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		<description><![CDATA[The new year arrived and still my manuscript isn&#8217;t a book. A moment of despair (OK more than a moment) when I realized this is exactly the same situation I was in last new year. There was a brief mid-year frenzy of activity when I finally made contact with a respected literary editor who did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=416&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ephemereality is Almost a Word</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve morphed this blog into many contortions this past year, but lately it&#8217;s been about the uncertain route a book must travel toward publication, its eventual culmination a rare and ephemeral event whose essence I pondered while lying in bed last week watching the Earth&#8217;s shadow creep across the full moon just prior to sunrise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=407&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GREETINGS FROM INTERSTELLAR SPACE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This artificial wolf, sculpted in mid-howl, sits right outside the entry to the Goldstone Deep Space Network in the Mojave Desert, where giant radio telescopes monitor distant signals from space. Wolves don’t actually howl at the moon. They howl to communicate with other wolves, and the higher they hold their heads when they emit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=381&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Browsing Inside the Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back before e-books, I used to go to my neighborhood branch of the public library to browse. Mostly I’d look through the “new releases.” I enjoyed the physical act of pulling a volume from its shelved position for whatever reason (I recognized the author, liked the subject, thought the cover had an ultra-cool design), flipping through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=373&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Want to Go to There!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While wandering lost in the desert, my character Venus repeatedly fantasizes her eventual rescue as a way to keep herself alive. The centerpiece of her self-sustaining vision is an ice-cold coconut piña colada she&#8217;ll enjoy in the shade of a Martian oasis: I’m not there yet; I’m still stranded in this God-forsaken place, but the oasis is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=364&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Explorer to Expert &#8211; a Good Move?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Jeff Herman&#8216;s oft-touted and comprehensive guidebook for writers, he laments, &#8221;I transitioned from being an explorer into being an expert.&#8221; Yes, I said he laments. You might think being an expert in one&#8217;s field is the end-all, be-all, have-it-all situation. You&#8217;re arrived, people admire your accomplishments, you get invited to speak or consult and you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=357&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Writer&#8217;s Site, New Hope?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just joined Inkubate &#8211; actually you have to be invited to join but this just involves asking for an invitation and they replied to me within a minute, which means they&#8217;re either very efficient or they&#8217;re just getting started and are hungry for fodder. Either way it works for me. I read about Inkubate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=353&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry this blog has gone dark over the past few weeks &#8211; so much to do, so little to say about it. My work is out there, is more out there every day, and as a result, I find myself in a massive holding pattern. Most places I&#8217;ve sent queries, manuscripts, synopses and CVs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=346&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roving Mars, Without a Business Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without realizing it, I&#8217;ve joined those plucky rovers transversing the surface of the Mars, Spirit and Opportunity, explorers with no goal other than to keep going. Landing on the red planet early in 2004, each rover bounced a few times, took a deep breath as it spread its solar wings to collect power, rolled forward and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=319&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect, Again and Again and Again and Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Done with the Venus on Mars rewrite. Happy, happy, happy with the results (although I was happy enough with earlier versions). I&#8217;ve put it down to rest, now watching Hurricane Irene coverage on cable news while waiting, waiting, waiting for the publisher who&#8217;s reading it right now (I am hopefully assuming) to respond. Waiting to hear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janmillsapps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9681962&amp;post=310&amp;subd=janmillsapps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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