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	<description>A blog for readers and writers, with stories of how and why authors write, how we break into print, and how you can, too. “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.” -William Faulkner</description>
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		<title>Randy Susan Meyers: How Long Does it Take (to find an agent? sell the book? get published?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy Sue Meyers is an online writer-pal, and author of The Murderer&#8217;s Daughters, which Jan Gardner, writing for the Boston Globe, called, &#8220;A gripping tale of sisters Merry and Lulu struggling for 30 years to find their way in the world, one devoted to their imprisoned father, the other enraged at him.&#8221; I saw this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/authorposts/randy-susan-meyers-how-long-does-it-take-to-find-an-agent-sell-the-book-get-published/</link>
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		<title>Literary Envy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[t's the dirty little secret none of us likes to admit to, but I'd venture to guess most of us in the deepest recesses of our ambitious little hearts will have experienced literary envy at some point.]]></description>
		<link>http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/megs-posts/quotes-on-writing/literary-envy/</link>
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		<title>Alex George: Starting Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s guest author, Eleanor Brown, calls this week&#8217;s, Alex George &#8220;a first rate talent.&#8221; Of his new novel A Good American,  she says, &#8220;This lush, epic tale of one family&#8217;s journey from immigrant to Good Americans had me alternately laughing and crying, but always riveted.  It&#8217;s a rich, rare, treat of a book.&#8221; And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/authorposts/alex-george-starting-over/</link>
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		<title>Eleanor Brown: When Your First Book Is Not Your First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you read Eleanor Brown&#8217;s The Weird Sisters yet? She&#8217;s the first novelist I hosted on 1st Books who hit the New York Times Bestseller list before her post was scheduled. And with good reason. It&#8217;s a lovely book &#8211; definitely one your book club will enjoy discussing &#8211; and Eleanor is a wonderful person. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/authorposts/eleanor-brown-when-your-first-book-is-not-your-first-2/</link>
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		<title>Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday: “I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.” &#8211; Charles Dickens “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/megs-posts/dickens-quotes-for-writers-on-the-occasion-of-his-200th-birthday/</link>
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		<title>How to Be an Indie Bookseller&#8217;s Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great Wall Street Journal piece on reading in bookstores, thanks to writer pal Julia Flynn Siler. Some things you&#8217;d expect (&#8220;be nice to booksellers&#8221;; &#8220;don&#8217;t put the audience to sleep&#8221;) but also one last one I hadn&#8217;t thought of. I&#8217;d highly recommend it to anyone doing bookstore readings. - Meg]]></description>
		<link>http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/a-few-things-i-hope-will-be-helpful-to-authors/how-to-be-an-indie-booksellers-dream/</link>
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