The Write On Four Corners Schedule for August, 2008 KSJE FM
August 6 and August 8 Robert Bauver Navajo and Pueblo Earrings Rio Grande Press
August 13 and August 15 David Feela Cortez Writer Articles, flash fiction, and poetry written for local media
August 20 and August 22 V. B. Price Broken and Reset Selected PV. B. Price Broken and Resetoems 1966 to 2006, UNM Press.
August 27 and August 29 Rudolfo Anaya The First Tortilla UNM Press
V. B. Price Broken and Reset
Write On Four Corners runs on Wednesdays at 10:30 am and Fridays at 2:30 pm Mountain Time on KSJE FM 90.9 You can listen on the web at www.ksje.com in real time by clicking on listen live, or by going MP3 Archives, Write On Four Corners, and the program you wish to hear. We usually send up the podcasts a little after the Wednesday broadcasts.
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Publishing at http://www.apbooks.net
Thursday, July 31, 2008
New Mexico Book Association
> August 3: Jane Hirschfeld, poet (Given Sugar, The Lives of the Heart, etc.), reading and signing at Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
> August 8: NMBA Networking Luncheon, The Writers Room, Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm, free.
> August 9: Lisa Dale Norton: Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (St. Martin's Press), booklaunch at Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 3-4pm. Reception at the author's home follows at 5pm. Call Lisa at (505) 986-0050.
> August 14: NMBA Publishers and Authors Round Table & Happy Hour! Santa Fe Bar and Grill in DeVargas Mall, 5:30pm. Come, relax, enjoy conversation!
> August 16: "Oral History Collecting" with Cecelia Portal, Taos Public Library, 10:30am to 12:30pm, $45 www.somos.org
> August 22: DEADLINE! PDF file for your page in the catalog for the New Mexico Authors & Publishers Showcase at the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Trade Show. Contact Jim Mafchir, westernedge@santa-fe.net, (505) 988-7214.
> September 9: Dan Poynter "Guerilla Marketing for Small Presses and Self Published Authors", An NMBA & SWW professional workshop from 7 - 9pm held at the New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque. Members of SWW or NMBA $25, non-members $35. Reserve now: Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque: (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net
> September 28: "Writing from the Creative Heart" workshop with Denise Chavez, Cultural Center de Mesilla, Mesilla, NM, $100. www.borderbookfestival.org.
> October 3-4: Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Show, Museo Cultural, Santa Fe. www.santafebookshow.com, (505) 983-0088.
> October 18: Penny Sansevieri Workshop: "Red Hot Internet Marketing for Authors & Publishers," sponsored by NMBA and SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque. 9am - 4:30pm, includes lunch and book. NMBA and SWW members $79, $99 non-members. Reserve now: Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque: (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
> August 8: NMBA Networking Luncheon, The Writers Room, Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm, free.
> August 9: Lisa Dale Norton: Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (St. Martin's Press), booklaunch at Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 3-4pm. Reception at the author's home follows at 5pm. Call Lisa at (505) 986-0050.
> August 14: NMBA Publishers and Authors Round Table & Happy Hour! Santa Fe Bar and Grill in DeVargas Mall, 5:30pm. Come, relax, enjoy conversation!
> August 16: "Oral History Collecting" with Cecelia Portal, Taos Public Library, 10:30am to 12:30pm, $45 www.somos.org
> August 22: DEADLINE! PDF file for your page in the catalog for the New Mexico Authors & Publishers Showcase at the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Trade Show. Contact Jim Mafchir, westernedge@santa-fe.net, (505) 988-7214.
> September 9: Dan Poynter "Guerilla Marketing for Small Presses and Self Published Authors", An NMBA & SWW professional workshop from 7 - 9pm held at the New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque. Members of SWW or NMBA $25, non-members $35. Reserve now: Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque: (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net
> September 28: "Writing from the Creative Heart" workshop with Denise Chavez, Cultural Center de Mesilla, Mesilla, NM, $100. www.borderbookfestival.org.
> October 3-4: Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Show, Museo Cultural, Santa Fe. www.santafebookshow.com, (505) 983-0088.
> October 18: Penny Sansevieri Workshop: "Red Hot Internet Marketing for Authors & Publishers," sponsored by NMBA and SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque. 9am - 4:30pm, includes lunch and book. NMBA and SWW members $79, $99 non-members. Reserve now: Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque: (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
Monday, July 28, 2008
New Mexico Book Co-op, and New Mexico Book Association share a booth/table at Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers
It is official: New Mexico Book Co-op, and New Mexico Book Association are partnering up to share a booth/table at Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Trader Show in Colorado Springs in September 19-20. The MPIBA show is always a great place to meet bookstore buyers, as well as rights and sales reps, agents, etc.
The cost to participate in this special display/promotion event is $60 per title. We will display 2 copies of your book(s) and will produce a catalog of all books participating to be handed out for all Trade Show attendees. In addition to your 2 copies of each title entered, you need to provide a pdf file that we would copy and bind into this new catalog. The file should be a
8-1/2 x 11 page promoting your book. If you participated in the recent NM Book Co-op catalog you do not need to send a pdf file as we will be able to use your page from that catalog which was mailed to all bookstores and libraries in the region.
