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		<title>Flash Fiction Challenge #4 Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. Today we announce our 4th Flash Fiction Challenge, and no it is not an April fools joke.
The Theme: InHuman

There are other beings out there. Demons, fae, aliens, robots and more. Creatures that have been watching us for a long time. They know us. For this challenge, write from the point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thieves and Scoundrels Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AXP&#8217;s 3rd Flash Fiction Challenge is now available in print and ebook formats.
You can purchase the print book of &#8220;Thieves and Scoundrels&#8221; on Amazon.com for $14.95.
DRM-free e-books can be purchased for $2.95 on Smashwords.com.
Soon you will be able to purchase the e-books from these fine online retailers

Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Store 
Kobo Books 
Fictionwise 
Sony&#8217;s E-Book Store
Books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insights into the FFC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our third Flash Fiction Challenge (FFC for short) we recruited the help of Marie Bilodeau, Author of the Heirs of Broken Land trilogy. Despite her own time lines, the final book in her trilogy &#8220;Sorceress of Shadows&#8221; comes out this April, she agreed to be a Special Guest Reviewer for the challenge. Below are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction Challenge #3</title>
		<link>http://absolute-x-press.com/2010/flash-fiction-challenge-3-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction Challenge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming soon to your book shelf, March 31st to be exact, is our third Flash Fiction Challenge!

Would your characters try to swindle a dragon out of his treasure? Perhaps they’d try to steal the fastest spaceship in the galaxy? Or are they after something a little more sinister that’s in need of taking? Where ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schedule Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Morning,
When AXP re-focused its publishing platform last fall, we worried that we might not attract as many submissions as we would like. So, since our Flash Fiction Challenge was doing well, we came up with a plan to publish four Challenges’ per year.
In retrospect, it seems we only needed to let people know we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction Challenge #3 Closed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 15, the third Flash Fiction Challenge closed with almost 80 submissions (almost double what we received for challenge #2).
First, I want to thank each and every one of you for submitting to our challenge, and to those of you who helped spread the word on facebook, twitter and your own blogs. It has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog Post</title>
		<link>http://absolute-x-press.com/2010/guest-blog-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update folks.
Our lovely Manager, Tina Moreau, has written up a guest post for J. M. Strother&#8217;s blog &#8220;Mad Uptopia&#8221;. He&#8217;s the proud creator of the twitter hashtag #FridayFlash.  This post goes through all the details of AXP&#8217;s Flash Fiction Challenge, so if you&#8217;ve ever had a question about the challenge this would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Reviews</title>
		<link>http://absolute-x-press.com/2009/amazon-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our latest release from the Flash Fiction Challenge, Creatures of the Night, has gotten two new reviews on Amazon.com. Check them out below or on the Amazon website:
REVIEWS:





4.0 out of 5 stars
  
Congrats authors.
December 7, 2009




By A. Thurman (Washington State)



I am impressed with each author listed here. Not only did they write an entertaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction Challenge #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With two anthologies already published under the Flash Fiction Challenge banner, Absolute Xpress is conducting its 3rd challenge with the theme, and title, of “Thieves and Scoundrels”.
The rules are simple: The story must fit within the theme (see below); the story must be under 1000 words; and it must be submitted by midnight PST on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creatures of the Night: Chart Rush</title>
		<link>http://absolute-x-press.com/2009/creatures-of-the-night-chart-rush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Absolute XPress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 14 the authors of the anthology &#8220;Creatures of the Night&#8221; will be participating in an Amazon Chart Rush.
Our goal for the Chart Rush is to get people to buy the book during a particular time, which will cause our ranking to get higher and get our little book noticed.
And it&#8217;s not just purchases [...]]]></description>
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