New Mexico Book CoOp News

Friends of New Mexico Books, Ruth E. Francis Friend of New Mexico Authors
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE NEW MEXICO BOOK AWARDS
The Finalists for the 2008 New Mexico Book Awards have been announced. Among the Finalists are the Albuquerque The Magazine Cookbook, workbooks with Cinder Bear, an art book from Fresco in Albuquerque, and books from two santeros in Santa Fe. Publishers who won include: Sunstone Press, Clearlight Publishers, LPD Press/Rio Grande Books, Oceantree Press, Viking, Tinkertown, Enchanted Lane, Artemesea, Random House , Rizzoli New York, Ballentine, Gibbs Smith, Golden West, Universities of Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arizona, Texas Tech University Press, AU Publishing, How Books, SAR Press, Museum of New Mexico Press, and many others. The Winners in each category and the Best of Show Book will be announced November 21, 2008, at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Albuquerque.

David Morrell of Santa Fe - The Rambo series, and Denise Chavez of Las Cruces will be honored as Friends Of New Mexico Books. Ruth E. Francis of Albuquerque will honored as a Friend of New Mexican Authors. For the full list of Finalists go to nmbookaward.com. For information on getting tickets to the banquet call Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382.

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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
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