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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with L.G. Bradshaw</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dorothy Thompson</dc:creator>
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L.G. Bradshaw lives in Minnesota.  He served in the United States Army and worked as a Minneapolis police officer for 14 years, witnessing a seemingly endless stream of human depravity, some of which has found a home in his writing.  ‘Dot to Dot’ is his first of many novels, and defies convention.  Dot to Dot can’t be pigeonholed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with Ann Putnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dorothy Thompson</dc:creator>
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Ann Putnam holds a PhD in literature from the University of Washington. She teaches creative writing and gender studies at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.  She has published short fiction, personal essays, literary criticism and book reviews in various anthologies including Hemingway and Women:  Female Critics and the Female Voice, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with Sue Provost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracee Gleichner</dc:creator>
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Sue Provost is an active spiritual director, religious education teacher for both children and adults, and author of Where is God in Your Life? Three Retreats in Christian Spirituality. Her vocation in the practice of spiritual direction supports lay men and women, as well as clergy and those in ministry formation, in discernment of God’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with Renee Wiggins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracee Gleichner</dc:creator>
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Renee Wiggins is the owner of Results By Renee, a Wellness company based in Maryland. Her mission is to help people  develop good eating and exercise habits. Renee has mentored, trained, and coached individuals and groups to be healthy and fit. She has been in the health and wellness industry for over 20 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with James Boyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracee Gleichner</dc:creator>
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James Boyle has been writing fiction and poetry for most of his life. He was born in North Carolina, but lived in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Washington, before his family settled down in Oregon when he was fifteen. He graduated high school there and received a degree in literature and writing from the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with Claire Cook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dorothy Thompson</dc:creator>
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Claire Cook is the bestselling author of seven novels, including Must Love Dogs, which was adapted into a Warner Bros. movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, The Wildwater Walking Club, Life’s a Beach, and her latest, Seven Year Switch. Her reinvention workshops have been featured on The Today Show, and she has been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with YA Author Steven Verrier</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime McDougall</dc:creator>
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Steven Verrier, born in the United States and raised in Canada, has spent much of his adult life living and traveling abroad. Publications include Plan B (Saga Books, 2010), Tough Love, Tender Heart  (Saga Books, 2008), Raising a Child to be Bilingual and Bicultural  (Hira-Tai Books of Japan), and several short dramatic works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with Soren Petrek</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dorothy Thompson</dc:creator>
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Soren Petrek is a practicing trial attorney with a passion for studying World War Two.  He lived in England and France listening to people’s stories of struggle and sacrifice during the darkest periods of the war.  Soren’s debut novel, Cold Lonely Courage was inspired by the true story of a young Belgian woman who helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with Rebecca James</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dorothy Thompson</dc:creator>
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Rebecca James was born in Sydney and spent her twenties teaching English in Indonesia and Japan. She currently lives in Armidale, Australia, with her partner and their four sons.
You can visit Rebecca online at http://www.rebeccajamesbooks.com/.
Thank you for this interview, Rebecca.  Do you remember writing stories  as a child or did the writing bug come later?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jackie M. Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dorothy Thompson</dc:creator>
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Jackie M. Johnson is an author and freelance writer. Her first book, Power Prayers for Women, has sold nearly 200,000 copies. She has also written articles, poetry, and hundreds of devotionals for Focus on the Family’s Renewing the Heart website, and was a contributor to A Cup of Comfort, coauthored by James Stuart Bell and [...]]]></description>
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