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	<description>A blog from the writer of Shimmer</description>
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		<title>All About Me, Me, Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to write a biographical blurb about myself recently as part of the promotion for this TV show I&#8217;m going to start hosting on our local public television station. I hate writing biographical blurbs. My tendency is to write something short, flat and restrained. But not in an interesting or even self-deprecating way. Instead, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/09/06/all-about-me/</link>
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		<title>Lost in an Office Building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the very earliest ideas for Shimmer came while I was working as a marketing assistant for a big accounting firm in New York. I hated everything about the job. Except for the view. I was in the World Financial Center next to the World Trade Center. The group of 20 or so people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/08/29/lost-in-an-office-building/</link>
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		<title>Postcards From the Church of Scientology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the mailing list for the Church of Scientology. Every day, I get an average of four pieces of direct mail related to Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard. Newsletters, book offers, catalogs selling a seemingly endless number of lectures by L. Ron Hubbard, and numerous invitations to training events at schools, resorts and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/08/26/postcards-from-the-church-of-scientology/</link>
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		<title>Layoffs &amp; Excel: How I Started Writing Shimmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, when I was 35 years old, I found myself as Chief Operating Officer of a $15 million publishing company. We employed 200 people, we published all over the country, we had plans to grow even bigger, faster. I think I got that title largely because of a moment some years earlier, when we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/08/17/layoffs-excel-how-i-started-writing-shimmer/</link>
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		<title>Wanted: Agent Who Likes Arson, Leaves and Stories of Financial Malfeasance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking for a new agent. I hate looking for an agent. Maybe some agent will read this before I even start the process of reaching out to people. Maybe they&#8217;ll magically, send me an email saying that they&#8217;d love to represent me. Like the magical love affair in a sweet and simple book. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/08/07/wanted-agent-who-likes-arson-leaves-and-stories-of-financial-malfeasance/</link>
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		<title>Genres and the Voices in My Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think I ever picked how I write, or even a genre in which to write. It’s more, for me, about the voice in my head. I’m not sure I know where that voice came from. Maybe I don’t even want to know where it came from. But I started to write because, somewhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/08/04/genres-and-the-voices-in-my-head/</link>
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		<title>I have never seen Footloose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never seen Footloose. This seems important to me right now, although I&#8217;m not sure why. Maybe it&#8217;s that I&#8217;m finishing a manuscript, a novel, that&#8217;s a relatively disturbing story. I wrote it many years ago, and am editing some parts now, and may start sending it out to agents soon. Few of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/07/31/i-have-never-seen-footloose/</link>
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		<title>Robbie Case and the Real-Life Frauds &#8211; The three parts of Robbie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me about the similarities between Robbie and any real-life frauds who run companies around the world. One note about the following is that, a year or so into the first draft of Shimmer, I realized that Robbie, Perry and Trevor had never appeared in the same room together. That realization, and the way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/07/28/robbie-case-and-the-real-life-frauds-the-three-parts-of-robbie/</link>
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		<title>Sex, Shimmer and the Space Between Reality and Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m too old to be remotely embarrassed by the amount of sex in Shimmer. I suppose there&#8217;s the requisite discomfort about my mother reading the book. But even that is minimal. None of which is to say I wasn&#8217;t ready for some negative reactions to the sex. There had been a couple of editors, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/07/22/sex-shimmer-and-space-between-reality-and-fiction/</link>
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		<title>MENSA and Me &#8211; How, from now on, I&#8217;m only talkin&#8217; to geniuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The local MENSA group was nice enough to invite me to speak to their book club about Shimmer. This was a very nice thing for them to do, not least of which because it meant that, for weeks, I kept telling friends and family, &#8220;Sorry, but from now on, I&#8217;m only talking to geniuses.&#8221; That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ericbarnes.net/blog/2010/07/19/mensa-and-me-how-from-now-on-im-only-talkin-to-geniuses/</link>
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