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	<title>R. F. Long &#187; may queen</title>
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		<title>Proofs&#8211;it exists!</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/11/23/proofs-it-exists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost a real book! I now have 5 whole copies to play with. Most of them are spoken for, alas. But they are sooooo pretty. I believe that copies may be available for review from the Penguin Young Readers group though, but I can&#8217;t swear to that. This is the official bit: If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A May Tree in November</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/11/05/a-may-tree-in-november/</link>
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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>Cover LOVE&#8211;first look</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/09/12/cover-love-first-look/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick but vital interruption in our scheduled blogging to reveal an almost exclusive thing of wonder. *dances around, throws confetti, dances some more* Why? Because I can at last share the beautiful cover for The Treachery of Beautiful Things.* And it&#8217;s not just beautiful. It&#8217;s SO EXCITING. *throws more confetti* It&#8217;s so perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Treachery of Beautiful Things</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/07/13/the-treachery-of-beautiful-things/</link>
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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>Fairytales in fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/05/09/fairytales-in-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 10:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claire Hennesy has a thought provoking post up today about Retellings, where writers take well known and established stories like fairytales and folklore and use them as a base for their own stories, building on them, changing their slant or reworking them into something new. I started to reply there, but given the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/04/23/may-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s spring. Really really spring. Because the hawthorn in the field at home is in full bloom. And it&#8217;s magic. Well, of course it&#8217;s magic &#8211; it&#8217;s a hawthorn in bloom. It&#8217;s a May Tree (yes, in April), also called a faerie tree and it has many names &#8211; it&#8217;s the Thorn in &#8220;Oak, Ash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Editing tips</title>
		<link>http://www.rflong.com/2011/03/15/self-editing-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~~ As I&#8217;m currently in the throes of editing, and I was making some how to edit suggestions on twitter recently, I thought a brief post on some of my methods might be of use. Plus its a neat way of procrastinating. Line Edits Use spellchecker Of course, it&#8217;s right there waiting to be used, [...]]]></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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