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		<title>Boats in Unusual Places. &#8211; David Wyatt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather like Neill (see his post) I find boats more interesting when they are taken out of their natural habitat. It must be an illustrator thing.
One of the very first films I saw was Pinnochio, and my favourite scene was Geppetto’s boat being consumed by a massive whale. The puppet maker seemed to live quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/02/02/boats-in-unusual-places-david-wyatt/</link>
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		<title>SF Said: By The Sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had some good sailing stories to tell you, but I don&#8217;t.  I can tell you a story about the sea, though.

The sea is my favourite place to go when I want to relax.  I don&#8217;t mind where in the world it is, or what the weather&#8217;s like – there is something about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/30/sf-said-by-the-sea/</link>
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		<title>Boy, Bear, Boat, Map, Pipe, Compass, Book &#8211; Doodle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


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Every time we get a new topic for the storyblog I try and find something from my own experience or something I have already produced to use for my entry. Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t really been on a boat recently and the only image I had of the sea and a boat was from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/26/boy-bear-boat-map-pipe-compass-book-doodle/</link>
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		<title>Neill Cameron is messing around on boats, on dinosaurs.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I desparately attempted to beg off posting anything this month, claiming to be horribly busy with this comic I&#8217;m working on, and also to be possibly the least nautically-minded person in this entire island nation. I think port is left, and I gather that ropes are involved, and that is literally the sum total of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/23/neill-cameron-is-messing-around-on-boats-on-dinosaurs/</link>
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		<title>Sarah McIntyre: messing about in boats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boats are so much fun to draw. I love keeping lots of little models around me. I got these boats at the National Maritime Museum&#8217;s Toy Boats exhibition, that was AWESOME.

I had fun imagining what little characters could look like, having adventures in the boats. Here&#8217;s a squid in a submarine! I love my job.

Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/sarah-mcintyre-messing-about-in-boats/</link>
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		<title>Melanie Welsh does not advise daydreaming whilst sailing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a bit of a daydreamer is a great quality to have if you’re an author: first time it’s ever come in handy in my life. Generally speaking though, it’s not something you look for in a sailor.
I always have to start any blog posts about the sea and sailing with a caveat explaining that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/16/melanie-welsh-does-not-advise-daydreaming-whilst-sailing/</link>
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		<title>Incompetent crew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Tilda, you&#8217;ve forced me to write about a book I wrote for Another Publisher. Sorry. But sailing it is.
In a previous post, I wrote about doing my research after writing the book; I did the same thing, though while the novel was still in draft form, for THE SANDFATHER (to be reissued this year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/12/incompetent-crew/</link>
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		<title>The Storyblog at Sea!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahoy there, and a Happy New Year to ye!
Over the next 2 months, the storyblog is going to be awash(ho ho) with nautical tales - of sea, sand, salty air, and sailing!   Last week, we published A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton and Heart of Stone by Melanie Welsh, and next month we&#8217;ll be releasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/09/the-storyblog-at-sea/</link>
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		<title>READY-MADE LOCATIONS – By Eleanor Updale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making up locations is one of the joys of writing fiction, but sometimes you come across somewhere real that is just perfect as a setting.  And real objects can set you off on a line of storytelling that could never have started in your own brain.
It’s happened to me many times: most recently when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/07/ready-made-locations-by-eleanor-updale/</link>
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		<title>A Boy and a Bear in a Boat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They say &#8220;worse things happen at sea&#8221;. But what if you are at sea?
What if you’re at sea in a tiny boat with a big smelly bear? And the only food you have left is a sandwich that is so old and mouldy that it glows in the moonlight? And the bear says something about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/01/05/a-boy-and-a-bear-in-a-boat/</link>
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