You do not have to be there but if you want to join in the fun and excitement and have a change to meet and greet book buyers you can attend all or part of the show.
If you are interested you need to either send a check to the address below or go online and make payment on the website to reserve your space for this great program-- http://nmbookcoop.com/page18/page100/page100.html. You need to make payment, send your two display copies and your pdf file no later than August 29. If you want to display more than one title it is $60 for the first title and $20 for each additional title after the first. The display copies will not be returned and will be donated to a local literacy program after the event.
You can reserve your space on the Book Co-op website at http://nmbookcoop.com/page18/page100/page100.html
--
Paul Rhetts
LPD Press & Rio Grande Books
925 Salamanca NW
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM 87107
505/344-9382
FAX 505/345-5129
LPD_Press@msn.com
http://nmsantos.com New Mexico Book Co-op, and New Mexico Book Association are partnering up to share a booth/table at Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
The cost to participate in this special display/promotion event is $60 per title. We will display 2 copies of your book(s) and will produce a catalog of all books participating to be handed out for all Trade Show attendees. In addition to your 2 copies of each title entered, you need to provide a pdf file that we would copy and bind into this new catalog. The file should be a
8-1/2 x 11 page promoting your book. If you participated in the recent NM Book Co-op catalog you do not need to send a pdf file as we will be able to use your page from that catalog which was mailed to all bookstores and libraries in the region.
You do not have to be there but if you want to join in the fun and excitement and have a change to meet and greet book buyers you can attend all or part of the show.
If you are interested you need to either send a check to the address below or go online and make payment on the website to reserve your space for this great program-- http://nmbookcoop.com/page18/page100/page100.html. You need to make payment, send your two display copies and your pdf file no later than August 29. If you want to display more than one title it is $60 for the first title and $20 for each additional title after the first. The display copies will not be returned and will be donated to a local literacy program after the event.
You can reserve your space on the Book Co-op website at http://nmbookcoop.com/page18/page100/page100.html
--
Paul Rhetts
LPD Press & Rio Grande Books
925 Salamanca NW
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM 87107
505/344-9382
FAX 505/345-5129
LPD_Press@msn.com
http://nmsantos.com New Mexico Book Co-op, and New Mexico Book Association are partnering up to share a booth/table at Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show
Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show:
Must Reserve Your Space Now!
Your best opportunity to show your titles to independent bookstore owners from throughout the region is unquestionably the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show.
Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show
It’s one of the most active in the country and takes place this September 19-20 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Colorado Springs. But space filling fast and we need to hear from you now if you’re going to have a chance to be in the show and catalog. Space is very limited!
NMBA has invited the New Mexico Book Coop to join us there. Our joint booth will be bannered "New Mexico Authors and Publishers Showcase." Here’s how you get in:
First, email me now ( richard@oceantree.com ) to tell NMBA you want to be in the show. Next, send in your participation fee: It’s just $60 for a single book. And $20 for each additional title shown. Your check to NMBA, PO Box 1285, Santa Fe 87504, secures your reservation. The fee includes your 8.5"x11" page in the catalog.
By August 22 we need to have two copies of your book and a PDF of your page for the special New Mexico Authors and Publishers Catalog that we’re planning just for this show. (We can also scan from your printed page if necessary).
Yes, there will be opportunity for author appearances -- we encourage them!
Contact Richard Polese (505) 231-1755, or Jim Mafchir, (505) 988-7214 if you have any further questions. Last year’s MPIBA was a strong success, with much bookseller interest in New Mexico’s literary offerings!
A Few News Bits!
>> First NMBA Publishers and Authors Round Table Happy Hour! Thursday, August 14 at 5:30pm at Santa Fe Bar and Grill in DeVargas Mall will be the debut of this new NMBA offering for our members. The NMBA board created this as an informal social gathering of literary spirits (pardon the pun!). Come, relax, and imbibe if you’d like, enjoy the company and the conversation!
>> Next Networking Luncheon is Friday, August 8 from 11:30am to 1:15pm at the Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe. We’ll explore dealing with holiday season sales or continue our discussion how to set up your own publishing imprint. Juice and cookies provided, but please bring your own lunch--and bring a friend. It’s free. (Need directions? Call 505.231-1755.)
>> NMBA Welcomes Linda Whittenberg to our growing membership of book professionals. Linda is a published poet who lives in Santa Fe.
>> Translation Grant: Lumen Books has received a $22,000 grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture to support the translation into English of two works: Juan Goytisolo's Campos de Nijár, translated by Peter Bush, and Álvaro Pombo's Contra Natura, translated by Ronald Christ.
Calendar Update!
July 21-25: "Writing Women’s Lives," Southwest Literary Center writers conference, Hotel St. Francis, Santa Fe, $575 for all five days. (505) 982-9301, litcenter@recursos.org.
