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	<title>Lauren's Tales</title>
	<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com</link>
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		<title>And for my next trick&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in negotiations to work on a cookbook designed for people with Asperger&#8217;s.  I keep fantasizing recipes.  I&#8217;m worried that if I&#8217;m not careful, I will come out of alpha state and find that I just wrote a sex scene involving Kitchenaid mixers.
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		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/writing/and-for-my-next-trick/</link>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Memorial Garden&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Memorial Garden, a novella I wrote for Torquere, has been overshadowed more recently by my other books.  The Erotica Readers and Writers Association has given it the attention it deserves with this nice little review.


In THE MEMORIAL GARDEN, Ms. Burka twists the old fable and makes it her own. She vividly evokes the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/writing/review-of-the-memorial-garden/</link>
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		<title>New Book Launch &amp; Excerpt: Kneel to Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kneel to Me
Edited by Lauren P. Burka
ISBN: 978-1-885865-54-0
Word Count: 44,770
List Price: $6.99
Available from:

Circlet.com (PDF)
Amazon Kindle Store 
Fictionwise (all formats)
All Romance eBooks (epub, prc, pdf, HTML)
Smashwords (mobi, LRF, epub, pdf, HTML)
Scribd (PDF, epaper, read online)

For the next two weeks the title is on sale at up to 20% off from most partner sites, and right here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/editing/new-book-launch-excerpt-kneel-to-me/</link>
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		<title>The Tiger:  Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And, it&#8217;s time for the last piece of &#8220;The Tiger.&#8221;  The first two sections are here and here.

I tugged his belt loose from Daniel&#8217;s jeans.  It was an unusually thick piece of black leather, soft and flexible, as if it were used often.
Pulling Daniel&#8217;s hair, I brought him to heel on his hands and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/writing/the-tiger-part-3/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Buy Local&#8221; Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m visiting my sister&#8217;s family next week.  I&#8217;ve been getting in the habit of buying books for my little nephews in preparation for their late teens when they start getting curious about drugs and porn.  Then I&#8217;ll be the goofy aunt who gave them &#8220;that&#8221; book, and maybe they&#8217;ll talk to me about stuff they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/away-from-the-computer/buy-local-fail/</link>
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		<title>The Tiger:  Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here is the next third of my short story, &#8220;The Tiger.&#8221;  For those who missed it last week, part 1 is here.

Daniel followed two steps behind me until the door clicked shut between us and the living room.  He leaned against the wall with his hands at his sides.
I looked about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/writing/tiger-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Loser literary &#8220;agents&#8221; and the people who love them.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I posted this:
I work for a small press specializing in sex-positive erotica. We do not accept any unsolicited novel submissions. ALD [ALD Literary Agency (Leonid Dubizhansky)] sent [Circlet] a book called &#8220;How to Hate Sex With Primordial Innocence.&#8221; Losers.
An astute Googler dug up this post and wrote me:

&#8220;Hello Ms. Burka
I&#8217;ve been doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/news/loser-literary-agents-and-the-people-who-love-them/</link>
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		<title>Yes, we have no vampires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sample conversation:
Me: I&#8217;m a really tough stick.
Phlebotomist:  You have a good vein right here.
Me:  It will roll.  Guaranteed.
Phlebotomist:  No, I&#8217;ve got it.
Me:  Ow.
Me:  Ow.
Me:  Ow!
Phlebotomist:  Uh, it rolled.  Let me see your other arm.
Me:  *cries*
This is why I don&#8217;t enjoy reading vampire fiction and won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/writing/yes-we-have-no-vampires/</link>
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		<title>More Free Erotica!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking.  You&#8217;re thinking that I don&#8217;t have enough free smut on my site.  Well, I&#8217;m going to fix that starting now.
I&#8217;m taking an old story that is out of print and posting it in three parts now and on the following two Thursdays.
It&#8217;s time for part one of &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/writing/more-free-erotica/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Up for Grabs&#8221; reviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up for Grabs has been reviewed by Emily at Good Reads:
The possibilities are endless when you combine science fiction and sexual ambiguity, the ability to choose your own gender or not have to pick just one. The five stories in this anthology each take a very different approach, but each invariably plays with the restrictive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laurenpburka.circlet.com/writing/up-for-grabs-reviewed/</link>
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