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		<title>Holiday Baklava Recipe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Draven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baklava is a flaky mediterranean desert comprised of butter, walnuts, phyllo dough, sugar, honey&#8230;and did I mention the butter? My mother makes a version that is so rich my mouth starts watering just thinking about it and since we&#8217;re heading into the holidays, I thought I&#8217;d share my thoughts on this desert with my readers.
Another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minotaurs Don&#8217;t Fall In Love&#8230;Usually</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Draven</dc:creator>
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When you think of the minotaur of ancient Greek mythology, romance probably isn&#8217;t the first thing that comes to mind. You&#8217;re probably imagining the man-eating monster, abandoned by his parents and locked away in a lonely labyrinth to hunt down his prey&#8230;hey wait, that does kind of sound like the alpha hero of a modern-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cover for My Newest Novel, Dark Sins &amp; Desert Sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Draven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dark Sins &#38; Desert Sands (HQN Nocturne, Nov 2011) is about a modern day minotaur and the woman with unusual sphinx powers that he falls in love with. It&#8217;s ancient mythology set against a modern day background of Las Vegas, where old gods like Seth and Xochiquetzal make mortals their playthings.
Some of the elements of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets of the Sphinx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Draven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="alignleft" style="margin-right: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1 em;" title="Sphinx Statue" src="http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/Sphinx-statue-388.jpg" alt="" width="233" height="125" />Isn't that a great title? I totally want to nab it as the title of any follow-up novel I write to my forthcoming book, which we're tentatively calling CARNAL CREATURES. It's about a modern day sphinx and a modern day minotaur caught in a desperate struggle for survival, but enough about that...let's talk about the sphinx in Egypt. Thanks to <a href="http://michellemoran.blogspot.com/2010/01/uncovering-secrets-of-sphinx.html">Michelle Moran's tip</a>, I found <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Uncovering-Secrets-of-the-Sphinx.html">this article</a> in the Smithsonian and it's fascinating.

Amongst the many interesting tidbits contained in the article is...]]></description>
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		<title>Sphinx in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Draven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="alignright" style="margin-left: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" title="Greek Sphinx" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Sphinx_MET_11.185.jpg/457px-Sphinx_MET_11.185.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="252" />As an author of myth-inspired fiction, I love Greek mythology, but there's a special place in my heart for Egyptian lore too. The two cultures influenced one another a great deal, and one creature they had in common was the sphinx. Oh, the Greeks and the Egyptians each had their own idea of what a sphinx was all about, but there were a lot of common traits, and what we're left with is an enigmatic creature. (One which will be starring in my next novel.)

Apparently sphinxes aren't just in Egypt or Greece though. We can find one over a Civil War Cemetary in America. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-whereami24-2009sep24-quiz,0,5096008,post.triviaquiz">See if you can guess which city</a>.]]></description>
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