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		<title>Baseball + Sex + Writing = This Blog Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Men are always using baseball to make analogies about sex: He strikes out a lot He only got to second base He has control problems It&#8217;s just what we do. Relating sports to sex. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some Freudian connection to be made there, but I&#8217;m not the man to do it. Suffice it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction Friday: Favorite Reads of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;m a month late. And I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a pregnancy joke in there somewhere but I just can&#8217;t find it. Which is probably a good thing. In any case, below is my list of favorite reads of 2011, with a brief description about the book or why I enjoyed it. To be clear, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky Bastard Tour Dates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the preliminary schedule for where I&#8217;ll be appearing for Lucky Bastard. More dates are forthcoming, so stay tuned! April 17 &#8211; San Francisco, CA 7:30PM The Booksmith 1644 Haight St. April 20 &#8211; Redondo Beach, CA 7:30PM Mysterious Galaxy Books 2810 Artesia Blvd. April 24 &#8211; San Diego, CA 7:00PM Mysterious Galaxy Books 7051 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Stupid Non-Writing Things Writers Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are all sorts of bad habits writers can get into and all sorts of distractions that can keep us from doing what we&#8217;re supposed to be doing, which is writing. We can spend all day on the Internet. Play video games. Watch the entire first season of Breaking Bad in one day on Netflix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Writing Life: Where to Start?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To begin&#8230; To begin&#8230; How to start? I&#8217;m hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana-nut. That&#8217;s a good muffin.&#8221; –Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Your Boogie Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not one of those cool, edgy writers you see all over the place. I don&#8217;t listen to Nine Inch Nails or Metallica and I didn&#8217;t go through a Goth phase in high school or take up smoking. And I don&#8217;t dress all in black and wear Doc Martens to show my rebellious side. Hell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting Monkeys &amp; Lucky Bastards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello 2012. Pleasure to meet you. How have you been? What&#8217;s that? You&#8217;ve got some news to share? And it has to do with shooting monkeys and lucky bastards? Well, now, that does sound interesting. Tell me more&#8230; On March 27 I&#8217;ll be releasing an e-book collection of ten short stories titled Shooting Monkeys in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Query Letters: The Hook, The Book, and The Cook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended a writers and agents conference in New York a couple of years back and sat in on a panel where writers would read their query letters out loud to agents. The agents, in turn, would tell the writer to stop reading at the point in which one of the agents would stop reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sgbrowne.com/2011/12/query-letters-the-hook-the-book-and-the-cook/</link>
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		<title>My Top Ten (Plus One) Holiday Songs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to blog about my Top Ten Holiday Films, but I decided that was about as original as picking the New York Yankees to get to the World Series. Besides, it&#8217;s not like there would be a whole lot of surprises: It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Elf, The Santa Clause, Bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twelve Days of Bookmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 1st day of Bookmas, my bookstore sent to me: Silverstein&#8217;s The Giving Tree On the 2nd day of Bookmas, my bookstore sent to me: A Tale of Two Cities, and Silverstein&#8217;s The Giving Tree On the 3rd day of Bookmas, my bookstore sent to me: The Three Musketeers, A Tale of Two Cities&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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