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		<title>Stephanie Martin and &#8220;Wages of Sin&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/05/07/stephanie-martin-and-wages-of-sin/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/05/07/stephanie-martin-and-wages-of-sin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hatton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killer stripper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages of Sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will Busenburg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past week or more, my blog has been receiving scores of page views from people searching Stephanie Martin, the killer stripper in my book Wages of Sin. For those interested parties, I want to let you know that you can find a photo album of pictures of Stephanie, as well as her co-killer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wasted&#8221;: There&#8217;s More to the Story</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/04/21/wasted-theres-more-to-the-story/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/04/21/wasted-theres-more-to-the-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deadly Sins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investigation Discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim LeBlanc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regina Hartwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wasted]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Investigation Discovery network aired its first episode of Deadly Sins and the story of Regina Hartwell, Kim LeBlanc and Justin Thomas, this blog has received well more than 10,000 page views from people searching for more information about the case. I&#8217;ve provided photographs from the case, given links to additional information, and pointed readers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Secret Sex Lives&#8221; &#8212; The Beginning</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/04/06/secret-sex-lives-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/04/06/secret-sex-lives-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casual Encounters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craigslist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craigslist Casual Encounters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secret Sex Lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little bit dumbfounded that I can get nostalgic about writing a book that hasn&#8217;t even been published, yet. But the other day I was glancing through some old files and came across a photograph of my previous office, the place where I began writing Secret Sex Lives: A Year on the Fringes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regina, Kim, Justin and &#8220;Wasted&#8221;, Again</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/04/02/regina-kim-justin-and-wasted-again/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/04/02/regina-kim-justin-and-wasted-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deadly Sins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investigation Discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim LeBlanc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regina Hartwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secret Sex Lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wasted]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Investigation Discovery network has aired again the Deadly Sins episode about Regina Hartwell, Kim LeBlanc, and Justin Thomas, a love triangle that resulted in murder and was the focus of my book Wasted, because my blog is being slammed with hits due to searches for Regina and Kim. After the first airing, I promised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regina, Kim, Justin and &#8220;Wasted&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/03/04/regina-kim-justin-and-wasted/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2012/03/04/regina-kim-justin-and-wasted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim LeBlanc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regina Hartwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wasted]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends of Investigation Discovery:  I had no idea how many of you would be hitting my blog looking for additional information on Regina Hartwell, Kim LeBlanc, Justin Thomas and Wasted. I apologize for not updating this blog in anticipation of that. Rest assured that I will update it ASAP with photos and links to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Could Accomplish One Thing in 2011 &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/12/27/if-i-could-accomplish-one-thing-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/12/27/if-i-could-accomplish-one-thing-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bess Whitehead Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Make-A-Wish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s the day after Christmas. It&#8217;s a day I should be writing my year-end blog where I tell you what wonderful things happened in 2011 and how joyous and grateful I am. And for those of you who haven’t been keeping up with me through Twitter or Facebook (since I haven’t been very good at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Tracey Tarlton from &#8220;The Fortune Hunter&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/11/15/update-on-tracey-tarlton-from-the-fortune-hunter/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/11/15/update-on-tracey-tarlton-from-the-fortune-hunter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becky Beard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celeste Beard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Beard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fortune Hunter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracey Tarlton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wasted]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many reasons I decided to quit writing true crime is because of convicted killer Tracey Tarlton.  Tracey and I attended the same summer camp, and though Tracey and I didn&#8217;t know each other, I knew her name and we shared many friends. In fact, one of those friends, who is mentioned in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Sex Book &amp; Mr. Cool</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/08/12/the-sex-book-mr-cool-3/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/08/12/the-sex-book-mr-cool-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all wrote out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkley Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Cool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, I’ve been more than lax in my blog posts since last spring.  At first I was too busy with the sex book to think about blogging.  Then, after I turned in the manuscript on May 1, I was just plain all “wrote out.”  The book took everything I had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finishing.  And Starting Again</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/07/10/finishing-and-starting-again/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/07/10/finishing-and-starting-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden of Eden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn." -- Hemingway]]></description>
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		<title>This Writer&#8217;s Life &#8212; Under Deadline</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/04/11/this-writers-life-under-deadline/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/04/11/this-writers-life-under-deadline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[method writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer's life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday night, around nine or 10 o’clock, my cell phone rang.  I swallowed the bite of peanut butter and jelly sandwich I had in my mouth and answered the phone. The caller was a friend I hadn’t seen or talked to in months.  We’ve both been too busy.  He asked what I’ve been doing.  “Working,” I said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Embarrassing Truth</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/02/28/the-embarrassing-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/02/28/the-embarrassing-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Yates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chilean mine disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chilean mine rescue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Every Man in this Village is a Liar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megan K. Stack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Modern Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Book Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publisher's Marketplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishers Lunch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2001, when I first started covering the story of Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children, I read every article on the case I could find.  I thought the most touching writing came from a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.  I contacted her to tell her how beautiful and emotional her work was.  If I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong Legs, Fragile Brain: A Guest Post by Diana Kern</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/02/08/strong-legs-fragile-brain-a-guest-post-by-diana-kern/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/02/08/strong-legs-fragile-brain-a-guest-post-by-diana-kern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D.H. Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana Kern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expect Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAMI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Didn’t they know that I wanted to be happy, I wanted to think clearly, I wanted to work and be an adult like others my age?  I wanted, I wanted, I wanted and I thought it would never come.  I’m glad I was wrong.


