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		<title>Sifting through Blog Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 23:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting blogger decided to follow Sea Venture&#8217;s Journey (my sailing blog). Being the curious sort, I wandered over to see what I could see and found a repost from Catherine, Caffeinated. I&#8217;m sorry that the linking blogger didn&#8217;t leave any way for me to contact her. Still, I submit Catherine&#8217;s two cents because she&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=728&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Sell Self-Published Books: Read This First</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 23:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Catherine, Caffeinated: I&#8217;ve christened May the How To Sell Self-Published Books Month here on Catherine, Caffeinated, but before we get into the nuts and bolts of marketing and promoting your book, we need to have a little tough love session first. At my most recent workshop I started off by saying to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=727&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Marketing Revelation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book buyers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fine, this won&#8217;t surprise the networking gurus, but as I commented this morning on a post over at Writer Unboxed called &#8220;Networking for the Cowardly and Terrified&#8221; (that would be moi), I saw it. I rarely buy books when someone begs me to. I rarely buy based on advertising. But I do head over to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=717&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting with Folk: That Tribe Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bell bridge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I wondered about tribes and finding one. Perhaps that sense of isolation came from so many years as a gypsy cruiser on Sea Venture, connecting with boat people or via social media. Here, at home in NC, taking care of my mama, I&#8217;m miles from town, tethered to more than a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=702&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tribes: Who Needs Them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; That fellow&#8217;s pointing at me. He&#8217;s a marketing guru (I&#8217;m sure), and he says that my next job is to make scads of social media friends. I must blog, tweet, speak, call, make myself heard somewhere, by someone. By enough someones that my book will sell. I&#8217;m supposed to have a tribe. As an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=648&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becalmed No Longer</title>
		<link>http://normandiefischer.com/2012/04/28/becalmed-no-longer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beaufort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cape Lookout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolinas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tadie Longworth wouldn&#8217;t stop poking at me. She was tired of her quiet, monochromatic life and all those breezeless days. I could sympathize. After all, we&#8217;re both sailors. I finally have good news for her and her Beaufort friends. My agent, Terry Burns, forwarded a contract yesterday that will let Tadie kick up her heels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=629&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contests are great fun (although sales would be trump these)</title>
		<link>http://normandiefischer.com/2012/04/18/contests-are-great-fun-although-sales-would-be-trump-these/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to tell you that another of my stories is a semi-finalist in the Genesis contest. Can&#8217;t tell you which. Can&#8217;t mention its title. But&#8230;. I resurrected it from an old program (anyone remember AmiPro?) and converted it to Word, then had to bring it up to date. But I had fun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=624&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling the Crew: Readers and Writers</title>
		<link>http://normandiefischer.com/2012/03/26/calling-the-crew-readers-and-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a sailor &#8212; temporarily land bound &#8212; and I write stories of women who sail. Some of them sail small boats, some large ones. Most love the water, though I&#8217;ve a WIP in which the protagonist is a wife who follows her husband&#8217;s dream. How&#8217;s that working out? Well, I&#8217;ve met a few wives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=593&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing and Fitting in</title>
		<link>http://normandiefischer.com/2012/03/02/on-writing-and-fitting-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone in the know recently said that few publishers want stories set in foreign lands. To fit in, I must be careful of the truth, I must beware, take care, mince words, be thoughtful, keep it short, do it this way or that way, don&#8217;t be too literary, show lots of action, don&#8217;t get into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=589&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look what showed up today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Normandie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love receiving mail. I particularly love mail that reminds me of good things, such as a contest win. Back in 2011, my story, Becalmed, won First Place for Strong Romantic Elements in the Catherine Contest in Toronto, Canada. Those lovely folk from the Toronto Romance Writers became my new best friends. But somehow the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=normandiefischer.com&#038;blog=14621990&#038;post=580&#038;subd=writingonboard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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