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		<title>My dad</title>
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My parents were part of that so-called greatest generation. My mom&#8217;s yearbook said &#8220;definitely for the Navy.&#8221; And Andy was the reason. He served in North Africa and the Pacific, where he was the lone survivor of a plane shot down. He never talked much about the war, like many veterans. But at the end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&blog=5385340&post=1348&subd=ciarcullen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a lovely day. The Yankees win. Love&#8217;s Alchemy is for sale. So, I had something to do with one of those things   
I&#8217;m back from my little rest and am busy writing an will be a good blogger  )
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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The Forbidden Chamber, from Samhain Publishing, Available today.
“Your life is forfeit if you open that door.”
All her life, Lady Isabel Colven has followed the path laid out for her, content to look neither left nor right for excitement. Her future holds a dutiful, passionless marriage to some nice young man, and she’s content…until the exotic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&blog=5385340&post=1345&subd=ciarcullen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love&#8217;s Alchemy Giveaway!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m delighted that Love&#8217;s Alchemy will be available on November 6 at Samhain. To celebrate, I&#8217;m giving away two electronic copies the day before the release! Entering is easy! Just click on the book title in this post, read the excerpt (link at the bottom of the Samhain page, not the blurb), and tell me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&blog=5385340&post=1340&subd=ciarcullen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caveat Scriptor&#8211;Quitting the day job</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I&#8217;m not a famous writer type and probably not the best qualified to write this. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m alarmed by some posts I&#8217;ve seen recently on writers&#8217; forums about quitting the day job to &#8220;write full time.&#8221; Especially from those who don&#8217;t already have an agent, a track record, or even a contract in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&blog=5385340&post=1336&subd=ciarcullen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roaring Twenties Prize Winners!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Thanks to everyone who entered this contest and left messages about finding new authors and having fun! We hope you found some new great authors along with your favorites. Authors will be contacting the winners within a week. Some of the entries have only first names, so don&#8217;t get too excited&#8211;but we have your email [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&blog=5385340&post=1334&subd=ciarcullen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming November 6!</title>
		<link>http://ciarcullen.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/coming-november-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, I love new cover day! And I love me some Anne Cain covers.  Read an excerpt at Samhain Publishing!
And from a review I received from the awesome Ann Aguirre&#8211; &#8220;It all works. Get this book and don’t stop until you’re done.&#8221;
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		<title>I&#8217;m Looking for a Hero Who Won&#8217;t Put Baby in the Corner</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, what a mess. I can barely bring myself to watch TV these days. Everyone throws a hissy fit now and then, but Venus, Venus, what&#8217;s up with that? And Kanye was purportedly called a &#8220;jackass&#8221; by the President. I don&#8217;t like Kanye&#8217;s music, but there&#8217;s no getting around that Venus is one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&blog=5385340&post=1322&subd=ciarcullen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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The three of us miss you, Mom. 
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		<title>New Release! Woot!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Egyptian Demon&#8217;s Keeper out Tuesday, September 8! Come on, you know you want to&#8230; It&#8217;s at Samhain Publishing.
Love—it’s the real thing. And complicated as hell…
Archeologist Eliza Schneider assumes her meeting with an exotic stranger in the Egyptian desert was a heat-induced hallucination…until he materializes in New York. She has to give the tall, handsome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&blog=5385340&post=1298&subd=ciarcullen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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