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Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Discovering Your "Brand" of Fantasy...today on YALSA's the Hub

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I'd love it if you all went over to the Hub today to check out my post, Discovering Your "Brand" of Fantasy. It's all about the various sub-genres within the larger Fantasy genre and how to better pick out books you might enjoy.  I'm pretty proud of this post.  Hope you like it!!
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