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      <image:title>A Match Made in Heaven: a (mostly) true story by Betsy Flak</image:title>
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      <image:title>Just You and Me: a Halloween-themed YA urban fantasy short by Betsy Flak</image:title>
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      <image:title>Monster of Blood: a vampire origins folktale and romantic urban fantasy in the world of The Eversfield Academy Vampire Hunters</image:title>
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      <image:title>How I use roller derby in action scenes in The Eversfield Academy Vampire Hunters series</image:title>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/welcome-to-my-indie-publishing-journey</loc>
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      <image:title>Welcome to my indie publishing journey!</image:title>
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      <image:title>The three songs that best illustrate Lila and Gabe&apos;s relationship in The Eversfield Academy Vampire Hunters</image:title>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/the-goals-of-this-blog</loc>
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      <image:title>The goals of this blog</image:title>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/why-i-chose-indie-publishing</loc>
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      <image:title>Why I chose indie publishing</image:title>
      <image:caption>Coffee and donuts and reading, what could be better?</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/shorts-in-other-worlds/monster-of-leaves-and-vines-an-urban-fantasy-action-adventure-with-a-monster-hunter-by-betsy-flak</loc>
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      <image:title>Monster of Leaves and Vines: an urban fantasy action/adventure with a monster hunter by Betsy Flak</image:title>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/why-i-love-indie-publishing</loc>
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      <image:title>Why I love indie publishing</image:title>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/where-i-am-today-in-indie-publishing</loc>
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      <image:title>Where I am today in indie publishing</image:title>
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      <image:title>Why the big relaunch of The Eversfield Academy Vampire Hunters series</image:title>
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      <image:title>A Vampire&apos;s Dream: an urban fantasy short by Betsy Flak</image:title>
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      <image:title>A Vampire&apos;s Nightmare: an urban fantasy short by Betsy Flak</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2024-11-12T11:46:22-05:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>They say never go back and why I didn&apos;t listen</image:title>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/to-write-weekly-or-not-to-write-weekly-that-is-the-question</loc>
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      <image:title>To write weekly or not to write weekly, that is the question</image:title>
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      <image:title>To write weekly it is. For now, anyway.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Sword of Fate and Flame: a young adult fantasy short by Betsy Flak</image:title>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter One</image:title>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Two</image:title>
      <image:caption>Snowy White Death, an eighteen-year-old girl with dark, wavy hair and dark-blue eyes flies her bluish purple dragon, Stormfyre, through a sea of fire in the bright blue sky</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Three</image:title>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Four</image:title>
      <image:caption>A girl on her bluish purple dragon&apos;s back, fighting a tornado of ice and snow while her dragon breathes fire into it</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/writing-editing-craft/magic-solves-everything-an-editing-story-about-chain-of-blood-a-new-adult-sweet-paranormal-romance-and-part-of-the-eversfield-academy-vampire-origins-series-of-standalone-prequels</loc>
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      <image:title>Magic solves everything</image:title>
      <image:caption>a teen girl reads a young adult fantasy book full of magic</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-chapter-five</loc>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Five</image:title>
      <image:caption>A girl with long black wavy hair stands in front of her grayish purple dragon and two dogs with her hands glowing with magical heat.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/shorts-in-other-worlds/an-ode-to-summer-my-thoughts-on-summers-heat-with-a-twist-ending</loc>
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      <image:title>An ode to summer: my thoughts on summer&apos;s heat with a twist ending!</image:title>
      <image:caption>A path through the verdant woods in Michigan in summer</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-short-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist-by-betsy-flak-chapter-six</loc>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Six</image:title>
      <image:caption>An ink-black wyvern with violet eyes curls protectively around her rider wearing the green and silver of Wyndaerya in a snowstorm</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist-by-betsy-flak-chapter-seven</loc>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Seven</image:title>
      <image:caption>A girl dragon rider wield flames as she approaches her enemies, a wyvern and the wyvern&apos;s male rider on a snow-dusted plain</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist-by-betsy-flak-chapter-eight</loc>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Eight</image:title>
      <image:caption>An inky wyvern curls around her unconscious rider while a brindle-and-white dog begs them to play, in a scene from Dragon of Frost and Flame: a young adult epic fantasy with a Snow White fairytale retelling twist by Betsy Flak</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist-by-betsy-flak-chapter-nine</loc>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Nine</image:title>
      <image:caption>A snowy white wyvern with violet eyes protects a prince in disguise while a girl covered in bluish white flame opposes them</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Ten</image:title>
      <image:caption>A young woman with black wavy hair and wielding white-hote fire stares down her enemies, an injured snowy white wyvern and the wyvern&apos;s unconscious rider</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/shorts-in-other-worlds/a-not-so-safe-haven-a-true-story-about-a-woodpecker-and-the-fantasy-short-based-on-it-both-by-betsy-flak</loc>
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      <image:title>A Not-So-Safe Haven: a (mostly) true story about a woodpecker and the fantasy short based on it</image:title>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/my-80-20-rule-for-my-writing-publishing-business-also-known-as-applying-the-pareto-principle-to-independent-book-publishing</loc>
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      <image:title>My 80-20 rule for my writing/publishing business, also known as applying the Pareto Principle to independent book publishing</image:title>
      <image:caption>One lightbulb is working, the rest aren&apos;t</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist/dragon-of-frost-and-flame-a-young-adult-epic-fantasy-with-a-snow-white-fairytale-retelling-twist-chapter-11-by-betsy-flak</loc>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Eleven</image:title>
      <image:caption>A young woman wield magical white-hot fire as she stalks toward her enemy, an iridescent silvery wyvern with violet eyes. A black dog charges between them.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Dragon of Frost and Flame: Chapter Twelve</image:title>
      <image:caption>Two dogs, one larger and pure black and one smaller and brindle-and-white, defend an iridescent silvery wyvern from a young woman covered in whitish-blue flames on a snowy field near sunset</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://betsyflak.com/blogs/my-indie-publishing-journey/my-twin-guiding-lights-for-my-independent-author-independent-book-publishing-career</loc>
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      <image:caption>A lighthouse lighting up a starry night sky</image:caption>
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