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	<title>Jane Yolen -- Author of children’s books, fantasy, and science fiction, including Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received two different cover comps for a book of mine. (My new book of adult poems.) And as I looked at the two side by side, I thought a lot about what makes a good cover.  I also realized how difficult it is to make a decision about what will most appeal. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/interstitial-moment-33/</link>
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		<title>January 4-15, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a chock-a-block twelve days (and nights) and even looking back on it, it&#8217;s hard to get a handle on all that got done. And all that didn&#8217;t. Basically&#8211;I wrote a lot,  both poetry and prose. I partied hard. I had a friend over for a three day writing/painting retreat. Did a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/january-4-15-2012/</link>
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		<title>Interstitial Moment:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I decided last year to write (at least) a poem a day for the entire year of 2011, and by December 31 I was done. But along the way I had so much fun and learned so much, that I have decided to do it again. Writers as a whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/interstitial-moment-32/</link>
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		<title>January 1-3, 2012:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first posts of the new year include a little heartache, a little toothache, and a lot of writing. Heartache: One dear writer friend, a student of mine, is dying. She has written a beautiful, powerful upbeat goodbye to a number of us and has become my new hero. There is an elegance and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/january-1-3-2012/</link>
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		<title>Interstitial Moment:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In critiquing a friend&#8217;s manuscript, I told her she needed texture in her writing. She asked me to explain. So I sent her this. I thought it might be of a more general interest to everyone. Texture means simply that your characters are set in their world. Here are three ways of writing the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/interstitial-moment-31/</link>
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		<title>December 24-December 31, 2011:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last part of December whizzed by in a farrago of parties, family visits, some writing, some book news. Perhaps not so different from the rest of the year except for the number of parties, so I will begin with them. Parties: There were family parties&#8211;dinners at the house, at restaurants, presents from beneath the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/december-24-december-31-2011/</link>
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		<title>November 26-December 23:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies&#8211;but the month just got away from me. It included two quasi bad falls (possible small fracture in my foot on Thanksgiving and another in December carrying a box of books and wearing (well-named) slippers. That last one gave me bruises on both palms which is how I broke the fall. In-between were trips to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/november-26-december-23/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes my Muse has the attention span of a two-year old. The only way to treat her (without having her go into a full-blown temper tantrum&#8211; aka writer&#8217;s block) is to distract her. It&#8217;s the same thing you do with said two year old. So I try 1. chocolate  2. a long walk   3. tea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/interstitial-moment-30/</link>
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		<title>November 22-25, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This holiday was a bit fraught. Full of friends, food, and. . . I thought at first a broken ankle. The stry goes like this: On the 23rd, some friends, some family all gathered for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at Heidi&#8217;s. I drank two glasses of champagne (probably more champagne or indeed wine than I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/november-22-25-2011/</link>
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		<title>November 9-21, 2011:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Travel: Despite my wonderful PA&#8217;s best efforts to control me, I did too much travel this past week and a half. There was the Connecticut Book Fair where Heidi and I presented and signed  a gadzillion books. I was also at the special dinner for the winners of the Raab prize (the young illustrators used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janeyolen.com/november-9-21-2011/</link>
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