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	<title>Murder She Writes &#187; Craft</title>
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		<title>Breaking Rules, Revised</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2011/06/09/breaking-rules-revised/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t have a blog idea for today because my daughter Kelly was supposed to write a blog about the whole Wall Street Journal opinion piece calling (practically) for the censorship of a glut of YA books, including several that Kelly read and enjoyed. And she wrote it, but didn&#8217;t finish it, and she&#8217;s sleeping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer as God</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2011/05/26/writer-as-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer as God Last week, I turned in the revisions of IF I SHOULD DIE, minus the ending. The last sixty pages just weren&#8217;t working. I&#8217;d attempted to write the ending a multitude of times, but as I got into it, something stopped me. The set-up was contrived. The characters were being stupid. I forgot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Weekend Guest Blogger Misa Ramirez</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2011/04/30/special-weekend-guest-blogger-misa-ramirez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome my friend Misa Ramirez. For a short time, we were in the same critique group here in Sacramento. We have a lot in common! Five kids, lived in Elk Grove (she moved to Texas!), and a love of writing. I was very lucky to read her debut novel, LIVING THE VIDA LOLA, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Questionnaire and Other Stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2010/10/14/7325/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Romance Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giveaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JD Robb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Gardner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lori Armstrong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m neck deep in revisions for KISS ME, KILL ME &#8212; due in four days &#8212; so my creative energies are focused solely on rewriting the climax scenes. (And no, I&#8217;m not talking about sex!) Last time I was here, I posted a story my daughter wrote for a school project on ENDER&#8217;S GAME. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afterward: Thrillerfest</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2010/07/15/afterward-thrillerfest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Thriller Writers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Thriller Writers (ITW) hosts Thrillerfest in NYC the second week of every July. On Sunday, I returned from the Thrillerfest V, elated and excited and a bit apprehensive. First, a little about the organization. ITW was originally for published thriller writers of all sub-genres, as well as the lofty goal of being a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger: YA Reader and Reviewer Kelly Brennan</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/12/17/guest-blogger-ya-reader-and-reviewer-kelly-brennan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neal Shusterman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My eighth grade daughter Kelly is an avid reader and will soon be launching her own blog when her mother finds ten minutes to put it together for her . . . she&#8217;s well-read in YA, loves historical, paranormal, and contemporary, and has well-formed opinions about a whole host of things, including what makes (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing is as easy as one, two, $599 and up</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/11/19/publishing-is-as-easy-as-one-two-599-and-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/11/19/publishing-is-as-easy-as-one-two-599-and-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a little over forty-eight hours since the announcement that Harlequin has joined in a self-publishing venture with Author Solutions, a vanity press. I don&#8217;t want to quibble over definitions, so for the purpose of this article I use &#8220;self-publishing&#8221; and &#8220;vanity press&#8221; as meaning any book that an author pays to produce. Call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing, Revising, Editing, Copy, Proof</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/11/05/writing-revising-editing-copy-proof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/11/05/writing-revising-editing-copy-proof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the regular readers of this blog know about how a book becomes a book: a writer writes it and revises it in her own way. Then she submits it to her editor and often (or, in cases like me, every time) does a round of editor revisions. Then the book goes to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verse of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/10/verse-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Writers Journey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people who pick up the bible, open it to a random page, put their finger down, and read the verse. Then they contemplate what the verse means to them and their life, or pray, or maybe they try again because they didn&#8217;t like the first one! Last year my son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t plot. Really.</title>
		<link>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/06/18/i-dont-plot-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/06/18/i-dont-plot-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Brennan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Alexandra Sokoloff, who blogged here the other week, commented once over at Murderati that everyone plotted to a certain degree, and that my first drafts were actually a detailed outline. Right. All 80,000 words of my first draft in a book that usually ends up around 105,000 words. At first, I was [...]]]></description>
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