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	<title>AGENT RESEARCH BLOG</title>
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	<description>a warm welcome from Bill and Beverly Martin</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A SCAM - NOT WHAT YOU THINK</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	A SCAM – NOT WHAT YOU THINK
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	This one does not involve us telling writers about pretend agents “selling” mss to pretend publishers.&#160; It’s about us.
	&#160;
	Someone working the old Mystery Shopper con is using our corporate name on checks which appear – with stunning authenticity – to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cue the violins&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=28</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Okay, however busy I am, I’ve got to blog about this one.
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	A couple of months ago Ellen Horan called AR&#38;E to get some advice.&#160; Happens I answered the telephone (very rare – the line rings in my office, but I work at home so seldom am the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Bill Martin Story</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=30</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=30</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;ve been very remiss in blogging - as usual because I&#8217;ve been writing (laying out the&#160;fifth book in my historical series for Simon &#38; Schuster - Book Four in the series, CITY OF GOD, will be published in&#160;late autumn) and that plus keeping up with my consultant work for clients of AR&#38;E&#160;sucks up about 26 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is a query not a Query?</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=29</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	When it&#8217;s&#160;a query ms.&#160; 
	In a recent e-mail I&#160;mentioned to a wonderful&#160;debut novelist&#160;with whom I&#8217;ve been working for&#160;a while&#160;that I was awaiting the &#8220;query ms&#8221; for my new book (Commercial: City of God by Beverly Swerling, due from Simon &#38; Schuster this coming October) and would have my nose to the grindstone for a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging out of the quicksand&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=27</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	There’s a tendency to think that people who get suckered into the agent scams still left out there – fewer of them now that watchdog sites have proliferated on the net – deserve what they get.&#160; No hopers who couldn’t get a real agent and are scraping the barrel…&#160; < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time, tide, and publishing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Back again&#160; after a long silence, which is explained by the fact that less than two weeks ago I typed The End at the&#160;bottom of the last page&#160;of&#160;book four of&#160;The City of Dreams Series&#160;by Beverly Swerling, and&#160;was able to send it to my editor at Simon &#38; Schuster.&#160; And though the book was sold over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sweet Smell of&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=25</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The real success story of this frankly triumphalist blog is, of course, that of the authors and their agents.&#160; But&#160;AR&#38;E played a part in both tales and both are out there in the public domain now, so&#160;I&#160;think it&#8217;s okay to&#160;toot our horn as well as theirs.
	Recently two authors we have worked with&#160;sold their books for&#160;big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pot Shots and Due Dilligence</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=24</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Nothing like getting angry to get me blogging.&#160; I truly hate that the petty and small-minded are&#160;busy writing stories&#160;claiming that statistics show kids not to be reading more after the Harry Potter phenomenon.&#160; Every one of these&#160;I’ve seen – from the illustrious NY Times to a number of dashed off Internet articles (like this one) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What To Do It With.</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 13:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	By which I mean as opposed to How To Do It, which I can&#8217;t tell you.&#160; 
	Here&#8217;s a first for me:&#160; A blog posted a few days after another blog.&#160; Well, we&#8217;re approaching&#160;a holiday weekend and I&#8217;m going to run away for a few days, and in cleaning up my e-mail before going I came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show, Don&#8217;t Just Tell</title>
		<link>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 18:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://agentresearchblog.agentresearch.com/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	It has long been conventional wisdom in the world of books for the tiniest tots that publishers preferred to find their own illustrators, and it was okay to&#160;submit a naked story.&#160;&#160;Maybe so back when that was the last aspect of the business where it wasn&#8217;t absolutely necessary to have an agent.&#160;&#160;And up until maybe five [...]]]></description>
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