July 24: Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche, booksigning at Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. (505) 986-0151. Visit www.garciastreetbooks.com for more in-store events!
Aug. 8: NMBA Networking Luncheon: "Preparing for Holiday Selling," The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free. (505) 231-1755.
Aug. 9: Lisa Dale Norton: Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (St. Martin's Press), workshop and booksigning, Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, 3-4 p.m., free! Information: (505) 986-0151, www:garciastreetbooks.com or www:lisadalenorton.com
Aug. 9: Frank Murphy: The Spirit of Tea, booksigning at Tattered Cover, Denver, 2pm. (505) 982-0874 for details.
Aug. 22: DEADLINE! Books and PDF file for our New Mexico Authors & Publishers Showcase at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show. We need a PDF of your page for the catalog and two copies of each title by this date! Contact Jim Mafchir, westernedge@santa-fe.net, (505) 988-7214.
Sept. 9: Dan Poynter Professional Development Workshop: "Guerrilla Marketing for Small Presses and Self-Published Authors," sponsored by NMBA & SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, $25 for NMBA and SWW members, $35 non-members. Contact Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Jim Mafchir in Santa Fe (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net.
Sept. 19-20: Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Colorado Springs. www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 27: First New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. Contact John Stafford at Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Oct. 18: Penny Sansevieri Professional Workshop: "Red Hot Internet Marketing for Authors & Publishers," sponsored by NMBA and SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 9am–4:30pm. NMBA and SWW members $79 (includes Penny's book, Red Hot Internet Publicity, and lunch!). Reserve your spot now! Rob Spiegel (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Karen Villanueva (505) 764-8323, authorcare@aol.com
Visit www.nmbook.org for continuing news and events!
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
Must Reserve Your Space Now!
Your best opportunity to show your titles to independent bookstore owners from throughout the region is unquestionably the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show.
Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show
It’s one of the most active in the country and takes place this September 19-20 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Colorado Springs. But space filling fast and we need to hear from you now if you’re going to have a chance to be in the show and catalog. Space is very limited!
NMBA has invited the New Mexico Book Coop to join us there. Our joint booth will be bannered "New Mexico Authors and Publishers Showcase." Here’s how you get in:
First, email me now ( richard@oceantree.com ) to tell NMBA you want to be in the show. Next, send in your participation fee: It’s just $60 for a single book. And $20 for each additional title shown. Your check to NMBA, PO Box 1285, Santa Fe 87504, secures your reservation. The fee includes your 8.5"x11" page in the catalog.
By August 22 we need to have two copies of your book and a PDF of your page for the special New Mexico Authors and Publishers Catalog that we’re planning just for this show. (We can also scan from your printed page if necessary).
Yes, there will be opportunity for author appearances -- we encourage them!
Contact Richard Polese (505) 231-1755, or Jim Mafchir, (505) 988-7214 if you have any further questions. Last year’s MPIBA was a strong success, with much bookseller interest in New Mexico’s literary offerings!
A Few News Bits!
>> First NMBA Publishers and Authors Round Table Happy Hour! Thursday, August 14 at 5:30pm at Santa Fe Bar and Grill in DeVargas Mall will be the debut of this new NMBA offering for our members. The NMBA board created this as an informal social gathering of literary spirits (pardon the pun!). Come, relax, and imbibe if you’d like, enjoy the company and the conversation!
>> Next Networking Luncheon is Friday, August 8 from 11:30am to 1:15pm at the Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe. We’ll explore dealing with holiday season sales or continue our discussion how to set up your own publishing imprint. Juice and cookies provided, but please bring your own lunch--and bring a friend. It’s free. (Need directions? Call 505.231-1755.)
>> NMBA Welcomes Linda Whittenberg to our growing membership of book professionals. Linda is a published poet who lives in Santa Fe.
>> Translation Grant: Lumen Books has received a $22,000 grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture to support the translation into English of two works: Juan Goytisolo's Campos de Nijár, translated by Peter Bush, and Álvaro Pombo's Contra Natura, translated by Ronald Christ.
Calendar Update!
July 21-25: "Writing Women’s Lives," Southwest Literary Center writers conference, Hotel St. Francis, Santa Fe, $575 for all five days. (505) 982-9301, litcenter@recursos.org.
July 24: Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche, booksigning at Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. (505) 986-0151. Visit www.garciastreetbooks.com for more in-store events!
Aug. 8: NMBA Networking Luncheon: "Preparing for Holiday Selling," The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free. (505) 231-1755.
Aug. 9: Lisa Dale Norton: Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (St. Martin's Press), workshop and booksigning, Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, 3-4 p.m., free! Information: (505) 986-0151, www:garciastreetbooks.com or www:lisadalenorton.com
Aug. 9: Frank Murphy: The Spirit of Tea, booksigning at Tattered Cover, Denver, 2pm. (505) 982-0874 for details.
Aug. 22: DEADLINE! Books and PDF file for our New Mexico Authors & Publishers Showcase at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show. We need a PDF of your page for the catalog and two copies of each title by this date! Contact Jim Mafchir, westernedge@santa-fe.net, (505) 988-7214.
