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	<description>Wendy Barnard - Literary Agent</description>
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		<title>New Project - Help Request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wendy Barnard of “The Barnard Agency” (www.barnardagency.ca) and Gwenyth Love of “Black Light Horror Productions” (www.blacklighthorror.ca) are teaming up for a special new horror related project.
Before any further details can be announced we need to confirm a few other participants.
We are looking for the following:
•	Multiple PUBLISHED horror writers, both male and female, from around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Change of Direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Barnard Literary Agency is switching gears.  As of this moment we will no longer be considered a “Literary Agency”.  We will therefore no longer be accepting any submissions for representation.
That being said, all submissions currently on our reading list are released.  We will try to send individual emails out to all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who follow my Livejournal Blog most likely already know what I&#8217;m about to say.
I am closing for submissions.
I will continue to read what is currently in my list.  If you wish to remove your submission from my reading list, please feel free to contact me with your name, title, and date [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=34</link>
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		<title>Christmas Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The agency is closing temporarily for Christmas Break. We will return to a regular schedule January 5th, 2009. Please do not expect any responses with regards to queries and/or submissions during this time.
Thank you and enjoy your Holiday!
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		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=33</link>
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		<title>A Spicy Bedtime Tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s better than grabbing a particularly spicy book before bed?  Grabbing a well written plot and character driven spicy book before bed!  Robin Wolfe joins The Barnard Literary Agency with her none too timid tale, “The Shadows of Dusk”.  I dare you to read it without blushing.  For more information please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=32</link>
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		<title>A World Of Their Own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce that Talitha Kalago has brought a second new project to The Barnard Agency. Her fantasy novel tentatively titled &#8220;Meka&#8221; is an entertaining story submerged in a futuristic setting that the young adult crowd will go crazy for.  This title is the first in a series currently planned for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=30</link>
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		<title>More Comments From Agents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from The Publishing Primer
by Dee Power and Brian Hill
We asked literary agents: What is the greatest stumbling block
writers face in becoming published for the first time by
traditional commercial publishers who pay advances and royalties?
Here are a few of their answers:
&#8220;Lack of &#8220;platform,&#8221; i.e. an established audience and profile.&#8221;
&#8220;For non-fiction, platform has become ridiculous. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Why Agents Say No</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from The Publishing Primer
by Dee Power and Brian Hill
What Is The Most Common Reason You The Agent Decline To Represent A Writer?
Poor writing - 60%
Book was outside the agent&#8217;s genre - 17%
Agent&#8217;s client base was full - 10%
Writer&#8217;s work and agent don&#8217;t click - 8%
Other - 5%
The good news is that the top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=28</link>
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		<title>2008 First-Chapter-of-a-Novel Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Writing Show (www.writingshow.com) is hosting the 2008 First-Chapter-of-a-Novel Contest.  I have the great pleasure of being one of the Celebrity Judges.
The goal is to find the world&#8217;s best first chapter of an unpublished novel. 
Entries will be judged on the following five criteria:
Story.
Is it a compelling read with a great hook? 
Style.
Is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Zombies Invade Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce that James Cheetham has brought a new project to The Barnard Agency. His Canadian based zombie novel &#8220;Seasons of The Brittle Harvest Volume One: Prairie Frost &#8221; is a unique take on the zombie genre based in the Prairies of Canada.  We hope to see it in print [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barnardagency.ca/?p=26</link>
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