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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Writing Too Much

Clark Kauffman (thanks, Nigel): Unbridled lust! Unspoken passion! Unemployment!

A Sioux Center woman has been fired from her job at an industrial equipment manufacturer for working on a romance novel on company time.

In August, Tanja Shelton, 35, began working at Sioux Automation in Sioux Center, where she was given a desk job as a production control scheduler. After a few weeks, her supervisor, Cindy Altena, noticed Shelton was typing almost constantly.

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