Write on 4 Corners, KSJE-FM 90.9
Connie Gotsch Program Driector/Interviewer
July 29: Nancy Bartlett Silent Voices of World War II Sunstone Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 31: Melody Groves, Arizona War, La Frontera Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 5: Madia Tilchon The Land Beyond Maps Savvy Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 7: Teddy Jones, Left Early Arrived Late Sunstone Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 12: Lisa Dale Norton Shimmering Images A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir St. Martin Griffen Press "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 14: Levi Romero, A Poetry of Remembrance University of New Mexico Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 19: Karen Taschek Hanging with Bats Eco Bats Vampires and Hollywood Stars University of New Mexico Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 21: Dewey Johnson, Down to Earth in Roswell Self Published. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 26: Gerald Vizenor Father Meme University of New Mexico Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 28: David Gardner Illustrator, The Harvey Milk Story Two Lines Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
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
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Carolyn Howard Johnson and MaAnna Stephenson
MaAnna Stephenson will interview author advocate Carolyn Howard-Johnson on her series of Just the FAQs podcasts on Thursday, August 14. The interview will be available at www.JustTheFAQS.net/podcast.shtml and on iTunes sometime after that.
Stephenson is an author in her own right. Two decades of technical writing, web design and marketing for countless private clients and community groups led her to produce this nstructional series titled Just the FAQs, the ultimate user-friendly guides to the technical aspects of internet marketing and promotions. Her book is The Sage Age: Blending Science with Intuitive Wisdom, which was featured in Publishers Weekly shortly after its debut.
The FAQs Podcasts feature informative interviews with industry professionals in the business of writing, marketing, and the creation of online media who will help writers create a top-notch product and help them reach their target audience.
The two writers will do what both do best, that is give their listeners lots of tips and ideas based on their professional experience and practical approaches based on practical experience promoting their own books.
Howard-Johnson instructs at UCLA Extension's world renown Writers' Program. Her first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. She is also an award-winning poet. Her how-to book for writers, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't is recommended reading for her classes, was named USA Book News' "Best Professional Book" and is an Irwin Award winner. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. It, too, is a USA Book News award-winner as well as the winner of the Reader View's Literary Award.
She is the recipient of both the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and the Glendale American Business Women's Association's Woman of the Year award. Her community's Character and Ethics Committee honored her for promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." She is a popular speaker and actor.
Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com and Stephenson at www.JustTheFAQS.net
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Support materials are available on request.
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
Stephenson is an author in her own right. Two decades of technical writing, web design and marketing for countless private clients and community groups led her to produce this nstructional series titled Just the FAQs, the ultimate user-friendly guides to the technical aspects of internet marketing and promotions. Her book is The Sage Age: Blending Science with Intuitive Wisdom, which was featured in Publishers Weekly shortly after its debut.
The FAQs Podcasts feature informative interviews with industry professionals in the business of writing, marketing, and the creation of online media who will help writers create a top-notch product and help them reach their target audience.
The two writers will do what both do best, that is give their listeners lots of tips and ideas based on their professional experience and practical approaches based on practical experience promoting their own books.
Howard-Johnson instructs at UCLA Extension's world renown Writers' Program. Her first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. She is also an award-winning poet. Her how-to book for writers, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't is recommended reading for her classes, was named USA Book News' "Best Professional Book" and is an Irwin Award winner. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. It, too, is a USA Book News award-winner as well as the winner of the Reader View's Literary Award.
She is the recipient of both the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and the Glendale American Business Women's Association's Woman of the Year award. Her community's Character and Ethics Committee honored her for promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." She is a popular speaker and actor.
Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com and Stephenson at www.JustTheFAQS.net
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Support materials are available on request.
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
Fort Lewis College Writing Courses
How to Write and Illustrate Your Children's Book
Fee: $79, 4 classes
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
September 19 – October 10
Don't put it off for another day! Now is the time to learn the basics of how to write, illustrate and submit your children's book idea. Join in the fun of creating lively stories, poems, picture books and longer work for kids birth to 12. Learn about story formatting, manuscript submission, dealing with illustrations, handling copyright and many other details as you enter into the exciting world of children's literature. Aimed at first-time writers, with lots of support for beginning authors and illustrators, this class will give you the courage to write for children
Self Publishing Survival 101
Fee $79, 4 classes
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
October 17 – November 7
After the recent meltdown in New York publishing, more and more authors are looking into the pros and cons of self publishing. In this series, you'll learn whether it is realistic, economically viable, and within your capabilities to successfully produce and promote your title. We will look at options like Booksurge, iUniverse, Publish America, Author House, Trafford and other production resources including local printers and desktop production. Editing, book doctors, dealing with illustrations, copyright, ISBNS and other details are included in this comprehensive overview of the dangers and delights of being your own publisher.
Teach Your Child to Read - YOURSELF
Fee: $39, 1 class
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.
November 14
Reading is the most important skill your child will ever acquire. Learn how to teach it yourself in one session without expensive kits, television hyped materials, or pedagogical puffery. For parents of kids ages 2 to 12, this class gives you everything you need to get the job done.
Unplug Your Christmas Machine
Fee: $39, 1 class
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.