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		<title>A Dark Cloud of Desperation: A Joint Post with Guest Blogger D.H. Gregory</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/02/02/a-dark-cloud-of-desperation-a-joint-post-with-guest-blogger-d-h-gregory/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/02/02/a-dark-cloud-of-desperation-a-joint-post-with-guest-blogger-d-h-gregory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Ball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Yates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin American-Statesman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin Child Guidance Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celeste Beard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAMI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fortune Hunter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracey Tarlton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think about mental health and mental illness a lot.  Serious depression permeates my personal life; serious mental illness permeates my professional life: Andrea Yates, the psychotic mother in my book Breaking Point; Tracey Tarlton, the bipolar book store manager in my book The Fortune Hunter.  While researching The Fortune Hunter, specifically while sitting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year’s Eve Reflection on My Beautiful 2010</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/01/01/new-years-eve-reflection-on-my-beautiful-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2011/01/01/new-years-eve-reflection-on-my-beautiful-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denise Silvestro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Duvall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McDonald's hot fudge sundae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year's Eve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The year 2011 is less than three hours away, at least in the Central time zone, and most people have already reflected on 2010 to say their goodbyes to a year of struggles, losses, and – I hope – at least a few victories.  To a small degree, I’ve done that, too.  Earlier today I glanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Allen Morris, A Friend &#8230; in Grief and in Laughter</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/12/23/guest-post-allen-morris-a-friend-in-grief-and-in-laughter/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/12/23/guest-post-allen-morris-a-friend-in-grief-and-in-laughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tip-toeing through the tulips of Christmas grief]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Allen has had a hellacious year.  He’s had a heart attack, is suffering continuing and serious health problems, and his father died recently.  But even in his grief and recovery, he hears humor.  Thank you, Allen, for sharing. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips of Christmas Grief</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/12/22/tip-toeing-through-the-tulips-of-christmas-grief/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/12/22/tip-toeing-through-the-tulips-of-christmas-grief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was reading my friend Ruth Pennebaker’s blog post titled “Is This How It’s Going to be From Now On?” The post is about the many losses she and her friends have suffered in 2010.  By losses, she means deaths. I’m not one to use words like “loss” or “passed.”  I say “died” or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Emotions &amp; Gratitude for My &#8220;Wages of Sin&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/12/08/mixed-emotions-gratitude-for-my-wages-of-sin/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/12/08/mixed-emotions-gratitude-for-my-wages-of-sin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a bit stunned that typing that sentence, hitting that period at the end of it, rendered my fingers motionless.  It wasn’t the end of the sentence that did it.  Mixed emotions did, emotions I didn't realize I had until that moment.

