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	<description>Romantic Fantasy for Women Who Love Women</description>
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		<title>Pirate Romance Sampler from Bold Strokes Books!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very excited that Bold Strokes Books has released my novel, Branded Ann, as part of a three-book pirate romance sampler in e-book format, just in time for Christmas! Also included are Colette Moody&#8217;s The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin, and Catherine Friend&#8217;s award-winning A Pirate&#8217;s Heart (which, if you read carefully, dear friends, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/12/01/pirate-romance-sampler-from-bold-strokes-books/</link>
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		<title>Writing Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have been quiet on the blogging/social media front this past month or so, mostly because I&#8217;ve been writing frantically. The light at the end of the tunnel is beckoning, my friends. I am currently finishing up what I think is the second-to-last chapter of Prayer of the Handmaiden. The big battle is concluded, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/11/30/writing-update/</link>
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		<title>New Review of Sword of the Guardian on Queer People Doing Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I stumbled across another really nice review of SotG, this time on the blog Queer People Doing Stuff: &#8220;It did everything I wanted it to. I wanted the heroes to struggle but win in the end, I wanted the ladies to get together, and I wanted an awesome girl doing boy things. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/11/30/new-review-of-sword-of-the-guardian-on-queer-people-doing-stuff/</link>
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		<title>New Review of Sword of the Guardian on Bosom Friends!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lesbian-historical-fiction bloggers over at Bosom Friends just posted such a nice review of Sword of the Guardian! &#8220;Romantically speaking, Sword of the Guardian is one of the most alluring love stories I’ve ever read. The characters of Shasta and Talon are so lively, and their romance is so captivating, it truly broke my heart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/10/13/new-review-of-sword-of-the-guardian-on-bosom-friends/</link>
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		<title>Indie Lesbian Paranormal / Monster Book List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I compiled this list rather hastily in preparation for the Queer Monsters round table at Sirens this year, and I shared my list of round table discussion questions in a previous post, but I thought I would share the indie monster book list itself as a separate blog so that I could spend hours getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/10/12/indie-lesbian-paranormal-monster-book-list/</link>
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		<title>80% Done with PotH!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, 81%, really, if my word count estimation is correct. Which it might not be, since this story is turning out to be a lot bigger than I had originally imagined. It&#8217;s hard enough to weave a gripping romance, but when you do it against the backdrop of a very complex fantasy world with its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/10/11/80-done-with-poth/</link>
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		<title>Book Giveaway!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of National Coming Out Day, my friends, I am going to do my first EVER book giveaway. And since I’ve been so addicted to Twitter lately, what better place to do it? &#160; The winner will receive one personally autographed copy of either Sword of the Guardian or Branded Ann (your choice!) I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/10/11/book-giveaway/</link>
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		<title>Sirens 2011 &#8211; A Wrap Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had the most amazing time at the 2011 Sirens Conference over the weekend! I tried to keep my Twitter as updated as I could with the goings-on, but there was just so much that it wasn’t always easy to keep up with. The three guests of honor, Justine Larbalestier, Laini Taylor and Nnedi Okorafor, are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/10/10/sirens-2011-a-wrap-up/</link>
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		<title>Want a KindleGraph?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is incredibly cool! Let’s say you own a copy of one of my books on Kindle. “How I wish I could have this wonderful novel autographed,” you sigh. “With something personal and written by the author just for me… but alas, my book is digital and has no paper to write on!” Weep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/09/28/want-a-kindlegraph/</link>
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		<title>Moo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been waiting impatiently for what feels like forever (but was, in fact, just a little over a week) to get my new Moo Minicards in the mail. These things are SO AWESOME!! The print quality is amazing, you can see all the teeny tiny details of the images, and the cardstock is thicker than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merryshannon.com/2011/09/19/moo/</link>
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