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   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:12:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 31, Difficulties with Self Publishing Companies</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/difficulties-with-self-publishing-companies.html</link>
    <description>Persistence with a goal to help others       I used due diligence to find a Publisher, in fact I obsessed finding the right one for my non-fiction motivational</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:12:33 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 30, Pre-Selling Our Photo Book</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/preselling-our-photo-book.html</link>
    <description>the Drakensberg Mountains in print  This as been an incredible journey that has lasted a bit more than full year from conception of idea to having finally</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:27:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 27, Inspiring and Thought-Provoking</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/inspiring-and-thoughtprovoking.html</link>
    <description> My style can be described as insightful, inspiring and thought provoking. Simple in form and structure with a deep underlying story. Elements of symbolism</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:25:49 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 26, Create a Mood with Characters and Design</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/create-a-mood-with-characters-and-design.html</link>
    <description>Cover Illustrations  I am a photographer and artist.  I primarily use Photoshop and can create a mood with characters and design.  If you want to see more</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:37:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 20, Photo Manipulation for Genre Book Covers</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/photo-manipulation-for-genre-book-covers.html</link>
    <description>   Hi there my name is Nicky and I do photo manipulations (I do illustrations using photos and paint)  I can do the following:  fantasy, Horror, mystery,</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:25:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 9, Learning The Ropes To Self Publish </title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/learning-the-ropes-to-self-publish.html</link>
    <description>Genre:Romance  Writing my first romance novel, Beginnings Farms: Rebuilding Love and Trust. Free First chapter available.  I have been published with www.chainbooks.com</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:31:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 7, My experience with self publishing ebooks</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/my-experience-with-self-publishing-ebooks.html</link>
    <description>Okay here goes; my first experience with self-publishing was a scary process. I had no idea how much work goes into publishing not to mention marketing</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:59:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 7, Images that speak to the heart of your story</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/images-that-speak-to-the-heart-of-your-story.html</link>
    <description>With every cover I do, my goal is to develop a personal relationship with the author to best translate their work and their feelings about it.   A writer's</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:05:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 6, Photo realistic photo manipulation</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/photo-realistic-photo-manipulation.html</link>
    <description>Photo realistic movie like photo manipulation... I do book covers :)  Using Adobe Photoshop for 10yrs + I now am addicted to photo manipulation.  ***300x250right.shtml***</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:05:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 2, Great new selfpub post on our sister site</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/self-publishing-blog.html#Great-new-selfpub-post-on-our-sister-site</link>
    <description>&quot;Download and print&quot; books for beginning readers!</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:43:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 31, Fantasy Art with a Heart</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/fantasy-art-with-a-heart.html</link>
    <description>I am a self taught digital artist.  I specialize in fantasy creations. I have always been passionate about creating artwork for books. I love the idea</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:41:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 7, Freelance Illustrator - Realistic</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/freelance-illustrator-realistic.html</link>
    <description>Hi! My name is Ben Guldemond, working under the online alias - BenG. I'm a freelance illustrator working mostly in a realistic style.  I studied illustration</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:56:29 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Nov 29, Attention-Commanding Digital/3D Art</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/attentioncommanding-digital3d-art.html</link>
    <description>Digital/3D  My style is actually a wide-array of characters, animals and scenery. My people are all original, genre has mainly been fantasy although I've</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:40:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Nov 17, Cover Artworks</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/cover-artworks.html</link>
    <description>   My name is Tomasz Jedruszek working under nickname Morano. I have more than 7 years of experience in interior illustrating but my best are cover artworks.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:58:26 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Nov 8, Freelance Book Cover Artist</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/freelance-book-cover-artist.html</link>
    <description>I love creating dynamic, well-designed covers that captivate readers and compete with covers produced by the big publishers.  I work mostly with photo</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:04:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Nov 8, Graphic Art by Patrick Burke </title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/graphic-art-by-patrick-burke.html</link>
    <description>My Graphic Art is based on my dreams and defiantly little stories with hidden meanings and thoughts, I like to have some mystery in this work. Sometimes</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:56:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Nov 6, Horror and Scifi/Fantasy Book Illustrator</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/horror-and-scififantasy-book-illustrator.html</link>
