Maria's is this really cool book store in Durango, Colorado. Many Write On Authors have come to KSJE's Attention through it.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Libby Cowles, Staff and Community Relations Manager
Maria’s Bookshop
libby@mariasbookshop.com
(970) 247-1438
ED ABBEY PARTY AT MARIA’S BOOKSHOP CELEBRATES WRITER’S LEGACY 20 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
DURANGO (Februray 23, 2009)— Calling all Four Corners Ed Abbey fans!
Maria’s Bookshop, at 960 Main Avenue in Durango, will host a celebration of Edward Abbey’s life and work on Monday, March 16th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, marking the 20th anniversary of his death. The evening will include raucous readings from Abbey’s work as well as discussion about the relevancy of his words and ideas to our modern Western lives today, featuring speakers Ken Wright, M. John Fayhee, Kate Niles, Art Goodtimes, Michael Rendon and B. Frank
When Edward Abbey died in 1989 at the age of sixty-two, the American West lost one of its most eloquent and passionate advocates. Through his novels, essays, letters and speeches, Abbey consistently voiced the belief that the West was in danger of being developed to death, and that the only solution lay in the preservation of wilderness. Abbey authored twenty-one books in his lifetime, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and Fool's Progress. His comic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang helped inspire a whole generation of environmental activism. A writer in the mold of Twain and Thoreau, Abbey was a larger-than-life figure as big as the West itself.
Durango-based writer Ken Wright, author of The Monkey Wrench Dad, will serve at master of ceremonies. Wright is a free-lance writer, college instructor, author, and father, although not necessarily in that order. He is also a contributing editor and columnist for Inside Outside Southwest magazine, where his writings take readers on philosophical and often humorous forays into the unique life and land of the Four Corners region. Ken's essays, book reviews, and news features have appeared in a variety of national and regional magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of two essay collections, A Wilder Life: Essays from Home and Why I'm Against it All.
Wright will be joined by M. John Fayhee, Kate Niles, Art Goodtimes, Michael Rendon and B. Frank.
M. John Fayhee is the author of seven books, including A Colorado Winter, Mexico’s Copper Canyon Country, Along the Colorado Trail and Up at Altitude. He was a contributing editor at Backpacker magazine for 12 years, and his work has appeared in many magazines, including the Islands, High Country News, Aspen Sojourner, Forbes-Life MountainTime, Adventure Travel, The Walking Magazine, Family Camping, Summit, Canoe, Outside, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Men’s Fitness, America West Airlines Magazine and Horizon Air. In 2000, Fayhee, along with two partners, resurrected the legendary Mountain Gazette, which, back in its previous incarnation in the 1970s, regularly published the work of Edward Abbey, including the first chapter of the book that came to be known as The Monkey Wrench Gang. Fayhee still works as an editor-at-large for Mountain Gazette. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico.
Fort Lewis College professor Kate Niles is the award-winning author of The Basket Maker and Geographies of the Heart and is a regular contributor to Inside Outside Southwest magazine. Her work has appeared in national publications including The Louisville Review, FishDrum, South Dakota Review, and others. She is the winner of the Colorado Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award (the state’s highest arts award) and lives outside Durango with her husband and son.
A bioregionalist student of Dolores La Chapelle, Art Goodtimes writes from Cloud Acre on Wright’s Mesa, in the San Miguel Watershed cusp between the Colorado Plateau and the San Juan Mountains. When not serving as Colorado’s only Green county commissioner, he grows organic heirloom seed potatoes, hosts various Talking Gourds performance poetry events, takes his family on vacation to the annual Rainbow Gathering, runs the parade at the Telluride Mushroom Festival and serves as poet-in-residence, as he has for the past 27 years. Goodtimes is a former poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and Wild Earth.
Durango City Councilor Michael Rendon is the former director of The Environmental Center at Fort Lewis College, and a former Maria’s Bookshop bookseller. He currently serves as Executive Director of Sexual Assault Services Organization in Durango.
B. Frank wanders the dry country Abbey wandered, seeking truths and chances to rouse the sleeping rabble for one more try at retaking the empire. Currently listed as a 'senior correspondent' for Mountain Gazette, Frank also contributes regularly to the San Juan Almanac, an on-line blog started by Ken Wright
Other special guests will likely join the event. Audience members are invited to come with their favorite Abbey passages, memories and stories to share.
M. John Fayhee is available for interviews before the event. Contact him at mjfayhee@mountaingazette.com, (575) 538-1273 or (575) 534-4104.
For more information about the event, call (970) 247-1438 or visit www.mariasbookshop.com.
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
Thursday, February 26, 2009
New Mexico Book Association News
March 2009 Book Events You Won’t Want to Miss!
TAKE A LOOK BELOW at all that’s going on in New Mexico in March! Major happenings are listed first, next Author Readings and Signings, then a look On the Horizon to April and beyond!
• "Give Me a Book I Can Sell!" declares marketing and publicity expert Ruthie Francis. Ask her how at our Professional Development Workshop (see March 19 below).
• Two more Professional Development events in April! Learn how digital printing works (April 16), find out about award-winning screenwriting (see April 25), and show your titles to most New Mexico’s librarians (see April 22-24).l
• Get it right! Go to the end of the list to find how to get your event posted here. The rules have tightened up! And come to our NMBA Networking Luncheon (March 13) and Literary Round Table Happy Hour (March 26):
+ MARCH 2009 BOOK EVENTS
March 3: SOMOS: "How to Start and Maintain a Book Club" with career bookseller Danielle Freeman, SOMOS headquarters, 233-B Paseo del Sur, Taos, free. (575) 758-0081.
March 5: Annual Scriptazoola Screenplay Competition deadline, $10,000 grand prize, (323) 654-5809, www.scriptazoola.com
March 7: IWWG-and-Friends Luncheon. Santa Fe, 11:30am. Call Paula Lozar for location: (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula @cs.com
March 7: SouthWest Writers Workshops with Shirley Rae Redmond, Albuquerque. "All I Need to Know about Writing I Learned from Nellie Bly," 10am-noon. "Make More Money with Market Analysis," 1-4pm. SWWriters@southwestwriters.com
March 8: Celebration of the Enduring American Popular Song, Vanessie Restaurant, Santa Fe, 4-6pm, $20 benefits Recursos de Santa Fe. (505) 982-9301.
March 13: NMBA Networking Luncheon, The Writer’s Room, upstairs at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm, free. Just bring a friend and brown bag lunch. Reservations are not necessary. Info: (505) 231-1755, (505) 988-7214. The luncheon will be followed by:
March 13: NMBA Board Meeting at the Writers’ Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 1:30pm.
March 14: Hillsboro Book Festival, Hillsboro Community Center, Hillsboro, NM, 9-5, free. Six-foot display table for just $10! Call Bob Shipley, (575) 895-5797, bobship@kitcarson.net.