Sept. 9: Dan Poynter Professional Development Workshop: "Guerrilla Marketing for Small Presses and Self-Published Authors," sponsored by NMBA & SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, $25 for NMBA and SWW members, $35 non-members. Contact Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Jim Mafchir in Santa Fe (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net.
Sept. 19-20: Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Colorado Springs. www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 27: First New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. Contact John Stafford at Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Oct. 18: Penny Sansevieri Professional Workshop: "Red Hot Internet Marketing for Authors & Publishers," sponsored by NMBA and SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 9am–4:30pm. NMBA and SWW members $79 (includes Penny's book, Red Hot Internet Publicity, and lunch!). Reserve your spot now! Rob Spiegel (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Karen Villanueva (505) 764-8323, authorcare@aol.com
Visit www.nmbook.org for continuing news and events!
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
Friday, July 11, 2008
New Mexico Book Association News
Setting Up Your Own Imprint
> Ask questions, bring answers! Today (Friday) from 11:30am to 1:15pm at NMBA’s July Networking Luncheon we will explore how to avoid POD pitfalls by setting up your own imprint (publishing company name). Come to the Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe. Bring a bag lunch and a curious friend. It is free. We’ll have cookies and juice available (and perhaps a glass of wine). Need directions? Call (505) 231-1755.
> Amazon and Us: The NMBA Board will meet next Wednesday, July 16 at the Writers Room. We will consider joining in a group response to Amazon’s new policy for buying only those POD books produced by their own publishing arm. SPAN and other small press advocates are offering strong objections to Amazon’s bid to control this marketplace.
> Image Print: Jim Holefka announced recently that Batson Printing is now Image Print Group. Bring your requests for quotations to Jim at (734) 475-5785, or reach him at jmholefka@imageprint.com
> Lumen’s Award: ForeWord Magazine announced at BookExpo in Los Angeles that Ron Christ’s translation of Altimirano’s El Zarco: The Blue Eyed Bandit) won a Bronze Book of the Year Award for Translation. Lumen Books of Santa Fe published the book.
> NMBA Welcomes Bridgeworks (Lanny Goodman) to our growing membership. Bridgeworks of Albuquerque publishes books and manuals in business, women’s health and how-to. Visit www.bridgeworks.com.
> Pick Up Show Books! Checks have been sent to all participants whose books found buyers at the New Mexico Library Association Conference and the Border Book Festival. Please pick up returned books at our office. If you are at today’s luncheon, you can retrieve them easily. Our office is next to the Writers Room.
Calendar Update!
July 11: NMBA Networking Luncheon, The Writer’s Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free. (505) 231-1755.
July 11-13: “Getting the Guts to Say It” with Cindy Bellinger, Narrative Arts Center weekend intensive. (505) 988-5185
July 12: Ellen Barone: “Turn Your Adventures Into Travel Writing” (the first of five WordHarvest one day writing workshops), Santa Fe, 9am-4pm. (505) 471-1565, www.wordhavest.com
July 17: Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game, Page One Bookstore, Albuquerque, 7pm.
July 19: Lisa Fox and Richard Harris, Artisan Farming, booksigning at Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, 9am-noon.
July 21-25: “Writing Women’s Lives,” Southwest Literary Center writers conference, Hotel St. Francis, Santa Fe, $575 for all five days. (505) 982-9301, litcenter@recursos.org.
July 24: Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche, booksigning at Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. (505) 986-0151. Visit www.garciastreetbooks.com for more in-store events!
Aug. 8: NMBA Networking Luncheon: “Preparing for Holiday Selling,” The Writer’s Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free. (505) 231-1755.
Aug. 9: Frank Murphy, The Spirit of Tea, booksigning at Tattered Cover, Denver, 2pm. Call 982-0874 for details.
Aug. 29: DEADLINE! Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show. NMBA will need a PDF of your page for the catalog, two copies of each title, and $60 for participation. Contact Jim Mafchir, westernedge@santa-fe.net, (505) 988-7214.
Sept. 9: Dan Poynter Professional Development Workshop: “Guerrilla
Marketing for Small Presses and Self-Published Authors,” sponsored by NMBA & SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, $25 for NMBA and SWW members, $35 non-members. Contact: Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Jim Mafchir in Santa Fe (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net.
Sept. 17-20: Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Colorado Springs. www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 27: First New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. Contact John Stafford at Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Oct. 18: Penny Sansevieri Professional Workshop: “Red Hot Internet Marketing for Authors & Publishers,” sponsored by NMBA and SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 9am–4:30pm. NMBA and SWW members $79, non-members $99 (includes Penny's book, Red Hot Internet Publicity, and lunch!). Reserve your spot now! Contact: Rob Spiegel (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Karen Villanueva (505) 764-8323, authorcare@aol.com
Visit www.nmbook.org for continuing news and events!
