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    <title>Welcome to Valentine's Day</title>
    <description>Andrew Valentine's blog provides access to his deep, dark thoughts.  Welcome to my mind!  Here we explore the themes of Bitter Things, talk about how those themes relate to the world we live in, and anything else you may want to discuss.</description>
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      <title>Alex Lukeman's "The Lance" Hits the Bull's Eye</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Valentine reads Alex Lukeman's The Lance, the second in his PROJECT series, and calls it a bull's eye.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Demon with a Slung Stratocaster</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Valentine reviews Jeremy Wagner's The Armageddon Chord... and his face melts from a solid blast of heavy metal horror!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Alex Lukeman's White Jade is white hot</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Valentine reads Alex Lukeman's debut and thinks it's terrific--but has some pet peeves.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Romania</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Valentine gets a web visitor from Romania and loves it--not only for the international recognition, but because Dracula is from Wallachia, a region in the south of that country.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Banking on Dakota Banks</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Valentine meets Dakatoa Banks and is ungracious and self-centered.&amp;#160; But that's why we love him (or at least, that's what he tells himself.)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lunacon 2011: Dispatch from the Front</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Valentine meets KT Pinto, erotic fantasy and horror writer extraordinaire, and asks her to blurb his sequel to Bitter Things.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Latest Amazon Review -- from "loves to dive"</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Valentine discovers a new review of Bitter Things...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Blood Lust: a review of Hunters Blood</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Valentine reviews Marianne Morea's debut novella,&amp;#160;&lt;a href="http://site.mariannemorea.com/Writings.html"&gt;Hunters Blood&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;and discovers a hot, new voice in paranormal romance...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mad about Madden: Review of Het Madden by Cal Miller III</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Valentine reviews Cal Miller's &lt;a href="http://ja-jp.facebook.com/Het.Madden"&gt;Het Madden: A Zombie Perspective (Book One: Wrath 2012)&lt;/a&gt; and is cranky because it's so original.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kudos!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Some recent kudos--as Mark Twain said, "I can survive two weeks on a good compliment."&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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