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		<title>&#8220;With a Little Help from My Friends&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/11/03/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/11/03/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BookPeople]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Celeste Beard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Kingwood, Texas, friend and fan Courtney Little posted the above photo on her Facebook page with the words, &#8220;Suzy, today I&#8217;m lunching with Celeste.  Haha!  I&#8217;m a little scared &#8230;&#8221;  Celeste is the killer in my true crime book The Fortune Hunter.  So, yes, if Courtney truly were having lunch with Celeste, she should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Becky Beard</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/10/22/in-memoriam-becky-beard/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/10/22/in-memoriam-becky-beard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABC News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bert Rudman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been staring at this page for an hour or two.  I want to fill it with perfect words, but the only words that come to my mind are steak and martini.  If I think harder, I hear the hoarse laughter and cough of a woman who has smoked for too many years, and yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;You&#039;ve Got To Have Friends&quot;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/10/05/youve-got-to-have-friends-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/10/05/youve-got-to-have-friends-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bette Midler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maui]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=1061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently mentioned on Facebook that I have a fantasy of seeing someone on the beach reading one of my books.  Perhaps that&#8217;s not a fantasy you&#8217;d expect from a woman who has spent the past five years researching sex.  But I think it is a fantasy of many writers of books.  And since I am, first and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Will Never Forget: Writing the Life I Live, Part 2*</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/13/i-will-never-forget-the-writing-life-i-live-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/13/i-will-never-forget-the-writing-life-i-live-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Yates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Banfield]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the days following the June 20, 2001, murder of Andrea Yates&#8217; five children, the City of Houston buzzed with shock, gossip, and confusion.  But on September 11, 2001, it was eerily desolate, a quiet stillness I&#8217;ve never experienced in decades of traveling to the Bayou City. I think I was the only lunch hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing the Life I Live</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/12/writing-the-life-i-live/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/12/writing-the-life-i-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Yates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote fiction, the life I lived became my writing.  A hometown visit with my friend Paula Sue inspired my short story My Sweet Sheri Sue, which you’ll find here and was published in a slightly different form in the anthology Red Boots &#38; Attitude: The Spirit of Texas Women Writers (Eakin Press, 2002).  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck at the WB with &quot;Poets &amp; Writers&quot;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/08/stuck-at-the-wb-with-poets-writers-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/08/stuck-at-the-wb-with-poets-writers-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bitter in the Mouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harper Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monique Truong]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m stuck in Whataburger and I don’t want to be.  Rain from Tropical Storm Hermine is slashing out of the sky.  As much as I don’t want to be in the WB, even more of me doesn’t want to get soaked to the bone, as my grandmother would have said, running to my car. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, Beach, Tears &amp; Rainbows</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/01/sex-beach-tears-rainbows/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/09/01/sex-beach-tears-rainbows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after I emailed my sex book to my editor in New York, I had so much I wanted to blog about.  Ideas and words kept popping into my head.  But I wouldn’t let myself write them because I felt I needed to take the day off.  The previous four months had been long, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swinging at the WB</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/07/10/swinging-at-the-wb/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/07/10/swinging-at-the-wb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sitting in Whataburger trying to work on my sex book.  I’m editing a chapter in which I meet swingers – lifestylers, partner-swappers – through Craigslist.  But I’m having trouble concentrating because there’s a lifestyle group meeting in my neighborhood this weekend.  Part of me, a large part of me, wants to be at their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reporter and the Ginger Farmer</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/07/06/the-reporter-and-the-ginger-farmer/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/07/06/the-reporter-and-the-ginger-farmer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who would have ever thought that researching and writing a book on sex in America would result in a life-changing business trip to China?  Certainly, I wouldn&#8217;t have, but it did.  Alas, I don&#8217;t have time to tell you about it right now because the trip put me severely behind in my sex book rewrite.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgive Me, Friends &#8212; Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/06/04/forgive-me-friends-hiatus/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/06/04/forgive-me-friends-hiatus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, I barely got this blog going (meaning posting regularly), when I got hit with sex book deadline, teaching, freelance work, and business travel.  Forgive me, but I&#8217;m going to take a blogging hiatus for the month of June.  I know my limits.  I know I&#8217;m not a great multi-tasker.  And I know the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Napkins</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/06/01/notes-on-napkins/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/06/01/notes-on-napkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love writing notes on napkins.  I think it makes me feel important because when I was a little kid in East Texas, only important people jotted notes on napkins – at least that’s what I thought.   When I moved to New York City, it seemed like people bragged about doing deals on a napkin.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Bed with My Work</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/05/15/going-to-bed-with-my-work/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/05/15/going-to-bed-with-my-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 05:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who know I’m writing a book about sex, get your minds out of the gutter.  When I say I’m going to bed with my work, that’s not what I mean. For those of you who regularly read my blog, you’ll know exactly what I mean.  I’m climbing into bed with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Emotions.  