November 21
If the thought of fending off the Christmas Gimmies makes you want to stick your head in the oven, come enjoy this class and learn lots of ways to decommercialize your holidays. Based on the ever-popular book by Jo Robinson and Jean Staeheli, this workshop will put the curl back in your elf-slippers and even a ho ho ho in your heart.
To register, please contact
Fort Lewis College
Continuing Education
315 Reed Library
Durango, CO 81301
(970) 247-7385
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
Fee: $79, 4 classes
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
September 19 – October 10
Don't put it off for another day! Now is the time to learn the basics of how to write, illustrate and submit your children's book idea. Join in the fun of creating lively stories, poems, picture books and longer work for kids birth to 12. Learn about story formatting, manuscript submission, dealing with illustrations, handling copyright and many other details as you enter into the exciting world of children's literature. Aimed at first-time writers, with lots of support for beginning authors and illustrators, this class will give you the courage to write for children
Self Publishing Survival 101
Fee $79, 4 classes
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
October 17 – November 7
After the recent meltdown in New York publishing, more and more authors are looking into the pros and cons of self publishing. In this series, you'll learn whether it is realistic, economically viable, and within your capabilities to successfully produce and promote your title. We will look at options like Booksurge, iUniverse, Publish America, Author House, Trafford and other production resources including local printers and desktop production. Editing, book doctors, dealing with illustrations, copyright, ISBNS and other details are included in this comprehensive overview of the dangers and delights of being your own publisher.
Teach Your Child to Read - YOURSELF
Fee: $39, 1 class
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.
November 14
Reading is the most important skill your child will ever acquire. Learn how to teach it yourself in one session without expensive kits, television hyped materials, or pedagogical puffery. For parents of kids ages 2 to 12, this class gives you everything you need to get the job done.
Unplug Your Christmas Machine
Fee: $39, 1 class
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.
November 21
If the thought of fending off the Christmas Gimmies makes you want to stick your head in the oven, come enjoy this class and learn lots of ways to decommercialize your holidays. Based on the ever-popular book by Jo Robinson and Jean Staeheli, this workshop will put the curl back in your elf-slippers and even a ho ho ho in your heart.
To register, please contact
Fort Lewis College
Continuing Education
315 Reed Library
Durango, CO 81301
(970) 247-7385
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
Visions Underground Carlsbad Caverns
Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns through the Artist’s Eye
by Lois Manno
Published in collaboration with
The National Speleological Society (www.caves.org)
ISBN 978-1-890689-95-7
8” x 10”softcover $19.99 192 pages 142 illustrations
Cover art courtesy of Alexander Dux and Ranger Doug Enterprises
Albuquerque Journal calls it "intriguing and entertaining..."
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What was the most challenging photographic subject of Ansel Adams’ career? Many would agree that it was Carlsbad Caverns. At one point during his work at the Caverns, Adams wrote a letter to friend and fellow photographer Alfred Stieglitz, asking him to “pray for me.” Did he succeed or fail? The previously unpublished Adams images in this book will allow lovers of photographic art to come to their own conclusions.
For more info on this book CLICK HERE.
Lois Manno has been a caver for thirty years. She is a fine artist and graphic designer who has volunteered at Carlsbad Caverns National Park for more than fifteen years. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Reviews
This intriguing and entertaining book covers the history of those who have been inspired to explore Carlsbad Caverns National Park with paintbrush and camera. --Albuquerque Journal, July 26, 2009
Visions Underground is a well-written and easily read book that will appeal to a wide audience. General readers as well as artists, photographers, and cave historians will all find something of interest here. In fleshing out this historical portrait of a century of creative expression at Carlsbad Caverns, Manno offers readers a rarely glimpsed vision of subterranean art and culture -- NSS News, Summer 2009
Lois Manno’s wonderful new book, Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns through the Artist’s Eye, is a ground-breaking look at cave art. Visions Underground is well-researched, well-written, well-illustrated and can be summed up in one word: “Wow!” -- New Mexico Breeze, June 12, 2009
When one thinks about natural beauty, one thinks of pristine green fields. But there is beauty in darker areas as well. “Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns Through the Artist’s Eye” photographically and artistically chronicles an artist’s journey through the Carlsbad Caverns, a simply beautiful series of caverns in New Mexico. Combining painting with photography, “Visions Underground” is a visual treat and fine coffee table book. -- MidWest Book Reviews, June 2009
For more on this book CLICK HERE.
Booksignings and Talks
Saturday, August 1, 2009 - 1-3pm
Author Talk and booksigning at Borders Cottonwood Crossing, 10420 Coors Bypass NW, Albuquerque, NM
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 5-7pm
Author Talk and opening of Carlsbad Caverns exhibit, Steve Elmore Indian Art Gallery, 839 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
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
by Lois Manno
Published in collaboration with
The National Speleological Society (www.caves.org)
ISBN 978-1-890689-95-7
8” x 10”softcover $19.99 192 pages 142 illustrations
Cover art courtesy of Alexander Dux and Ranger Doug Enterprises
Albuquerque Journal calls it "intriguing and entertaining..."
