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		<title>Will My Sorrow Count?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lost two friends to suicide in the same week, 32 years after I lost my dad the same way. The first was a beloved coworker who lit up any room just by buzzing through, the second was my best friend from childhood, Tracy. She was fearless, imaginative, accepting, and showered her love on every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=656&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets In Publishing&#8230;I&#8217;m Over It.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently shared on a writer&#8217;s board that I&#8217;d queried a few agents for my wolf/cowboy/biker dude novel (maybe 10) and had close calls with 2 of them. I swear I heard a collective gasp, followed by condolences of concerned citizens who thought I&#8217;d committed career suicide by sharing such details.  If you&#8217;re a writer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=635&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hairball Proves Twitter Worthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you say you don&#8217;t understand the Twitter. That it&#8217;s a scourge on the most highly intelligent mammal. An indication that the apocalypse is indeed coming. Oh, reeeally, my haughty naysayer? Allow me to provide the following Twitter Exchange as proof of its undeniable significance in the realm of modern communication. We&#8217;ll call it: Exhibit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=584&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OMG! Sample Pages in a Query? The Nerve!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve been polishing your manuscript for four score and seven years and are now ready to submit a query, but the guidelines say &#8220;Query Only.&#8221;  Should you include sample pages? Doesn&#8217;t that mean I&#8217;d be ignoring the guidelines? Won&#8217;t I be blacklisted from querying FOREVER? You speak nonsense, Manivong, and you&#8217;re trying to kill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=575&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Gave 5 Stars to a Book I Never Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bullying. It&#8217;s in the headlines a lot lately. And most of us watch in horror as the evidence (cellphone videos, FB comments, etc) makes its way onto the internet. &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with those savages?&#8221; &#8220;How could people stand by and watch?&#8221; &#8220;This world&#8217;s going to hell!&#8221; So what has prompted this blog post? If you&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=561&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blessings in an Unstable World</title>
		<link>http://lauramanivong.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/blessings-in-an-unstable-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My blessings on any given day of the week&#8230; Family, house, job, health, friends, car, dog, means, trees, creativity, ability to reason, humility, snow, rain, sleet, snow, of course God, moderately clean air and water, shoes, trash pickup, every phase of the moon, loud movies, chocolate, laughter, seeing past sorrow, and the knowledge that it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=555&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Banned My Own Book</title>
		<link>http://lauramanivong.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/i-banned-my-own-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally posted at Page Turner&#8217;s Blog on 10-22-10) When I received the advance reader’s copy of my novel, Escaping The Tiger, I told my daughter she couldn’t read it—yet. Perhaps in a year or so. She was only 8 ½  and I wasn’t sure she could appreciate or process the gritty realities my characters face, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=548&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One woman&#8217;s rape is another man&#8217;s soft porn&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lauramanivong.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/one-womans-rape-is-another-mans-soft-porn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Halse Anderson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So just in time for banned books week, an associate professor at my college alma mater, Missouri State University, wrote an opinion piece in Springfield&#8217;s NEWS LEADER suggesting that the rape scenes in Laurie Halse Anderson&#8217;s young adult novel, SPEAK, equate to soft pornography. He wants Republic, MO school district parents to get involved with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=529&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When you gonna write a book for adults?</title>
		<link>http://lauramanivong.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/when-you-gonna-write-a-book-for-adults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you write literature for children, tweens and teens, and you talk about it out loud, then you&#8217;ve likely had someone ask you when you&#8217;re going to write a book for adults, as if it&#8217;s some kind of graduation into a respectable vocation, a step up from the training bra into a full-fledged over-the-shoulder boulder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=491&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manuscript Feedback: Take It or Leave It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Manivong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Opinions come in all shapes and sizes, so when you get feedback on your story, how do you know when to take it to heart, or when to let it slip out the other ear? First off, LISTEN to what critiquers have to say, without interrupting to explain what you were trying to accomplish. That&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauramanivong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5934519&amp;post=471&amp;subd=lauramanivong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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