March 15: DEADLINE: NMBA Book Events Calendar for April. Include basic details (no attachments, please). Send to NMBA, PO Box 1285, Santa Fe 87504, call (505) 231-1755, email richard@oceantree.com or sunnielliott@msn.com.
March 19: "Give Me a Book I Can Sell" with New Mexico’s book marketing guru Ruthie Francis. NMBA Professional Development Workshop. The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 6:30-8:30pm, $15 members, $20 non-members. Contact Paula Lozar now: (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com
March 21: Book Fiesta at Clear Light Book Gallery, 851 W. San Mateo, Santa Fe, noon to 4pm. Open to publishers and author at no cost and 75% return on sales of your books! Future Fiesta Saturdays: April 25, June 20, Sept. 26, Oct. 24, Nov. 28, Dec. 12. Details: Paul or Harmon, (505) 344-9382, http://nmsantos.com
March 23-25: Publishing Business Conference & Expo, New York. Fee reduced to NMBA members if you register by January 9. Register at www.publishingbusiness.com. Enter "NMBA100" discount code, or "NMBA25" for a free Expo pass! March 26-28: "Creating Your Publishing Star Power," Colorado Independent Publishers (CIPA) College, Red Lion Inn, Denver. Special price for NMBA members! Contact Dr. Judith Briles, college chair, (303) 627-9179, judithbriles@aol.com.
March 26: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour for all book people at Santa Fe Bar & Grill, DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe, Thursday 5:30-7pm. Call Jim Mafchir for directions: (505) 988-7214.
March 28-29: Page One Celebrates Year 28! Page One Bookstore, Albuquerque. 28% off all books, noon to 4pm. (405) 294-2026, www.page1book.com
March 27: N.M. Book Co-op Lunch, Golden Corral Buffet, 3401 NW Hwy 528 (Coors at Alameda), Albuquerque, $7.45 plus tax, tip. (505) 344-9382, info@nmsantos.com
March 31: DEADLINE! SouthWest Writers Quarterly Writing Contest. Your theme: "A Memorable Event," 500 words, $10 entry fee, cash prizes! (505) 265-9485, www.southwestwriters.com.
+ Author Readings and Signings:
March 2: Victor di Suvero, editor (We Came to Santa Fe), booklaunch of Pennywhistle Press anthology of 73 notable residents telling how they made their way to Santa Fe. El Museo Cultural, 1625 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, 5-7pm. RSVP: Brandywine Avila (505) 982-0066.
March 3: Stephanie Elisondo Greist (Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines), Page One Bookstore, 7pm, free.
March 7: David Silver (Social Network Business Plan), Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm.
Contact the store at (505) 986-0151.
March 7: Antoinette Austin (The Little lobo Who Lost his Howl), Children’s’ storytime at Page One Bookstore, Albuquerque, 11:30am.
March 7: Local Author Book Fair, Page One Bookstore, 3-5pm, followed by "A Stacked Deck" (mystical and fantastical authors), 4pm. (505) 294-2026.
March 9: Stephen Mitchell (The Second Book of the Tao), Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. Caroline Garner (212) 366-2814.
March 12: Robin Fisher Roffer (The Fearless Fish Out of Water), Garcia Street Books, 5pm.
Dottie DeHart, (828) 325-4966.
March 13: Marsha Scarbrough (Medicine Dance), workshop at Studio La Luz, 308 So. Pershing,
Truth or Consequences, 7-9pm, $5. (505) 982-8466 or 795-1467.
March 15: Duende Poetry Invitational with Mary McGinnis, Anne McNaughton and Peter Rabbit. Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas. Cirrelda (505) 897-0285, www.abqarts.com/39.htm
March 15: David Berardinelli (From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves: The Dark Side of Insurance), Page One, Albuquerque, 2pm.
March 15: Marsha Scarbrough (Medicine Dance) workshop at Health Haven, 920 Alameda, La Cruces, 10-noon and 1-3pm, $15. Call (575) 993-3490.
March 19: Emily Mendenhall (Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth), Garcia Street Books, 4pm. Contact Katherine MacGilvray (505) 272-7177, katm@unm.edu.
March 20: Lynne Hinton (The Order of Things), Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. Lynne lives in New Mexico where she serves as a pastor. Contact Nadea Mina, (646) 307-5573.
March 29: Colleen Aycock (Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African-American Boxing Champion), Page one, 2pm.
+ On the Horizon:
April 3-4: 18th Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair. UNM Conference Center, 1634 University Blvd (north of Indian School Road), Friday: 5-9pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm. Admission: $6 for both days, $2 Saturday only. Alan Shalette, (505) 291-9653, www.unm.edu/~alshal/aabf.html.
April 10: "How Digital Printing and e-books Affect Our Future." BookMobile President Don Leeper speaks at our NMBA Networking Luncheon on Friday, April 10. It’s free to NMBA members, $5 for guests. 11:30am to 1pm at The Writers Room, Santa Fe. (BookMobile is one of the most highly-regarded digital printers in the U.S. Don will share the ins and outs during his much lauded and thorough presentation! The Writers Room, Santa Fe. Free for NMBA members; guests $10. Contact Paula Lozar, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
April 15-19: Border Book Quinceanera – filming a school outreach documentary, Las Cruces. www.borderbookfestival.org
April 16: N.M. CultureNet Poetry Jam, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7pm. Interested in performing? Contact AlexTraub at www.nmculturenet.org.
April 22-24: New Mexico Library Association Trade Show, Albuquerque Convention Center. NMBA will be there to present your books to the state’s librarians! Cost: $10-$15 per title. Richard Polese, (505) 231-1755, info@nmbook.org
April 25: "Not Just for Screenwriters: 20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay" (or shape that novel!). NMBA Professional Development Workshop by award-winning screenplay author Rick Reichman. The Writers Room, Santa Fe, 6:30 to 8:30pm.NMBA members $35 (non-members $45). Call Paula Lozar, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com
May 1: DEADLINE! New Mexico Book Awards "earlybird" entries ($30 each title), 37 categories. Call Paul, (505) 344-9382, info@nmbookcoop.com.
May 26-28: IBPA Publishing University, Roosevelt Hotel, New York. Tuition for NMBA members as low as $545, including Ben Franklin Awards Banquet! IPBA-U immediately precedes BookAxpo America. See www.ibpa-online.org
May 28-30: BookExpo America, Jacob Javits Center, New York. www.bookexpoamerica.com
May 29-30: Chama Book Fiesta. Jill Lane, 1-800-532-8874.
Attention! Your items are listed for free, but they must be submitted by email in the following very simple format or they will not appear! (It takes far too much time to edit and reformat the many dozens of items we receive every month). Email your notice (no attachments, please) to NMBA in the following format to: mail@nmbook.org --
Date, Title of the event, Sponsor, Place, time, cost (if any), Contact number or email/website.
