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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A pie chart of the fiction versus non-fiction books I read in 2025. Overall, I read more Non-Fiction than Fiction books this year. Non-Fiction accounts for 82% of my total books read and Fiction accounts for 18% of my total books read.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A pie chart of the Non-Fiction subgenres I read from in 2025. The Non-Fiction genre I read from the most is Writing, Editing &amp; Publishing (blue)—which makes complete sense for me, being a book editor and what not. Following that is Self-Help/Productivity/Business at 19% (red), Mental Health/Neurodiversity/Health (green) at 17%, Hobbies &amp; Crafts (orange) and History and Culture, and Social Commentary (purple) tied at 14%, Memoir at 8% (sky blue), and Tech at 6% (periwinkle).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A pie chart of the fiction subgenres I read from in 2025. The Fiction genre I read from the most is Fantasy (blue)—by a landslide—coming in at 37%. Following that is Horror/Thriller (red) 25%, Historical Fiction (green) and Literary/Experimental (purple) tied at 13% each, and Romantasy at 12% (cyan).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of two books stacked on a mahogany side table. The books in the photo are my paperback copies of Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace and Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of a book sitting on a mahogany side table. The book in the photo is my paperback copy of You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero sitting on a mahogany side table.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of a book sitting on a mahogany side table. The book in the photo is my paperback copy of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas sitting on a mahogany side table.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of a book sitting on a mahogany side table. The book in the photo is my very well-loved paperback copy of Wild by Cheryl Strayed sitting on an oak coffee table. Photo by Carly Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of a book sitting on a mahogany side table. The book in the photo is my paperback copy of Evermore and Blue Moon (The Immortals, Book 1 and 2) by Alyson Noël sitting on a mahogany side table.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of a book sitting on a mahogany side table. The book in the photo is my copy of a memoir called Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of an iPhone 14 Pro sitting on a mahogany side table. On screen, The audiobook version of The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is open in the Hoopla app.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of paperback and hardcover self-help books stacked on a mahogany side table. The books in the photo are my copies of DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, and You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Bookish End of The Year Survey (2025) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of a book sitting on a mahogany side table. The book in the photo is my paperback copy of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of an iPhone 14 Pro sitting beside a paperback book on a mahogany coffee table. On screen, the audiobook version of The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage is open in the Hoopla app. The book in the photo is my paperback copy of The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of two books sitting next to each other on a mahogany side table. The books in the photo are my paperback copies of Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace (left) and Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (right).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of two black and white books sitting beside a glass of red wine on a mahogany coffee table. The books in the photo are The Copyeditor’s Handbook and The Copyeditor’s Workbook by Amy Eisohn and Marilyn Schwartz.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of my website’s Traffic from November 1, 2022 to January 13, 2026 from Squarespace Analytics. In this screenshot, you can see the purple line spiked in February 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of my website’s Traffic from 1, 2022 to January 13, 2026 from Squarespace Analytics. In this screenshot, you can see the periwinkle line spiked in December 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of a book sitting next to a reading schedule on a short, white bookcase. In this photo you can see my custom, self-paced course outline and the texts I will be studying—The Copyeditor’s Handbook &amp; The Copyeditor’s Workbook by Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of several literary journals and an antique typewriter on my home bookshelf. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of Nimrod International Journal Fall 2023 issue, Awards 45 on a wooden side table. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Diagnosing &amp; Treating Writer’s Block. Graphic by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>How To Defeat Writer’s Block. Graphic by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shayla Raquel, best-selling author, public speaker, and book editor.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amazon Kindle Categories. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Find Your Exact Genre, Find Your Lifelong Book Ambassadors by Shayla Raquel - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Next, select Fantasy. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Elves. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crime Fiction. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Action Packed. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Setting. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Characters. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Vikings. Photo by Shayla Raquel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of classic novels stacked up on a white bookshelf. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of a metal basket holding seven classic novels on a white bookshelf. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of a vintage typewriter and metal basket with classic novels on a white bookshelf. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of a metal basket with classic novels on a white bookshelf. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - 25 Strangely Useful Websites To Use For Research and Novel Ideas</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s a screenie of what it would be like if a nuclear blast went off in my area. Pretty crazy right?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - 25 Strangely Useful Websites To Use For Research and Novel Ideas</image:title>
