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		<title>State of Black Sci Fi&#8230;My Tribute to SF Icon Jewelle Gomez</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We take blood, not life.  Leave something in the exchange.&#8221; &#8220;Chicago 1927&#8243; &#8220;There are many ways that I could have approached this topic.  I could have talked about a black actor famous for his/her SF films&#8211;Will Smith, Wesley Snipes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Zoe Saldana (I know she is Dominican and the politics that are sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=841&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Are In ATL, Come Check Us Out&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Black Sci-Fi 2012]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Balogun Ojetade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Black Sci-Fi 2012 Tagged: Alan Jone, Alicia McCalla, Balogun Ojetade, Georgia Tech, Milton Davis, science fiction, speculative fiction, Wendy Raven McNair<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=832&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The State of Black Sci Fi&#8230;My Favorite Black SF Event is Alien Encounters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shiftersseries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Sci-Fi 2012]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[auburn avenue research library]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite Black SF Event is Alien Encounters, a Black SF conference that is becoming an annual event at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.  Alien Encounters kind of wins by default because it is the only black-centric SF conference that I have attended since my book was first released.  But let me say, what an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=826&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Black Sci Fi 2012&#8211;Winners and Posers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Black Sci-Fi 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book excerpt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay!  We have made it to our first big giveaway for the Black Sci-Fi 2012 Blog Hop! So without further ado, the two winners of their very own autographed copy of Interlopers:  A Shifters Novel are: Narcel Reedus &#38; Marianne Dyson I will be in touch with you soon, to get your addresses for shipment.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=803&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The State of Black Sci-Fi 2012:  Why It is Important to Show&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shiftersseries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Sci-Fi 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black history month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People of color writing fantasy about people of color.  Fantasy is huge right now, particularly for young adult readers.  I don&#8217;t have the numbers, but I am sure that every week dozens of new fantasy novels are released.  Probably 90 to 95 percent of the novels are written by white authors about white characters.  These [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=769&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Involved!</title>
		<link>http://shiftersseries.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/get-involved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Black Sci-Fi 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black history month]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are smack dab in the middle of &#8220;The State of Black Sci-Fi 2012&#8243; blog hop.  Become a part of the conversation for a chance to win fun prizes. To participate: Step 1:  Find the blogs with this icon.  To make it easy, I will provide the links to my first two blogs here and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=777&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revolt Against Wordless Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shiftersseries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Randomness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to stage a mini revolt against Wordless Wednesday with Word-full Wednesday. I was thinking the other day about words and it is funny how with certain words, I can remember exactly how I learned them. I learned the word excruciating in the 2nd grade.  I read Anne of Green Gables for the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=764&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Black Sci-Fi 2012&#8211;Why I love Fantasy&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shiftersseries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Sci-Fi 2012]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reading fantasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I have started writing this blog a couple of different times and ended up putting those entries aside because they became something else that wasn&#8217;t quite what I wanted for this conversation.  Perhaps I will post them at a later date.  When I first started keeping this blog, I wrote about why I ♥ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=744&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theme Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Mouth"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Havard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bitterness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last year, I was on a panel with Amanda Havard at the Southern Festival of the Book.  We got to talking about music and the role that it is playing in our writing.   Amanda is very influenced by music; she talked about how she could tap into the emotion of each of scene in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=736&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Spec Fic 2012: Where in the Universe Are We?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huge question!  Big!  Huge! And really hard to answer in the space of just one blog.  I guess it&#8217;s a good thing that I have a bunch of other folks writing about this with me. I have written a couple of other blogs around this topic in the last few months (see here and here) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shiftersseries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13185531&amp;post=700&amp;subd=shiftersseries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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