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
TAKE A LOOK BELOW at all that’s going on in New Mexico in March! Major happenings are listed first, next Author Readings and Signings, then a look On the Horizon to April and beyond!
• "Give Me a Book I Can Sell!" declares marketing and publicity expert Ruthie Francis. Ask her how at our Professional Development Workshop (see March 19 below).
• Two more Professional Development events in April! Learn how digital printing works (April 16), find out about award-winning screenwriting (see April 25), and show your titles to most New Mexico’s librarians (see April 22-24).l
• Get it right! Go to the end of the list to find how to get your event posted here. The rules have tightened up! And come to our NMBA Networking Luncheon (March 13) and Literary Round Table Happy Hour (March 26):
+ MARCH 2009 BOOK EVENTS
March 3: SOMOS: "How to Start and Maintain a Book Club" with career bookseller Danielle Freeman, SOMOS headquarters, 233-B Paseo del Sur, Taos, free. (575) 758-0081.
March 5: Annual Scriptazoola Screenplay Competition deadline, $10,000 grand prize, (323) 654-5809, www.scriptazoola.com
March 7: IWWG-and-Friends Luncheon. Santa Fe, 11:30am. Call Paula Lozar for location: (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula @cs.com
March 7: SouthWest Writers Workshops with Shirley Rae Redmond, Albuquerque. "All I Need to Know about Writing I Learned from Nellie Bly," 10am-noon. "Make More Money with Market Analysis," 1-4pm. SWWriters@southwestwriters.com
March 8: Celebration of the Enduring American Popular Song, Vanessie Restaurant, Santa Fe, 4-6pm, $20 benefits Recursos de Santa Fe. (505) 982-9301.
March 13: NMBA Networking Luncheon, The Writer’s Room, upstairs at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm, free. Just bring a friend and brown bag lunch. Reservations are not necessary. Info: (505) 231-1755, (505) 988-7214. The luncheon will be followed by:
March 13: NMBA Board Meeting at the Writers’ Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 1:30pm.
March 14: Hillsboro Book Festival, Hillsboro Community Center, Hillsboro, NM, 9-5, free. Six-foot display table for just $10! Call Bob Shipley, (575) 895-5797, bobship@kitcarson.net.
March 15: DEADLINE: NMBA Book Events Calendar for April. Include basic details (no attachments, please). Send to NMBA, PO Box 1285, Santa Fe 87504, call (505) 231-1755, email richard@oceantree.com or sunnielliott@msn.com.
March 19: "Give Me a Book I Can Sell" with New Mexico’s book marketing guru Ruthie Francis. NMBA Professional Development Workshop. The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 6:30-8:30pm, $15 members, $20 non-members. Contact Paula Lozar now: (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com
March 21: Book Fiesta at Clear Light Book Gallery, 851 W. San Mateo, Santa Fe, noon to 4pm. Open to publishers and author at no cost and 75% return on sales of your books! Future Fiesta Saturdays: April 25, June 20, Sept. 26, Oct. 24, Nov. 28, Dec. 12. Details: Paul or Harmon, (505) 344-9382, http://nmsantos.com
March 23-25: Publishing Business Conference & Expo, New York. Fee reduced to NMBA members if you register by January 9. Register at www.publishingbusiness.com. Enter "NMBA100" discount code, or "NMBA25" for a free Expo pass! March 26-28: "Creating Your Publishing Star Power," Colorado Independent Publishers (CIPA) College, Red Lion Inn, Denver. Special price for NMBA members! Contact Dr. Judith Briles, college chair, (303) 627-9179, judithbriles@aol.com.
March 26: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour for all book people at Santa Fe Bar & Grill, DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe, Thursday 5:30-7pm. Call Jim Mafchir for directions: (505) 988-7214.
March 28-29: Page One Celebrates Year 28! Page One Bookstore, Albuquerque. 28% off all books, noon to 4pm. (405) 294-2026, www.page1book.com
March 27: N.M. Book Co-op Lunch, Golden Corral Buffet, 3401 NW Hwy 528 (Coors at Alameda), Albuquerque, $7.45 plus tax, tip. (505) 344-9382, info@nmsantos.com
March 31: DEADLINE! SouthWest Writers Quarterly Writing Contest. Your theme: "A Memorable Event," 500 words, $10 entry fee, cash prizes! (505) 265-9485, www.southwestwriters.com.
+ Author Readings and Signings:
March 2: Victor di Suvero, editor (We Came to Santa Fe), booklaunch of Pennywhistle Press anthology of 73 notable residents telling how they made their way to Santa Fe. El Museo Cultural, 1625 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, 5-7pm. RSVP: Brandywine Avila (505) 982-0066.
March 3: Stephanie Elisondo Greist (Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines), Page One Bookstore, 7pm, free.
March 7: David Silver (Social Network Business Plan), Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm.
Contact the store at (505) 986-0151.
March 7: Antoinette Austin (The Little lobo Who Lost his Howl), Children’s’ storytime at Page One Bookstore, Albuquerque, 11:30am.
March 7: Local Author Book Fair, Page One Bookstore, 3-5pm, followed by "A Stacked Deck" (mystical and fantastical authors), 4pm. (505) 294-2026.
March 9: Stephen Mitchell (The Second Book of the Tao), Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. Caroline Garner (212) 366-2814.
March 12: Robin Fisher Roffer (The Fearless Fish Out of Water), Garcia Street Books, 5pm.
Dottie DeHart, (828) 325-4966.
March 13: Marsha Scarbrough (Medicine Dance), workshop at Studio La Luz, 308 So. Pershing,
Truth or Consequences, 7-9pm, $5. (505) 982-8466 or 795-1467.
March 15: Duende Poetry Invitational with Mary McGinnis, Anne McNaughton and Peter Rabbit. Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas. Cirrelda (505) 897-0285, www.abqarts.com/39.htm
March 15: David Berardinelli (From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves: The Dark Side of Insurance), Page One, Albuquerque, 2pm.
March 15: Marsha Scarbrough (Medicine Dance) workshop at Health Haven, 920 Alameda, La Cruces, 10-noon and 1-3pm, $15. Call (575) 993-3490.
March 19: Emily Mendenhall (Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth), Garcia Street Books, 4pm. Contact Katherine MacGilvray (505) 272-7177, katm@unm.edu.
March 20: Lynne Hinton (The Order of Things), Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. Lynne lives in New Mexico where she serves as a pastor. Contact Nadea Mina, (646) 307-5573.
March 29: Colleen Aycock (Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African-American Boxing Champion), Page one, 2pm.
+ On the Horizon:
April 3-4: 18th Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair. UNM Conference Center, 1634 University Blvd (north of Indian School Road), Friday: 5-9pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm. Admission: $6 for both days, $2 Saturday only. Alan Shalette, (505) 291-9653, www.unm.edu/~alshal/aabf.html.