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
> Ask questions, bring answers! Today (Friday) from 11:30am to 1:15pm at NMBA’s July Networking Luncheon we will explore how to avoid POD pitfalls by setting up your own imprint (publishing company name). Come to the Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe. Bring a bag lunch and a curious friend. It is free. We’ll have cookies and juice available (and perhaps a glass of wine). Need directions? Call (505) 231-1755.
> Amazon and Us: The NMBA Board will meet next Wednesday, July 16 at the Writers Room. We will consider joining in a group response to Amazon’s new policy for buying only those POD books produced by their own publishing arm. SPAN and other small press advocates are offering strong objections to Amazon’s bid to control this marketplace.
> Image Print: Jim Holefka announced recently that Batson Printing is now Image Print Group. Bring your requests for quotations to Jim at (734) 475-5785, or reach him at jmholefka@imageprint.com
> Lumen’s Award: ForeWord Magazine announced at BookExpo in Los Angeles that Ron Christ’s translation of Altimirano’s El Zarco: The Blue Eyed Bandit) won a Bronze Book of the Year Award for Translation. Lumen Books of Santa Fe published the book.
> NMBA Welcomes Bridgeworks (Lanny Goodman) to our growing membership. Bridgeworks of Albuquerque publishes books and manuals in business, women’s health and how-to. Visit www.bridgeworks.com.
> Pick Up Show Books! Checks have been sent to all participants whose books found buyers at the New Mexico Library Association Conference and the Border Book Festival. Please pick up returned books at our office. If you are at today’s luncheon, you can retrieve them easily. Our office is next to the Writers Room.
Calendar Update!
July 11: NMBA Networking Luncheon, The Writer’s Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free. (505) 231-1755.
July 11-13: “Getting the Guts to Say It” with Cindy Bellinger, Narrative Arts Center weekend intensive. (505) 988-5185
July 12: Ellen Barone: “Turn Your Adventures Into Travel Writing” (the first of five WordHarvest one day writing workshops), Santa Fe, 9am-4pm. (505) 471-1565, www.wordhavest.com
July 17: Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game, Page One Bookstore, Albuquerque, 7pm.
July 19: Lisa Fox and Richard Harris, Artisan Farming, booksigning at Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, 9am-noon.
July 21-25: “Writing Women’s Lives,” Southwest Literary Center writers conference, Hotel St. Francis, Santa Fe, $575 for all five days. (505) 982-9301, litcenter@recursos.org.
July 24: Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche, booksigning at Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. (505) 986-0151. Visit www.garciastreetbooks.com for more in-store events!
Aug. 8: NMBA Networking Luncheon: “Preparing for Holiday Selling,” The Writer’s Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free. (505) 231-1755.
Aug. 9: Frank Murphy, The Spirit of Tea, booksigning at Tattered Cover, Denver, 2pm. Call 982-0874 for details.
Aug. 29: DEADLINE! Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show. NMBA will need a PDF of your page for the catalog, two copies of each title, and $60 for participation. Contact Jim Mafchir, westernedge@santa-fe.net, (505) 988-7214.
Sept. 9: Dan Poynter Professional Development Workshop: “Guerrilla
Marketing for Small Presses and Self-Published Authors,” sponsored by NMBA & SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, $25 for NMBA and SWW members, $35 non-members. Contact: Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Jim Mafchir in Santa Fe (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net.
Sept. 17-20: Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Colorado Springs. www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 27: First New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. Contact John Stafford at Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Oct. 18: Penny Sansevieri Professional Workshop: “Red Hot Internet Marketing for Authors & Publishers,” sponsored by NMBA and SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 9am–4:30pm. NMBA and SWW members $79, non-members $99 (includes Penny's book, Red Hot Internet Publicity, and lunch!). Reserve your spot now! Contact: Rob Spiegel (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Karen Villanueva (505) 764-8323, authorcare@aol.com
Visit www.nmbook.org for continuing news and events!
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
Cosmic Raccoon by Gwynne Spencer
Gwynne Spencer
PO Box 525
103 Fleischman Lane
Monmouth, OR 97361
(503) 606-2696
gwynnespencer@aol.com
www.gwynnespencer.com
Cosmic Raccoon July 2008
So, just the other day, I was watching the Pete Seeger Special on PBS and wondering how we got to where we are. I think back, it seems like yesterday, to the steps of the Lincoln memorial on the edge of the reflecting pool. National guardsmen with their guns trained down on us. Getting smacked over the head with clubs. Stitches. Because we thought we could stop war? What ever happened to those days? Where did all our noble intentions go?
Our children-do they know of our wild imagines of peace and equality? Do they know about those days filled with fear and hate and lies? Speaking of which, did you know that we are the only nation on this side of the planet that allows the drug companies to advertise on TV? Meanwhile, back on PBS, old Pete is singing, "If you love this land of the free, bring 'em home. bring 'em home. Bring all troops home from overseas. Bring 'em home bring 'em home." Thus endeth the rant. They tell me there are meds that can help me.
