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	<title>Welcome to Cooperstown, pop. 1</title>
	<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog</link>
	<description>In a world of my own, but it&#039;s OK, they know me here</description>
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		<title>Father, forgive me&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;for I have sinned.
I&#8217;ve never read George RR Martin.
Don&#8217;t ask me why, because I really couldn&#8217;t say.  I adore the title of the series &#8220;A Song of Ice and Fire&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve just never found myself motivated to pick up one of his books.  Actually, tell a lie, I did pick up a copy of  &#8220;A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/233</link>
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		<title>Whose book is it anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett once said in an interview that you&#8217;ve got to keep an eye on your secondary characters, or they&#8217;ll take over the show.  Turn your back for five minutes and there they are, merrily rearranging the plot to suit themselves, the blighters, and generally making more work for the poor put-upon writer.
I thought I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/224</link>
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		<title>Letting go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who&#8217;s ever owned &#8211; or been owned by &#8211; a pet has to face these decisions sooner or later.  This is the fourth time for me, and believe me it doesn&#8217;t get any easier with practice.
Knowing it&#8217;s the right thing to do helps a bit, but not nearly enough.  Gutted doesn&#8217;t even come close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/217</link>
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		<title>Invasion!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cooper Towers is under attack.
The enemy has taken control of the shed, and advance scouts have been making daring daylight raids across the patio for several days.   They wear no uniform, operating in plain-clothes, the better to blend in with the civilian population.   Modern defensive strategy is useless against this new insurgency.
Day 1: Elite operatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/145</link>
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		<title>Literary lunch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, I travelled down to London to meet my agent and publisher.  This, I thought, would make everything official, and I would henceforth be able to call myself a Proper Author.
Despite hailing the one and only cabbie in London who *doesn&#8217;t* know where the Dickens House museum is, I arrived safely at Ian&#8217;s offices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/142</link>
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		<title>So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the 9-to-5.  The day job (members of the audience heave a collective sigh of relief &#8211; all two of them).
Today&#8217;s my last day at work.  After just shy of 21 years, a twinge of sadness is to be expected &#8211; you can&#8217;t work with people for that length of time and not develop some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/140</link>
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		<title>Whatever happened to the heroes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The unsung ones, now quietly dropping off their respective perches and we never know anything about them until their obituary shows up in the newspaper.  And you read it, and you think to yourself: &#8220;Bloody hell!&#8221; and sit there, quite stunned.
Freddie Spencer Chapman is one such.  Worked behind enemy lines in the Malaya [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/137</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite a lot, actually.  A lot of to-ing and fro-ing, trying to find one that looks right, sounds right, balances well on a book cover and isn&#8217;t too hard to pronounce (so you don&#8217;t end up with lots of confused readers in the bookstore who want to buy your book but don&#8217;t know how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/43</link>
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		<title>A week is a long time in politics&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but a fortnight is a bloody long time to keep your lip zipped when you&#8217;re sitting on astonishing news like this.
Lest I get too big-headed about this, I shall let theBookseller.com tell the story:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/98263-gollancz-signs-new-fantasy-series.html
Yes, that&#8217;s me she&#8217;s talking about.  Little old me who&#8217;s been scribbling away for mumblety-mumble years on a rag-tag collection of reporters&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/38</link>
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		<title>I hope you&#8217;re sitting down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what the email said.  The email just received from my literary agent, currently on holiday somewhere hot with unreliable internet access.  The email that said my agent has received a bloody handsome offer to publish Songs of the Earth and the next two books in the Wild Hunt series.
Fuck.
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		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/36</link>
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