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  <name><![CDATA[Shannon McKenna]]></name>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/99042.Shannon_McKenna]]></link>
  <fans-count type="integer">40</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">17</followers-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[::From The Author's Website::

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

I started writing my first romance novel in secret. I was working a temp job in an insurance office in Manhattan at the time, and the office manager had made it clear that even if there was nothing to do, I still had to look busy-- never one of my big talents. I felt bad about the wasted time, though, and I needed something to round out my other chosen career, which was singing. Yeah, that's right. Most artists choose a more practical Plan B to back up their improbable Plan A. Me? No way. &quot;Long Shot&quot; is my middle name.

So I sneakily set up a Document 1 and a Document 2 with a spreadsheet on it. If my Boss du Jour walked by I could quick-like-a-bunny switch screens, and whenever the coast was clear, I went back to my story. Not that I was slacking, mind you. If there was work to be done, I did it. The sneakiness felt familiar, though, because I've been teased about reading romances since I was a kid. I think the day I finally grew up was the day I stopped trying to cover up what I was reading on the bus, train or subway. Let people think whatever they like.

It wasn't until I moved to Italy (details of that Long Shot provided later on) that I got serious about writing, though. I found myself with many long, quiet days alone with nothing to do, so I slogged my way bravely to the end of the manuscript and sent it out. Everybody rejected it-except for Kensington. I wrote for them for a few years, and then made a bid for an erotic novella for the new Brava imprint, and oh joy, they accepted it. Then I wrote BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. And so on, and so forth.

That's how I started. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. I never knew it would be so scary, and so hard . . . all that solitude and silence, a blank computer screen, and no one to blame. But still. It's worth it. It's great.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>        
  
  
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  <average_rating>4.05</average_rating>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Standing In The Shadows (McClouds &amp; Friends, #2)]]></title>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Edge of Midnight (McClouds &amp; Friends, #4)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Out Of Control (McClouds &amp; Friends, #3)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Extreme Danger (McClouds &amp; Friends, #5)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hot Night]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Shannon McKenna]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Return To Me]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ultimate Weapon (McClouds &amp; Friends #6)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bad Boys Next Exit (Includes: Men of Rogues Hollow, #2)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[E.C. Sheedy]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Donna Kauffman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.76</average_rating>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[All About Men]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Shannon McKenna]]></name>
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