Finding Your Own Unique Voice

Tuesday, August 17, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Sometimes you just have to break the rules. That’s what former Colorado resident and first-time author Deborah Coonts discovered on the way to becoming an “overnight success.” Join us for our August Write Brain as Deb tells us how she used her own strengths—her wicked humor and off-beat view of the world--to create Lucky O’Toole, the in-charge but vulnerable heroine in her first Las Vegas adventure, Wanna Get Lucky?  She’ll also show us how to find our own unique voices, and once we’ve found them, how to position our novels in the marketplace.

About Deborah:
Deborah Coonts is proof positive that sex sells and persistence pays off. A Texas girl, she spent years being someone else—an accountant, a business owner, a lawyer and a pilot. But through it all she wrote. After two practice novels and a humor column, she wrote Wanna Get Lucky?, the first in a series published by Forge Books--think Sex in the City meets Elmore Leonard in Vegas. Sexy, wry, romantic and slightly naughty, mixed with a little mayhem, Lucky is taking the publishing world by storm. Watch out, Janet Evanovich!

Nonmembers may attend one Write Brain session for free. Subsequent sessions are $10.

Write Brain Sessions are held at Cottonwood Center for the Arts, 427 E. Colorado Avenue, Studio A. Visitor’s  parking is in the large lot on the east side of the Cottonwood building.

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If you would like to participate in any Write Brain session, PLEASE RSVP AND INCLUDE YOUR DAYTIME CONTACT INFORMATION. This does not commit you to attending, but enables us to prepare enough materials for expected attendees, and importantly, it gives us a way to contact you if we have an emergency change to the Write Brain session, such as a postponement due to weather. We will make every attempt to post changes to the PPW Yahoo loop and our Web site, but to be ensured of notification you must RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  .

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Pikes Peak Writers and the Colorado Springs Marriott Present: American Icon 6

Date: Friday evening, August 6, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Colorado Springs Marriott, 5580 Tech Center Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80919   REGISTER NOW

American Icon is our literary version of American Idol. Contestants (limited to the first 20 who sign up), have two minutes to read from their work of fiction or non-fiction. A panel of three celebrity judges then gives on-the-spot feedback to the contestant. This year our judges are writer and producer Trai Cartwright, editor Carolyn Sobczak with Fulcrum Publishing, and agent Ange Tysdal with AKA Literary, LLC.

It's a glitzy evening of laughter, excitement, and really great desserts. So join in the fun! Enter to win acclaim and great prizes, or come to support your favorite authors and enjoy an evening guaranteed to entertain.

Cost:
$10 for attendees
$25 for PPW member contestants/$35 for non PPW member contestants
Pre-Registration Required for both Readers and Attendees - REGISTER NOW

Prizes include critiques by editors and agents, bookstore certificates, a fabulous hotel stay and more.

Pikes Peak Writers Sizzling Summer Series

Putting on the Moves: A Writer's Guide to Body Language & Styles

Tuesday, July 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Learn all about body language with sociologist and writer Morgen Leigh Thomas. If you’re tired of your characters doing nothing but grinning, grimacing and raising their eyebrows, give them something new to do! Join us to uncover a more complete repertoire of human gestures and expressions.

NEW INFO:  Participants should bring about 5 pages of a work in progress, preferably with dialogue in their sample.

Morgen Leigh began fabricating stories when she was three-years-old. At the age of six she began putting her dark flights of fancy down on paper. A voracious reader as a youngster, Morgen spent entirely too much time with her nose stuck in a book and playing with the wood elves in her expansive backyard. She also enjoyed scaring the hell out of friends and family with her unsettling, dark tales. At the impressionable age of 11 she read Sybil and promptly struck out on a quest to learn more about the human psyche and the darker aspects of human behavior. This quest led her to pursue a double major in psychology and sociology at the University of Colorado, where she obtained a masters degree in sociology with an emphasis in social psychology and deviance. Morgen's fiction and creative non-fiction stories have appeared in Twilight  Times, Apollo’s Lyre, The S’Peaker, Lorelei Signal, and Mystic Signals. She is currently finishing a second novel and watching her teenage son eat everything in sight.

Nonmembers may attend one Write Brain session for free. Subsequent sessions are $10.

Write Brain Sessions are held at Cottonwood Center for the Arts, 427 E. Colorado Avenue, Studio A. Visitor’s  parking is in the large lot on the east side of the Cottonwood building.

Get map.  

If you would like to participate in any Write Brain session, PLEASE RSVP AND INCLUDE YOUR DAYTIME CONTACT INFORMATION. This does not commit you to attending, but enables us to prepare enough materials for expected attendees, and importantly, it gives us a way to contact you if we have an emergency change to the Write Brain session, such as a postponement due to weather. We will make every attempt to post changes to the PPW Yahoo loop and our Web site, but to be ensured of notification you must RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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