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        <title><![CDATA[J. (Jill)  Arlene Culiner: A Romance Writer's Blog ]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[About Writing: Manuscripts that just don’t seem to take off ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:58:05 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How my book was born: Words for Patty Jo Every writer — and potential writer — has them: manuscripts that were inspired, that had a great story, that were begun with enthusiasm… then fizzled out. We write ten pages, twenty, even a hundred, then all are... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Writer Susie Black on Creating a Teen Amateur Sleuth: The Case of the Crooked Coach]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:08:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Perils of Creating a Teen Amateur Sleuth I am the author of seven published humorous cozy mysteries. While my adult female protagonist in The Holly Swimsuit Mystery Series is younger than I, the age difference between us did not present any verisimilitude... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dark Romance: Falling in Love with Evil]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:16:10 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Why, I ask, is there a fascination for mafia badies and serial killer heroes? Because (or so we’re meant to believe) they’re not evil for evil's sake. Emotionally scarred and bitter creatures, underneath all the vile, rough stuff, they’re as soft and... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Author Gayle M. Irwin: Nature Inspires Sweet Romance Stories]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:12:29 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Nature Inspires Sweet Romance Stories I reside in the Rocky Mountain West of the United States, a region filled with vast landscapes and magnificent wildlife species. From mountains and forests to plains and grasslands, this area inspires my sweet romance... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gayle M. Irwin]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Words for Patty Jo: Book Feature on Literal Literary]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://j-arleneculiner.over-blog.com/2026/04/april-25-2026-9-58-27-am-literal-literary-shining-light-on-excellence-in-writing-about-author-jill-arlene-culiner-writer-artist-and-teller-of-tall-tales-jill-j-arlene-culiner-was-born-in-new-york-and-raised-in-toronto-she-has-crossed-much-of-europ]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:04:42 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[April 25, 2026 9:58:27 AM LITERAL LITERARY SHINING LIGHT ON EXCELLENCE IN WRITING… A Small Town in Ontario: An Unlikely Love Story The summer romance between Patty Jo Lovelace and David Buckley Jr. is an unlikely one. He’s a star student; she’s the class... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Bookish Magazine  Listening for Stories Across Places and Time with Jill Arlene Culiner]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:06:06 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[https://thebookishmagazine.com/2026/02/18/words-for-patty-jo-by-jill-arlene-culiner/ April 1, 2026 (Author Portrait, Credit: Wanted Models) Jill Arlene Culiner is a writer and artist whose work is shaped by movement, observation, and a deep attentiveness... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Author Lucy Naylor Kubash and her Contemporary Romance Series: North Star Legacy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:30:32 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome Lucy Naylor Kubash. Writing a Romance about a hero and heroine who are already married must pose problems. Tell us how you went about it. In my North Star Legacy series of contemporary romances, Casey loves Chance and Chance loves Casey, but they... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Words for Patty Jo reviewed by the Faerie Review]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:52:28 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This is a beautifully written, second-chance romance mixed with women’s fiction. Culiner has a literary style to her writing, and it really draws you in. The characters feel so real, it almost feels like you’re getting a special look into someone’s life,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Are These Elements Essential to Women’s Fiction and Romance? Perhaps Not...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:47:13 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There seem to be several elements that need to be included in all successful books of Women’s and Romance fiction. These are, supposedly, what the reading public demands. What are they? Family ties Children Good neighbours A good female friend And what... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Murder, Mystery, and Romance with Author M.S. Spencer: The Marmion Grove Murders]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:02:38 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Food for Love, M.S. Spencer. Tell us about Railroad Ties: the Marmion Grove Murders and the setting for your story. Railroad Ties: the Marmion Grove Murders, is the first of my novels set in my home town and in the house I grew up in. Filled... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Author Trina Spillman: Where do stories come from? Writing after a stroke.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:59:27 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[People often ask writers where their stories come from. The honest answer is usually less romantic than expected. Mine came from a stroke, a food trailer, and a moment when I turned around and found Joe Montana staring back at me through a service window.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[All About Writing: Those Ideas for a Book That Didn’t Take Off]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:28:21 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Every writer — and potential writer — has them: manuscripts that were inspired, that had a great story, that were begun with enthusiasm… then fizzled out. We write ten pages, twenty, even a hundred, then all are shunted into a back drawer and forgotten... