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		<title>Mother / Daughter Writing Retreat</title>
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My daughter, Jaime is an actress and a writer, and I am a writer who wishes she could act.  Feeling we both needed to work on our books, I flew to Nashville for a few days of plotting (books) and writing.  Jaime&#8217;s husband Ed hovered in the background &#8211; pushing food our way as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NC/NE Texas Chapter of the SCBWI featured me in the Author&#8217;s Spotlight of the May/June newsletter.  Although I always enjoy discussing writing and Wellington&#8217;s Map, looking ahead to other projects is exciting.  I have two projects I&#8217;m having fun with, &#8220;Field Trip to Varden&#8221; and &#8220;The Seventh Level.&#8221;
Field Trip to Varden is the sequel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahh, I Remember When</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was in Orlando a few days on business.  Being by myself, rather than do any site seeing I just went back to my hotel room and wrote.  However, I did allow myself to ‘remember when.&#8217;
The first night I was there I drove up International Blvd to grab something to eat.  Memories flooded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.secretofwellingtonsmap.com/?p=51</link>
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		<title>What Children Want to Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well my granddaughter taught me something about the book market and that is that some indicators are tough to predict.
 Last Christmas being the good grandparents we are, we bought an animatronic-like dinosaur for our 2 ½ year granddaughter.  Okay so it was for ages eight and up, we (especially my husband who says Olivia will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.secretofwellingtonsmap.com/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Busy Month was December</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well December is always a busy month with the Christmas / Hanukkah holidays, shopping and preparing for the New Year, but I have a couple of bits of news around the book.
I was pleased in early December to speak to two Creative Writing Classes at Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas on &#8220;Finding Inspiration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.secretofwellingtonsmap.com/?p=49</link>
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		<title>August &#8211; National Inventors Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow!  A month that celebrates creativity!

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a really cool Kids Page.  All kinds of neat information.  Select the Time Machine icon and it takes you to some other interesting links including Calendar of Famous and Not-So-Famous Patents and Trademarks.  Quite frankly, an adult would find this fun to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Pretend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those are the two best words in the English Language. 
When I was a kid living with my family in San Antonio, Texas we had the equivalent to a ‘Little Rascals&#8217; gang on our street.  We did everything such as had Kool-Aid stands, put on a show and charged admission, and played &#8220;Let&#8217;s Pretend.&#8221;  Now I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.secretofwellingtonsmap.com/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Txtng &#8211; the Picasso of Literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am the type person who believes art must be discernable to be appreciated and understood.  So you guessed it, Picasso is not exactly my idea of art.  Just looking at his paintings makes my face and body hurt wondering what his subject looked like or if s/he was a contortionist or an alien chameleon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.secretofwellingtonsmap.com/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Thank You Fellow Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My book will be out soon and the web site is about to launch so I turn my attention to my blog. What on earth will I write about? What could I say that would be of any interest to anyone? Wait a minute…I&#8217;m an author. If I didn&#8217;t think I had something to say, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.secretofwellingtonsmap.com/?p=30</link>
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