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		<title>CRAPFTSHOW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a little tradition on Twitter. Whenever I gain 1000 new followers, I have some kind of contest and give away a prize. It&#8217;s a way of saying thank you and having some FUN. Yesterday, I had such a contest. I invited people to submit CRAPFTS.
A CRAPFT is a craft which is crap. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/09/02/crapftshow/</link>
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		<title>HOW TO MOVE INTO A DORM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I find it has been a month since I blogged. It is not that I am asleep and simply WAKE UP once a month, wander to the computer, type a blog entry in a fugue state, and then return for 30 more days of slumber. No! It is because I have been WRITING [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/08/25/how-to-move-into-a-dorm/</link>
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		<title>EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, it appears that it has been about a month since I last blogged. It also appears that this is somewhat of a pattern. But there is a reason, my friends. I always have reasons.
I haven’t blogged much is that I’ve been busy writing. That’s the whole explanation.* It turns out there’s only so much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/07/25/every-picture-tells-a-story/</link>
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		<title>MANIFESTO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears, that I have . . . entirely by accident . . . developed a manifesto. Let me tell you how this happened.
So, because I am an author and am generally presentable and have shoes and things . . . and because I spend a lot of time online . . . I sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/06/08/manifesto/</link>
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		<title>ASK MJ: HOW TO GET AN MFA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, someone on Twitter asked me: “After getting a BA in Creative Writing, is graduate school for the same a bad idea?”
I replied that I thought it was a good idea to get experience in something else. To which someone else then replied: “Why? I&#8217;m getting my undergrad in writing and getting into a really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/05/08/ask-mj-how-to-get-an-mfa/</link>
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		<title>ACCIO BOOKS 2: PRIZEBARF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I set forth a challenge. I asked you to donate books for Accio Books, the Harry Potter Alliance’s annual book drive. I am the Head of House this year for Ravenclaw. Then I went away for two weeks, during which I was running around England and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/04/02/accio-books-2-prizebarf/</link>
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		<title>ACCIO BOOKS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends, I need your help. And I’m willing to give out some BIG PRIZES in exchange.
So, about three weeks ago, I got a call from my friends at the Harry Potter Alliance. The HPA is an awesome charity organization run by Harry Potter fandom. To give you some idea of the kind of amazing work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/03/19/accio-books/</link>
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		<title>HOW TO WRITE TO AN AUTHOR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thing about being an author THESE DAYS is that we have the advantage of being in direct contact with our readers. Most authors are reachable one way or another.
The thing about this, of course, is the sheer AMOUNT of mail we get is considerably larger back in YE OLDEY DAYS before the internet. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/03/13/how-to-write-to-an-author/</link>
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		<title>A VERY BLOGGY BLOG ENTRY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have noticed that I have not posted a blog entry since early January. &#8220;Where are you?&#8221; you have asked. &#8220;What are you doing? DID THEY FINALLY GET YOU?&#8221;
Well, for ONE thing, I&#8217;ve been fixing up this site! See, parts of the site were wobbly and hard to update. So this entire blog&#8211;this entire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/03/11/a-very-bloggy-blog-entry/</link>
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		<title>ROBERT LANGDON: A LOVE STORY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t read The Lost Symbol (or my guide), very little of the following will make sense. But this was my presentation from this evening&#8217;s &#8220;Secrets of the Lost Symbol&#8221; panel at the Tribeca Y.
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I come to you this evening to tell you why Dan Brown is right and everyone else is wrong, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/01/08/robert-langdon-a-love-story/</link>
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