    <description>Hello. My name is Katie Lawter and I am a horror and scifi/fantasy illustrator. My style is gritty and filled with surreal colors and textures. My subject</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:46:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 15, Cover Artist for Self Publishers</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/cover-artist-for-self-publishers.html</link>
    <description>   I Illustrate all kinds of art but most of mine deals with dark art. I am flexible to try and do any art that you would like to have for your cover.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:43:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 15, My Test. My Testimony. </title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/my-test-my-testimony.html</link>
    <description>I have always had a passion for writing and always found myself doing so on my leisure time. I always dreamed of becoming an author one day. I didn’t think</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:39:24 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 15, Children's Illustrations by Izzipics</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/childrens-illustrations-by-izzipics.html</link>
    <description>   Illustrator and Filmmaker Izzi Ciesinska is located in Toronto, Canada. She has illustrated over twenty published titles, which include multiple Honorable</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:17:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 3, Self-Publishing Romance</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/selfpublishing-romance.html</link>
    <description>Genre: Romance  My story begins in 2008 it was my first attempt at writing a romance novel.   Let us say I did not have the knowledge of the book publishing</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:22:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sep 24, Photo-Manipulation Artist for Book Covers</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/photomanipulation-artist-for-book-covers.html</link>
    <description>   Book Cover Artist Looking for Work  I do all types of art in a certain type of medium. I do something called photo-manipulation but I break it down</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:09:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sep 16, New selfpub post on our sister site</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/self-publishing-blog.html#New-selfpub-post-on-our-sister-site</link>
    <description>Read Krishna Dalal's upbeat post about her spelling bee picture book.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:53:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sep 7, Livia Myers Illustration</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/livia-myers-illustration.html</link>
    <description>I am a freelance illustrator from Mississippi, and I have been doing commission work for six years. I've had four years of artistic training with a drawing</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:54:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sep 3, Pro Illustrator 20 + years</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/pro-illustrator-20-years.html</link>
    <description>Hello My Name is Lazaro Ruiz. I have been an illustrator for over 20 years in every type of art industry.   I am a digital artist and all my work is done</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:57:49 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 13, Real and Moody</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/real-and-moody.html</link>
    <description>Real and Moody - Comics/Gothic/Romance  Thanks for looking!  I specialize in Vector art, as seen in the Batman piece. I am capable of illustrating book</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:31:15 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 12, Fantasy/Sci-Fi Book Cover Artist</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/fantasyscifi-book-cover-artist.html</link>
    <description>Our company, FantasyFairyPhotos.com, has been creating fantasy art for consumers for years. Recently, we were contracted to do a graphic novel, The Toxic</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:29:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 10, Obama's Problem: Not Telling Proper Stories</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/self-publishing-blog.html#Obama's-Problem:-Not-Telling-Proper-Stories</link>
    <description>I read this stunning opinion piece in the New York Times. Why do I mention it on a self-publishing site? Because it makes an excellent case that Obama's failure to effect change can be blamed on his reluctance to tell &lt;b&gt;stories&lt;/b&gt;, in particular, stories with clear villains.

I couldn't agree more.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:29:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 10, Book Cover/Children's Book Illustration</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/book-coverchildrens-book-illustration.html</link>
    <description>   Jean Pe is a digital artist who practices a whimsical and playful style of illustration.   Although she is fairly new to the industry, she has done</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:36:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 9, Science Fiction and Fantasy Illustrator</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/science-fiction-and-fantasy-illustrator.html</link>
    <description>My illustrations are done in oils on canvas with an emphasis on science fiction, fantasy and astronomical subjects.  Stylistically, my work would be best</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:10:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 7, Exceptional Cover Art - Transparency Overlay</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/exceptional-cover-art-transparency-overlay.html</link>
    <description>   My name is Charlotte Thompson and I do exceptional book cover art in all genres.  What I do is very new work.  It is described as digital photography</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 7, Artistic and scientific illustration</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/artistic-and-scientific-illustration.html</link>
    <description>   Artistic and scientific illustration  I am a freelance illustrator with several years of experience. I have illustrated book covers and created artwork</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:04:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jul 19, Site Build It 2 for 1--get notified</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/contact.html</link>
    <description>Folks, there's an SBI 2-for-1 special that's going to launch any day (or hour) now. Normally these are only run for a short time during Christmas/New Years.

You pay for one subscription and get started on your new site. Then you have the better part of the year before you have to start your second site...at no additional cost.

