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	<title>Comments on: Author Blog: A Great Example From Paulo Coelho</title>
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		<title>By: Stella Deleuze</title>
		<link>http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2010/03/17/author-blog-a-great-example-from-paulo-coelho/comment-page-1/#comment-34305</link>
		<dc:creator>Stella Deleuze</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s even better/easier for well-known authors to blog. Fans have a tendency to look up their favourite people and when they find a blog, an article, an interview, a website, they&#039;ll be delighted and follow. I&#039;m doing basically the same, just the lack of media and massive fanbase are missing, plus I don&#039;t only blog about writing, but about a variey of topics.

I&#039;ve also created a facebook page just for the writing.  And because I&#039;m a good girl, I have the link to it on my blog, too :-) See, I&#039;m doing all the right things, where are my fans now? :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s even better/easier for well-known authors to blog. Fans have a tendency to look up their favourite people and when they find a blog, an article, an interview, a website, they&#8217;ll be delighted and follow. I&#8217;m doing basically the same, just the lack of media and massive fanbase are missing, plus I don&#8217;t only blog about writing, but about a variey of topics.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also created a facebook page just for the writing.  And because I&#8217;m a good girl, I have the link to it on my blog, too <img src='http://www.thecreativepenn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  See, I&#8217;m doing all the right things, where are my fans now? <img src='http://www.thecreativepenn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: nimmo</title>
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		<dc:creator>nimmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am big fan of Paulo Coelho as well. Nice work here, you have done!
Keep it up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am big fan of Paulo Coelho as well. Nice work here, you have done!<br />
Keep it up.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack Barrow</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jack Barrow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for this, I&#039;ve been blogging for a few months now but it&#039;s been a bit of a voyage of discovery about what to blog. At first I thought it would only be about my progress towards getting published but then I relaised that would be a bit thin on its own. As I&#039;ve gone on I&#039;ve realised that I can also include the things that are important to me as they say something about me and thus what readers will find in my books.

I&#039;ve also found that sometimes I write material suitable for a blog without even realising it. For instance I found myself replying to a thread on Facebook about the repair to an ancient set of stepping stones across a river in the Peak District where I camp a couple of times a year. I ended up writing an extensive response which, with a small amount of editing to give it some context, became a blog entry. Other times it&#039;s just been random personal thoughts or observations on life. That&#039;s the sort of thing I write about anyway, although I tend not to be too serious when I&#039;m writing fiction.

What I hadn&#039;t considered was posting extracts for my books. I sort of thought that would be giving too much away. However, I do have a few pieces that I&#039;ve read at readings so I suppose I could post those.

Thanks for the thoughts, this has been a really useful post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for this, I&#8217;ve been blogging for a few months now but it&#8217;s been a bit of a voyage of discovery about what to blog. At first I thought it would only be about my progress towards getting published but then I relaised that would be a bit thin on its own. As I&#8217;ve gone on I&#8217;ve realised that I can also include the things that are important to me as they say something about me and thus what readers will find in my books.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also found that sometimes I write material suitable for a blog without even realising it. For instance I found myself replying to a thread on Facebook about the repair to an ancient set of stepping stones across a river in the Peak District where I camp a couple of times a year. I ended up writing an extensive response which, with a small amount of editing to give it some context, became a blog entry. Other times it&#8217;s just been random personal thoughts or observations on life. That&#8217;s the sort of thing I write about anyway, although I tend not to be too serious when I&#8217;m writing fiction.</p>
<p>What I hadn&#8217;t considered was posting extracts for my books. I sort of thought that would be giving too much away. However, I do have a few pieces that I&#8217;ve read at readings so I suppose I could post those.</p>
<p>Thanks for the thoughts, this has been a really useful post.</p>
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		<title>By: Author Blogs: A Great Example &#124; Self Publishing Team &#124; Duolit</title>
		<link>http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2010/03/17/author-blog-a-great-example-from-paulo-coelho/comment-page-1/#comment-5696</link>
		<dc:creator>Author Blogs: A Great Example &#124; Self Publishing Team &#124; Duolit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 10:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to share a great article over at The Creative Penn &#8212; it examines one example of a well-done author blog. Enjoy! Posted by in Duolit in Marketing on April 3rd, 2010 &#124; No Comments [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] to share a great article over at The Creative Penn &#8212; it examines one example of a well-done author blog. Enjoy! Posted by in Duolit in Marketing on April 3rd, 2010 | No Comments [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Tami</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tami</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Strangely, I never thought of big name authors actually blogging. Thanks for pointing it out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Strangely, I never thought of big name authors actually blogging. Thanks for pointing it out.</p>
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		<title>By: Lovelyn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lovelyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Social media and blogs are definitely necessary to make it in the publishing industry today.  Thanks for the post. It&#039;s good to see how famous authors are using the mediums to get their work out there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Social media and blogs are definitely necessary to make it in the publishing industry today.  Thanks for the post. It&#8217;s good to see how famous authors are using the mediums to get their work out there.</p>
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