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		<title>We Got Lucky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always a thrill when one of our own releases a debut novel, and it&#8217;s even more of a thrill when she takes some time from a busy book tour to present the third and final of our Sizzling Summer Write Brain series. Longtime PPW member Deborah Coonts spiced up her Finding Your Unique Voice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Icons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Icon 2, in 2006, signified the beginning of my involvement with Pikes Peak Writers. The 2006 PPWC was the very first writers conference I had ever attended and that came about as a fluke. I&#8217;d been engaged in email exchanges with an agent in New York who told me she would be at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deadline is Almost Here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, crud! The deadline for American Icon 6 is almost here and I haven&#8217;t registered yet. What the heck is wrong with me? If I don&#8217;t register by 5:00 on Tuesday August 3, I might be out of luck. Oh no! After 5:00 on Tuesday I can only get in on a space available basis. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pikespeakwriters.com/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Join the Party &#8211; Just a Week Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can have the same kind of fun these people had at American Icon 4. See that thing behind them? It&#8217;s a cash bar. But you have to wonder&#8230; Are they looking at the reader on stage, or are they looking at the scrumptious desserts just a few feet away? From the size of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pikespeakwriters.com/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Picture Yourself A Winner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read from your work in front of a live audience. An audience that&#8217;s been fed, refreshed, and is very receptive! Prizes include partial manuscript critiques by agents and editors, a free night at the Marriott Colorado Springs (ooooh&#8230;), bookstore certificates and more. You can be one of the winners. Pikes Peak Writers American Icon 6, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pikespeakwriters.com/?p=143</link>
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		<title>An American Icon Success Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kirk Farber, whose novel Postcards from a Dead Girl was on the Denver Post&#8217;s best seller list the first week out, took both Best Overall and Best Character honors at American Icon 3 in 2007. He obtained an agent to represent him at the 2008 Pikes Peak Writers Conference, and Postcards from a Dead Girl [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pikespeakwriters.com/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Be a Reading Rock Star!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enter to read from your work in the 6th Annual Pikes Peak Writers American Icon Contest! August 6, 2010 6:30 PM, Colorado Springs Marriott Read a short selection in front of a live audience and three &#8220;celebrity&#8221; judges. This year we have writer/producer Trai Cartwright, editor Carolyn Sobczak, and agent Ange Tysdal. Great prizes, munchies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pikespeakwriters.com/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Judges for American Icon 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;celebrity&#8221; judges for PPW American Icon 6, August 6, 2010, 6:30 PM at the Colorado Springs Marriot are: TRAI CARTWRIGHT is a writer, producer and professional writing coach and teacher. She has consulted on thousands of books and scripts, produced three independent films and worked as a feature film and online entertainment creative executive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pikespeakwriters.com/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Update for brag sheet:  Laura Reeve signing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Laura E. Reeve&#8217;s third novel in the Major Ariane Kedros series, Pathfinder, will be released July 6th. Laura will be signing books in the series at the Citadel Barnes &#38; Noble in CO Springs on July 24th at 1:00 p.m. For further information, see her web site at www.AncestralStars.com.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pikespeakwriters.com/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Twitter test post.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A) Yellow. B) Unladen. C) 42.]]></description>
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