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Tess Rafferty

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Most recently, Tess wrote Halfway House, an original half hour pilot at Warner Brothers TV. She has written for numerous television shows, including Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Party Challenge, @Midnight, The Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne and she spent over 7 years on The Soup, as both a writer and a supervising producer. As an author, Tess made her debut with her memoir Recipes for Disaster. Under the Tuscan Gun is her first novel.

The creator of 2017’s Take Back the Workplace March Against Sexual Harassment, Tess is a featured blogger for Dame and Ms. Magazine and also writes the cooking/political blog, Recipes for Resistance. Her essay, “The Revolution Will Be Catered” was featured in Rage Baking: A Collection of Recipes and Conversati ...more

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Tess Rafferty When I set aside time to write, I type pretty much the whole time. I don't let questions I don't yet have the answer to get in my way. I type them out…moreWhen I set aside time to write, I type pretty much the whole time. I don't let questions I don't yet have the answer to get in my way. I type them out. Sometimes I have whole conversations with myself in the text figuring out the answer. Sometimes I bold it in red so I can come back to it later. Sometimes you get further in the text and the characters answers it for you. But I try not to stop. I know if I do, it can only lead to distraction and discouragement. But I know if I push through, I'll find something. I worked on a daily late night show for years and it was great training. You have to be sharp and quick, but also start with a blank page every day that has to be filled in a couple of hours. And there's only one way to do that: Keep going. (less)

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Tess Rafferty My co-workers are cats and there's no arguments about where we're going for lunch that day.…moreMy co-workers are cats and there's no arguments about where we're going for lunch that day.(less)

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Average rating: 3.77 · 260 ratings · 58 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Recipes for Disaster: A Memoir 3.36 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Tuscan Gun (A Kat Kelly Mystery Book 1) 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red, the Fed and the Dead (A Kat Kelly Mystery Book 2) 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buon Fatale: A Kat Kelly Holiday Novelette 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Lie in the Sun: A Kat Kelly Mystery 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dying to Go: A Kat Kelly Mystery 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dying to Go – the latest Kat Kelly mystery – available now!

Just in time for the holidays, the 5th book in the Kat Kelly series, Dying to Go, is available in both paperback and ebook version!

Hell is other people…or more specifically other Americans. That’s what Kat Kelly realizes when she and her childhood friend, Adam, decide to rent an Italian villa and invite their friends from home to stay.

Kat’s dreams of languid “la dolce vita” days are soon dashed wh

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The Lying Life of Adults

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“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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