________________________________________
What was the most challenging photographic subject of Ansel Adams’ career? Many would agree that it was Carlsbad Caverns. At one point during his work at the Caverns, Adams wrote a letter to friend and fellow photographer Alfred Stieglitz, asking him to “pray for me.” Did he succeed or fail? The previously unpublished Adams images in this book will allow lovers of photographic art to come to their own conclusions.
For more info on this book CLICK HERE.
Lois Manno has been a caver for thirty years. She is a fine artist and graphic designer who has volunteered at Carlsbad Caverns National Park for more than fifteen years. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Reviews
This intriguing and entertaining book covers the history of those who have been inspired to explore Carlsbad Caverns National Park with paintbrush and camera. --Albuquerque Journal, July 26, 2009
Visions Underground is a well-written and easily read book that will appeal to a wide audience. General readers as well as artists, photographers, and cave historians will all find something of interest here. In fleshing out this historical portrait of a century of creative expression at Carlsbad Caverns, Manno offers readers a rarely glimpsed vision of subterranean art and culture -- NSS News, Summer 2009
Lois Manno’s wonderful new book, Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns through the Artist’s Eye, is a ground-breaking look at cave art. Visions Underground is well-researched, well-written, well-illustrated and can be summed up in one word: “Wow!” -- New Mexico Breeze, June 12, 2009
When one thinks about natural beauty, one thinks of pristine green fields. But there is beauty in darker areas as well. “Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns Through the Artist’s Eye” photographically and artistically chronicles an artist’s journey through the Carlsbad Caverns, a simply beautiful series of caverns in New Mexico. Combining painting with photography, “Visions Underground” is a visual treat and fine coffee table book. -- MidWest Book Reviews, June 2009
For more on this book CLICK HERE.
Booksignings and Talks
Saturday, August 1, 2009 - 1-3pm
Author Talk and booksigning at Borders Cottonwood Crossing, 10420 Coors Bypass NW, Albuquerque, NM
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 5-7pm
Author Talk and opening of Carlsbad Caverns exhibit, Steve Elmore Indian Art Gallery, 839 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
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, July 15, 2009
Write On 4 Corners Schedule
Write on 4 Corners, KSJE-FM 90.9
Connie Gotsch Program Driector/Interviewer
July 29: Nancy Bartlett Silent Voices of World War II Sunstone Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 31: Melody Groves, Arizona War, La Frontera Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 5: Madia Tilchon The Land Beyond Maps Savvy Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 7: Teddy Jones, Left Early Arrived Late Sunstone Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 12: Lisa Dale Norton Shimmering Images A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir St. Martin Griffen Press "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 14: Levi Romero, A Poetry of Remembrance University of New Mexico Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 19: Karen Taschek Hanging with Bats Eco Bats Vampires and Hollywood Stars University of New Mexico Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 21: Dewey Johnson, Down to Earth in Roswell Self Published. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 26: Gerald Vizenor Father Meme University of New Mexico Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 28: David Gardner Illustrator, The Harvey Milk Story Two Lines Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
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 Program Driector/Interviewer
July 29: Nancy Bartlett Silent Voices of World War II Sunstone Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 31: Melody Groves, Arizona War, La Frontera Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 5: Madia Tilchon The Land Beyond Maps Savvy Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 7: Teddy Jones, Left Early Arrived Late Sunstone Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 12: Lisa Dale Norton Shimmering Images A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir St. Martin Griffen Press "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 14: Levi Romero, A Poetry of Remembrance University of New Mexico Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 19: Karen Taschek Hanging with Bats Eco Bats Vampires and Hollywood Stars University of New Mexico Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 21: Dewey Johnson, Down to Earth in Roswell Self Published. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 26: Gerald Vizenor Father Meme University of New Mexico Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
August 28: David Gardner Illustrator, The Harvey Milk Story Two Lines Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
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 Rio Rancho Book Fair
The Biggest Book Event in New Mexico This Year!
You can still sign up to participate in the biggest book event of the year.
The Rio Rancho Book Fair will be on November 7, 2009 and if you have not already signed up you better get in gear!
The event will be from 10am to 4pm at the Rio Rancho Inn, across from Intel.
It costs just $30 for a whole table ($15 for a half of a table) if you sign up before July 15. After that date it goes up to $35 for a whole table. This is a special price just for authors -- crafts people are also invited to participate but the price for them is $35 for a whole table (no half tables are available for craft people)!
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
You can still sign up to participate in the biggest book event of the year.
The Rio Rancho Book Fair will be on November 7, 2009 and if you have not already signed up you better get in gear!
The event will be from 10am to 4pm at the Rio Rancho Inn, across from Intel.
It costs just $30 for a whole table ($15 for a half of a table) if you sign up before July 15. After that date it goes up to $35 for a whole table. This is a special price just for authors -- crafts people are also invited to participate but the price for them is $35 for a whole table (no half tables are available for craft people)!
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
Rio Grade Books Sen. Pete Domenici
Senator Pete Domenici’s Legacy
Published in collaboration with the Domenici Public Policy Institute, New Mexico State University
edited by Jon Hunner
254 pages 86 photographs; 7 x 10
ISBN 978-1-890689-55-1 ($24.95) (Trade paper)
ISBN 978-1-890689-66-7 ($35.95) (Trade cloth)
Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) served in the U.S. Senate for over thirty-six years. He has a long legacy of contributions to New Mexico as well as the entire country. The New Mexico State University has started the long process of recognizing Pete Domenici and his legacy.
