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		<title>Holy Bad Sushi, Batman.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Best American post garnered a record 19 spam. (Spams?) At least I think they were spam. Seven were in Cyrillic script. It is possible that contemporary Russian writers have a thing for the Best American Series. Only one offer for sex. i must be getting old. Filed under: I Publish, I Write, X-tra Credit: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3960&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Bloom&#8217;s career jumpstarted with consecutive publications in The Best American Short Stories. Six years ago, at the Centrum/Port Townsend writers conference, she told a group of us how it happened: Bloom said she so hated the idea of rejection that she sent her manuscript to the smallest literary  magazine she could find: a women&#8217;s collective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3923&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon, Nancy Pearl bringing out-of-print back.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle resident and World&#8217;s Most Famous Librarian Nancy Pearl and a small-ish Seattle bookseller are bringing out-of-print back. At least, some out-of-print. Nancy&#8217;s favorite out-of-print. Aptly calling it the Book Lust Rediscoveries* line, Amazon plans an annual reprint six of Pearl’s most loved, out-of-print titles. A career librarian, Pearl gained international attention when she pioneered the “If All Seattle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3861&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Got That &#8220;Mahatma&#8221;: Dinty W. Moore discusses short nonfiction with NOT ME.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[River Teeth Journal just posted an interview with Dinty Moore. In founding and editing Brevity: A Journal of Concise Nonfiction, Moore has played a large part in defining what we think of as short (or flash) nonfiction. I interviewed Moore circa. 2006, during his tour to promote The Accidental Buddhist. This is not that interview. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3829&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alle publishes first Seattle review of Ryan Boudinot&#8217;s new novel, &#8220;Blueprints of the Afterlife.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Blueprints character describes the hypercube: “The cube on the inside grows as the cube on the outside shrinks.” What happens when the technology we unleash through the Internet becomes our physical reality, and we become its content? Go read my review before that thing stops turning. (Could you leave PLOP! a comment or click [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3802&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Blueprints&#8221; review bumped &#8217;til Monday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the false advertising, folks. Please check back tomorrow. Or click (to your right) to follow this blog. See ya man-ya-na. Filed under: Calls, News, &#38; Reviews, I Publish, I Write, Read Alle's work Tagged: Alle C. Hall, Blueprints of the Afterlife, book review, fabulist fiction, fantasy, review, Ryan Boudinot, science fiction, Seattle writer, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3789&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posting tomorrow: Alle reviews her first sci-fi: Ryan Boudinot&#8217;s new novel.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should confess right off that I don’t know if I get this book, Blueprints of the Afterlife. Digression! Rebecca Brown once told me that she wanted sentences to so capture her that she had to stop reading, to go, Huh …  wow. I can’t say I feel the same. Let’s take poetry. I read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3743&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s CreateSpace verifies that I am still relevant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a little worried that I wasn&#8217;t. I am so brilliant, yes; but much of my insider information comes from the six years I spent running The Hugo House InPrint series. This was 2001-2007. Our monthly panel of agents and editors often debated whether or not Web publications counted as &#8220;real,&#8221; and if a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3724&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding An Agent: Rejection and Rebound</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carole L. Glickford (WA State Book Award Winner for Swimming Toward the Ocean) maintains that the book most writers publish first is often not the first book they write. With a first book, most of us don&#8217;t have all our ducks in a row: broad platform, adoring fans with disposable income, blurbs from famous writers. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3632&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding An Agent: The Synopsis: The Expanded Hook</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing about The Good Synopsis. We were at &#8220;upper-mediocre.&#8221; Eventually, my cover got me as close to a book/movie deal as I may ever get. It didn&#8217;t start out that way. In the beginning, my Hook was: Literary fiction; a girl and her backpack in Southeast Asia. This pitch worked from the beginning. I have never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allehall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6881974&amp;post=3571&amp;subd=allehall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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