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[J. Arlene Culiner]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ The Promise of the First Chapter: Writing Advice from Kris Bock, Author, Editor, Book Coach]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:59:46 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Promise of the First Chapter: Writing advice from Chris Bock * You’ll hear it over and over again — opening lines are important. Your opening makes a promise about the rest of the story, article, or book. It tells readers what to expect, setting the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[J. Arlene Culiner]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Author Judith Works, her novel The Measure of Life, and her delicious Italian recipe for Pasta alla Puttanesca]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:19:15 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Food for Love, Judith Works. Tell us a little about you. After I earned a law degree in midlife, I had the chance to leave the US Forest Service in Oregon and run away to the Circus (Maximus). 🤣 In reality my husband and I moved to Rome where... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[J. Arlene Culiner]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kaci Curtis, her new release, Along the Trail, and her unusual recipe for Frontier Ice Cream 🍨]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://j-arleneculiner.over-blog.com/2025/09/kaci-curtis-her-new-release-along-the-trail-and-her-unusual-recipe-for-frontier-ice-cream.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:39:20 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Food for Love, Kaci Curtis. Tell us a little about you and your new release, Along the Trail . When I was a kid growing up in Missouri, my family spent a lot of time outdoors together. We enjoyed riding our bikes, hiking, cooking over the fire,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sunday Snippet from Desert Rose (The Blake’s Folly Trilogy)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:28:01 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The closer Jonah got to Reno, the worse driving conditions became. Why the hell hadn’t he had the sense to stop his journey, spend the night in Blake’s Folly? There had been a hotel and bar—the Mizpah Saloon—right in the town’s center. He could have taken... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[J. Arlene Culiner]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Come Meet Authors at Coffeetime Romance]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:27:53 +0200</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Karina Bartow's Romance, Wrong Line, Right Connection, and her recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 09:48:24 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome Karina Bartow. Tell us about your romance, Wrong Line, Right Connection. Wrong Line, Right Connection was inspired by a dear family friend, who was like a grandmother to me, Mabel Stentz. I put her as an older woman in my 2018 novel, Forgetting... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Guest Author Meryl Brown Tobin, her novel, Broome Enigma, and her recipe for Fried Rice]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:00:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome Meryl Brown Tobin. Tell us a little about you and your novel, Broome Enigma I write because I am an innate writer who has to write and have been since I was about eight years old when I joined several children’s clubs run by national newspapers... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Murder Guru Lynda Rees, Her Mystery ROCK STARR BABY DADDY, her recipe for Chocolate Krispies, and her Tips for Writers]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:55:07 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[INSPIRATION FOR ROCK STARR BABY DADDY: My latest book, Rock Starr Baby Daddy, A Flip or Flop Mystery , was my 29th book launch on March 1, 2025. It is a sequel to Killer Nashville Silver Falcion Reader’s Choice Award winning Flip or Flop Murder House... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Elves and Intrigue with writer Lyndi Alexander plus her delicious recipe for fruit Clafouti]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:06:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[One of the favorite places I have lived is western Montana, specifically, the Missoula area. My then-husband and I moved there while I was pregnant with our first child. I’d never seen the Rockies before, and as we came through from Ohio, I thought it... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Author C. Becker, her book Embracing Euphoria, and her Avocado Shrimp Taco Reciperecipe]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:34:10 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Food for Love, C. Becker. Tell us all about Embracing Euphoria. I started writing the Euphoria Trilogy out of curiosity. I had just written my first children’s book and wondered, “How difficult can a novel be?” Well, I definitely found out!... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sunday Snippet: Life in a Palace from The Unpredictable Colors of Love]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:26:16 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the morning, Callie sprang out of bed, went to the window, and looked outside. Groaned. Green, that was the overriding color. Green grass, green fields, green trees, green hedges. Yuck. Green was fine for spinach, sprouts, cabbage, and broccoli, but... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Excerpt from a Work in Progress/Memoir: Margo]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:41:43 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I apply for a job as a part-time barmaid down on Hudson Street. Pookies Pub, a dark smudge of a hole, is a jazz bar run by Marty, a slick, nervous Mafioso. “You know how to mix drinks?” “Of course,” although I know nothing. At four on Friday afternoon,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Author Patricia Kiyono with her book The Samurai's Garden, and her tasty recipe for New Year's Noodle Soup]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 10:51:17 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My grandparents (my dad’s parents) came to America from Japan in the 1920s. My mom, on the other hand, was raised in Japan and came to America after she and my dad married. I was a year old when we moved to America, so my brothers and I enjoy traditions... ]]></description>
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