April 10: "How Digital Printing and e-books Affect Our Future." BookMobile President Don Leeper speaks at our NMBA Networking Luncheon on Friday, April 10. It’s free to NMBA members, $5 for guests. 11:30am to 1pm at The Writers Room, Santa Fe. (BookMobile is one of the most highly-regarded digital printers in the U.S. Don will share the ins and outs during his much lauded and thorough presentation! The Writers Room, Santa Fe. Free for NMBA members; guests $10. Contact Paula Lozar, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
April 15-19: Border Book Quinceanera – filming a school outreach documentary, Las Cruces. www.borderbookfestival.org
April 16: N.M. CultureNet Poetry Jam, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7pm. Interested in performing? Contact AlexTraub at www.nmculturenet.org.
April 22-24: New Mexico Library Association Trade Show, Albuquerque Convention Center. NMBA will be there to present your books to the state’s librarians! Cost: $10-$15 per title. Richard Polese, (505) 231-1755, info@nmbook.org
April 25: "Not Just for Screenwriters: 20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay" (or shape that novel!). NMBA Professional Development Workshop by award-winning screenplay author Rick Reichman. The Writers Room, Santa Fe, 6:30 to 8:30pm.NMBA members $35 (non-members $45). Call Paula Lozar, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com
May 1: DEADLINE! New Mexico Book Awards "earlybird" entries ($30 each title), 37 categories. Call Paul, (505) 344-9382, info@nmbookcoop.com.
May 26-28: IBPA Publishing University, Roosevelt Hotel, New York. Tuition for NMBA members as low as $545, including Ben Franklin Awards Banquet! IPBA-U immediately precedes BookAxpo America. See www.ibpa-online.org
May 28-30: BookExpo America, Jacob Javits Center, New York. www.bookexpoamerica.com
May 29-30: Chama Book Fiesta. Jill Lane, 1-800-532-8874.
Attention! Your items are listed for free, but they must be submitted by email in the following very simple format or they will not appear! (It takes far too much time to edit and reformat the many dozens of items we receive every month). Email your notice (no attachments, please) to NMBA in the following format to: mail@nmbook.org --
Date, Title of the event, Sponsor, Place, time, cost (if any), Contact number or email/website.
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, February 23, 2009
Tekla Dennison Miller Book Siogning
prison warden, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Write On Four Corners Reader Signs
CONTACT:
Libby Cowles, Staff and Community Relations Manager
Maria’s Bookshop
libby@mariasbookshop.com
(970) 247-1438
BOOK SIGNING WITH LOCAL AUTHOR TEKLA DENNISON MILLER
DURANGO (February 23, 2009)— Tekla Dennison Miller, author of The Warden Wore Pink, A Bowl of Cherries and Life Sentences, will read from and sign copies of her latest novel, Inevitable Sentences, at Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Avenue in Durango, on Tuesday, March 3rd from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.
Big Bay Point Lighthouse, on Michigan’s Lake Superior, has illuminated rocky shoals for more than a hundred years. Transformed into a safehouse, these days the stout old tower shelters women and children from emotional turbulence. Celeste Brookstone as new owner and director of the safehouse has found a satisfying life mission after the murder of her daughter, Pilar. Celeste is also taking advantage of the proximity of the lighthouse to the new man in her life, retired prison warden, Max Whitefeather. That the shelter is so close to Hawk Haven Prison, where Pilar’s suspected murderer is serving a life sentence, seems immaterial to Celeste. After all, she has played a part in seeing Chad Wilbanks permanently locked away in maximum security isolation. Or is he?
Tekla Dennison Miller is a former prison warden who managed two prisons simultaneously (a men's maximum and a multi-level women's) outside Detroit, Michigan. Her published memoir, The Warden Wore Pink, is about her twenty-year career in corrections. Ms. Miller also taught children in South Central LA after the riots, worked with mentally challenged enlisted men while employed with the US Special Services in Germany, was the first female probation officer in Oakland County, Michigan and the supervisor of the first prison camp for women in Michigan. Ms. Miller is a social activist, writer and national speaker focusing on women's issues, juvenile and criminal justice reform. She resides in Colorado with her husband and two golden retrievers.
For more information about Tekla Dennison Miller, visit www.teklamiller.com.
For more information about the event, call (970) 247-1438 or visit www.mariaConnie 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
sbookshop.com.
Write On Four Corners Reader Signs
CONTACT:
Libby Cowles, Staff and Community Relations Manager
Maria’s Bookshop
libby@mariasbookshop.com
(970) 247-1438
BOOK SIGNING WITH LOCAL AUTHOR TEKLA DENNISON MILLER
DURANGO (February 23, 2009)— Tekla Dennison Miller, author of The Warden Wore Pink, A Bowl of Cherries and Life Sentences, will read from and sign copies of her latest novel, Inevitable Sentences, at Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Avenue in Durango, on Tuesday, March 3rd from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.
Big Bay Point Lighthouse, on Michigan’s Lake Superior, has illuminated rocky shoals for more than a hundred years. Transformed into a safehouse, these days the stout old tower shelters women and children from emotional turbulence. Celeste Brookstone as new owner and director of the safehouse has found a satisfying life mission after the murder of her daughter, Pilar. Celeste is also taking advantage of the proximity of the lighthouse to the new man in her life, retired prison warden, Max Whitefeather. That the shelter is so close to Hawk Haven Prison, where Pilar’s suspected murderer is serving a life sentence, seems immaterial to Celeste. After all, she has played a part in seeing Chad Wilbanks permanently locked away in maximum security isolation. Or is he?
Tekla Dennison Miller is a former prison warden who managed two prisons simultaneously (a men's maximum and a multi-level women's) outside Detroit, Michigan. Her published memoir, The Warden Wore Pink, is about her twenty-year career in corrections. Ms. Miller also taught children in South Central LA after the riots, worked with mentally challenged enlisted men while employed with the US Special Services in Germany, was the first female probation officer in Oakland County, Michigan and the supervisor of the first prison camp for women in Michigan. Ms. Miller is a social activist, writer and national speaker focusing on women's issues, juvenile and criminal justice reform. She resides in Colorado with her husband and two golden retrievers.
For more information about Tekla Dennison Miller, visit www.teklamiller.com.
For more information about the event, call (970) 247-1438 or visit www.mariaConnie 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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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Carolyn Howard-Johnson has plans for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
As a former WriteOn author, I wanted to share some plans that an author friend of mine and I are working on this year to benefit authors everywhere. Christine Alexanians invite you to join us at LA Times Festival of Books
The following is the planned 2009 program:
You are invited to participate in our next LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books booth--the weekend of April 25 and 26, 2009--and/or any of the value-added programs aligned with our booth at the fair. The book-signing portion of the fair requires that you attend, the others do not.
