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		<title>The Last Musketeer&#8230; in Swedish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a writer, one of the greatest joys in life is seeing your book finally get published.
Only slightly less exciting is seeing it published in other languages.
Especially Swedish.



I mean no offense to my numerous Swedish fans, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone in finding Swedish funny.  After all, the Swedish chef on &#8216;The Muppet Show&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2012/02/14/the-last-musketeer-in-swedish/</link>
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		<title>First review for Spy School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s less than a month until Spy School comes out.  I have received the first official review of it.  (I actually got this two weeks ago, but I&#8217;ve been busy on Spy School 2 and haven&#8217;t had time to post.)
This is from the School Library Journal.  I have actually edited it a tiny bit, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2012/02/10/first-review-for-spy-school/</link>
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		<title>California megafauna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick quiz:  What is the largest animal you can encounter on land in the United States?
No, it&#8217;s not a grizzly bear.
No, not a moose, either.
It&#8217;s the northern elephant seal.
If you&#8217;ve never seen an elephant seal before, I highly recommend it.  It&#8217;s one of the most bizarre, improbable creatures on earth.  Just check this guy out:

Honestly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2012/01/31/california-megafauna/</link>
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		<title>R.I.P. Jabba the Hippo</title>
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Sad news from the LA Zoo today.  Jabba the Hippo was euthanized yesterday at the age of 28.
Although I go on about how dangerous hippos can be in &#8216;Belly Up,&#8217; they&#8217;re not all as awful as Henry.  Jabba was, from what I can tell, rather mild-mannered as hippos go.  I never heard of him attacking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2012/01/25/r-i-p-jabba-the-hippo/</link>
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		<title>Another honor for Belly Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just been informed that Belly Up is a final nominee for the Mark Twain Readers Award.
My competition to actually win this is pretty stiff, but that&#8217;s praise in itself.  It&#8217;s nice to be included with such a great bunch of books.
Frankly, it&#8217;s nice to have my book associated with anything with the words [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2012/01/11/another-honor-for-belly-up/</link>
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		<title>The holiday e-book effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the legions of you who follow this blog (6.5 million at last count), you know that I&#8217;m a little obsessed with tracking my sales.  Well, this year, for the first time, I was able to pay particularly close attention to the trending of my books over the holidays, and I noticed something that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2012/01/09/the-holiday-e-book-effect/</link>
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		<title>News in brief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, there&#8217;s a new trailer for Belly Up on YouTube.  I believe that makes 1,473 overall, though I may have overestimated this a bit.  Keep them coming!
I&#8217;ve been meeting the kids at a lot of elementary schools lately, but my most recent had a little twist.  I&#8217;d been asked to come meet the kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2011/12/12/news-in-brief/</link>
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		<title>Baby hippo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read Belly Up (or even seen the cover) you know I have a soft spot for hippos.  Yes, they&#8217;re dangerous and can be quite unsanitary, but they&#8217;re absolutely fascinating.  Until recently, however, I&#8217;d never had the chance to see a baby hippo up close.  I&#8217;d only seen them in the wild through binoculars, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2011/12/05/baby-hippo/</link>
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		<title>They said it couldn&#8217;t be done&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, really I said it couldn&#8217;t be done.  I fully believed that there was no way I could actually write an entire book before Thanksgiving.  (See my &#8216;Insane Deadline&#8217; post from a month ago.)  And yet, I did it.
Well, I wrote a first draft.  But still, that&#8217;s 200 pages long.
I realize that, by sharing this, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2011/11/28/they-said-it-couldnt-be-done/</link>
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		<title>Now that&#8217;s promotion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to thank all the fine folks at the Manhattan Beach Barnes &#38; Noble for having me down to their store twice last week, both times to raise money for local schools.  The events were great fun, and I have to give big props to the store for the fine promotion they did.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuartgibbs.com/2011/11/21/now-thats-promotion/</link>
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