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		<title>Surviving Deployment Cover Reveal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second edition of <i>Surviving Deployment</i> will be released this fall! I love the new edition’s cover, and I thought it would be fun to do a cover reveal! Over the next 5 days, I will add a clue to this page. So stop back to see the pieces of the cover come together!]]></description>
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		<div class="dslc-text-module-content"><h1><a href="http://karenpavlicin.com">Karen Pavlicin</a></h1></div>
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							<a class="dslc-social-icon" target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavlicin"><span class="dslc-icon dslc-icon-linkedin"></span></a>
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							<a class="dslc-social-icon" target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/karenpavlicin"><span class="dslc-icon dslc-icon-instagram"></span></a>
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							<a class="dslc-social-icon" target="_blank" href="mailto:kmp@karenpavlicin.com"><span class="dslc-icon dslc-icon-envelope"></span></a>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers are vulnerable. We open the curtains and offer the world an intimate view. And if we get the lighting just right, anyone peering in will also see themselves in the reflection. Writers aren’t content with simply observing or even living life. We have to dig deeper, figure out why, get to the details then bring it all up a thousand notches to apply across humanity. We catalog the course of events, savor a good line of dialog, squirrel away nuggets of truth, and grow with our characters. It’s painful. Hard work. And necessary. Writers have to write. ]]></description>
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		<div class="dslc-text-module-content"><h1><a href="http://karenpavlicin.com">Karen Pavlicin</a></h1></div>
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