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		<title>Audible Shenanigans &#038; Kickstarter Update</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/audible-shenanigans-and-kickstarter-update/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I got my hands on the prototypes for the pins for the Mage Errant Kickstarter! Check them out ⏤ they look amazing!
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		<title>Cosmic Horror Cares Not What Sits its Throne</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/cosmic-horror-cares-not-what-sits-its-throne/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Mage Errant, the cosmic threat is an answer to the question "what horrific extents could extractive capitalism turn to in an effort to preserve itself?"
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		<title>Worldbuilding Advice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your ability to create inventive, original, and intriguing worlds is ENTIRELY contingent upon your knowledge of our world.
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		<title>James E. Gunn, 1923-2020</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/james-e-gunn-1923-2020/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune to take a couple of science fiction classes with Gunn at the University of Kansas a bit over a decade ago, and I can honestly say I wouldn't be the author I am today without...
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		<title>The Map Becomes the Territory</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/the-map-becomes-the-territory/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2020 11:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you look at a map of central Asia, there's a sea that doesn't exist on it. If you look at a map of the Western United States...
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		<title>Weeks Where Decades Happen</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/weeks-where-decades-happen/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It hasn't even been two weeks since George Floyd's death, but it feels like it's been so much longer than that. That Lenin quote, “There are decades...
<p><a href="https://johnbierce.com/blog/weeks-where-decades-happen/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Suggestions</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/book-suggestions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several authors I know have recently released books you should check out! F. James Blair just released the fourth Bulletproof Witch Novel...
<p><a href="https://johnbierce.com/blog/book-suggestions/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Myopia in Horror</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/myopia-in-horror/</link>
					<comments>https://johnbierce.com/blog/myopia-in-horror/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnbierce.com/?p=1436</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I spend a LOT of time thinking about horror stories. Part of that is, admittedly, just because I really enjoy them. My best friend is a giant...
<p><a href="https://johnbierce.com/blog/myopia-in-horror/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Street Cultivation</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/street-cultivation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 06:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have, I think, mentioned before what a big fan of Sarah Lin's series Street Cultivation I am. (Really, of all her stuff, but especially Street Cultivation...
<p><a href="https://johnbierce.com/blog/street-cultivation/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>One Year As a Full Time Author</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/one-year-as-a-full-time-author/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 14:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve worn pants less than any other year of my life, which has been glorious, for pants are the devil.
<p><a href="https://johnbierce.com/blog/one-year-as-a-full-time-author/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fantasy Charity Sale</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/fantasy-charity-sale/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnbierce.com/?p=1330</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The amazing Bryce O'Connor recently organized a bunch of us fantasy authors into running a mass charity sale to raise money for COVID-19 related causes.
<p><a href="https://johnbierce.com/blog/fantasy-charity-sale/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Language Problem in Fantasy</title>
		<link>https://johnbierce.com/blog/the-language-problem-in-fantasy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some words are just so tied into the history, culture, and evolution of a language that they just don't make sense in fantasy novels.
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