The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute, located at New Mexico State University, held a conference on Domenici’s legacy in August 2008. Rio Grande Books of Los Ranchos, NM, in collaboration with New Mexico State University, is publishing the proceedings from this first conference honoring Senator Domenici’s legacy. Speakers focused on Senator Domenici’s legacy in several areas including:
Behavioral/Mental Health — Michael Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Energy/energy policy — Lisa Epifani, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
National security — Paul Robinson, former President of Sandia National Labs
Federal budget — Leon Panetta, CIA Director and former White House Chief of Staff and Congressman (D-CA) and William Hoagland, former Congressional Budget Director
Nuclear non-proliferation — Siegfried Hecker, former President of Los Alamos National Labs
And keynote Addresses from former Secretary of State James Baker and U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT).
It is anticipated that New Mexico State University will hold an annual conference as part of the Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute.
This book will be in stores by mid-July.
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
Published in collaboration with the Domenici Public Policy Institute, New Mexico State University
edited by Jon Hunner
254 pages 86 photographs; 7 x 10
ISBN 978-1-890689-55-1 ($24.95) (Trade paper)
ISBN 978-1-890689-66-7 ($35.95) (Trade cloth)
Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) served in the U.S. Senate for over thirty-six years. He has a long legacy of contributions to New Mexico as well as the entire country. The New Mexico State University has started the long process of recognizing Pete Domenici and his legacy.
The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute, located at New Mexico State University, held a conference on Domenici’s legacy in August 2008. Rio Grande Books of Los Ranchos, NM, in collaboration with New Mexico State University, is publishing the proceedings from this first conference honoring Senator Domenici’s legacy. Speakers focused on Senator Domenici’s legacy in several areas including:
Behavioral/Mental Health — Michael Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Energy/energy policy — Lisa Epifani, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
National security — Paul Robinson, former President of Sandia National Labs
Federal budget — Leon Panetta, CIA Director and former White House Chief of Staff and Congressman (D-CA) and William Hoagland, former Congressional Budget Director
Nuclear non-proliferation — Siegfried Hecker, former President of Los Alamos National Labs
And keynote Addresses from former Secretary of State James Baker and U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT).
It is anticipated that New Mexico State University will hold an annual conference as part of the Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute.
This book will be in stores by mid-July.
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 10, 2009
Carolyn Howard Johnson Sharing with Writers Alert
This is a single notice news alert (opportunity) from your Sharing with Writers newsletter, a newsletter that is also a community. Share your ideas. Learn from theirs!
Associated with the multi award - winning series of HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, www.howtodoitfrugally.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I will be hosting the Book Pavilion at the Green New Meida Life Expo. As an author, this is your chance to shine and create a huge following for your book project, book - associated business, speaking tours and more.
You can help yourself and the environment plus reduce your dependence on traditional marketing materials and the costs associated with them by exhibiting with us and getting a reusable package of new media promotion tools like a video, podcasts, exposure on national blogs, and radio (see more details below).
Green New Media & Life Expo featuring our Green Book Pavilion is coming to the Ontario Convention Center September 12 - 13 but we plan two other expos this fall. Learn more at www.greennewmedialifeexpo.com.
We will feature New Media On - line Technology including live bloggers, live Internet Radio interviews, streaming video programming, social media interactivity with Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter plus more in an effort to help you save money while generating sales and new clients.
For more information, pricing and to reserve your exhibit booth visit our Web site at www.greennewmedialifeexpo.com or contact Gerald Fisher at
702 - 467 - 9411 or by email at gefisher39@aol.com. If you tell Gerry that you are a subscriber of this newsletter, I will make every effort to interview you for your video myself rather than assign you to one of our other trained visual hosts.
Sharing with Writers subscriber and author Patricia Kokinos will be handling publiicity and if you can help spread the word, contact her at americanstory@sbcglobal.net. In charge of videos is Randy Detroit. To see a sample of his professional work go to www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com. The first video he did for me is at the top of the page.
And, of course, the Expo is produced by Rey Ybarra, host of BestSellingAuthorTV.com.
Please let me hear from you! HoJoNews@aol.com
Happy writing, editing, and - - of course - - promoting, Carolyn Howard - Johnson
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Your regular issue of Sharing with Writers (full of tips and
opportunities) will be released this weekend. Feel free to pass this letter to your writing friends. If you wish to unsubscribe, please let me know at HoJoNews@aol.com. But please don't tell me you aren't writing (or
promoting!) anymore! ( - :
Visit Carolyn HowardJohnson at:
http://www.authorsden.com/carolynhowardjohnson
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
Associated with the multi award - winning series of HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, www.howtodoitfrugally.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I will be hosting the Book Pavilion at the Green New Meida Life Expo. As an author, this is your chance to shine and create a huge following for your book project, book - associated business, speaking tours and more.
You can help yourself and the environment plus reduce your dependence on traditional marketing materials and the costs associated with them by exhibiting with us and getting a reusable package of new media promotion tools like a video, podcasts, exposure on national blogs, and radio (see more details below).
Green New Media & Life Expo featuring our Green Book Pavilion is coming to the Ontario Convention Center September 12 - 13 but we plan two other expos this fall. Learn more at www.greennewmedialifeexpo.com.
