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	<title>The Fiction Desk &#187; Diary</title>
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	<description>The Fiction Desk publishes a quarterly anthology of new short stories.</description>
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		<title>The Fiction Desk Writer&#8217;s Award</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-fiction-desk-writers-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[All These Little Worlds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just finished the voting for the latest Fiction Desk Writer&#8217;s Award, which covers the stories in All These Little Worlds. I&#8217;ve not written much about the award before, but it&#8217;s quite an important part of what we do. The Fiction Desk Writer&#8217;s Award is a cash prize for the best story in each volume, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas gift subscriptions</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/christmas-gift-subscriptions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/christmas-gift-subscriptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Desk News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Above are the first volumes in our Christmas gift subscriptions, wrapped and ready to go out to their lucky recipients. The paper we&#8217;re using is from The Paper Place in Rye (their site is still under construction). Their paper is handmade in India using traditional techniques and materials, and it&#8217;s beautiful stuff. The wrapped books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roast Books: an interview with Faye Dayan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faye Dayan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roast Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many people, I first noticed Roast Books when they published A.C. Tillyer&#8217;s collection of short stories, An A-Z of Possible Worlds. It was a highly entertaining read, but also an exciting piece of publishing: the elaborate production, involving a boxed set of 26 booklets, was both eye-catching and perfectly suited to the material. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadsheet Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/broadsheet-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/broadsheet-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadsheet stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another interesting publishing project that I&#8217;ve come across recently. Broadsheet Stories print a monthly broadsheet—a single short story on one side of A3 paper—and distribute them to a selection of cafes and bookshops, mostly in south-west England, where customers are free to read them on the spot or take them home. (The photo above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slightly Foxed: The (other) real reader&#8217;s quarterly</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/slightly-foxed-the-other-real-readers-quarterly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/slightly-foxed-the-other-real-readers-quarterly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slightly Foxed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post something about Slightly Foxed for a while now, but something kept getting in the way. Since getting Various Authors off to the printers, I&#8217;ve had a little more time, and finally found the chance to open their Spring 2011 issue, no. 29. Literary publications can approach their content in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here we go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Desk News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Various Authors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a stack of copies of Various Authors, photographed shortly before being sent off to the first eager readers. Look! It&#8217;s available to buy now!]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Fiction Desk has become a publisher</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/why-the-fiction-desk-has-become-a-publisher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/why-the-fiction-desk-has-become-a-publisher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Desk News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Various Authors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I tried several approaches to the introduction for Various Authors. I wanted to avoid the clichéd manifesto-style rant and focus instead on the quality of the stories, but I kept winding up with rather dry catalogues of the contents, essentially repeating what I&#8217;d written in the introductions to each individual story. At the last minute, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Gatsby computer game</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-great-gatsby-computer-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-great-gatsby-computer-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the great gatsby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Books aren&#8217;t always the most likely material for computer game adaptations. Classic (and public domain) characters sometimes make it across, like Dracula or Sherlock Holmes, but more direct book adaptations tend to be limited to speculative fiction titles: I remember playing The Hobbit on my rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum, and there have been a series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soho! (a board game about literary magazines)</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/soho-a-board-game-about-literary-magazines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/soho-a-board-game-about-literary-magazines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the creators of Smoke: A London Peculiar, comes this new board game, which is possibly the first board game with a literary magazine theme. The players in Soho! each take on the role of editor of a literary magazine, and must make their way around the board (representing Soho), collecting pieces of prose from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big news from The Fiction Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/big-news-from-the-fiction-desk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/big-news-from-the-fiction-desk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Desk News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Various Authors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to announce some big news from The Fiction Desk. We&#8217;re relaunching as a publisher, with a list dedicated to promoting new fiction. Our first project is a quarterly anthology of new short stories, featuring a wide range of stories from both new and established writers. We&#8217;re excited &#8211; this series is going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Pocket Classics from White&#8217;s Books</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/new-pocket-classics-from-whites-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/new-pocket-classics-from-whites-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[White&#8217;s Books first appeared a couple of years ago, when they launched a series of attractive hardcover classics with decorated cloth. It&#8217;s a project run under the art direction of David Pearson, an ex-Penguin designer who worked on projects like the Great Ideas series, and the cheap green Popular Classics. The latest from White&#8217;s is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon launches in Italy – with a unique advantage</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/amazon-launches-in-italy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/amazon-launches-in-italy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arithmetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has launched its latest branch in Italy, and from the looks of things, they have a unique advantage, thanks to the remarkably complex laws regarding book pricing in Italy. According to a publication from the Federation of European Publishers (download the .pdf here), bookshops in Italy are limited to offering a maximum of 15% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book bloggers blog the Booker books</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/book-bloggers-blog-the-booker-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/book-bloggers-blog-the-booker-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the shortlist for the Booker Prize, 2010, through the eyes of the book blogging community.]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t you walk away from me with your hat on!</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/dont-you-walk-away-from-me-with-your-hat-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/dont-you-walk-away-from-me-with-your-hat-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arithmetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Got a historical thriller in an urban setting? Well, nobody will know what you're talking about unless you give it a sepia-toned cover in which a man in a hat (and preferably a cape or swishing frock coat) is walking away from the camera.]]></description>
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		<title>The curious incident of the free book in the night-time</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-curious-incident-of-the-free-book-in-the-night-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-curious-incident-of-the-free-book-in-the-night-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arithmetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher Gallic Books have teamed up with a hotel to publicise their new book, The Baker Street Phantom.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where do eBooks go when you die?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/where-do-ebooks-go-when-you-die/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/where-do-ebooks-go-when-you-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arithmetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/?p=634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens to eBook collections when the user dies? Can they be willed on to your descendants, or is a lifetime's worth of book purchases essentially nullified the moment you breathe your last?]]></description>
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		<title>IndieBooks website to sell titles from independent publishers</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/new-website-indiebooks-to-sell-titles-from-independent-publishers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/new-website-indiebooks-to-sell-titles-from-independent-publishers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arithmetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Legend Press are launching a new website, IndieBooks, which will sell a limited range of fifty fiction and non-fiction titles from independent publishers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Charles Lambert and the hypocrisy of power (interview)</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-hypocrisy-of-power-an-interview-with-charles-lambert/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-hypocrisy-of-power-an-interview-with-charles-lambert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Lambert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Lambert's debut novel <i>Little Monsters</i> and story collection <i>The Scent of Cinnamon</i> both met with critical acclaim. His new novel, <i>Any Human Face</i> is a thriller. The Fiction Desk interviewed him about his writing and the inspiration he finds in Italy's political corruption.]]></description>
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		<title>The return of the bookseller-publisher?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-return-of-the-bookseller-publisher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/the-return-of-the-bookseller-publisher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arithmetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading <i>Seven Lives of John Murray</i>, Humphrey Carpenter's history of that publishing house, raises the question of whether independent publishers and booksellers might benefit from teaming up... or even being one and the same?]]></description>
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		<title>Are book blogs and novellas made for each other?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/are-book-blogs-and-novellas-made-for-each-other/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/are-book-blogs-and-novellas-made-for-each-other/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[novellas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Book bloggers must balance the need for regular new book reviews with the demands of their daily lives. Are novellas the natural medium to meet their needs, and could we see a rise in the number of novellas being published?]]></description>
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