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		<title>So You Want to Write for Children? Here&#8217;s what you need to know . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did a talk recently for Irish Pen on writing for children &#8211; and I thought I&#8217;d pass on some of the notes from the event.
The most useful things I can tell you writer to writer:
1/ Read children’s books – especially in the age group/area you are interested in writing for – library/bookshop recommendations, award [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100311/so-you-want-to-write-for-children-heres-what-you-need-to-know/</link>
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		<title>Happy World Book Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy World Book Day!
To celebrate I released a copy of Amy Green into the wild &#8211; well, the end of Dun Laoghaire pier &#8211; as part of the book crossing project &#8211; www.bookcrossing.com
Wonder who found it!
Getting back to the writing now after a heady month of events &#8211; and enjoying it very much. Of course, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100304/happy-world-book-day/</link>
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		<title>Every Writer Needs a Friend Who Writes &#8211; It&#8217;s Official</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was thinking about how lucky I am to have friends who are also writers. Darned good ones too &#8211; far better than I am! 
I love being able to send a friend a cover design and get some honest feedback &#8211; &#8216;Honey, not in a million years, the woman on the cover looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100223/every-writer-needs-a-friend-who-writes-its-official/</link>
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		<title>New Inkwell Courses for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got my hands on the new Inkwell flyer (thank you, Vanessa) and it&#8217;s full of interesting courses and stuff for writers.
Writing for Children with me and Oisin McGann &#8211; Sat 20th March &#8211; will be fab of course 
But also Getting Published with Sheila Crowley, agent at Curtis Brown, UK and Paula Campbell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100215/new-inkwell-courses-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Back from UK tour &#8211; and the truth about book pr and events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the funny thing about doing events and publicity for books &#8211; publication and all it entails: launches, radio interviews; writing columns; getting pics to go with the columns taken at odd times like 5pm (kids&#8217; tea time in our house and always a zoo!), Sat morning just before you have to get the kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100212/back-from-uk-tour-and-the-truth-about-book-pr-and-events/</link>
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		<title>Books officially launched &#8211; UK trip coming up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Loving Kind, Emma the Penguin and Amy Green, Teen Agony Queen: Summer Secrets are all safely launched and on the shelves!
Marita Conlon-Kenna gave a lovely speech and I was touched to see so many friends and family members at the do in Hughes and Hughes on Wed night.
Plus fellow writers Martina Devlin, Clare Dowling, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100206/books-officially-launched-uk-trip-coming-up/</link>
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		<title>Nervously awaiting publication &#8211; only 1 more week! And what I&#8217;ve learned about writing over the years.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amy Green 2: Summer Secrets and The Loving Kind (adult novel &#8211; about plastic surgery and ghost-writing pretty much) are both out next week and I&#8217;m bricking it.
Most writers worry terribly that their books will:
a/ not be on the shelves at all &#8211; lost in transit or stuck in a box at the back of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100125/nervously-awaiting-publication-only-1-more-week-and-what-ive-learned-about-writing-over-the-years/</link>
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		<title>Writers&#8217; Routines &#8211; from Patricia to Isabel, and even Jack Kerouac &#8211; plus my own (sorry state of writing affairs!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writers’ routines – from Patricia to Isabel, and even Jack Kerouac
Interesting piece in the Irish Times the other day by Frank McNally about writers and how they start their writing day.
Here’s Isabel Allende on the subject: ‘I light some candles for the spirits and the muses. I meditate for a while. I always have fresh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100114/writers-routines-from-patricia-to-isabel-and-even-jack-kerouac-plus-my-own-sorry-state-of-writing-affairs/</link>
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		<title>Some of the best books on writing I&#8217;ve ever read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Best Books on Writing I’ve Ever Read
I’ve been rubbish at writing decent blogs recently, so I thought I’d knuckle down and do a useful one for all you keen writers out there. So here’s a list of some of my favourite books on writing and why I like them.
Now and again most writers need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahwebb.info/sarahs_blog/20100113/some-of-the-best-books-on-writing-ive-ever-read/</link>
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		<title>Emma the Penguin details up &#8211; and book launch details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.obrien.ie/book876.cfm
Details of Emma the Penguin are now up on the O&#8217;Brien Press website &#8211; cute cover!
More ramblings this evening &#8211; currently doing a &#8216;light Americanization&#8217; of Amy Green 1. Try saying that one quickly!
Book launch details later too . . .
SarahX
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