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		<title>How to Twitter, Write a Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two terrific posts online for authors:

Jo-Anne Vandermeulen offers tips on blogging in "Blog the Right Way." While the post is from 2009, it still offers terrific guidelines for how to make your blog interesting to readers.

In "What to Tweet About," pro book marketer Dana Lynn Smith offers key tips to becoming Twitter-savvy.]]></description>
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		<title>Garey Adds Virtual World for Fans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I read Terri Garey's Nicki Styx series, I cannot help but picture the clothes, shoes and all things vintage in the protagonist's shop, Handbags and Gladrags.




I'm a vintage nut, so this element of the character totally appeals to me. Apparently, it does with other fans, who have asked Garey to showcase some of Nicki's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enthusiasm a Must for Today&#8217;s Authors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I've always been a huge proponent of self publishing.


Years ago, self publishing wasn't easy. Many authors ended up with boxes of books gathering dust in their garages. They wrote the books and paid to publish, but they had a hard time finding buyers for them.


With the explosion of the Internet and social media, the publishing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2010/01/enthusiasm-a-must-for-todays-authors.html</link>
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		<title>Market My Novel Survey Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The results are in from the 2009 Market My Novel Author Marketing Survey!





Of course, these would have been to you much sooner than the end of January, but I'd wanted to create some nice graphs. That was this post's near demise. After struggling to get the program to work for I don't know how long, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2010/01/market-my-novel-survey-results.html</link>
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		<title>Kim Smith Talks Marketing</title>
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Today Kim Smith, author of Buried Angel, drops by Market My Novel to talk about book promotions.


Before you were published, did you know anything about marketing?


No. I felt like a lost ball in the high weeds. It was something that I did without knowing what I was doing. I just went out and joined as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2010/01/kim-smith-talks-marketing.html</link>
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		<title>How to Find Your Audience Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a follow up to Monday's post, How to Find Your Audience, I discussed ways for writers to find readers. Today, get some advice from other writers. Special thanks to Marilyn Meredith, Cheryl Malandrinos and Cheryl Kaye Tardif for responding to my shout out via Facebook!





H'mmm, that's an interesting concept. I suppose by having a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2010/01/how-to-find-your-audience-part-ii.html</link>
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		<title>Food Makes Good Conversation with Readers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Good food makes great conversation.
No matter if you are out to dinner with friends, or skimming the best hors devours from the buffet at a party, food tends to bring out the conversationalist in most people.
Food is also terrific for marketing. I cannot tell you the number of times I've checked out a blog or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2010/01/food-makes-good-conversation-with-readers.html</link>
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		<title>How to Find Your Audience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

In the comments section of How to Streamline in 2010, Market My Novel reader Beth Barany wrote:

Great advice, Angela! I wonder how you go about finding the right reader networks for your genre. I write YA fantasy, as yet unpubbed. What do you recommend? I want to be ready to build a reader network when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2010/01/how-to-find-your-audience.html</link>
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		<title>How to Streamline in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many, 2010 should be about streamlining.

When it comes to online marketing, less is more - and much better for your sanity. Here are a few tips to get you started:

	 Eliminate unnecessary social networks. Choose only those with broad appeal to readers in your genre. Remember, writing networks have fellow writers who don't necessarily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2009/12/how-to-streamline-in-2010.html</link>
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		<title>Are You a Spammer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate e-mail SPAM more than junk mail.

It floods my Inbox with poetic nonsense, or "urgent" appeals and makes it nearly impossible to find legitimate messages. The worst SPAM is from companies I trust; I ask for one newsletter and get five emails a day. And have you also received the lovely SPAM messages via [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marketmynovel.com/2009/12/are-you-a-spammer.html</link>
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