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	<description>The pain and passion of a small publisher</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Killing Meets Peirene</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Killing]]></category>

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I will always remember Friday, the 20th of January 2012. That evening I went to the local DVD shop and took out The Killing, episode 1-4.

The Killing isn’t my first box set experience. I tried my luck with Mad Men – but after a few episodes, I got bored. Only the dresses impressed me. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dress Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2012/01/dress-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Pains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peirene revels in beautiful dresses. She loves circles – the ultimate female symbol – and sports them on her covers.

Some approve of such feminine dress sense, others really don’t.

There are bookshops that refuse to stock our books. Even though the demography of their clientele suggests that they ought to welcome our literature.

Take the case of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return to the Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2012/01/the-return-to-the-desk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing in the 21century]]></category>

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The first week of 2012 couldn’t have been better. My 17-year old daughter and I went on a four-day trip to New York City. Just the two of us. Husband and son stayed at home.
We visited three art galleries – MoMA, Frick and Guggenheim. We went to an opera and a Jazz club. We did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Entertainment</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/12/corporate-entertainment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Peirene's Literary Salons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jan van Mersbergen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/?p=1110</guid>
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Last Thursday we staged our first ever corporate entertainment Peirene Salon.
Back in the autumn I was approached by a company director. He came to a Peirene Salon, took a shine to it and asked us to organise a special Salon for his work colleagues as a Christmas treat.

He warned us: his junior colleagues – most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Living</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/12/the-art-of-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Pains]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peirene Coffee Morning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peirene Salon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>

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Why? Small children love this question. Grown-ups usually have given up on it long time ago. Not least, because we can’t find a good answer.
Yet, I still love so ask ‘Why’ – to myself and others.

At the Peirene coffee morning last Tuesday I decided to ask the attendees &#8220;Why do you read?’

&#8220;To learn new things&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavenly Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/12/heavenly-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Setting up Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Fair]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roaming Stall]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/?p=1097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To sell a book you have to stand. If you sit behind the stall, hardly anyone will approach.


To sell a book you have to talk. No one buys a book without a chat.
To sell a book you have to smile. No one buys a book from a sour face.

Your mouth will get dry from talking, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal Christmas Gift</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/the-ideal-christmas-gift/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/the-ideal-christmas-gift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Pains]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peirene Subscription]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roaming Store]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/?p=1091</guid>
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Before I set up Peirene, I never twittered, I wasn’t on facebook. I never negotiated contracts and prizes. I never had to deal with up to hundred emails a day. I never thought about how to market a product, I never sold anything at a stall.
Nor had I ever spent eight hours on my hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pitfalls of Tantrums</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/the-pitfalls-of-tantrums/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/the-pitfalls-of-tantrums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>

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When babies cry they have a fair chance of receiving attention. However, toddlers, in a fit of temper, get a telling off rather than sympathy. And when adults throw tantrums, we have a problem. To avoid this problem we have developed the art of communication. In the 21st century this art form is made terribly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Close to Don DeLillo</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/getting-close-to-don-delillo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/getting-close-to-don-delillo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Book Prizes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[British Book Design and Production Awards]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/?p=1076</guid>
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It’s been a year of fantastic prizes and nominations for Peirene:TheIndependent Publishers Newcomer of the Year award, the Foreign Fiction Prize Long List for Beside the Sea and then the Arts Council grant.
On Tuesday, the Nymph, our designer Sacha and I headed downtown to the Gala dinner of the British Book Design and Production Awards to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Murky Waters of Human Irrationality</title>
		<link>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/the-murky-waters-of-human-irrationality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/2011/11/the-murky-waters-of-human-irrationality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Pains]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gift Subscription]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peirenepress.com/blog/?p=1070</guid>
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Humans are irrational. Most of what we do follows – at best - our own internal logic. And to make matters worse, we lack self-awareness. We can see irrationality in others but never in our selves. I don’t think I am saying anything new. However, only since I set up Peirene, have I become aware [...]]]></description>
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