We will feature New Media On - line Technology including live bloggers, live Internet Radio interviews, streaming video programming, social media interactivity with Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter plus more in an effort to help you save money while generating sales and new clients.
For more information, pricing and to reserve your exhibit booth visit our Web site at www.greennewmedialifeexpo.com or contact Gerald Fisher at
702 - 467 - 9411 or by email at gefisher39@aol.com. If you tell Gerry that you are a subscriber of this newsletter, I will make every effort to interview you for your video myself rather than assign you to one of our other trained visual hosts.
Sharing with Writers subscriber and author Patricia Kokinos will be handling publiicity and if you can help spread the word, contact her at americanstory@sbcglobal.net. In charge of videos is Randy Detroit. To see a sample of his professional work go to www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com. The first video he did for me is at the top of the page.
And, of course, the Expo is produced by Rey Ybarra, host of BestSellingAuthorTV.com.
Please let me hear from you! HoJoNews@aol.com
Happy writing, editing, and - - of course - - promoting, Carolyn Howard - Johnson
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Your regular issue of Sharing with Writers (full of tips and
opportunities) will be released this weekend. Feel free to pass this letter to your writing friends. If you wish to unsubscribe, please let me know at HoJoNews@aol.com. But please don't tell me you aren't writing (or
promoting!) anymore! ( - :
Visit Carolyn HowardJohnson at:
http://www.authorsden.com/carolynhowardjohnson
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 Author Pati Nagle's signings
Pati will be on Write On 4 Corners on KSJE FM with her fantasy The Betrayal in late fall early winter, 2009. Watch this blog for her appearances
July 25, 1:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion & Signing: "Magic & Murder"
with Jane Lindskold, John Maddox Roberts, and Pari Noskin Taichert
Barnes & Noble, Coronado Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 18, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing: "The Secret Handshake"
Southwest Writers
New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 20, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing with Jane Lindskold
Bookworks, Albuquerque, 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
July 25, 1:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion & Signing: "Magic & Murder"
with Jane Lindskold, John Maddox Roberts, and Pari Noskin Taichert
Barnes & Noble, Coronado Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 18, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing: "The Secret Handshake"
Southwest Writers
New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 20, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing with Jane Lindskold
Bookworks, Albuquerque, 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
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Write On Four Corners Schedule July, 2009
Write on 4 Corners, KSJE-FM 90.9
Connie Gotsch Program Driector/Interviewer
July 8: Marianne Aweagon Broyles The Red Window West End Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 10: Dr. David P Sklar, La Clinica, A Doctor’s Journey Across Borders University of New Mexico Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 15: Carol Walker Hoof Beats America’s Vanishing Wild Horses Painted Hills Publishing, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 17: Laura Gomez, Manifest DestiniesThe Making of the Mexican American Race New York University Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 29: Nancy Bartlett Silent Voices of World War II Sunstone Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 31: Melody Groves, Arizona War, La Frontera Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
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 Program Driector/Interviewer
July 8: Marianne Aweagon Broyles The Red Window West End Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 10: Dr. David P Sklar, La Clinica, A Doctor’s Journey Across Borders University of New Mexico Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 15: Carol Walker Hoof Beats America’s Vanishing Wild Horses Painted Hills Publishing, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 17: Laura Gomez, Manifest DestiniesThe Making of the Mexican American Race New York University Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 29: Nancy Bartlett Silent Voices of World War II Sunstone Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 31: Melody Groves, Arizona War, La Frontera Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
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 Networking Luncheon this Friday, July 10
NMBA Gatherings on July 10 and 16
OUR JULY NETWORKING LUNCHEON takes place this Friday, July 10 at the Writers Room in Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm. Brown Bag format (we’ll supply juice and cookies). The Writers Room is in the first building at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, off St. Francis Drive. It’s through the blue door and upstairs. Reservations are not needed and friends are welcome. Call (505) 231-1755 or 988-7214 if you need directions.
NMBA’s informal after-work Round Table Happy Hour is Thursday of next week, July 16. Our Happy Hours are at Santa Fe Bar & Grill in DeVargas Mall, 5:30 pm. The Round Table Happy Hours are understandably quite relaxed, with intelligent book chatter and witty camaraderie.
Enter Your Best-Looking Titles Now in NMBA’s Southwest Book Design & Production Awards
THAT GREAT BOOK you did as publisher, author or designer in 2008 or 2009 can be entered now in the Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellence, a new program announced by NMBA. Your entry form is in the mail to you now!
Categories include trade books, art and photography, scholarly/technical, guide and travel, lifestyle, poetry, children/young adult, graphic novels, and cover design. We need two copies of each title entered. Entry for NMBA members is just $30. (You’ll save another $5 by entering anytime before the Early Bird Deadline, Oct. 31.) When members submit a book in a second category it’s only $15 more. Send check, form and entries to: New Mexico Book Association, c/o Recursos, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe 87505.
The NMBA directors expect this competition will spotlight enhanced design and production quality in the books from our region. The emphasis is on excellence!
Post Events Electronically – it’s the Only Way!
