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		<title>Agent Oli</title>
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The last year I have made a concerted effort to get my novel published. Firstly I had to ensure it was as perfect as possible. To do this I joined a couple of writing groups for feedback on extracts I was a little unsure of. It was the best thing I’ve ever done and really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to pitch.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to pitch an article to a magazine is one of the most frequent questions I’m asked when holding journalism workshops and as is often the case within this industry, there’s no magical solution. But here are a couple of pointers.
Be direct and to the point. They want to know the genesis of your idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jameskwalker.co.uk/blog/2010/06/19/how-to-pitch/</link>
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		<title>Journalism workshop at Nottm Contemporary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I held the first of four workshops on magazine journalism at Nottingham Contemporary. One of the opening tasks was writing for a specific audience. The class had to write a review of the building for the Sun, Mail or Guardian. In preparation for this I gave them an extract from each paper reviewing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jameskwalker.co.uk/blog/2010/05/19/journalism-workshop-at-nottm-contemporary/</link>
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		<title>Bookshelf Envy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually my bookshelves are a place of complete order, the kind of categorising which would make a Victorian blush with pride. In its heyday, this entailed novels shelved according to genre/movement/themes. Naturally these ran in alphabetical order apart from my history section, which was filed according to conflict. I am somewhat ashamed/proud to admit that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jameskwalker.co.uk/blog/2010/04/28/bookshelf-envy/</link>
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		<title>The Thompson Brothers &#8211; The movie&#8230;</title>
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I’ve spent the last three months on a futile project, trying to get a pair of eccentric greengrocers to agree to me making a documentary about their ‘marvellous’ world. I’d saved up ten thousand pounds to film the project but that now will be coming off my mortgage, which in time will please my son [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jameskwalker.co.uk/blog/2010/04/08/the-thompson-brothers-the-movie/</link>
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