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	<description>Author of "Saving Jay" &amp; "When the Siren Calls"</description>
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		<title>Why bad reviews are good</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a member of my local bookclub. The only male member, if you’ll pardon the expression. We review a different book each month. I owe the bookclub a particular debt because they helped me better understand my target audience as I wrote When the Siren Calls. I’m often amazed how like minded people can have totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our 5 biggest deathbed regrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carpe Diem – Seize the day, if you dare. In the inspiring movie “Dead Poets Society,” unconventional English teacher Robin Williams exhorts the schoolboys to “seize the day” before they, like students past, are nothing more than maggot food.  To follow their passion, to live in the moment, and to die free of regret. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can love conquer all?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my romantic suspense novel When the Siren Calls, a woman with high ideals falls in love with a man with low morals. Wealthy but neglected Isobel, feeling trapped in a stagnant marriage, believes that suave and sophisticated Jay can bring the excitement and passion that she yearns for. She pursues him to Tuscany and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The worst investment you’ll ever make</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My romantic suspense novel When the Siren Calls is set against the backdrop of a dodgy tourist development in Tuscany to which a hapless dad&#8217;s army of silver haired Brits are lured, and where dreams turn to nightmares and retirement savings turn into a lifetime liability. I&#8217;m sometimes asked, given some of the themes, whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we want luxury goods and Grey Goose Vodka</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 13:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cars and handbags are both much of a muchness. Anyone who spends more than $10,000 on a car is interested in something other than mobility and comfort. Anyone who spends more than $100 on a handbag wants something other than quality and functionality. Yet many of us clamour to spend over ten times, in some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why timing is everything in the persuasion game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tombarrywrites.com/?p=1486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed the increasing trend in supermarkets where they offer you a product at the check-out? &#8220;We&#8217;re doing a promotion on xyz, it&#8217;s half price today?&#8221;  Many people  find it annoying, particularly if xyz is a candy bar and you have a tempestuous two year old in the trolley cart. So why do supermarkets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Net Galley reviewed, warts and all</title>
		<link>http://tombarrywrites.com/net-galley-reviewed-warts-and-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 08:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With over 100,000 &#8216;professional reviewers&#8217; subscribed, Net Galley is an interesting option  to achieve pre-launch publicity. Most major publishers from Random House on down use the Net Galley on-line listing service, and these are increasingly being joined by assisted publishers, such as Troubador, and book PR companies such as Smith Publicity. Self-published authors can also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretzels and politics in San Diego</title>
		<link>http://tombarrywrites.com/pretzels-and-politics-in-san-diego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America loves its military. The stars and stripes and &#8216;support our troops&#8217; stickers are everywhere. Or at least they are in Coronado, San Diego, home to the US fleet and the base of the legendary Navy Seals. As I write this, a stone throw from where Seal recruits are put through endurance tests on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Beckham, name dropping, and why we hate it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have I mentioned my role in David Beckham&#8217;s success? No? Seriously? I normally mention it within the first minute of meeting people. Now, you think I&#8217;m kidding, don&#8217;t you? That I&#8217;m just setting up the intro to one of my ground-breakingly clever posts.  Well, you&#8217;re mistaken. It all began before David, or Becks as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a dog’s life in America</title>
		<link>http://tombarrywrites.com/its-a-dogs-life-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has America finally gone mad? No, I&#8217;m not talking about invading and occupying defenceless third world countries on ridiculous pretexts, while a dictator in North Korea is left unmolested to grow a nuclear and ballistic capability. I&#8217;m talking about how America treats its canine friends as oppossed to its most vulnerable citizens. Maybe it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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