NMBA’s NEW ELECTRONIC Book Events Form is truly accessible and easy to use. Go to our website,. www nmbook.org, and click on the Calendar & News Submission Form logo. In moments, your meeting, booksigning, seminar, show, contest, or workshop will be in NMBA’s hands, ready for posting. We’ve made it easier, and from now on you must submit your forthcoming book and literary events online.Things got out of hand with items coming to us in sundry formats. This simplification will make it simpler and faster for us all. If your event is important to you and others (and it is!), don’t rely on us condensing a press release or an email attachment. From now on, we’ll publish it only if it comes in via the NMBA website’s easy-click form!
Book Events Calendar Update:
Attention! Calendar items must be received by email only via the easy-to-use form at www.nmbook.org . Click on Calendar & News Events Submission Form and follow the brief prompts. Fast and simple, it’s also the only way your event will appear here. For NMBA’s email Book Events Calendar, please submit at least two weeks prior to the event!
July 10: NMBA Monthly Networking Luncheon, The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free! Bring your lunch; cookies, juice and thoughtful writing and publishing advice provided! Contact Paula, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
July 10: NMBA Board Meeting at the Writers’ Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 1:30pm.
July 10-12: Rick Reichman Weekend Screenwriting Workshop, Santa Fe Community College. Friday 7pm-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am-4:30pm. $105. Call 505-428-1270 or email rmreichman@earthlink.net
July 10-12: "Lavender in the Village" (bookselling event), Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. www.nmbookcoop.com
July 11: John Q. Olson Self-Publishing Workshop. SOMOS, Taos Visitors Center, Paseo del Pueblo Sur, 10am-2pm, $50 advance required.www.somostaos.org
July 11-14: American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago. ala@heiexpo.com
July 16: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour. Santa Fe Bar & Grill, DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe, 5:30pm. All literary people are invited to share news, info and gossip. Cash bar. Jim Mafchir, 505-988-7214.
July 18 and 25: Embracing Your Right Livelihood (Introductory class), Soul Resources, at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, free. 11am -1pm, 505-271-4612.
July 21: Herding Words: Organizing the Novel with Betsy James, SouthWest Literary Center, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 7-9 pm.
July 31: Natalie Goldberg and Friends, SOMOS, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm, 575-758-0081, somos@somostaos.org, www.somostaos.org.
Aug. 1: IWWG & Friends Luncheon Meeting, Mission Cafe, 239 E. De Vargas, Santa Fe, 11:30am, 505-473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
Aug. 15: DEADLINE! NMBA Book Events Calendar for September/October. Submit all items on the "Calendar and Events Submission Form" on the homepage at www.nmbook.org. (Yes, it’s new and simple—and it’s required!).
Aug. 15: SouthWest Writers Conference: The Novel–All Genres, CNM Workforce Training Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave N.E., Albuquerque, 8:30am to 5pm, $99 for SWW members if you register by July 15 ($149-$179 non-members). Details at www.southhwestwriters.com
Sept. 23-26: Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Denver International Airport. Lisa Knudsen or Kyle Larson, 800-752-0249, www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 26: New Mexico Woman Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. John Stafford, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Sample of Author Events and Readings:
July 3: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Robert Mirabal and Jason Yurcic, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm.
July 10: Lucien Niemeyer, Darfur, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Bookworks, Albuquerque.
July 11: Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money. Santa Fe Farmers Market, 9am.
July 11: Alisa Valdez Rodriguez, The Husband Habit, Santa Fe Baking Company, 504 W. Cordova Rd, Santa Fe, 11am-2pm. www.garciastreetbooks.com.
July 12: Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable, Bookworks, Albuquerque, 1pm.
July 12: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Bookworks, 3 pm.
July 16: Eve Brown-Waite, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria, Collected Works, 6pm.
July 16: EllynAnne Geisel, The Kitchen Linens Book, Bookworks, 7pm.
July 17: Craig Varjabedian, Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, NM History Museum, 6pm.
July 17: Dolores Sloan, The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal talks on "Honoring the Ancestors of Many New Mexicans," Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm.
July 19: Faye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman, Garcia Street Books, 3pm.
July 19: Rudolfo Anaya speaks about Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays, Bookworks, 3pm.
July 21: Bob and Gerald Hausman, Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward Curtis, Collected Works, Santa Fe.
July 23: Carmella Padilla, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
August 7: K. J. Fraser, A Journey, a Reckoning, and a Miracle, informal discussion & signing
Moby Dickens,Taos, 2-4pm. 575-758-3050, www.mobydickens.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
NMBA Gatherings on July 10 and 16
OUR JULY NETWORKING LUNCHEON takes place this Friday, July 10 at the Writers Room in Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm. Brown Bag format (we’ll supply juice and cookies). The Writers Room is in the first building at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, off St. Francis Drive. It’s through the blue door and upstairs. Reservations are not needed and friends are welcome. Call (505) 231-1755 or 988-7214 if you need directions.
NMBA’s informal after-work Round Table Happy Hour is Thursday of next week, July 16. Our Happy Hours are at Santa Fe Bar & Grill in DeVargas Mall, 5:30 pm. The Round Table Happy Hours are understandably quite relaxed, with intelligent book chatter and witty camaraderie.
