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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2010 Daphne Du Maurier Award For Excellence In Mystery/Suspense deadline is March 15 for both published and unpublished contests. Judges for unpublished contest:  category (series) &#8211; Patience Smith, Silhouette Intimate Moments; Michelle Grajkowski, Three Seas Literary Agency; historical &#8211; Alex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>
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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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		<title>Industry News: 2/27/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books Inc. owners are writing the formula for success for their San Francisco stores.  It feels good to read positive news about bookstores.
Therese Walsh sent me a tip that agent Jenny Bent wrote a great post on STET!, the Backspace blog, on author-agent-editor fit.  
This was the first time I&#8217;ve been to STET! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/02/27/industry-news-22710/</link>
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		<title>Why on earth am I writing? asks Betty Bolte</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found myself contemplating what possesses me to write. I mean, there are so many other things I have to do that always seem to take precedence, whether I want them to or not. The recent issues in the publishing world, with ebooks, and the Google settlement, and the Harlequin vanity press launch, all combines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/02/26/why-on-earth-am-i-writing-asks-betty-bolte/</link>
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