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		<title>Story a Day in May!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again&#8230;Story a Day in May. Time to face the challenge that crippled me emotionally and creatively for the better part of last year. It&#8217;ll warp my brain. It&#8217;ll make me have insanely twisted thoughts. It will turn me into a sniveling shell of a person who babbles incoherent nonsense&#8230;so pretty much my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2012/04/22/story-a-day-in-may-2/</link>
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		<title>Shapeshifters Galore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two new stories up, and they&#8217;re related even! &#8220;Winning Streak&#8221; is up at Drabblecast and &#8220;The Aubergine Wok&#8221; is up at Comets and Criminals. Go team shapeshifter! An interesting or not so interesting aside, The Aubergine Wok&#8217;s title came about when I decided to use Google voice search to look up René Auberjonois on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2012/03/22/shapeshifters-galore/</link>
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		<title>Three New Stories Up in December</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of fiction published this December and lots of updates to my bibliography which had fallen shamefully out of date. &#8220;A Stitch in Space-Time&#8221;, Daily Science Fiction &#8220;Nayani&#8221;, Comets and Criminals &#8220;Double Rations&#8221;, Kaleidotrope Magazine That makes for a total of twelve publications this year! Not too shabby. I&#8217;ve only got a couple of stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/12/29/three-new-stories-up-in-december/</link>
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		<title>1000 Ebook Sales!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it took six months, but I&#8217;ve finally surpassed 1000 ebook sales! That&#8217;s pretty exciting for me, especially having gone into this with low expectations. I&#8217;ve got five short story collections out now, including the newest Delightfully Twisted Tales: Love and Other Filthy Habits which contains the much acclaimed &#8220;You Had Me At Rarrrgg.&#8221; Acclaimed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/12/09/1000-ebook-sales/</link>
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		<title>A Day Late and Several Thousand Words Short&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy NaNoWriMo everyone! So I&#8217;m off to bit of a slow start on my novel, but I&#8217;m super excited about it. I&#8217;ve put down a total of 165 words in the last couple days, but I&#8217;ll catch up this weekend. The more challenges the merrier, right? Actually, this year I&#8217;m cheating with my NaNo, working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/11/02/a-day-late-and-several-thousand-words-short/</link>
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		<title>Blogger Zombie Walk!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have a special place in your hearts for zombies, there&#8217;s a Blogger Zombie Walk going on today via the magic of the interwebs! Fifty brave souls have chosen to participate, putting up some sort of zombie themed post on their blogs. Leo Godin is one of them, and has highlighted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/09/30/blogger-zombie-walk/</link>
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		<title>Please, Nobody Pinch Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my writing life&#8217;s been pretty rosy lately&#8211;I&#8217;ve got a couple new short stories out (including my all-time favorite, not for the faint of heart), made some short story sales and got a reprint in this squid anthology, received my first four-figure Amazon.com royalty check (four figures if you count the decimals),  and have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/09/09/please-nobody-pinch-me/</link>
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		<title>Why Ebooks Will Mean the Demise of Semi-Pro Zines (and why this is not a bad thing)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just released volumes three and four of my short story collections, and having sold a total of over 300 ebooks now, I am from hence forth declaring myself an Expert on Ebook Publishing. And not only that, I have also sold two copies of my ebook in the UK, so I can now call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/07/14/why-ebooks-will-mean-the-demise-of-semi-pro-zines-and-why-this-is-not-a-bad-thing/</link>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Life Gone Loco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So things have been a little crazy these last few weeks. I am now an assistant editor for not one, but two SFF magazines. ArmadilloCon is ramping up and I actually have to start planning Registration stuff now. I&#8217;ve been tracking the sales of my ebooks like a nut. And yet more exciting super secret [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/06/22/writers-life-gone-loco/</link>
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		<title>In which my story is the best someone has ever read, plus Amazon sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got a heads up (thanks, Sam!) of a great review at Diabolical Plots of my story &#8220;Wrath of the Porcelain Gods&#8221; which the reviewer says is &#8220;the best story I’ve ever read.&#8221; Okay, so there was a little bit of a qualifier that came before it, but still it&#8217;s a mighty compliment, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/2011/05/31/in-which-my-story-is-the-best-someone-has-ever-read-plus-amazon-sales/</link>
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