Except for the fact I just finished reading OUR DAILY MEDS by Melody Petersen which looks at the pharmaceutical industry's takeover of the health of the nation. Did you know we are the ONLY nation that does not control its drug prices? "JUST SAY NO" seems to have been a dictum to heed.
So to take a break from the television, I read Jerry Spinelli's SMILES TO GO which is a totally entrancing story of a boy learning what he is really most afraid of, and embracing it without ever naming it. Wow. What a fine piece of writing.
And of course I read (and reviewed) my regular fifty or so picture books. My computer is running awfully slow and there are not any pharma-fixes, I'm afraid. So I bought an external hard drive, in hopes of keeping my old iMac alive a few more years (I do love this machine) by unburdening its hard drive. It's not often you get a chance to completely reconfigure all your writing files, but I figured as I was dragging them off to the cute little new drive, I'd clean up the mess that has accumulated.
And that of course is like cleaning out all the drawers in your kitchen by dumping everything in the middle of the living room floor (the Peg Bracken method). So now I have a bunch of files I had totally forgotten I'd written! It was like Christmas in Toyland. Sometimes I do wonder about my brain. But during the big move to the vacant 120 gigs of new hard drive (which is the size of a memo pad, just the cutest little thing you ever did see), I also decided to wrastle my Anasazi book into submission and started a complete total rewrite, from scratch--perhaps the only way to do this sort of thing--as a hero journey. My perambulations from a not-knowing-anything kid who only knew from YMCA Indians to the real deal in New Mexico including a chicken pull in Acoma and night dances in Zuni. My fascination, obsession with Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde got in there too, and who knows where this will end up. Look at all the trouble a new hard drive can cause? It's worse than listening to Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie.
It reminded me of a dream I had where I couldn't walk forward, only could walk backward in the same direction where everybody else was headed. Which of course is an old line from Marshall McLuhan, "We walk backwards into the future." It's a conundrum wrapped inside an enigma inside a mystery, like the sound of one hand clapping, right? So while I was puzzling on this, a bunch of pieces of old articles and half-written manuscripts reassembled themselves into a tidy little book on teaching adults to read. This is a miracle. Sort of like tossing a laundry basket full of parts off the Empire State Building and a radio lands on the sidewalk below.
Then, on NPR, I heard the most remarkable interview with Michael Meade (old storyteller-stab-you-in-the-heart Michael Meade) about the End of Time, the World Behind the World. "When everything has lost meaning, when the human perception is that hopelessness prevails and there is no redemption," he says, "THAT is when you trot out the storytellers and the poets." He points out that at JFK's inauguration, at the right hand of the new president sat Robert Frost. I think for George W. it was Karl Rove.
So let's all bring back the stories, the poems, the myths, and remember in the front most part of our brains that the truth is not in the facts but in the stories. Take time to tell and write the stories of our lives, stories of our hopes, stories for our children, stories of our dreams and even stories of our forgetting. Too soon we put away stories and begin to dance to the facts, and too late we learn that facts don't endure, only stories do. I think recipes are the sisters of stories.
In my Abington childhood I envied people like Frannie Martella who lived in a little village of row houses down by Donato's grocery. Her family had famously exotic dinners like real lasagna and even green salads that had been previously alive, while up the hill on Huntingdon Road we had feasts of Chef BoyArDee slathered with Contadina spaghetti sauce straight out of the can and not a meatball for a mile. Other meals often featured such delights as lima bean-tomato-parmesan casserole baked until it smelled like monkey vomit. Some nights we were lucky kids-we faced a little island of canned spinach boiled into hot submission on the stovetop and served with a slice of hardboiled egg marooned in the middle. Even the bottomless cocker spaniel wouldn't eat it. And the time that she did, we had to have her stomach pumped. The ghost of that casserole probably still haunts the kitchen at 1428 Huntingdon Road. Abington, 19001.
But meanwhile, here at 103 Fleischman, 97361, summer has finally parked its fat white fanny in a lawn chair and is here to stay. To celebrate, I went to do a workshop in Ilwaco, on the Long Beach Peninsula of Washington where they had the Doggie Olympics, and where I visited Jack's Mercantile, a remarkable emporium of wonders: 6 kinds of oyster knives; Gumby and Pokey; Hopalong Cassidy lunchboxes; Teaberry Gum. It was like a time-warp.
The city of Ilwaco is a little port town, at the end of the trail for Lewis and Clark. I enjoyed marvelous enthusiasm from the workshop participants and highly recommend you visit All the Tea and China Tea Room when you go to Ilwaco (which I am sure you will!). In Long Beach (it's 25 miles of sand) I was reminded of the Olden Days in Stone Harbor before it got mcMansioned, and you could walk for half an hour to get to the water from the bulkhead. But of course on the Pacific you don't have bossy lifeguards who scream and whistle at you if you don't go in the water right in front of them so they can "guard" you. At least in the Pacific if you go more than knee deep in the water you have a good to middling chance of being swept out to sea by a rogue wave, or being sucked into eternity by the Dangerous Undertoad. And there's not a lifeguard for a hundred miles.
