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		<title>Who Killed Gaddafi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>REVIEW: Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Circle of Enemies were made into a film and marketed by the wrong people, the tagline would definitely read: &#8220;This time it&#8217;s personal.&#8221; Still, in a nutshell, that&#8217;s what makes the third Twenty Palaces novel stand out from the other two. Rather than protagonist Ray Lilly running around meeting new people in a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=546&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Second Place Ain&#8217;t Bad&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just found out my Big Bang Theory spec, &#8220;The Convention Conundrum,&#8221; came in second place in the TVWriter.com Spec Scriptacular. Congrats to Garron Ma for his first place/grand prize win and to the other winners as well!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=541&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Downs and Ups of Writing Contests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been a little down on my writing the past week or so, since finding out that my TV pilot script, The Nemesis, didn&#8217;t make the semi-finals of the TVWriter.com contest, after it won the Golden Age of TV contest and placed in the top 10 percent at Austin. But I just found out that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=537&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Circle of Enemies is Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just realized I neglected to post this on my blog when I FB and Tweeted it: My friend Harry Connolly&#8217;s third book in his Twenty Palaces series came out on Tuesday. It&#8217;s called Circle of Enemies, and it&#8217;s as good, of not better, than the first two (if you&#8217;ve read those, you know that means [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=533&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping on the Bandwagon</title>
		<link>http://christophervalin.com/2011/09/04/jumping-on-the-bandwagon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know I&#8217;m way late to the party, but now I&#8217;m all in. After hearing repeatedly how I need to check out Game of Thrones (the book and the show), I added it to my &#8220;to do&#8221; list for the future. But my friend decided to send me the set of the first four [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=529&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Austin Teleplay Semi-Finalists Were Announced Today&#8230;[UPDATED]</title>
		<link>http://christophervalin.com/2011/08/31/austin-teleplay-semi-finalists-were-announced-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and, unfortunately, The Nemesis didn&#8217;t make the cut. It did make the second round, however, which makes me think it still has promise but needs a rewrite. The list is here. [UPDATE:] Okay, so other people are really happy about making the second round, which is the top ten percent of screenplays submitted. And I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=519&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I was Googling The People vs George Lucas&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://christophervalin.com/2011/05/31/i-was-googling-the-people-vs-george-lucas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to see if it was still playing in Los Angeles, and this popped up: http://www.wikio.com/video/people-george-lucas-sxsw-accepted-film-2929774. Apparently a still of my scene in the film is all over the Internet, which is weird because is only lasts a few seconds. Even cooler, when I went to Images, the same pic of me was directly under that of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=520&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Quite as Good, But&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;my pilot script that recently won the Golden Age of Television pilot contest, The Nemesis, made the quarterfinals of Scriptapalooza TV in the Pilot category. The list of winners is here: Scriptapalooza TV 2010 Winners.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=517&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the Winner Is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;me! Grand Prize in the pilot category of the Golden Age of Television script competition, for my teleplay called &#8220;The Nemesis.&#8221; You can see the details here: Just Effing Entertain Me: Golden Age of Television Contest<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophervalin.com&amp;blog=3662416&amp;post=492&amp;subd=christophervalin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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