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		<title>Realistic Fiction: Hunt, Quick, and Green</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2013/04/30/realistic-fiction-hunt-quick-and-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three powerful books about kids dealing with major issues. Troubled kids, wise and compassionate kids. Be Someone’s Hero is the message on a sign that foster child Carley finds in her borrowed bedroom. She’s in need of a hero herself, having just been released from the hospital after being severely beaten by her mother’s boyfriend, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marathon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at my ninety-one-year-old mother&#8217;s house in Lawrence today when I turned on CNN because my mother likes to know what goes on in the world. We watched the mid-list runners of the Boston Marathon near the finish line by the colorful flags of eighty countries that were snapping in a brisk spring wind. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critique groups as incubators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incubators help things hatch. What emerges are success stories. At an SCBWI crit group in Andover, MA fifteen people sit around a table giving input to the five presenters each month. Marianne Knowles is the well-experienced coordinator who keeps everything moving in a productive, positive direction. With that many voices, good input on developing stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blizzard</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2013/02/09/blizzard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[studio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was not quite as bad as predicted, but nearly two feet is plenty. It drifted to the knobs on my studio double doors. Egils&#8217; Mazda 3 looked like a station wagon. And in places the wind blew it into weird shapes like the meringue on a lemon pie. Egils&#8217; photos look darkish because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCBWI New York: tribal gathering</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2013/02/04/scbwi-new-york-tribal-gathering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[children's books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gudrid the Far Traveller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denizens of the night sky, nine foot children, a steampunk moth, eerie coincidences, and electric connections between people… SCBWI New York this past weekend was surprisingly poignant and permeated by an encouraging optimism about children’s book publishing. But first was the getting there. Kristine Asselin, co-cordinator of the SCBWI conference in New England this May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Malone: Agented Author, Free-lance Editor</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2013/01/30/jennifer-malone-agented-author-free-lance-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Malone one of my critique group buddies, has gone from being the New England Head of Publicity and Promotion for 20th Century Fox and Miramax Films to writing for YA and MG. Jen is fun, fabulous at networking, and her stories are contemporary tales full of humor. Right after Hurricane Sandy did its thing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hnefatafl: A Viking Era Game</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2013/01/26/hnefatafl-a-viking-era-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hnefatafl, also called The King’s Table, is a two-player game originating about 400 A.D. in Iceland, Scandanavia, Ireland, and Lappland. One unusual aspect, rare for a board game, is that the two sides are uneven, one having the king and twelve defenders, while the other is comprised of twenty-four attackers. The gameboards were often of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A World of Books #3: Vom kleinen Maulwurf&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2013/01/23/a-world-of-books-3-vom-kleinen-maulwurf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This charming book by Werner Holzwarth and Wolf Erlbruch, which I bought in Zurich, cleverly presents its theme on the cover as a title: “Vom kleinen Maulwurf, der wissen wollte, wer ihm auf den Kopf gemacht hat” on the cover. Egils translates this as “From small Mole, who wanted to know who dropped this thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearl #1</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2013/01/18/pearl-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pearls of wisdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. -Thomas Merton Bookmark]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy</title>
		<link>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2012/11/01/aftermath-of-hurricane-sandy/</link>
		<comments>http://constructions.joyceaudyzarins.com/2012/11/01/aftermath-of-hurricane-sandy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Dark Striker ((Nidhogg), the dragon who was an enormous force of evil in Norse mythology, Hurricane Sandy has left a broad swath of destruction and darkness in her path. Large areas of New York and New Jersey are swamped and disconnected to an extent never seen before. The fires that reduced acres of homes [...]]]></description>
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