The hydrangeas are blooming, my herbs are huge, and tomatoes are beginning to appear at the markets. Some folks are getting to their second cutting of hay, and a couple people have already been fried by lightning. Fourth of July here promises to be a hoot-a big parade, fireworks, outdoor concerts and movies. It won't be the same as Mancos where the firemen put on the pyrotechnics, all of the guys outfitted in NoMec, and their fireworks always manage to start at least one huge fire nearby so they have to race off in the big pumper truck before the grand finale, leaving Lyle and a couple of the Good Old Boys to light up the fireworks-flag and play the scratchy and unintelligible CD of John Wayne singing the national anthem. I wonder if the Four O'Clock Weekedays War Protesters who stand in the Monmouth park and wave their signs "Bring 'em home" and sing Pete Seeger songs will march in the parade? They 're pretty old. Old as me. Born when the earth was still cooling.
I do love Monmouth. I tell people how we got here-Brenna had a dream and since we had ruled out a good number of states already, the few that had a "Monmouth" in them included Oregon and New Jersey. Since we were no-way going to New Joisey, we headed to Oregon. I found her a house on Craigslist-all pergo, and it's like doggie Nascar when her dobers answer the door. Then, she went to get a refrigerator shelf at the local appliance store and found me a rental house that is just perfect. She got accepted at Western Oregon into the Interpreter program, got a job at the local high school, next thing you know, we were embedded, just like we hoped. So we're here for the foreseeable future, and grateful for the 170 acres of landscaped lawns, roses and trees provided by WOU (Henry is thankful for the squirrels), and the zero crime rate (the police do a good job). And just today on the way to the grocery store I had to yield to five girls on palominos at the S-curve.
The hobo spiders are prodigious, so I've been shooting them with leftover beer. Seems to do the trick. The slugs can't climb up my back step or front step so I'm safe from their gooey predations, and the hundred year old cherry tree is putting out fruit! Ain't this world amazing!
gwynne
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
PO Box 525
103 Fleischman Lane
Monmouth, OR 97361
(503) 606-2696
gwynnespencer@aol.com
www.gwynnespencer.com
Cosmic Raccoon July 2008
So, just the other day, I was watching the Pete Seeger Special on PBS and wondering how we got to where we are. I think back, it seems like yesterday, to the steps of the Lincoln memorial on the edge of the reflecting pool. National guardsmen with their guns trained down on us. Getting smacked over the head with clubs. Stitches. Because we thought we could stop war? What ever happened to those days? Where did all our noble intentions go?
Our children-do they know of our wild imagines of peace and equality? Do they know about those days filled with fear and hate and lies? Speaking of which, did you know that we are the only nation on this side of the planet that allows the drug companies to advertise on TV? Meanwhile, back on PBS, old Pete is singing, "If you love this land of the free, bring 'em home. bring 'em home. Bring all troops home from overseas. Bring 'em home bring 'em home." Thus endeth the rant. They tell me there are meds that can help me.
Except for the fact I just finished reading OUR DAILY MEDS by Melody Petersen which looks at the pharmaceutical industry's takeover of the health of the nation. Did you know we are the ONLY nation that does not control its drug prices? "JUST SAY NO" seems to have been a dictum to heed.
So to take a break from the television, I read Jerry Spinelli's SMILES TO GO which is a totally entrancing story of a boy learning what he is really most afraid of, and embracing it without ever naming it. Wow. What a fine piece of writing.
And of course I read (and reviewed) my regular fifty or so picture books. My computer is running awfully slow and there are not any pharma-fixes, I'm afraid. So I bought an external hard drive, in hopes of keeping my old iMac alive a few more years (I do love this machine) by unburdening its hard drive. It's not often you get a chance to completely reconfigure all your writing files, but I figured as I was dragging them off to the cute little new drive, I'd clean up the mess that has accumulated.
And that of course is like cleaning out all the drawers in your kitchen by dumping everything in the middle of the living room floor (the Peg Bracken method). So now I have a bunch of files I had totally forgotten I'd written! It was like Christmas in Toyland. Sometimes I do wonder about my brain. But during the big move to the vacant 120 gigs of new hard drive (which is the size of a memo pad, just the cutest little thing you ever did see), I also decided to wrastle my Anasazi book into submission and started a complete total rewrite, from scratch--perhaps the only way to do this sort of thing--as a hero journey. My perambulations from a not-knowing-anything kid who only knew from YMCA Indians to the real deal in New Mexico including a chicken pull in Acoma and night dances in Zuni. My fascination, obsession with Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde got in there too, and who knows where this will end up. Look at all the trouble a new hard drive can cause? It's worse than listening to Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie.
It reminded me of a dream I had where I couldn't walk forward, only could walk backward in the same direction where everybody else was headed. Which of course is an old line from Marshall McLuhan, "We walk backwards into the future." It's a conundrum wrapped inside an enigma inside a mystery, like the sound of one hand clapping, right? So while I was puzzling on this, a bunch of pieces of old articles and half-written manuscripts reassembled themselves into a tidy little book on teaching adults to read. This is a miracle. Sort of like tossing a laundry basket full of parts off the Empire State Building and a radio lands on the sidewalk below.