(To see the 2008 video made by Rey Ybarra, go to Best Selling Author Television site
http://www.veoh.com/channels/BSATV)
We focus on making a humdrum fair into a sizzling success and from past experience, we make changes every year based on what we learned the year before and the year before that.
One hour (50 minutes to allow set up) signing segments cost $150 for the first and $100 for the second day. The fee includes display in the booth for the full two days.
Last year we had our booth televised on the Internet. Rey Ybarra from Best Selling Author Television was there to cover the event. He conducted short three-minute interviews with the participating authors. He will be coming by to talk to authors again this year. The program proved to be a great success.
The advantages of our LA Times Booth:
1. Ongoing education on PR and promotion for participants during the planning of the booth.
2. Value-added promotions designed to draw readers to our booth (more to come on these later.)
3. Cross promotion benefits of many participating authors rather than of only a few.
4. Excellent location at the fair for a fraction of the cost of an individual booth.
5. Association with other authors with recognized names.
6. A stable booth position/location with an established history among return visitors to the fair.
7. A booth with double the usual frontage of most (depending on participation).
8. Assorted ways to participate, some available to authors who don't live in the area.
9. A limited number of books and authors accepted to increase visibility.
10. Display of the books of signing authors for the full two days of the fair.
11. Display of your poster for the full two days of the fair.
12. Exposure of your name and book's title on our blogs.
13. Your book listed on an Amazon Listmania.
14. The credibility of being associated with a well-planned booth sponsored by professionals.
~Poetry reading
~Story time for kids
~Promotional Tote Bags
We are planning to have a poetry-reading hour and a children's story reading hour in the afternoon slots. The cost will be $35.00 for a 15 minutes-reading time. This is new and details will be provided in the subsequent issues of the Sharing with Writers newsletter or on the blog at www.sizzlingbookfairbooths.blogspot.com. Subscribe to the newsletter by sending me (Carolyn) an e-mail with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line: HoJoNews @ aol.com .
Books of the signing authors will be shown on a bookstand, not tossed into a bin with hundreds of others. There is room near each participant's book to have a flier 4 x 5 3/4 and, to give away bookmarks or business cards--any two of the three. Each author may also supply laminated signs with grommets to be hung around the perimeter of the booth. Note: We are not offering display to anyone not signing this year. All books on display will be those of signing authors.
No books will be sold out of the booth except by signing authors at the time of their signing. Books will be displayed with order forms when they are not signing. (See above.).
Our fair-focused blog is open to all. It further exposes our participants' books. We use the blog as a kind of journal of our experiences and the blog comments as a way to share promotion ideas and ask questions. It is an ideal way to keep a record but also to share with other writers who might be planning a fair booth elsewhere.
We also offer a free review blog (www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com) where participants can have their favorite reviews (with permission from the reviewer) posted.
Local authors or authors willing to travel may purchase one hour (50 minutes to allow set up) segments of signing time. Signings will be posted in the booth (Sorry, but the LA Times Festival of Books administration does not provide a way to list multiple authors in the brochures, etc. that the LA Times sends out. Thus signing authors will be responsible for their own promotions including media releases and invitations to drive traffic to their signing. In fact, for everyone to benefit we will ask for a pledge that each of them will do so.)
One hour (50 minutes to allow set up) signing segments cost $150 for the first and $100 for a second hour. The fee includes display in the booth for the full two days. If you choose to sign, we strongly recommend that participants consider the stands and banners we tested last year to make their signing times a standout. All signing positions are available on a first-come, first-served basis. We have had authors with books traditionally published as well as subsidy- and self-published. We only ask that no one with pornographic material apply because we are located near the children's section and sometimes have children's authors as signers.
It is our policy to supply ideas for book fair promotion as well as to lead our participants through the process. We begin early. Many find this an educational experience equivalent to taking an expensive class in promotion.
Disposal of Fair Materials:
Books and promotion materials will not be returned. Display books will be donated to a library after the fair. If you don't want to donate your books, please pick them up Sunday afternoon.
Because of the training process and because we must pay our expenses early, fees must be paid upon signing and cannot be refunded. There are also no refunds for natural or unnatural disasters and, yes, that includes rain. (The festival Administration doesn't refund our fee.) We've never had rain yet. This is sunny Southern California!
An author must participate in the signing segment to actually sell books. They sell their own books in our booth only during their signing time and handle their own sales (or bring an assistant to do that for them.)
To participate send an e-mail to Christine Alexanians at chalexwrite@yahoo.com. She can invoice you for PayPal or give you an address to send a check. Please put "LA Times Fair" in the subject line and please let her know the programs you would like to participate in so she will know how to bill you. She will then send you details for participation and answer other questions regarding this show. The booth promotion will be handled by Christine and Carolyn Howard-Johnson.
Note: The display-only opportunities are sold out. Only slots for signing authors are still available.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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 following is the planned 2009 program:
You are invited to participate in our next LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books booth--the weekend of April 25 and 26, 2009--and/or any of the value-added programs aligned with our booth at the fair. The book-signing portion of the fair requires that you attend, the others do not.
(To see the 2008 video made by Rey Ybarra, go to Best Selling Author Television site
http://www.veoh.com/channels/BSATV)
We focus on making a humdrum fair into a sizzling success and from past experience, we make changes every year based on what we learned the year before and the year before that.
One hour (50 minutes to allow set up) signing segments cost $150 for the first and $100 for the second day. The fee includes display in the booth for the full two days.
Last year we had our booth televised on the Internet. Rey Ybarra from Best Selling Author Television was there to cover the event. He conducted short three-minute interviews with the participating authors. He will be coming by to talk to authors again this year. The program proved to be a great success.
The advantages of our LA Times Booth:
1. Ongoing education on PR and promotion for participants during the planning of the booth.
2. Value-added promotions designed to draw readers to our booth (more to come on these later.)
3. Cross promotion benefits of many participating authors rather than of only a few.
4. Excellent location at the fair for a fraction of the cost of an individual booth.
5. Association with other authors with recognized names.
6. A stable booth position/location with an established history among return visitors to the fair.
7. A booth with double the usual frontage of most (depending on participation).
8. Assorted ways to participate, some available to authors who don't live in the area.
9. A limited number of books and authors accepted to increase visibility.
10. Display of the books of signing authors for the full two days of the fair.
11. Display of your poster for the full two days of the fair.
12. Exposure of your name and book's title on our blogs.
13. Your book listed on an Amazon Listmania.
14. The credibility of being associated with a well-planned booth sponsored by professionals.
~Poetry reading
~Story time for kids
~Promotional Tote Bags
We are planning to have a poetry-reading hour and a children's story reading hour in the afternoon slots. The cost will be $35.00 for a 15 minutes-reading time. This is new and details will be provided in the subsequent issues of the Sharing with Writers newsletter or on the blog at www.sizzlingbookfairbooths.blogspot.com. Subscribe to the newsletter by sending me (Carolyn) an e-mail with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line: HoJoNews @ aol.com .
