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	<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My two published Zebra Historicals&nbsp;:&nbsp; &nbsp;   ? Writer Blogs # »&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;07/05 VISIT MY NEW BLOG    Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.   var site="s21rothwell"              --Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist                 ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[when I was living in Boston]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10804/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Gavin used to move a couple of blocks every couple of months. He'd use maybe five boxes. We'd fill up our box, carry them two blocks over, dump out the box and go back...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whoops!]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10758/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[i forgot to mention that the new contest ends July 12.&nbsp; I'm going to pick a winner randomly. (blah...but at least the prize is nice.) Today's the day Summer's e-book is...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[t-beth?]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10717/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[You won the write a caption contest (not the one that's still running to celebrate Summer's new book). You send me your address and I'll send you a book and some fantabulous...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mostly about Summer but also....]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10715/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Summer's got a book coming out in a couple of days. We're going to have a contest about it. Yessireebob! We love contests. This is one of those entirely promotional sorts of...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I suppose I'm glad the brain's being used for other stuff]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10687/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful day and I've been droopy and&nbsp;moping for most of it.&nbsp;Why is this? And then&nbsp;I recall that this is the anniversary of my mother's death. Or... is...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I paid at the office]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10684/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoops, it was my day to do the romanceunleashed blog.   Words of wisdom do not&nbsp;come&nbsp;to me this morning,&nbsp;O&nbsp;my minions, acolytes and disciples. I have sipped...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 07:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[my summer]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10644/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[kids, teeth, dogs, kids, heat avoidance,&nbsp;schlepping kids, dogs,&nbsp;kids, dogs, kids  &nbsp;  difficult: revising erotica while kids are in the room.nearly impossible:...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[yo!]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10616/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey contest winners! This time I'm not tracking you down. Nosirreee! You'll have to go to my formal website (listed on the right side of the screen) and find my email address...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valerie Parv Speaks!]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10589/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I came, I saw, I judged. Hard though it is to believe, some of these stories sound as if they could really work. So if you're a writer in need of a plot, the lesson is - hunt...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Switching to Stealth Mode]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10568/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gina and Beth&nbsp;are nice women. Interesting that nice for Gina means avoiding confrontation. Seems like a smart choice -- keeps you from getting into arguments with people...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On the other cringing hand....a word from Uriah Heep]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10554/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Strident in my blog? Sure. But....I say polite is the way to&nbsp;function in the rest of the world.&nbsp; The places where people don't expect to find an&nbsp;erotica writer....]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[the more I learn, the more I want to include homosexual werewolves]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10548/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Current RWA definition: a central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending  &nbsp;  See, I wasn't aware that RWA was fixing a wheel that wasn't broken. I thought this was...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to impress the kid]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10529/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&nbsp;1-2 p.m. I'm going to be signing books&nbsp; and hanging around the Border's booth at the Hartford Women's Fair.   You going to be in the area? Good! Stop by and...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[baaaaaaaaaaaaad puppies! bad!]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10506/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[No one's entering my contest -- except merry (&nbsp;no,&nbsp;I know you're&nbsp;not chopped liver, merde.) HEY! So? What's with this?   ENTER or I'll never give away another...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[two, no, three things]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10468/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[1. I found the contest entries from the last time around. Take a look and then&nbsp;try your hand at being an editor. Not so easy, eh?   2. Look! Bec wasn't whistling dixie when...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CONTEST!!! Best of both]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10466/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Your job is to write back cover copy in 65 words or less. Our judge points out that she's got a short attention span so this works best anyway.   You've been handed a cover, but...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[all questions with no answers.]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10458/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[can we bravenet types blogroll?  are we allowed to RSS?&nbsp; how? what is RSS?  Joan Rust asked: I'm trying to RSS your blog and there is no title of your feed. My reader won't...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[you're the creative ones, not me]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10435/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Should&nbsp; my next contest be 55 words or Write the Backcover Copy?  Well?]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dear Miss Manners. . . good manners or evil-bitch hypocrisy?]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10434/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I know an awfully&nbsp;wonderful woman **&nbsp;who is an awful&nbsp;writer. (No way am I gonna reveal the name. Sorry.)  When I pick up one of her books, I feel a deep and...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ah, for a Laird--whoops sorry-- Lord Hot Pocket]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10399/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Monica! You've missed your calling. Flinging locks into&nbsp;putrescently&nbsp;purple prose.&nbsp;(inappropriate for children. Boys, it'll make you gag, okay?)  You...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[what a lovely...rejection]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10395/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Awww, I get the nicest rejection letters.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;NAL people (two of them!) &nbsp;love my voice, think I'm going great places. But enclosed please find&nbsp;the...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[everyone else is doin' it. Ragging on covers!]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10382/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I will too, if only because&nbsp;the&nbsp;topic makes me young and frisky again--damned subject turns me into an adolescent. The phrase that rings through my brain is "screw...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[not on a first name basis]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10355/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, yeah I do think about other subjects. This morning for instance, I tried to track down an interpreter, who'd been fired, to help with an appointment that turned out to...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[taking a rant break about need for obscenities]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10326/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: This rant brought to you by Eww -- Erotic Writing Weariness&nbsp;syndrome. (in other words, I stop having&nbsp;PG13 sensibilities at about 11 this morning Note to my...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[But other news... not so good]]></title>
		<link>http://mkate.bravejournal.com/entry/10305/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Two sightings&nbsp;now: at&nbsp;the Long Island Luncheon and the Washington Romance Writer's conference, Kensington&nbsp;announced that the Traditional Regency program is dead....]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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