Then, on NPR, I heard the most remarkable interview with Michael Meade (old storyteller-stab-you-in-the-heart Michael Meade) about the End of Time, the World Behind the World. "When everything has lost meaning, when the human perception is that hopelessness prevails and there is no redemption," he says, "THAT is when you trot out the storytellers and the poets." He points out that at JFK's inauguration, at the right hand of the new president sat Robert Frost. I think for George W. it was Karl Rove.
So let's all bring back the stories, the poems, the myths, and remember in the front most part of our brains that the truth is not in the facts but in the stories. Take time to tell and write the stories of our lives, stories of our hopes, stories for our children, stories of our dreams and even stories of our forgetting. Too soon we put away stories and begin to dance to the facts, and too late we learn that facts don't endure, only stories do. I think recipes are the sisters of stories.
In my Abington childhood I envied people like Frannie Martella who lived in a little village of row houses down by Donato's grocery. Her family had famously exotic dinners like real lasagna and even green salads that had been previously alive, while up the hill on Huntingdon Road we had feasts of Chef BoyArDee slathered with Contadina spaghetti sauce straight out of the can and not a meatball for a mile. Other meals often featured such delights as lima bean-tomato-parmesan casserole baked until it smelled like monkey vomit. Some nights we were lucky kids-we faced a little island of canned spinach boiled into hot submission on the stovetop and served with a slice of hardboiled egg marooned in the middle. Even the bottomless cocker spaniel wouldn't eat it. And the time that she did, we had to have her stomach pumped. The ghost of that casserole probably still haunts the kitchen at 1428 Huntingdon Road. Abington, 19001.
But meanwhile, here at 103 Fleischman, 97361, summer has finally parked its fat white fanny in a lawn chair and is here to stay. To celebrate, I went to do a workshop in Ilwaco, on the Long Beach Peninsula of Washington where they had the Doggie Olympics, and where I visited Jack's Mercantile, a remarkable emporium of wonders: 6 kinds of oyster knives; Gumby and Pokey; Hopalong Cassidy lunchboxes; Teaberry Gum. It was like a time-warp.
The city of Ilwaco is a little port town, at the end of the trail for Lewis and Clark. I enjoyed marvelous enthusiasm from the workshop participants and highly recommend you visit All the Tea and China Tea Room when you go to Ilwaco (which I am sure you will!). In Long Beach (it's 25 miles of sand) I was reminded of the Olden Days in Stone Harbor before it got mcMansioned, and you could walk for half an hour to get to the water from the bulkhead. But of course on the Pacific you don't have bossy lifeguards who scream and whistle at you if you don't go in the water right in front of them so they can "guard" you. At least in the Pacific if you go more than knee deep in the water you have a good to middling chance of being swept out to sea by a rogue wave, or being sucked into eternity by the Dangerous Undertoad. And there's not a lifeguard for a hundred miles.
The hydrangeas are blooming, my herbs are huge, and tomatoes are beginning to appear at the markets. Some folks are getting to their second cutting of hay, and a couple people have already been fried by lightning. Fourth of July here promises to be a hoot-a big parade, fireworks, outdoor concerts and movies. It won't be the same as Mancos where the firemen put on the pyrotechnics, all of the guys outfitted in NoMec, and their fireworks always manage to start at least one huge fire nearby so they have to race off in the big pumper truck before the grand finale, leaving Lyle and a couple of the Good Old Boys to light up the fireworks-flag and play the scratchy and unintelligible CD of John Wayne singing the national anthem. I wonder if the Four O'Clock Weekedays War Protesters who stand in the Monmouth park and wave their signs "Bring 'em home" and sing Pete Seeger songs will march in the parade? They 're pretty old. Old as me. Born when the earth was still cooling.
I do love Monmouth. I tell people how we got here-Brenna had a dream and since we had ruled out a good number of states already, the few that had a "Monmouth" in them included Oregon and New Jersey. Since we were no-way going to New Joisey, we headed to Oregon. I found her a house on Craigslist-all pergo, and it's like doggie Nascar when her dobers answer the door. Then, she went to get a refrigerator shelf at the local appliance store and found me a rental house that is just perfect. She got accepted at Western Oregon into the Interpreter program, got a job at the local high school, next thing you know, we were embedded, just like we hoped. So we're here for the foreseeable future, and grateful for the 170 acres of landscaped lawns, roses and trees provided by WOU (Henry is thankful for the squirrels), and the zero crime rate (the police do a good job). And just today on the way to the grocery store I had to yield to five girls on palominos at the S-curve.
The hobo spiders are prodigious, so I've been shooting them with leftover beer. Seems to do the trick. The slugs can't climb up my back step or front step so I'm safe from their gooey predations, and the hundred year old cherry tree is putting out fruit! Ain't this world amazing!
gwynne
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
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