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		<title>Why I am giving my book away.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tasting the Wind took me ten years to write.  I now want to give it away to you as a free e-book…  The paperback would cost you £8.99 on Amazon. Click  HERE  to see it and to read some excellent reviews.   So why am I giving it away?   There are 3 reasons:   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allanmayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652008&amp;post=1534&amp;subd=allanmayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to ask me how my weekend was I wouldn’t know where to start. Moving? Funny? Sad? Inspirational? Well yes, all of those things and a lot more. Let me start at the beginning. Most people who know me, or have read my blog, my novel or FaceBook page, will know that back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allanmayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652008&amp;post=1527&amp;subd=allanmayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try not to blow my own trumpet- I know where it&#8217;s been! Thanks to Simon Jarrett for doing it for me in my latest review on Amazon: Tasting the Wind by Allan Mayer.  I read this book after hearing Allan Mayer read some extracts from it at a conference &#8211; and I&#8217;m so glad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allanmayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652008&amp;post=1524&amp;subd=allanmayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just had the great fortune of attending the Social History of Learning Disability Conference at the Open University in Milton Keynes. I delivered a paper about resettling people from longstay ‘Mental Handicap’ hospitals in the 1980s, illustrated with passages from my book, ‘Tasting the Wind.’  I came away feeling that I was seeing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allanmayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652008&amp;post=1520&amp;subd=allanmayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of 2008, after years of rejection letters from agents and publishers, I decided to publish my novel, ‘Tasting the Wind’ in a ‘Print on Demand’ (POD) format. POD is not to be confused with self publishing. If I had self-published there would have been a lot more donkey work- buying my own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allanmayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652008&amp;post=1509&amp;subd=allanmayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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