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		<title>Ticking over &amp; the Tyranny of Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, recovery is one thing, but the website is all recovered from the nasty hacking (that was my most unfun thing possibly forever and totally ruined my watching of Endeavour, not to mention a couple weeks afterwards) and I&#8217;ve been something of a naughty author not updating my blog very much. Alternately, I&#8217;ve been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 &#8211; the year of edits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time last year we were buried in snow, and edits. This year Christmas day was something like 20 degrees warmer than last years and the holiday has in general been a bit more rushed and fraught, and oddly enough, ill. Tummy bugs and the head cold from hell forced us to hibernate almost as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning a present &#8211; a free read alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the whirl of preparing for Christmas, I fear I&#8217;ve been neglecting my poor blog. The holidays, however you spend them, are usually fairly hectic for us all. So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do &#8211; on Christmas morning you will be able to read an excerpt from The Wolf&#8217;s Destiny right here. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A May Tree in November</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The May Tree, or Hawthorn, or the Fairy Tree features in my novel THE TREACHERY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS. The tradition is to tie a rag or ribbon to the tree and make a wish. It&#8217;s a gnarled, thorny little tree, with the most beautiful white flowers in springtime and bright red berries in autumn. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, where am I? &#8211; a waffly post of waffle</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/09/28/so-where-am-i-a-waffly-post-of-waffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, at home on the sofa to be honest. With the writing? Well, that&#8217;s a different story. THE TREACHERY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS is all finished. Another full manuscript is making its way out into the world shortly, plus a proposal. And my lovely agent has something else. So I am writing new things. Without totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Treachery of Beautiful Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So a few bits of exciting news in the last little while. 1) May Queen has a new title - The Treachery of Beautiful Things &#8211; which I absolutely love. So evocative. 2) It also has a release date (16th August 2012). Yes it&#8217;s 400 days away, but you know what? It&#8217;s a date. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/06/08/research-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started as a bit of a whim to be honest. But then these things often do. You see, I have a very important scene in May Queen set at Wayland&#8217;s Smithy and there was some fact checking so in spite of the fact that I&#8217;d got tons of help from lots of lovely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh the edits</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/05/31/oh-the-edits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 10:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was admittedly a tight deadline, but the edits on May Queen (which may not be called May Queen anymore) went back on Sunday evening with Monday to spare. At the moment I&#8217;m mainly in recovery mode and looking forward to a bit of a break. And more edits, this time for Graffiti Angel (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Pcon Post</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/03/11/post-pcon-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I it&#8217;s a week after PCon and I&#8217;m still recovering! My con report is up on Writing.ie with pictures by Kate Sheehy. Thanks to Elizabeth Murray for inviting us to play on her blog. Make sure to visit and read all about it. (zombie fuelled mayhem, one way trips to Mars &#8211; what more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Musings on May Queen</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/03/04/musical-musings-on-may-queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost time for rewrites again and I&#8217;m getting myself back into the mindset for May Queen, my YA fantasy coming out next year from Dial Books for Young Readers. As I&#8217;ve said before , music is really import to me. A song can encapsulate a feeling, a moment, and distill it so that even a [...]]]></description>
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