Books of the signing authors will be shown on a bookstand, not tossed into a bin with hundreds of others. There is room near each participant's book to have a flier 4 x 5 3/4 and, to give away bookmarks or business cards--any two of the three. Each author may also supply laminated signs with grommets to be hung around the perimeter of the booth. Note: We are not offering display to anyone not signing this year. All books on display will be those of signing authors.
No books will be sold out of the booth except by signing authors at the time of their signing. Books will be displayed with order forms when they are not signing. (See above.).
Our fair-focused blog is open to all. It further exposes our participants' books. We use the blog as a kind of journal of our experiences and the blog comments as a way to share promotion ideas and ask questions. It is an ideal way to keep a record but also to share with other writers who might be planning a fair booth elsewhere.
We also offer a free review blog (www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com) where participants can have their favorite reviews (with permission from the reviewer) posted.
Local authors or authors willing to travel may purchase one hour (50 minutes to allow set up) segments of signing time. Signings will be posted in the booth (Sorry, but the LA Times Festival of Books administration does not provide a way to list multiple authors in the brochures, etc. that the LA Times sends out. Thus signing authors will be responsible for their own promotions including media releases and invitations to drive traffic to their signing. In fact, for everyone to benefit we will ask for a pledge that each of them will do so.)
One hour (50 minutes to allow set up) signing segments cost $150 for the first and $100 for a second hour. The fee includes display in the booth for the full two days. If you choose to sign, we strongly recommend that participants consider the stands and banners we tested last year to make their signing times a standout. All signing positions are available on a first-come, first-served basis. We have had authors with books traditionally published as well as subsidy- and self-published. We only ask that no one with pornographic material apply because we are located near the children's section and sometimes have children's authors as signers.
It is our policy to supply ideas for book fair promotion as well as to lead our participants through the process. We begin early. Many find this an educational experience equivalent to taking an expensive class in promotion.
Disposal of Fair Materials:
Books and promotion materials will not be returned. Display books will be donated to a library after the fair. If you don't want to donate your books, please pick them up Sunday afternoon.
Because of the training process and because we must pay our expenses early, fees must be paid upon signing and cannot be refunded. There are also no refunds for natural or unnatural disasters and, yes, that includes rain. (The festival Administration doesn't refund our fee.) We've never had rain yet. This is sunny Southern California!
An author must participate in the signing segment to actually sell books. They sell their own books in our booth only during their signing time and handle their own sales (or bring an assistant to do that for them.)
To participate send an e-mail to Christine Alexanians at chalexwrite@yahoo.com. She can invoice you for PayPal or give you an address to send a check. Please put "LA Times Fair" in the subject line and please let her know the programs you would like to participate in so she will know how to bill you. She will then send you details for participation and answer other questions regarding this show. The booth promotion will be handled by Christine and Carolyn Howard-Johnson.
Note: The display-only opportunities are sold out. Only slots for signing authors are still available.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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
Carolyn Howard-Johnson Has New Book
M E D I A R E L E A S E
For Immediate Release
Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Remembering Mothers a New Way
Award-winning Poets From Two Hemispheres Co-Author Chapbook
She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood was conceived by Californian Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Aussie Magdalena Ball as an alternative to the cloying greeting cards usually available for mothers in card shops. In fact, originally it was to be a thoughtful digital substitute for a card. That decision was probably influenced by the pair’s awareness that the Net was, in fact, what allowed them to meet and collaborate.
The chapbook turned out to be both digital (for greenies who want to save paper, postage and airline fuel) and a lovely to have-and-hold book for those who still have room in their hearts only for the real thing.
Howard-Johnson's first chapbook, Tracings (Finishing Line Press) was honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads. Her poetry has also been published in journals like Pear Noir, Montana State University's literary magazine, Writings from the River, Mt. St. Mary’s College journal Mary, The Pedestal magazine and in the soon-to-be released anthology by UCLA’s own Suzanne Lummis. She is the author of several other award-winning books. She is also an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
Ball’s novel Sleep Before Evening received unanimous 5-star reviews for its linguistic beauty and the intensity of its plot. She is also the author of an award-winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup, and a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her website The Compulsive Reader, http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, has become a benchmark for high quality online literary criticism.
The two poets collaborated last year on a book of what Howard-Johnson calls "unsyrupy" poetry for Valentines Day. It is available at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/cherishedpulse.htm
Artwork for She Wore Emerald Then is by May Lattanzio. She is a freelance writer/photographer, and author of Waltz on the Wild Side -- An Animal Lover's Journal and contributor to Native West's anthology Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West - A Tribute".
Learn more about Magdalena Ball at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/MediaRoom.htm
Learn More about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
Find a catalog of Lattanzio's writing at http://maylattanzio.blogspot.com and her photographs at http://www.jpgmag.com/people/may or
http://www.thelensflare.com/u_may.php.
Find She Wore Emerald Then on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/She-Wore-Emerald-Then-Reflections/dp/1438263791/
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
For Immediate Release
Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Remembering Mothers a New Way
Award-winning Poets From Two Hemispheres Co-Author Chapbook
She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood was conceived by Californian Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Aussie Magdalena Ball as an alternative to the cloying greeting cards usually available for mothers in card shops. In fact, originally it was to be a thoughtful digital substitute for a card. That decision was probably influenced by the pair’s awareness that the Net was, in fact, what allowed them to meet and collaborate.
The chapbook turned out to be both digital (for greenies who want to save paper, postage and airline fuel) and a lovely to have-and-hold book for those who still have room in their hearts only for the real thing.
Howard-Johnson's first chapbook, Tracings (Finishing Line Press) was honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads. Her poetry has also been published in journals like Pear Noir, Montana State University's literary magazine, Writings from the River, Mt. St. Mary’s College journal Mary, The Pedestal magazine and in the soon-to-be released anthology by UCLA’s own Suzanne Lummis. She is the author of several other award-winning books. She is also an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
Ball’s novel Sleep Before Evening received unanimous 5-star reviews for its linguistic beauty and the intensity of its plot. She is also the author of an award-winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup, and a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her website The Compulsive Reader, http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, has become a benchmark for high quality online literary criticism.
The two poets collaborated last year on a book of what Howard-Johnson calls "unsyrupy" poetry for Valentines Day. It is available at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/cherishedpulse.htm
Artwork for She Wore Emerald Then is by May Lattanzio. She is a freelance writer/photographer, and author of Waltz on the Wild Side -- An Animal Lover's Journal and contributor to Native West's anthology Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West - A Tribute".
Learn more about Magdalena Ball at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/MediaRoom.htm
Learn More about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
Find a catalog of Lattanzio's writing at http://maylattanzio.blogspot.com and her photographs at http://www.jpgmag.com/people/may or
http://www.thelensflare.com/u_may.php.
