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		<title>100 top booky tweeps &#8211; 30 reviewers, bloggers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about social media is that people develop in a number of different directions. Authors turn into reviewers, reviewers get book deals. Publishers and agents function as creative writing teachers, so do authors&#8230;almost every tweep in this week-long feature belongs in at least three categories. People don&#8217;t fit neatly into boxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 top booky tweeps &#8211;  25 chatty authors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I short-changed you yesterday by only giving you only 10 &#8216;top all-round social media&#8217; tweeps, because today&#8217;s category &#8216;chatty authors&#8217; is a huge one. Authors are great chatters online. Some of these authors are very famous, some less so. They don&#8217;t just tweet &#8216;buy my book&#8217; or &#8216;look at my great review&#8217; (I&#8217;ve had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 top book-y tweeps to follow on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just come back from an inspirational social media course for authors given by @benjohncock at the Faber Academy. One question at the end: who should we follow? I&#8217;ve been Twitter-ing for a year now, and have my own &#8216;starter pack&#8217; of 100 tweeps who will keep you entertained and in touch with the book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting real people into novels&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.ninabell.co.uk/putting-real-people-into-novels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was once part of a conversation between Terry Pratchett and Joanna Trollope. Terry was talking about one of his former teachers, who he&#8217;d turned into a character in one of his novels (I have forgotten which). I asked Joanna Trollope if she ever put real people in hers, and she firmly replied &#8216;Of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show don&#8217;t tell&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although &#8216;show, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; is one of the most basic pieces of writing advice, even the most experienced writers can sometimes fall into the &#8216;telling&#8217; trap. Yesterday @JoannaCannon tweeted a piece with great insight in an interview with SJ Watson (Before I Go To Sleep) on the Tesco bookblog (http://booksblog.tesco.com/2012/01/s-j-watson-your-questions-his-answers/). He said that when describing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing advice&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to get published]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently someone sent me a sample of a friend&#8217;s work (I shall call her To Be Published or TBP). I also picked up on a Twitter exchange between agent Carole Blake (@caroleagent) and a would-be writer, who didn&#8217;t like Carole&#8217;s email rejection being accompanied by the suggestion that she read her book &#8216;From Pitch to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When to try a writing course&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I read an excellent post by Belinda Bauer on www.shotsmag.co.uk called The Alphabet Is Not Enough, warning would-be writers about getting ensnared by courses. This is a kind-of reply, because, while I agree, I also think that writers can sometimes be too dismissive about writing courses. Musicians and painters expect to go on learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiz: What Kind of Empty Nester Are You?</title>
		<link>http://www.ninabell.co.uk/quiz-what-kind-of-empty-nester-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With A level results in and halls of residences beckoning, hundreds of thousands of you across the UK will be facing the prospect of your child leaving home for the big wide world, just like Nina’s immaculately drawn characters Clover, Laura and Alice. But before the children fly the coop in earnest, why not try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empty Nesting &#8211; where do you fit in?</title>
		<link>http://www.ninabell.co.uk/empty-nesting-where-do-you-fit-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While writing The Empty Nesters, my new novel, out Sept 1st, I talked to alot of people about their lives after nametapes, Saturday sport and carol services. This wasn&#8217;t too arduous as we are all empty nesters. I think I managed to identify a few social stereotypes: the Foward Planners, the Helicopter Mother, the Live-the-dreamers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literary festivals &#8211; from the other side</title>
		<link>http://www.ninabell.co.uk/literary-festivals-from-the-other-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are ongoing rumblings about how authors are treated at literary festivals. I am usually at the author end, but I recently had an illuminating experience on what it’s like to be the organiser.  I offered to put together a literature event under the umbrella of a major national arts festival. I invited three panellists who I [...]]]></description>
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