If you want to be notified when it starts, click the link below and drop me a line with your email address. When the promo starts, I'll give you a heads up with instructions on exactly how to take advantage.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:55:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jul 18, Print On Demand vs. Traditional Print Runs</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/print-on-demand-vs-traditional-print-runs.html</link>
    <description>Self-Publishing, Lessons Learned: Print On Demand vs. Traditional Print Runs  How Many Books Should You Print?  Things were going along nicely. I wrote</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:57:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jul 15, Illustration, Graphic Design, and Fine Art</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/illustration-graphic-design-and-fine-art.html</link>
    <description>   Illustration, Graphic Design, and Fine Art  I fall into the category of a self-trained artist and illustrator - I majored in anthropology in college!</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:55:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 27, Start that site!</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/self-publishing-blog.html#Start-that-site!</link>
    <description>Site Build It has brought back their Independence Day special, &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://buildit.sitesell.com/writingsuccess.html&quot; &quot;rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Build 2 SBI sites for the price of 1 1/3&lt;/A&gt;. One for you, one for a friend...split the savings!</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:16:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 27, Real and painterly</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/real-and-painterly.html</link>
    <description>Real and painterly  I am a traditionally trained artist who works in several media who works in a representational and painterly style.  Book illustrator</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:10:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 24, Digital Illustrations for Fantasy and Horror Covers</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/digital-illustrations-for-fantasy-and-horror-covers.html</link>
    <description>I create fantasy and horror illustrations (among other things) in full color through digital painting. I am formally trained and have a Bachelors of Fine</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:22:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 22, Ignoring statistics</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/ignoring-statistics.html</link>
    <description>Genre: Action/Adventure  My name is Aramis Barron, and I've had a passion for writing since I was a child.   I'd been working on a novel series on and</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 14, Professional Illustrator and Designer</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/professional-illustrator-and-designer.html</link>
    <description>I am published illustrator who has completed assignments in many creative fields including educational, trade, children's market and publishing.  ***300x250right.shtml***</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:34:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 12, My Experience with Tate Publishing</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/my-experience-with-tate-publishing.html</link>
    <description>Webmaster's note: A correspondent recently corrected me when I referred to her book as self published because it was a Tate Publishing book. I asked her</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:42:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 1, Graphic Designer/Illustrator</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/graphic-designerillustrator.html</link>
    <description>Hi there!  My name is John Spriggs. I am a graphic designer looking to stretch my illustration wings as it were on some book covers/illustrations.   I</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 1, Revise That Manuscript!</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/revise-that-manuscript.html</link>
    <description>My experience as a self-published writer that I would like to share with other people:  Nearly all self-published writers come with wonderful ideas.  </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:13:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 31, LearnMathFastBooks.com</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/learnmathfastbookscom.html</link>
    <description>Site:  www.LearnMathFastBooks.com  How much traffic do you get? apx 80 visits per day.  How much comes from the search engines? about 40 per day   How</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 16:47:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 24, Children's, Educational, Mass Market &amp; Trade </title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/childrens-educational-mass-market-trade.html</link>
    <description>Lisa M Griffin Illustration: Children's, Educational, Mass Market &amp; Trade   I am a published illustrator whose style has been described as realistic with</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 19:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 18, Book Illustration Art &amp; Photography</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/book-illustration-art-photography.html</link>
    <description>Book Illustration Art &amp; Photography  I am Photographer and Graphic Artist with years of experience in making art for commercial applications. My own personal</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 13, New selfpub post on our sister site</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/self-publishing-blog.html#New-selfpub-post-on-our-sister-site</link>
    <description>Nice market focus. He wrote a book about golf for kids, and he's placing it--you guessed it--in golf course stores.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 17:37:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 3, VeeSwan - Diverse Digital Artist</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/veeswan-diverse-digital-artist.html</link>
    <description>My name is Veta, pen and art name VeeSwan.  I started out creating digital art since the 286 Personal Computer came out in the 80's.  I then designed business</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 03:26:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 28, Turning a Childhood Dream into a Reality</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/turning-a-childhood-dream-into-a-reality.html</link>
    <description>Tales From the Enchanted Forest  My grandmother taught me to read at a very young age through fairy tales. That was my inroduction to art. I became blinded</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:42:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 25, Dads Digital Designs</title>
    <link>http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/dads-digital-designs.html</link>
    <description>Digital artist proficient with 3D apps such as Bryce and ArtMatic Voyager, as well as photo manipulation apps such as Photoshop.  An avid Science Fiction</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:11:41 GMT</pubDate>
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