Enter Your Best-Looking Titles Now in NMBA’s Southwest Book Design & Production Awards
THAT GREAT BOOK you did as publisher, author or designer in 2008 or 2009 can be entered now in the Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellence, a new program announced by NMBA. Your entry form is in the mail to you now!
Categories include trade books, art and photography, scholarly/technical, guide and travel, lifestyle, poetry, children/young adult, graphic novels, and cover design. We need two copies of each title entered. Entry for NMBA members is just $30. (You’ll save another $5 by entering anytime before the Early Bird Deadline, Oct. 31.) When members submit a book in a second category it’s only $15 more. Send check, form and entries to: New Mexico Book Association, c/o Recursos, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe 87505.
The NMBA directors expect this competition will spotlight enhanced design and production quality in the books from our region. The emphasis is on excellence!
Post Events Electronically – it’s the Only Way!
NMBA’s NEW ELECTRONIC Book Events Form is truly accessible and easy to use. Go to our website,. www nmbook.org, and click on the Calendar & News Submission Form logo. In moments, your meeting, booksigning, seminar, show, contest, or workshop will be in NMBA’s hands, ready for posting. We’ve made it easier, and from now on you must submit your forthcoming book and literary events online.Things got out of hand with items coming to us in sundry formats. This simplification will make it simpler and faster for us all. If your event is important to you and others (and it is!), don’t rely on us condensing a press release or an email attachment. From now on, we’ll publish it only if it comes in via the NMBA website’s easy-click form!
Book Events Calendar Update:
Attention! Calendar items must be received by email only via the easy-to-use form at www.nmbook.org . Click on Calendar & News Events Submission Form and follow the brief prompts. Fast and simple, it’s also the only way your event will appear here. For NMBA’s email Book Events Calendar, please submit at least two weeks prior to the event!
July 10: NMBA Monthly Networking Luncheon, The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free! Bring your lunch; cookies, juice and thoughtful writing and publishing advice provided! Contact Paula, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
July 10: NMBA Board Meeting at the Writers’ Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 1:30pm.
July 10-12: Rick Reichman Weekend Screenwriting Workshop, Santa Fe Community College. Friday 7pm-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am-4:30pm. $105. Call 505-428-1270 or email rmreichman@earthlink.net
July 10-12: "Lavender in the Village" (bookselling event), Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. www.nmbookcoop.com
July 11: John Q. Olson Self-Publishing Workshop. SOMOS, Taos Visitors Center, Paseo del Pueblo Sur, 10am-2pm, $50 advance required.www.somostaos.org
July 11-14: American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago. ala@heiexpo.com
July 16: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour. Santa Fe Bar & Grill, DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe, 5:30pm. All literary people are invited to share news, info and gossip. Cash bar. Jim Mafchir, 505-988-7214.
July 18 and 25: Embracing Your Right Livelihood (Introductory class), Soul Resources, at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, free. 11am -1pm, 505-271-4612.
July 21: Herding Words: Organizing the Novel with Betsy James, SouthWest Literary Center, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 7-9 pm.
July 31: Natalie Goldberg and Friends, SOMOS, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm, 575-758-0081, somos@somostaos.org, www.somostaos.org.
Aug. 1: IWWG & Friends Luncheon Meeting, Mission Cafe, 239 E. De Vargas, Santa Fe, 11:30am, 505-473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
Aug. 15: DEADLINE! NMBA Book Events Calendar for September/October. Submit all items on the "Calendar and Events Submission Form" on the homepage at www.nmbook.org. (Yes, it’s new and simple—and it’s required!).
Aug. 15: SouthWest Writers Conference: The Novel–All Genres, CNM Workforce Training Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave N.E., Albuquerque, 8:30am to 5pm, $99 for SWW members if you register by July 15 ($149-$179 non-members). Details at www.southhwestwriters.com
Sept. 23-26: Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Denver International Airport. Lisa Knudsen or Kyle Larson, 800-752-0249, www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 26: New Mexico Woman Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. John Stafford, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Sample of Author Events and Readings:
July 3: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Robert Mirabal and Jason Yurcic, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm.
July 10: Lucien Niemeyer, Darfur, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Bookworks, Albuquerque.
July 11: Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money. Santa Fe Farmers Market, 9am.
July 11: Alisa Valdez Rodriguez, The Husband Habit, Santa Fe Baking Company, 504 W. Cordova Rd, Santa Fe, 11am-2pm. www.garciastreetbooks.com.
July 12: Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable, Bookworks, Albuquerque, 1pm.
July 12: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Bookworks, 3 pm.
July 16: Eve Brown-Waite, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria, Collected Works, 6pm.
July 16: EllynAnne Geisel, The Kitchen Linens Book, Bookworks, 7pm.
July 17: Craig Varjabedian, Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, NM History Museum, 6pm.
July 17: Dolores Sloan, The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal talks on "Honoring the Ancestors of Many New Mexicans," Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm.
July 19: Faye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman, Garcia Street Books, 3pm.
July 19: Rudolfo Anaya speaks about Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays, Bookworks, 3pm.
July 21: Bob and Gerald Hausman, Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward Curtis, Collected Works, Santa Fe.