Find She Wore Emerald Then on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/She-Wore-Emerald-Then-Reflections/dp/1438263791/
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
New Mexico Book Association News
NMBA FlashNews: Non-Traditional Publishing Thursday!
• Feb. 19: "Non-Traditional Publishing," NMBA Professional Development Workshop.
• Feb. 26: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour, Santa Fe.
• March 19: "Give Me a Book I Can Sell" (Ruth Francis Shares All about Book Marketing and Publicity), NMBA Professional Development Workshop.
• April 10: "How Digital Printing and ebooks Affect Our Future," Professional Development Luncheon, Santa Fe.
• April 25: "Not Just for Screenwriters" with Rick Reichman, Professional Development Workshop.
• April 22-24: New Mexico Library Association Trade Show, Albuquerque.
•
How to attend NMBA’s Professional Development Workshops: All take place at the Writer’s Room, upstairs at 826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe. This Thursday’s great session all about "Non-Traditional Publishing" features Richard Harris, Paul Rhetts and Jim Mafchir, a trio of the best-informed experts in the state. Space is filling fast, but you still might get in. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Cost is just $25 for NMBA members, $35 non-members. Call Paula Lozar to tell her you will be there, please. Pay at the door. Reach Paula at (505) 473-3479, or email lozarpaula@cs.com for information and reservations for all our Professional Development programs.
Here’s more details!
1. "Give Me a Book I Can Sell" NMBA Professional Development Workshop with Ruthie Francis will take place Thursday evening, March 19 (6:30-8:30 pm, $25 and $35). Again, it’s at the congenial Writers Room in Santa Fe. Again please call Paula Lozar for reservations.
2. BookMobile President Don Leeper speaks on "How Digital Printing and ebooks Affect Our Future" at our NMBA Networking Luncheon on Friday, April 10. It’s free to NMBA members, $5 for guests. 11:30am to 1pm at The Writers Room, Santa Fe. (BookMobile is one of the most highly-regarded digital printers in the U.S. Don will share all the ins and outs during this much lauded 40-minute presentation.
3. "Writing a Great Screenplay (or Novel)" with award winning scriptwriter Rick Reichman (NMBA Professional Development Workshop) takes place Thursday, April 25 at the Writers Room (6:30-8:30pm). Again, please call or email Paula Lozar to reserve your place!
4. New Mexico Library Association Convention and Book Show. NMBA’s table will feature your books at NMLA in Albuquerque April 22-24. If you took part in our IBPA or earlier shows in 2008, the cost to display and sell your book is only $10. If you did not, you get in for just $15. We can use 40 copies of a flyer about a new or unlisted book to insert as a supplement in our 2008-2009 New Mexico Publishers & Authors Showcase Catalog, if it’s not in there already. Additional titles: $10. For details, contact Richard Polese, (505) 231-1755 or richard@oceantree.com.
Lynn Thompson Baca, co-publisher at SAR Press is our new NMBA At Large Board member. She will serve with us for the next six months.
Congratulations to Victor di Suvero and Pennywhistle Press for March 2 being designated "We Came to Santa Fe Day" by Proclamation of Mayor David Coss. We understand this is the first time a book alone has been honored with a City of Santa Fe proclamation. The booklaunch takes place the same day at Museo Cultural in Santa Fe.
Border Book Festival will not hold its customary outdoor book sale this spring, according to Denise Chavez. However, we can look forward to a BBF book trade show on Mesilla Plaza come October, marking the fifteenth anniversary of the popular festival. Stay tuned!
Visit www.nmbook.org for more news of book events in New Mexico!
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
• Feb. 19: "Non-Traditional Publishing," NMBA Professional Development Workshop.
• Feb. 26: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour, Santa Fe.
• March 19: "Give Me a Book I Can Sell" (Ruth Francis Shares All about Book Marketing and Publicity), NMBA Professional Development Workshop.
• April 10: "How Digital Printing and ebooks Affect Our Future," Professional Development Luncheon, Santa Fe.
• April 25: "Not Just for Screenwriters" with Rick Reichman, Professional Development Workshop.
• April 22-24: New Mexico Library Association Trade Show, Albuquerque.
•
How to attend NMBA’s Professional Development Workshops: All take place at the Writer’s Room, upstairs at 826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe. This Thursday’s great session all about "Non-Traditional Publishing" features Richard Harris, Paul Rhetts and Jim Mafchir, a trio of the best-informed experts in the state. Space is filling fast, but you still might get in. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Cost is just $25 for NMBA members, $35 non-members. Call Paula Lozar to tell her you will be there, please. Pay at the door. Reach Paula at (505) 473-3479, or email lozarpaula@cs.com for information and reservations for all our Professional Development programs.
Here’s more details!
1. "Give Me a Book I Can Sell" NMBA Professional Development Workshop with Ruthie Francis will take place Thursday evening, March 19 (6:30-8:30 pm, $25 and $35). Again, it’s at the congenial Writers Room in Santa Fe. Again please call Paula Lozar for reservations.
2. BookMobile President Don Leeper speaks on "How Digital Printing and ebooks Affect Our Future" at our NMBA Networking Luncheon on Friday, April 10. It’s free to NMBA members, $5 for guests. 11:30am to 1pm at The Writers Room, Santa Fe. (BookMobile is one of the most highly-regarded digital printers in the U.S. Don will share all the ins and outs during this much lauded 40-minute presentation.
3. "Writing a Great Screenplay (or Novel)" with award winning scriptwriter Rick Reichman (NMBA Professional Development Workshop) takes place Thursday, April 25 at the Writers Room (6:30-8:30pm). Again, please call or email Paula Lozar to reserve your place!
4. New Mexico Library Association Convention and Book Show. NMBA’s table will feature your books at NMLA in Albuquerque April 22-24. If you took part in our IBPA or earlier shows in 2008, the cost to display and sell your book is only $10. If you did not, you get in for just $15. We can use 40 copies of a flyer about a new or unlisted book to insert as a supplement in our 2008-2009 New Mexico Publishers & Authors Showcase Catalog, if it’s not in there already. Additional titles: $10. For details, contact Richard Polese, (505) 231-1755 or richard@oceantree.com.
Lynn Thompson Baca, co-publisher at SAR Press is our new NMBA At Large Board member. She will serve with us for the next six months.
Congratulations to Victor di Suvero and Pennywhistle Press for March 2 being designated "We Came to Santa Fe Day" by Proclamation of Mayor David Coss. We understand this is the first time a book alone has been honored with a City of Santa Fe proclamation. The booklaunch takes place the same day at Museo Cultural in Santa Fe.
Border Book Festival will not hold its customary outdoor book sale this spring, according to Denise Chavez. However, we can look forward to a BBF book trade show on Mesilla Plaza come October, marking the fifteenth anniversary of the popular festival. Stay tuned!
Visit www.nmbook.org for more news of book events in New Mexico!
