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August 2005 Archives

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31st Tipping 8
31st Clarification (Updated) 4
30th Translating Magic or Madness (updated) 17
29th Some Questions for Those Who Have Read Magic or Madness (Updated) 11
28th Today is Magic or Madness Day in Australia 6
28th I’ll raise my eeek to an aarrghh!!! 32
27th Eeeek! 9
26th Discouraging the Bad Writers 18
25th Australian Writing—sucky or not? (Updated) 5
24th Bludge Day 10
23rd Safe Reading 8
22nd Peeps! Peeps! Peeps! Peeps! Peeps! 5
22nd I Successfully Predict the Future 5
20th Knowing the Publishing Industry 2
20th Definitions (updated) 2
19th Query Letters 4
18th Only Ten More Days 3
17th This an’ that 9
15th Puce Redux 5
15th We Did It!!! 10
14th What I Learned Today 108
13th Too Young to Publish—A New Musing 17
13th Shane Warne is Persecuted by Evil Umpires 1
13th Crowds = Good 0
13th Bloody Rain (update) 0
13th Too Young to Publish 0
12th Welcome back, Stranger 0
12th I love Shane Warne (even if he’s not as cute as Daniel Vettori*) 7
11th non sequitur 10
11th A Few Words about the unique-to-the-Australian-edition afterword 0
10th Magic or Madness in Australia 2
10th A Proper Con Report 8
10th Georgette Heyer 8
9th CricketCon 8
6th To Those on My Case for not Blogging WorldCon 14
4th Just Quickly 1
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