      <image:caption>And here’s a screenie of the Time Lapse website panned in to the Oil Sands. I peeked through the years to see how much the Sahara Desert changed over time. It’s pretty wild. Please Note: As of February 6, 2025, some of the links in this blog post are broken. For archival purposes, I will not be updating this post but I will release an updated post this spring. Hopefully the owners of the broken links are able to provide updated links for us soon!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - 25 Strangely Useful Websites To Use For Research and Novel Ideas</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s a screenie from Zillow! While one day, I hope to move to Seattle, for now I can happily write about my dream city from the comfort of my Oklahoma home.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - 25 Strangely Useful Websites To Use For Research and Novel Ideas</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s a screenie of the 100,000 Stars website. Pretty amazing right?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - 25 Strangely Useful Websites To Use For Research and Novel Ideas</image:title>
      <image:caption>And here’s a screenie from Geoguessr. Any ideas where this satellite image is from?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Student signing up for student loan debt to make college possible. Photo by Andrea Picquadio.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-30</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Amy Landino’s author photo from Instagram.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The digital copy of the front book cover of Good Morning Good Life by Amy Landino from Amazon.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The digital copy of the back book cover of Good Morning Good Life by Amy Landino from Amazon.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My Goodreads review of Good Morning Good Life</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brilliant campfire. Photo by Ringku Singha.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illuminated tents at night. Photo by Cameron Vaughan.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Family walking through campsite at golden hour. Photo by Jon Cartagena.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The blank exhibit wall in the student art gallery hall at the Oklahoma City University. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of the first still life composition from the Painting I class of the 2020 spring semester. The composition features a small table covered in a teal tablecloth, colored glass bottles, fake flowers and fruit, and a delicate lace fabric draped all around tabletop. My fellow Painting I classmates and I were positioned at different spots all around the room and tasked with painting this still life from unique perspectives. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The student art gallery hall at the Oklahoma City University. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of the first still life composition from the Drawing I class of the 2019 spring semester. This composition features an acoutsitc guitar, a replica of a human skull, a ceramic cat figurine, andfake flowers in opaque vases against a black backdrop. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>ALL BLOG POSTS - Rose State College: Attending Art School In The Midwest</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of paint buckets and paint trays sitting on a beige drop cloth. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo of several portrait studies painted by students from the spring 2020 Painting I class. The colorful full-body portrait of the tattooed lady with brown hair was my painting. I also hand-stretched the canvas over a wooden frame I built for a custom-sized painting. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of the greeting and body sections of my “Free Edit Giveaway” email newsletter from 2019. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of the body and footer sections of my “Free Edit Giveaway” email newsletter from 2019. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of a section in my newsletter where readers could click a button that would take them to a landing page where they could download the freebie in various formats. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of a section in my newsletter where readers could click a button that would take them to a landing page where they could download the freebie in various formats. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Email campaigns sent to your website’s main email, domain owner, or the email you sent the campaign with will always say “[Test Email]” in the subject line.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As you can see, subscriber the subscriber name (or in this case, my name) was not automatically ported into the name field. Instead, it defaulted to my back-up name, “writerly friend”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of my email greeting default value, “Writerly Friend” for subscribers that joined before my newsletter sign-up required full names. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of my personalized email greeting, that addresses subscribers by their first and last names. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of the end of my newsletter with my email signature image. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of the signature I made using the “Artist Script” typeface which is available with a Canva Pro membership. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of the signature I made using the “Something Script” typeface which is available with a Canva Pro membership. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of the social links at the bottom of my website. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of the social links at the bottom of my emails. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of an email newsletter with almost five pages of blog post text copied into the body of the email. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of Amy Landino’s Boss Notes email newsletter subject line. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of Amy Landino’s Boss Notes email newsletter body 1. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of Amy Landino’s Boss Notes email newsletter body 2. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of Amy Landino’s Boss Notes email newsletter body 3. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of Shayla Raquel’s editorial email newsletter subject line. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A screenshot of Shayla Raquel’s editorial email newsletter body 1. Photo by Payton Hayes.</image:caption>
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