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  <name><![CDATA[Janet Tashjian]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I write almost every day. If I don't, the words start backing up inside me and it gets ugly fast. My mind pretty much never stops -- I have more ideas than time to write them in. Nothing makes me happier than coming up with characters and story lines for a new project. My family and friends very graciously put up with my barrage of new ideas.

I grew up in East Providence, Rhode Island. My father was a sales engineer, my mother a homemaker. I'm the oldest of four with two sisters and a brother. I always liked to keep busy, working on several projects at once. I wrote a little, but never thought of becoming a writer.

I've always been an avid reader; I still read several books a week. When I was young, it was mostly mysteries: Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown. As I got older, my taste got more eclectic: Carlos Castenada, Kurt Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, Anthony Burgess. I still love where your mind goes with a good book; it's the cheapest form of travel there is.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Many people talk about the books that changed their lives. One that truly changed mine was The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. It was written with such simplicity and grace that when I finished it, I told my husband I was quitting my job to become a writer. I bought myself a box of pens, a stack of notebooks, and started writing.]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>East Providence, RI</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Gospel According to Larry]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Vote for Larry]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fault Line]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Multiple Choice]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Larry and the Meaning of Life]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tru Confessions]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Marty Frye, Private Eye]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tage mit Eddie. Oder was heißt schon normal. ( Ab 10 J.).]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fault Line]]></title>
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