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		<title>A Fun Little Interruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My WIP is in a sort of transition right now as I work on query letters and synopses together. I&#8217;m working on a lengthy blogpost that will be ready for the light in a day or two. I&#8217;m also sprawled on the couch a few weeks from my due date, baking in the heat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Burden of Proof Lies with YOU!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Or, Why They&#8217;ll Never Put Me in Charge of Motivational Posters. Grammar is such a funky issues for us writers, isn&#8217;t it? We get advice from both sides: &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about grammar! That&#8217;s what editors are for,&#8221; and of course, &#8220;Grammar is vital to good writing. Don&#8217;t count on an agent so much as glancing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=304</link>
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		<title>Contest Alert!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton is hosting a contest giving away a signed copy of Nancy Pickard&#8217;s latest novel. Click here to check it out! share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Expanding my Horizons.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or&#8230; Moving Past the Shampoo Bottle. I am the proud owner of a lot of bookcases. They&#8217;re stuffed full, overflowing even, with a wide variety of books. Some of them are &#8220;necessities&#8221;: cookbooks, dictionaries, The Great Gatsby. There&#8217;s literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, a smattering of young adult books, lots and lots of classics filched from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=288</link>
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		<title>Guest Blogger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supernatural Conspiracy Theories Are Melting Your Brain: Try Not to Get It on My Shoes By: Allie Stuart, Resident Skeptic (cont.) &#8230; And even deeper down, past the Google searches and the Yahoo! Answers links, lies a vast pool of arbitrarily connected websites and communities, password-protected forums and heavily moderated chat rooms where the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=281</link>
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		<title>Daylight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or&#8230; I finally finished the edits. I&#8217;m going to go die now. I wrapped up the edits on my book, The Watcher&#8217;s Daughter, sometime around 10:30 last night and it&#8217;s one of the best feelings I&#8217;ve ever had in my life. To know that it was done. The best I could make it. What a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=279</link>
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		<title>And the winner is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Me! Just kidding! But, before we get to the good stuff (like, who wins the critique&#8230;) here&#8217;s the fun news: It&#8217;s a Boy! And the winner of the 10,000 word critique is&#8230;. Angela Ackerman! Hit me up on Facebook and we&#8217;ll make arrangements to get that word critique to me. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=272</link>
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		<title>Link o&#8217; the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or&#8230; What contest? There&#8217;s a contest going on? Here&#8217;s an excellent article on self-promotion for new authors. Some of this is aimed at the lucky few who&#8217;ve landed an agent or even signed a book deal, but there&#8217;s some fantastic advice for writers from all stages of the process. Wendy Webb guest posts over at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Contest!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Or&#8230; hootie hoo hoo. So, in case you missed it (since I didn&#8217;t formally announce anything&#8230;) I&#8217;ll be popping out a kid this summer, sometime after Hellish July and before The Snow Comes in September. We&#8217;re hopefully finding out the gender on Thursday, April 15th, so in the spirit of celebrating the advancements of modern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Happy Spring!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Or, Edits, what edits? I meant to redesign the site today. I swear. Worked on a new site redesign today &#8211; here&#8217;s hoping it makes no one&#8217;s eyes bleed! Look for new posts in the coming weeks on: Are you any good at anything? How can you tell? Openings Suck. All Openings Suck. Especially Yours. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtney-johnson.com/?p=209</link>
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