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
Sandi Ault Book Tour for the Wild Sorrow Series
Colorado author Sandi Ault announces the release of WILD SORROW, the third book in the WILD Mystery Series on March 3 and has an extensive tour in the Front Range area planned in March. Ms Ault has been called the heir apparent to Tony Hillerman. No one but Ms. Ault writes about the Southwest with such rich, filmic description, or brings to life its wild beauty and native cultures with such depth and clarity.
WILD SORROW continues the adventures of the series' rough and ready heroine, a BLM resource protection agent named Jamaica Wild. The story opens with a dramatic scene as Jamaica, on horseback, and her wolf, Mountain, track a wounded mountain lion in a blinding snowstorm. Forced to take shelter from the storm, she and Mountain, the abandoned wolf she is raising (who is as much a central character in the WILD novels as Jamaica), stumble on the desecrated body of a former school matron at an abandoned Indian school. The woman was remembered for beating and humiliating the Indian children, and the FBI quickly assumes they have a revenge killing on their hands. Jamaica isn't so sure, and chilling stories from her Tanoah Pueblo friends about their boarding school experiences pique her curiosity. As Jamaica works to find and save the wounded mountain lion and her cubs, the killer thinks she knows all. Stalked, threatened, and attacked, Wild and her wolf narrowly escape repeated attempts on their lives as Jamaica races to solve the mystery.
Ault's debut, WILD INDIGO, won the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2008, the first debut novel nominated for that award. WILD INDIGO garnered critical acclaim in the national media, including the New York Times: "[A] striking debut...Scenes of the high, dry, glittering landscape are as clean as sun-bleached bone, and there are thrills galore."
Ms. Ault's sophomore outing, WILD INFERNO, was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and was the only mystery to make both lists. Both novels won starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, who said of Ault's work: "Reviewers and readers will draw parallels between Ault's enlightening, well-researched debut and the mysteries of Tony Hillerman, Nevada Barr, and Aimee and David Thurlo; this is fine because she is that good." WILD SORROW also just received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Ms. Ault speaks fluently on the subjects of wolves, Native American culture, the Southwest, petroglyphs, and wildlife preservation. I am currently scheduling interviews for her book tour, so please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in booking a time. Complete press kits are available upon request.
P. S. Her Colorado tour dates are as follows:
March 3 Tattered Cover, Denver, CO 7:30PM
March 4 The Reader's Cove, Fort Collins, CO 5PM
March 18 Murder by the Book, Denver, CO 5:30PM
March 19 Borders Books & Music, Boulder, CO 7PM
March 21 MacDonald Bookshop at the Estes Park Library, Estes Park, CO 3PM
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
WILD SORROW continues the adventures of the series' rough and ready heroine, a BLM resource protection agent named Jamaica Wild. The story opens with a dramatic scene as Jamaica, on horseback, and her wolf, Mountain, track a wounded mountain lion in a blinding snowstorm. Forced to take shelter from the storm, she and Mountain, the abandoned wolf she is raising (who is as much a central character in the WILD novels as Jamaica), stumble on the desecrated body of a former school matron at an abandoned Indian school. The woman was remembered for beating and humiliating the Indian children, and the FBI quickly assumes they have a revenge killing on their hands. Jamaica isn't so sure, and chilling stories from her Tanoah Pueblo friends about their boarding school experiences pique her curiosity. As Jamaica works to find and save the wounded mountain lion and her cubs, the killer thinks she knows all. Stalked, threatened, and attacked, Wild and her wolf narrowly escape repeated attempts on their lives as Jamaica races to solve the mystery.
Ault's debut, WILD INDIGO, won the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2008, the first debut novel nominated for that award. WILD INDIGO garnered critical acclaim in the national media, including the New York Times: "[A] striking debut...Scenes of the high, dry, glittering landscape are as clean as sun-bleached bone, and there are thrills galore."
Ms. Ault's sophomore outing, WILD INFERNO, was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and was the only mystery to make both lists. Both novels won starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, who said of Ault's work: "Reviewers and readers will draw parallels between Ault's enlightening, well-researched debut and the mysteries of Tony Hillerman, Nevada Barr, and Aimee and David Thurlo; this is fine because she is that good." WILD SORROW also just received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Ms. Ault speaks fluently on the subjects of wolves, Native American culture, the Southwest, petroglyphs, and wildlife preservation. I am currently scheduling interviews for her book tour, so please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in booking a time. Complete press kits are available upon request.
P. S. Her Colorado tour dates are as follows:
March 3 Tattered Cover, Denver, CO 7:30PM
March 4 The Reader's Cove, Fort Collins, CO 5PM
March 18 Murder by the Book, Denver, CO 5:30PM
March 19 Borders Books & Music, Boulder, CO 7PM
March 21 MacDonald Bookshop at the Estes Park Library, Estes Park, CO 3PM
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
Write On Four Corners Schedule KSJE FM Farmington
The Write On Four Corners Schedule for February 2009 KSJE FM
February 18 and February 20 Darryl Wimberley Colored Town Toby Press
February 25 February 27 Laurie Cameron The Journey from Fear to Love Chicago Spectrum Press
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
February 18 and February 20 Darryl Wimberley Colored Town Toby Press
February 25 February 27 Laurie Cameron The Journey from Fear to Love Chicago Spectrum Press
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
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Write On Four Corners Schedule Feb. 11-13 KSJE Farmington New Mexico
The Write On Four Corners Schedule for February 2009 KSJE FM
Happy New Year!
February 11 February 13 Mabel Armstorong Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars Beagle Bay Books
February 18 and February 20 Darryl Wimberley The King of Colored Town Toby Press
February 25 February 27 Laurie Cameron The Journey from Fear to Love Chicago Spectrum Press
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
Happy New Year!
February 11 February 13 Mabel Armstorong Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars Beagle Bay Books
February 18 and February 20 Darryl Wimberley The King of Colored Town Toby Press
February 25 February 27 Laurie Cameron The Journey from Fear to Love Chicago Spectrum Press
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
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Write On Four Corners Schedule February 2009 KSJE Farmington New Mexico
The Write On Four Corners Schedule for February 2009 KSJE FM
Happy New Year!
February 11 February 13 Mabel Armstorong Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars Beagle Bay Books
February 18 and February 20 Darryl Wimberley Colored Town Toby Press
February 25 February 27 Laurie Cameron The Journey from Fear to Love Chicago Spectrum Press
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
Happy New Year!
February 11 February 13 Mabel Armstorong Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars Beagle Bay Books
February 18 and February 20 Darryl Wimberley Colored Town Toby Press
February 25 February 27 Laurie Cameron The Journey from Fear to Love Chicago Spectrum Press
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 up for February
Gwynne Spencer's February Cosmic Raccoon is ready. She has some nice reading tips and thoughts on winter. You can reach her on this blog at her web site.
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
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
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