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	<title>Paged Media: Web Design for Authors</title>
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		<title>List of inspirational book-related web designs features Justine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nettuts+, a site for web designers, has done a roundup of book-related designs they find inspiring &#8212; and it features our work! Justine Larbalestier&#8217;s site is the second one listed! I&#8217;m thrilled to have our work on the same list with other sites I love, like DailyLit and IndieBound.]]></description>
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		<title>Building your author platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Justine Musk is writing a great series called &#8220;building your author platform even if you&#8217;re not published yet.&#8221; Part one explains why you should, and part two talks about what to do after you&#8217;ve created your blog. ]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/building-your-author-platform/</link>
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		<title>New Site: Alan DeNiro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just posted Alan DeNiro&#8217;s new site &#8212; just in time for the launch of his first novel! Congrats to Alan. I loved his short story collection and can&#8217;t wait to read Total Oblivion, More or Less.]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/client-news/new-site-alan-deniro/</link>
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		<title>The Writer&#8217;s Guide To Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Writer&#8217;s Guide To Twitter covers everything: picking a username, the etiquette of following and retweeting, how to use hashtags and chats, spam, and more. This is a great series.]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/the-writer%e2%80%99s-guide-to-twitter/</link>
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		<title>sample chapters lead to book sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LibreDigital research confirms something we&#8217;ve always heard anecdotally: readers who check out online sample chapters are more likely to buy books.]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/sample-chapters-lead-to-book-sales/</link>
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		<title>Five Tips on an Easy-to-Use Social Media Tool: Commenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harlequin&#8217;s Malle Vallik always has excellent advice on social media. Her column today at Romancing the Blog is excellent:

A great social media tool is the comment section of your blog or someone&#8217;s blog that you&#8217;ve identified as worth following. This someone else has already started the conversation and they are hoping, wanting a new friend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/five-tips-on-an-easy-to-use-social-media-tool-commenting/</link>
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		<title>You can now sync your MySpace status with your Twitter account!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MySpace has just introduced a beta feature that will let you sync your status with your Twitter account. Log in to your account and go to the &#8217;sync&#8217; section. Give MySpace permission to use Twitter, and you&#8217;re done! You can choose whether the sync goes one way (Twitter updates MySpace) or two-way (MySpace updates Twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/sync-myspace-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Edward wins an Aurora!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward Willett won this year&#8217;s Aurora Award for the best long-form work of science fiction or fantasy by a Canadian writer in English. Congratulations, Edward!]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/client-news/edward-wins-an-aurora/</link>
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		<title>How to manage a web serial (without losing your mind)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the economy gets worse and publishing deals fall through, we&#8217;ve seen a lot of authors turn to serial fiction projects. We&#8217;re quite avid fans of a few! However, it seems that most authors don&#8217;t know how to properly manage a web serial. Because they&#8217;re doing things the hard way, they introduce little glitches into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/how-to/manage-a-web-serial/</link>
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		<title>SF authors on social networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Mind Meld at SF Signal asks: &#8220;How has blogging and the emergence of social networking changed the face of publishing? How has it affected you personally?&#8221; Fourteen authors offer fourteen answers.]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/industry/sf-authors-on-social-networking/</link>
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		<title>Redo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally, I dread redoing old work.

Not today. 

I&#8217;ve just switched out the cover images for Justine&#8217;s Liar, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier about it. ]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/redo/</link>
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		<title>Social networking sites taken over by old farts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports that young people are abandoning scocial networking sites. 

Although their love of being online shows no sign of abating, the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who have a profile on a social networking site has dropped for the first time &#8212; from 55% at the start of last year to 50% this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/social-networking-sites-taken-over-by-old-farts/</link>
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		<title>How Twitter works and why people in publishing should consider using it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How Twitter works and why people in publishing should consider using it &#8212; another great post from The Book Publicity Blog.]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/how-twitter-works-and-why-people-in-publishing-should-consider-using-it/</link>
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		<title>What the F**k is Social Media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going to start posting bits from our recent talk on social media soon. In the meantime, check out this excellent presentation we just ran across: What the F**k is Social Media?]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/social-media/what-is-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Covers, marketing, authenticity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Justine sent me the US cover for her upcoming book, Liar, she added, &#8220;I hate it.&#8221;



&#8220;Why?&#8221; I wrote back. &#8220;Faces are visually arresting! The black and white photo is striking!&#8221;

&#8220;The protagonist isn&#8217;t white,&#8221; she replied.

Thud.

&#8220;OH,&#8221; I said.

Book covers that portray non-white protagonists as white are nothing new. But because the black protagonist is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pagedmedia.com/marketing/covers-marketing-authenticity/</link>
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