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		<title>&#8216;No Thank You&#8217; Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the release of Thank You is Implied, we asked illustrator Jennifer Cosentino to design two &#8220;Thank You&#8221; cards inspired by the book. See the images below.]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You is Implied Available Now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smart ReMarx blogger Andrew Marx&#8217;s new collection of essays, Thank You is Implied the Annotated Smart ReMarx, is out now! Read the description below. Order your copy from amazon.com Thank You is Implied, a new collection of essays by Andrew Marx, takes on wide-ranging themes from legalizing trips to the bathroom, gambling in third-rate casinos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write Your Bio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a secret. I&#8217;m a writer but I hate writing my professional bio. It reads too much like a grocery list. Technically, your bio doesn&#8217;t have to include much of a punch. Depending on where it is being published, it&#8217;s not always useful as a sales tool (though it can lead new fans to your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart ReMarx Hits the Bookshelves!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A collection of Smart ReMarx articles compiled from this blog (and in some cases, articles published long before the blog) is being published on August 10, 2010. Thank You is Implied The Annotated Smart ReMarx takes the best articles written by Andrew Marx and annotates them! Preorder information will be posted to andrewmarx.com in another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday B.S.: Scratch that Niche</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last article, I talked about the benefits of niche market writing, something I believe in firmly. But you may have noticed that I am not a niche market writer myself. I have one niche website, concert-central.com which focuses exclusively on concert reviews, tour dates and setlists. But the Smart ReMarx blog is, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging Yourself a Niche Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any businessperson will tell you one way to have success as a writer is to find a niche market and dominate it. For some, that means getting hired by a newspaper or magazine to cover a specific beat (though for the record, it helps if you&#8217;re covering a topic that interests you to begin with). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Business Lessons for New Authors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not you decide to self-publish or intend to find an agent and market yourself to a major publisher, you should be familiar with the business of producing and selling books. Depending on who is doing the work, you might not be involved in the day to day business of book production and sales, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Lessons for New Authors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whisper in the Walls marks my fourth release as an author (two fiction and two nonfiction) and I compiled a short list of tips for going the self-publishing route. Don&#8217;t market just to your friends and expect to become famous I knew this going in, so I wasn&#8217;t surprised to find out just how true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart ReMarx Gets Annotated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 13:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Final work is being completed on the first volume of Thank You is Implied: The Annotated Smart ReMarx. The book collects the best Smart ReMarx articles from 1993 to 2008 and enhances them with additional commentary, anecdotes, and sources. Just like the Smart ReMarx blog, topics run the gamut from pop culture, etiquette, and relationships [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put on Your Cape and Channel Your Inner Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working on the final edits for the new book Whisper in the Wall (May 18) so I decided to channel my inner hero and dress up with a makeshift cape (with a table cloth!) Check out the photos below! Check out andrewmarx.com for a list of published titles. (Hey! I resurrected the old &#8220;Buy my [...]]]></description>
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