Then What?</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/05/13/mixed-emotions-then-what/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/05/13/mixed-emotions-then-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 02:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw something the other day that caused mixed emotions in me.  It was a hardback book, spread-eagle in the middle of the parkway, its pages flapping in the wind as cars drove over it.  Now the cars weren’t smashing it with their tires, thank God.  They were straddling it.  (Yes, I know, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shakes, Spilled Drinks &amp; Broken Toes</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/05/05/the-shakes-spilled-drinks-broken-toes-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/05/05/the-shakes-spilled-drinks-broken-toes-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 02:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[broken toes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve got the shakes.  On top of that, I just knocked over a glass of water and a large cup of Diet Coke, both spilling onto my cream-colored carpet.  The carpet is only two years old.  I don’t want it stained, so I just spent 30 minutes or so standing on towels trying to soak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Written, Read, Rewritten, Reworked, Trying to Get Perfected</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/28/its-the-name-calling-that-gets-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/28/its-the-name-calling-that-gets-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m &#8220;sensitive.&#8221;  That&#8217;s what my family always complained about me.  My favorite professor said my sensitivity is what makes me a good writer. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a writer and words are important to me, powerful to me.  Just a few moments ago, I heard a poem on the radio, Puttanesca by Michael Heffernan.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Know Where to Start</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/22/i-dont-know-where-to-start/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/22/i-dont-know-where-to-start/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know where to start.  That’s not a very good thing for a writer to say.  Even if we don’t know where to start, we usually write until we know where to begin. But finding where to begin takes time.  It takes lots of typing and retyping.  Rearranging.  Starting over.  And finding our way [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Big News</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/14/the-big-news/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/14/the-big-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, the making of the sex book has been a long and trying process.  I started the book in December 2004.  For the next year and a half, I researched, reported, wrote, rewrote, rewrote, and rewrote the book’s proposal.  The research continued through 2007.  During those years, I traveled from Texas [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dreaming of Strip Clubs</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/09/dreaming-of-strip-clubs/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/09/dreaming-of-strip-clubs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dancers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freudian]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other night I dreamed I was in a strip club.  It was a great dream.  I woke rested and happy for the first time in … I can&#8217;t remember when.  But the dream, oh, that I remember.  I was working in the club.  I don’t mean stripping.  I was reporting and researching.  From afternoon to well [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Root Dirt</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/02/root-dirt/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/04/02/root-dirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fingernails]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[root dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weeds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sat there staring at my fingernails, I thought about my sex book.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pill Bugs and Narcissists</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/30/pill-bugs-and-narcissists/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/30/pill-bugs-and-narcissists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Yates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carvel's ice cream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Boone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcissist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pill bug]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regina Hartwell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to curl into pill bug formation and protect myself.  I’m sitting in a Schlotsky’s restaurant.  It used to be the best Schlotsky’s in the nation with upscale décor and classical music.  That was back when the founders of Schlotsky’s owned the place.  But then they expanded the company too quickly, got into financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering: Grand Dames and Why I Love the Writers’ League of Texas</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/25/remembering-grand-dames-and-why-i-love-the-writers-league-of-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/25/remembering-grand-dames-and-why-i-love-the-writers-league-of-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Richards]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suzy remembers Liz Carpenter, Molly Ivins, and Governor Ann Richards.]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Sex. Sex. Sex, right, sex.&quot;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/18/sex-sex-sex-right-sex-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/18/sex-sex-sex-right-sex-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people have to force themselves to not think about sex.  I have to force myself to think about sex.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Bird and the Cat(tiness)</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/13/the-bird-and-the-cat-tiness/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/13/the-bird-and-the-cat-tiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Dawson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Bird lifted her right hand into the air as if she were holding a silver tray of hors d’oeurves, thrust her pelvis toward the audience, lowered her make-believe platter to hip level, and said, “May I offer you an ovary?”  The audience roared with laughter. I hate using clichés like roared with laughter, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Enough to Give Me a Heart Attack</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/08/its-enought-to-give-me-a-heart-attack-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/08/its-enought-to-give-me-a-heart-attack-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this in January, but I kept it to myself because I’m old school journalism who believes in keeping my politics out of my writing.  Plus, I’m not knowledgeable enough to write about this subject.  That’s why this piece is rather superficial.  But most of all, I’m too chicken to write about anything that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rapping, Tapping, Raven</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/06/rapping-tapping-raven-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/03/06/rapping-tapping-raven-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Book]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hear that tapping?  It’s my fingers … as I wait … and wonder … when my editor is going to call.  This is what it’s like for writers … waiting.  Even published writers.  