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		<title>Write a Review, Score a Free Copy of &#8220;Abuse of Discretion&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the CreateSpace folks have done their magic, I&#8217;m getting ready for the &#8220;hard&#8221; launch of my debut mystery, Abuse of Discretion. The book will officially launch, and the publicity campaign will begin, on Thursday, December 1st. Between now and then, I&#8217;m going to give some readers a chance to score free copies of the Abuse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/11/15/write-a-review-score-a-free-copy-of-abuse-of-discretion/</link>
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		<title>The Game&#8217;s Afoot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My more attentive readers may have noticed some new content on the site this morning. That&#8217;s because the first Tessa Riley mystery novel, Abuse of Discretion, was submitted to Amazon just a few minutes ago. The purchase links aren&#8217;t live yet (and yes, I&#8217;ll be adding Smashwords and others) but that&#8217;ll change over the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/11/04/the-games-afoot/</link>
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		<title>My Writing Process: Scrivener</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people find out I&#8217;m a writer, one of the first questions they ask is what tools I use to write with. For readers, I think there&#8217;s a natural curiosity about how the stories they read unfold, rather like the behind-the-scenes bonus features attached to movies these days. Other writers, I&#8217;ve noticed, sometimes have an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/09/23/my-writing-process-scrivener/</link>
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		<title>The Visit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have been a bit quiet around hear of late, chiefly because I&#8217;ve been up to my eyeballs with work. My &#8220;day job&#8221; work has suddenly picked up, and I&#8217;m also completing revisions of one novel and starting the planning of a second. Plus a couple of short stories that have been rattling around in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/09/20/the-visit/</link>
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		<title>Layers of Conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working my way through a terrific writing book, Screenwriting Tricks for Authors, by the inimitable Alexandra Sokoloff. As a &#8220;pantser&#8221; of long standing, the kind of writer whose forays into outlining before I write have uniformly ended badly, Alex&#8217;s book is especially interesting, because I&#8217;m discovering that my novel-in-progress intuitively follows many of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/08/27/layers-of-conflict/</link>
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		<title>Review: Levenger Soul Skin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few posts ago, I talked about my belief in the importance of having good tools. In writing, as in any other profession, using the right tools &#8211; the ones that work for each of us, that feel good to use in addition to being functional &#8211; is an important step toward greater productivity. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/08/15/review-levenger-soul-skin/</link>
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		<title>New Stories Added to my Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve uploaded a few stories and essays I&#8217;ve written to the Web site, for your reading enjoyment. You can click on the Free Stories link at the top of the page to access a list of them, or use the submenu to jump to individual stories. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve posted so far: Hunter&#8217;s Pond, short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/08/11/new-stories-added-to-my-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Ideas Aren&#8217;t the Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a post by Jennifer Blanchard on Better Writing Habits about the various notebooks she feels writers should use. Jennifer has lots of good information on her site, but I have to take issue with one of her recommendations. Jennifer writes: &#8230;as a writer, you will want to keep a notebook on you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/08/08/ideas-arent-the-problem/</link>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Block is a Luxury You Can&#8217;t Afford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like more than a few writers I know, I got my professional start as a freelancer for a small local newspaper. It was a great crash course, better than any dozen workshops. When you&#8217;re working in a newsroom, you learn the difference between amateur and professional in a hurry. My editor at the Record was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/08/07/writers-block-is-a-luxury-you-cant-afford/</link>
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		<title>The Right Tool for the Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent post by JT Ellison got me thinking about the value we writers, and others, place upon the tools we use. JT talked about her recent purchase of a Levenger Soul Skin notebook cover, but she also touched upon the value of tools: I am a firm believer in writers having the best tools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tammycravit.com/2011/08/06/the-right-tool-for-the-job/</link>
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