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		<title>A Writer&#8217;s Free Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[                What do writers do when they&#8217;re not writing? Ummm , mostly hang out with other writers and attend book-related events.     Here&#8217;s one group of L.A. Children&#8217;s Book Writers that likes to gather together. Left to right, Kathryn Hewitt, Lin Oliver, Betsy Rosenthal, Marla Frazee, Eve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Place Like Home pt. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can always tell when I&#8217;ve been busy writing because I don&#8217;t blog much. For some reason, when I&#8217;m working on a book, I have to shut other things out. But continuing with my recent book tour &#8230;. After leaving San Francisco, I headed to Minneapolis where I visited Creek Valley Elementary in Edina and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Place Like Home &#8211; Pt. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still recovering from a whirlwind book tour. I&#8217;ve always heard writers talk about how you don&#8217;t even know what city you&#8217;re in. I wouldn&#8217;t go that far &#8230; but last Wednesday, I did have to ask someone on the plane what day of the week it was! I got off to an easy start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the road again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[                  Last week, I headed down to Laguna for a speaking engagement and ended up on the beach! Thus is life in L.A.  Unfortunately I also ended up smack in the middle of the blackout with no traffic lights working and major traffic jams. But I was with my Aunt Katie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That time of year again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[              I believe this was my first day of first grade (yes, I was and am tall). I think my mom is actually applauding the fact that my sister Janet and I are going back to school with our nifty new shoes, socks, and lunchboxes. I mostly took the summer off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WBD Diary: What a Bunch of Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[          There are way more Humphrey books in the UK than in the US . My brief  brush with royalty was over and on Friday, Laura and I went to Corpus Christi Primary School in Herne Hill (in the Brixton/Lambeth area of London). In a bright, sunny new room, I met quite a delightful cast of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humphrey and Her Royal Highness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[          Betty with Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall, and screenwriter Michael Crompton, 3.3.11 &#8220;Your Royal Highness, how do you do?&#8221; That was me, practicing in my hotel room over and over, because saying &#8220;Your Royal Highness&#8221; doesn&#8217;t come easily to a midwestern, all-American girl like me. But I was to be formally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Book Day Diary &#8211; Pt. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ John Newman, Karima Davis, me and our furry friend! On Wednesday of World Book Day, I got to connect with an &#8220;old&#8221; friend and bookseller extraordinaire, John Newman. I met John in 2008 when I had my first World Book Day book, Adventure According to Humphrey. I did an event at Stratford Circus and John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Book Day Diary &#8211; In the Beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Just Imagine bookshop, Chelmsford I did events in and around London all week but Thursday, the 3rd of March, was the actual World Book Day.  I stayed right around the corner from my publisher&#8217;s office (Faber and Faber) in Bloomsbury,  next door to the British Museum.  I usually walked down there and meet the Faber children&#8217;s publicist, Laura [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter and me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to take a detour away from blogging about my favorite children&#8217;s books &#8211; and I apologize for my absence! I was invited to speak at the Edinburgh BookFest, which is part of the famed Edinburgh Festival. Who could pass that up? So my husband and I spent 2 1/2 weeks in Scotland. The [...]]]></description>
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