it affected me so deeply that I’m writing about it now, forty-five years later.
It was about a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/05/shifting-mud/</link>
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		<title>Welcome from VP-Programming, Maggie Marr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month is our first RWA-WF workshop: Direct Your Book!  Theatrical Techniques to a Blockbuster Novel taught by award winning author Leanna Renee Hieber.  I am excited to participate in this workshop.  One of the gifts of writing is that there is always something to learn.  And we as writers are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/04/welcome-from-vp-programming-maggie-marr/</link>
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		<title>Writers&#8217; Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops, and Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calling For 
Calling for Online Workshop Presenters by a special interest Chapter of the Romance Writers of America, Outreach International Romance Writers (OIRW). This chapter is seeking proposals from interested workshop presenters for their 2010 and 2011 Educational Programs. The chapter is interested in fresh and interactive online classes on subjects ranging from the craft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/03/writers-corner-weekly-update-of-conferences-workshops-and-contest/</link>
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		<title>If your man were a plant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered about the similarities between plants and men?  Probably not!  Most sane people don’t.  But me, when I’m not writing, I spend a lot of time in my garden – maybe too much &#8212; and my thoughts?  Well, they naturally veer in that direction.  
Spending hours upon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/01/if-your-man-were-a-plant/</link>
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