Wondering.  Maybe it’s not that way for writers like Nelson DeMille.  But for those of us in the middle, it’s tapping fingers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reader&#039;s Response to Working Through the Struggle</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/22/a-readers-response-to-working-through-the-struggle-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/22/a-readers-response-to-working-through-the-struggle-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My blog generates frequent comments, though they’ve never shown up here.  Most often they’re posted on Facebook.  Sometimes, they arrive in my private email box.  A few days ago, I received what I felt was a powerful response to my Working Through the Struggle post.  That’s the one where I quoted award-winning novelist Joe O’Connell.  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Road to Fort Hood</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/20/my-road-to-fort-hood/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/20/my-road-to-fort-hood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cell phone]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When an apparently disgruntled American purposely crashed his small plane into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas, Fort Hood came to my mind.  And that made me decide to finish this blog post about my tiny bit of work covering the Fort Hood massacre for ABC's Nightline.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Note from an Angel Named Angela</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/15/a-note-from-an-angel-named-angela/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/15/a-note-from-an-angel-named-angela/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cronehood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminine power]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Angela inspires as she talks about "cronehood."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>&quot;Yea!&quot;  &quot;Oooooooooh, noooooooo.&quot;</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/15/yea-oooooooooh-noooooooo-2/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/15/yea-oooooooooh-noooooooo-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flag football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[little guy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sidelines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://suzyspencer.com/blog/?p=530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flag football, cheering little crowds, and writing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Working Through the Struggle, Part 2, aka Why Suzy Likes John Pipkin</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/12/working-through-the-struggle-part-2-aka-why-suzy-likes-john-pipkin/</link>
		<comments>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/12/working-through-the-struggle-part-2-aka-why-suzy-likes-john-pipkin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to talk to John because I can get him to blush so easily, especially when sex is mentioned.  Since we were standing in a sex-oriented art exhibit and since I’m writing a book about sex, needless to say, John blushed often. ]]></description>
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		<title>Working Through the Struggle</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/11/working-through-the-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never intended for my blog to be solely about writing.  As such, I’ve tried to make sure each post has a universal message so that writers and non-writers alike can glean something from it.  But as I began this post, I knew it was for writers only … until today.  I added a few notes at the end that made me realize this post has something of import to non-writers too, specifically to those who are fed-up with the media.  Maybe the notes will help you understand why there is a decline in the quantity of quality journalism.  And, maybe there's another little message that will be of benefit too.]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/05/struggling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now I’m struggling to write this because I’m sitting in Whataburger.  Let me back up.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#039;s Terror</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/02/01/writers-terror-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people suffer writer’s block.  I suffer writer’s terror.  That’s when I’m so terrified of being judged or so terrified of repeating past mistakes, so terrified that I can’t live up to that talent that I know I have but fear I’ve lost, that I ...]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Need No Stinkin&#8217; Pity</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/01/26/i-dont-need-no-stinkin-pity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t need no stinkin’ pity. 

I guess that’s a rather harsh reaction, but the other day ...
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve Confession</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2010/01/01/new-years-eve-confession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just watched my postman unload the neighborhood’s mail from the back of a silver, C-class Mercedes Benz.  ... That postman used to deliver the mail in a beat-up, dark green station wagon.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Eve</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2009/12/25/christmas-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say it’s blustery here in the ATX on this Christmas Eve is an understatement.  The wind wails outside my office.  The outhouse down the street is blown over on its side.  ]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing Memoir</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2009/11/18/on-writing-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first met Brooke Warner years ago at the Writers' League of Texas annual agents and editors conference.  Brooke's a senior editor at Seal Press.  Seal is known for its cutting edge women's books (read that as meaning lots of sex) ...]]></description>
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		<title>Fort Hood Notebook</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2009/11/12/fort-hood-notebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so honored that ABC&#8217;s Nightline allowed me the privilege of being part of their team covering the November 5, 2009, tragedy at Fort Hood.  I&#8217;m equally honored and grateful that the Texas Observer allowed me to write about my experience covering the event.  As soon as possible, I will be posting here more of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A WASTED Ghost Story</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2009/10/31/a-wasted-ghost-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My point, as I write this on Halloween Eve, is the ghost of Regina Hartwell.  Because of Regina, I couldn’t let this book go.  Regina wanted to be famous.  And I felt like that as long as I pushed and promoted this book I was helping her reach her goal, even if it was after death.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Almost</title>
		<link>http://suzyspencer.com/blog/2009/10/23/almost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m walking up and down the sidelines of a flag football game, awaiting the big play.   The morning had started out cool and pleasant, but now the sun is beaming and I’m getting hot.  I look at my 10-year-old cousin.  He’s on the sidelines, down on one knee, and sucking on one small slice of orange handed to him by his coach.  I want my cousin to be holding a hamburger.  He’s too skinny.  He’s like a piece of salt water taffy that’s pulled so thin that it looks like it’s about to break.  This is my guy.  My kiddo.  My heart.  ]]></description>
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