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	<title>Button Tapper</title>
	<link>http://buttontapper.com</link>
	<description>Professional writing by Laura Roberts</description>
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		<title>Literary journals that&#8217;ll blow your mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently in the process of retooling Black Heart Magazine, so that I can publish a wider variety of genres and not feel like I&#8217;m being disloyal to erotica.
Isn&#8217;t it stupid, how you start to have these ideas about Who You Are that don&#8217;t really match with What You Actually Are? Sometimes it&#8217;s because of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/03/03/literary-journals-thatll-blow-your-mind/</link>
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		<title>Biblical Proportions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my contribution to Dan O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s flash fiction throwdown, on the subject of churchly violence. His piece, Let Us Prey, can be found here, and the originally challenge is stated on his website, Going Ballistic, over here.
For the record, the following piece is a work of fiction, though it is based on certain real-life events [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/03/01/biblical-proportions/</link>
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		<title>Deal of the day: Custom bios only $25!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m feeling wild, crazy and generous today, I&#8217;ve got a special deal for anybody who&#8217;s been thinking about having their band, company, or even personal bio/&#8221;about me&#8221; page written up by a professional. While these types of pieces normally go for hundreds of dollars, today only through March 1, 2010 I&#8217;m offering this service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/25/deal-of-the-day-custom-bios-only-25/</link>
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		<title>SXSW: The good, the bad, and the fugly</title>
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Living in Austin, one of the perks (or downsides, depending on how you view traffic jams and industry insiders taking over your town) is being around for the annual SXSW festival. Having never been to this mega-fest in years past, and always looking on rather enviously, I&#8217;m now actually living at Ground Zero for some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/23/sxsw-the-good-the-bad-and-the-fugly/</link>
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		<title>Joe Stack&#8217;s no hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Y&#8217;know, I hate to give any credence to the work of an obvious terrorist and possibly delusional psychopath, but I just read through Joe Stack&#8217;s &#8220;manifesto&#8221; (posted in full by The Huffington Post, despite its being removed from his website by government officials), and I really have to wonder what was going through this guy&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/20/joe-stacks-no-hero/</link>
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		<title>ChicStar brings hot fashions at affordable prices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fashionistas among us undoubtedly already know about ChicStar.com, a website that offers budding fashion designers the chance to win money for their designs and even have them turned from paper dreams into reality. We not-quite-so-fashionable masses are just discovering their wares, but wow, am I impressed with their selections!
Normally, I&#8217;m a pretty big jeans and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/16/chicstar-brings-hot-fashions-at-affordable-prices/</link>
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		<title>From slump to score</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been noticing that my writing has been in a bit of a slump. I only write a blog when I&#8217;m riled up about something, and then usually feel like it&#8217;s just a rant that isn&#8217;t worth posting after the emotions are spent. I&#8217;ve been writing really brief blogs about the books I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/15/from-slump-to-score/</link>
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		<title>Surreal Valentine: Austin, TX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me just say, up front, that I have had words with Valentine&#8217;s Day in the past, and that it is well aware of my feelings on the subject, for all of the obvious—and not-so-obvious—reasons. However, seeing as the day is upon us and all must comment, whether in the Pro or Anti camps, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/14/surreal-valentine-austin-tx/</link>
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		<title>Become a successful writer in 3 easy steps!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;ve been catching up on my Twitter feeds, and I&#8217;ve found some interesting posts from a variety of writers. There&#8217;s The Worst Love Poem in Chicago by Mel Schwartz over at the Tribune, Bo&#8217;s Café Life (a cartoon about writing in cafés by Wayne E. Pollard), a list of 100 Little Ways You Can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/13/become-a-successful-writer-in-3-easy-steps/</link>
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		<title>Spelling still counts: The Website Clean-Up Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a regular part of my job, I am often searching company websites for various kinds of information. While it seems to me to be only common sense for websites to offer basic information about the companies they represent (including a physical address, telephone or email contact info, and store opening hours), I have certainly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttontapper.com/2010/02/06/spelling-still-counts-the-website-clean-up-challenge/</link>
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