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96 HOUR SPECIAL

To Readers of My Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine:

This is Randy Ingermanson, with a special note for you.

Tax Day has come and gone, and I hope you've survived.
This past year has been brutal for all of us. May the
next year be better!

To celebrate getting past Tax Day, I'm running one of
my famous super-slasher sales on my web site store.
Everything is 50% off for the next 96 hours.

If you're getting a tax refund this year, you might
want to consider taking advantage of my 50%-off sale to
invest in your writing career.

For less than the cost of a month of cell phone
service, you could take action that would improve your
writing skills for a lifetime.

This 96-hour special runs from midnight on Thursday,
April 16, 2009, through midnight on Monday, April 20.

(All times are California time.) Sorry, but I can't
give extensions on this. When it's over, it's over.

I don't run these ultra-discount sales very often. The
last was in December.

In order to take advantage of this 50% discount, you
just need to know the coupon code.

You can discover this coupon code, along with
information on all my fiction-writing products, on this
page of my web site:

http://www.AdvancedFictionWriting.com/info


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