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		<title>OFF THE BEATEN PATH: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[READING OFF THE BEATEN PATH My wife has read every James Patterson, Thomas Harris, and Lee Child book ever written. Yet she’s never read CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Her reasons? It’s too long; probably too old fashion; too dense; too boring. Small font in a thick paperback is scary. It’s too ‘Russian’. I’m [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OFF THE BEATEN PATH: A Fan&#8217;s Notes and Reading in the 1860s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[READING OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Great books nobody’s heard of As a writer, people always ask me, ‘So… what are you reading these days?’ I tend to read off the beaten path, so here’s my suggestions of some personal favorites far from the mainstream. All are fabulous. Want to read off the beaten path? These [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Larry McMurtry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[READING OFF THE BEATEN PATH A Few Words About Larry McMurtry REFLECTIONS ON A GIANT I thought it&#8217;d be important to say a few words in honor of the wonderful Larry McMurtry, who passed away two weeks ago in Texas at the age of 84. Larry enjoyed a powerful 60+ year career which included such [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Road Trip, Part 2: Mesilla, New Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[~ Missed Part 1? Read it here. Mesilla, NM is the shining star on the Green Chili Trail. People know the Plaza in Santa Fe, and how three cultures collide there: Spanish, Indian, and Cowboy-west. The same is true about Mesilla. It has its own Plaza, and why it’s not better known is beyond me. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Road Trip, Part 1: Van Horn, Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We put together a good old fashioned Road Trip last month. My wife Kim and daughter Sidney and I drove to West Texas and then the Green Chili Trail in New Mexico. We hoped this fit in with our cowboy and culinary roots! And we were so right! We stayed in Van Horn, Texas, about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Tsarina&#8217;s Lost Treasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you love: Shipwrecks, world-class art, treasure hunting, history, palace intrigue, power struggles and suspense? The Tsarina&#8217;s Lost Treasure has all of this, and more. The premise is simple: Catherine the Great bought some of the finest art in the world; while it was being shipped from the Netherlands to Russia, the ship went down [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Onward Into the New Year</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[With blessings from the scrubby desert and snowy mountains of Arizona. I’d like to welcome the stampede of new subscribers from BookSweeps, where Chip Rock and the Fat Old Fart was featured as a new Inspirational Novel, and Zin Mignon was selected as a great new “Mystery with Humor.” Connectedness I hope this email finds [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>R-Nee and Nacho: The Official Dogs of Mike&#8217;s Books</title>
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		<title>The ARCHITECTURE for ZIN: Book #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As you can see, 3 pages together. The recipe for Icing on the Cake is about 30% longer than ZIN #1. A little more complex, more characters, plenty of plot and sub-plot. 33+ chapters. It’s fun to throw all these ingredients together. Plenty going on. What can you possibly make with pickled pigs’ feet, an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The ARCHITECTURE for ZIN: Book #1</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s one way to do it. It’s the “architecture” for Secret of the Pickled Pigs’ Feet, which had a different working title early on. This is how you lay out a mainstream novel! It sets out the plot, scene by scene, one at a time. There’s a certain structure to be sure, but no template. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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