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		<title>Review: Georgette Heyer&#8217;s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgette Heyer&#8217;s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester. Published by Sourcebooks. ISBN: 978-1-4022-4136-9, 387 pages including index. Trade Paperback. $14.99 (Amazon: $10.19; Kindle: $9.68) Georgette Heyer&#8217;s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester is just what the title implies, it’s a book about the Regency World that made up the background for Heyer’s Regency books. It helps to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=692</link>
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		<title>Capclave 2010 will have lots of workshops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As those of you who read this blog regularly know, I&#8217;m the chairperson of Capclave 2010. Capclave is the Washington Science Fiction Association&#8217;s annual convention, held this year in Rockville, Maryland. Our guests of honor this year are Connie Willis, Ann VanderMeer, and Jeff VanderMeer. There will also be many other guests &#8212; writers, editors, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=691</link>
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		<title>WSFA Announces the Finalists for the 2010 WSFA Small Press Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (published in 2009) “each thing i show you is a piece of my death” by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, published in Clockwork Phoenix 2, edited by Mike Allen, Norilana Books (July 2009). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=688</link>
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		<title>Review: To Conquer Mr. Darcy by Abigail Reynolds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conquering Mr. Darcy by Abigail Reynolds, Sourcebooks Casablanca, August 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4022-3730-0, 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback. [Note: Previously published as Impulse &#38; Initiative: What if Mr. Darcy had set out to win Elizabeth's heart? (Pride &#38; Prejudice Variation)] To Conquer Mr. Darcy, by Abigail Reynolds, is truly a &#8220;What If&#8221; novel. The critical question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve suddenly lost power&#8230;again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve lost power off and on this evening but this last time it&#8217;s seemed to stick and we&#8217;re still without power after 30 minutes. I realize we&#8217;re lucky but nothing has happened near us this evening the storm was hours ago at 3 p.m.-ish and it&#8217;s now 11 p.m. Oh, well, guess I get to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=685</link>
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		<title>There are just no words&#8230;or are there?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes during the bleakness of not being able to come up with the right words, you find yourself wandering the corridors of the internet and you find something that &#8230; well, I&#8217;ll let you be the judge. I got to admit that this one has something going for it that many of the vampire, zombie, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=684</link>
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		<title>The laptop on its last bytes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My computer has been slowing down to a near dead stop over the last few weeks. Booting up takes over a 1/2 hour most mornings and I have to wait minutes not seconds or even partial seconds for each command to execute including moving the cursor from one field to another &#8212; it driving me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=679</link>
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		<title>Readercon 21 &#8212; Saturday, July 10th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[11 a.m. The New and Improved Future of Magazines (Part 2) Panelists: John Joseph Adams, Sean Wallace, Robert Killheffer (Leader), John Benson, and Leah Bobet. Panel Description: After last year’s “The Future of Magazines” panels, participant K. Tempest Bradford wrote: “The magazines and anthologies that I love tend to have editors who have taken the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=681</link>
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		<title>Readercon 21: Friday, July 9th, 2010.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We drove up from Maryland to Burlington, MA yesterday.  We got a late start and didn&#8217;t arrive until 10:30 p.m., so we missed the Thursday night programming.  On Thursday&#8217;s Readercon has an evening program schedule that is open to the public.  It&#8217;s a way for people to see what a convention is like in order [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=678</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Independence Day &#8212; Happy 4th of July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today many people will gather together and celebrate a holiday.  They&#8217;ll gather with family and friends and enjoy a day off from work and perhaps see some amazing fireworks.  We&#8217;re celebrating our Independence Day.  Some may even stop to think that we&#8217;re celebrating our freedom to be who we want to be, to worship as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=677</link>
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