July 23: Carmella Padilla, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
August 7: K. J. Fraser, A Journey, a Reckoning, and a Miracle, informal discussion & signing
Moby Dickens,Taos, 2-4pm. 575-758-3050, www.mobydickens.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
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Word Harvest Doin's for Summer
We are delighted to host award-winning author and writing teacher Sandi Ault in a special workshop this summer. In "Six Degrees of Separation: From Creating Story Lines to Polishing Your Work - Important Skills A Writer Must Have," Sandi presents vital information writers need to stand out from the pack and succeed as published authors. Sandi will help you sharpen writing skills to develop a dynamic voice; create powerful images with your words; interweave and fine-tuning themes; set your story line and grab the reader; use polishing tools to distinguish your writing; and describe your work to make it easy to sell and market. Sign up now before the class fills! To learn more
If you want to know what it's like to study with Sandi, take a look at the guest blog by Pat Wood, one of Sandi's students at the 2008 Hillerman Conference.
Sandi's WILD INFERNO was a finalist at the recent Colorado Book Awards. The July issue of Women of Writing Magazine and the September issue of Cowboys & Indians both feature Ault. C&I also reviews WILD SORROW. (The same magazine will have an interview with Anne Hillerman about her newest book, Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes.)
Ellen Barone recently received the Travel Blissful Blog Award which she posted on her website. She notes, "By now, most businesses (yes, freelancers you ARE a business) realize that there are advantages to having a company website and blog. But, if you're like a lot of the people I meet, you may feel a bit confused, overwhelmed, puzzled and even frustrated by the world of new media and the Internet. You want to spend your time creating, not building a website or navigating Facebook, Twitter or Linked-In. Here's where I come in: I not only understand the new technology, I ENJOY it!"
Ellen will talk about how to use the web to jumpstart new sources of revenue or parlay your interests into creative new platforms during her Santa Fe workshop on Internet marketing on August 7. Space is still available in this interactive class, co-sponsored by Santa Fe Community College.The workshop is intended for writers, photographers, artists, entrepreneurs, and any one curious about websites, internet marketing and other on-line promotional tools.
WORDHARVEST Faculty on the Move
Craig Johnson, past winner of the Tony Hillerman Short Story Contest, received the 2009 Spur Award for best western novel for Another Man's Moccasins The Spur, given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, is among the oldest and most prestigious awards in American literature. Past winners include Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances With Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalkers. Johnson's newest, The Dark Horse, was released this spring.
David Morrell celebrates the 25th anniversary of his classic trilogy, The Brotherhood of the Rose this year. Ballantine is re-releasing all three novels as trade paperbacks with new afterwords by Morrell explaining how the books evolved. David's newest book, The Shimmer, is set for release in July by Vanguard Press.
Michael McGarrity reports steady progress on his new book, a historical novel tentatively titled Hard County, a prequel to the Kerney novels. Set in the territorial period of New Mexico, the book weaves crimes and misdeeds into the plot. On August 5, McGarrity will be speak at the Full Moon event at White Sands National Monument, east of Alamogordo, and on August 15 at the SouthWest Writers Conference in Albuquerque. He's also generously agreed to help with the launch of Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn Nov. 5 at the University of New Mexico and Nov. 8 in Santa Fe.
Steve Havill, faculty member at the Tony Hillerman Conference in 2007 and 2008, has a new book out, The Fourth Time Is Murder. This is his 15th novel set in fictional Posadas County, New Mexico. Booklist called it, "a satisfying, intelligent mystery."
Pari Noskin Taichert was in Washington, D.C. at Malice Domestic where she served on the humor panel and the social issues panel.
Susan Slater's newest book 0 to 60, which she calls an autobiographical novel, has a July 15 publication date from Bascom Hill Publishing Group. As part of the book launch, Susan has generously offered free critiques to other writers of fiction based on their own lives. Deadline for submissions is September 30th.The winner receives the Novel in a Weekend course with mystery writer Connie Shelton. For more visit Susan's website
NEWS FROM OUR STUDENTS.
Bob Haas has released Carbolic Smoke Ball Presents: Zombies Ate My Headlines. He produces a website (http://carbolicsmoke.com/), a weekly page in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and a radio spot--- in addition to having a full time job.
Sally Severino has published Becoming Fire, a Freudian Psychoanalysist's Spiritual Journey and Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living (with co-author Nancy K. Morrison).
Stephen Grogan's book, Vegas Die, was selected by The Independent Publisher Book Awards as the 2009 Silver Medal Winner for Best Regional Fiction (West & Mountain category). Known as "IPPY Awards," winners were announced at the 13th Annual Awards Ceremony in New York City during Book Expo.
Jennifer Kitchell's new book, Girl with Skirt of Stars, is due for release in August.Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn will be released Oct. 27, 2009 by HarperCollins and celebrated at an event at the University of New Mexico on November 5 and in Santa Fe Sunday, Nov. 8. If you'd like an invitation to these inaugural happenings, a benefit for the Hillerman-(Michael) McGarrity Scholarship for Creative Writing in Albuquerque and for the Public Libraries in Santa Fe, just send an email. The book, written by Anne Hillerman with photos by Don Strel, uses Tony's descriptions of Indian country scenery from the Chee/Leaphorn books, Don's pictures and Anne's memories of her father and non-fiction commentary.
Anne also published Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes this spring with GibbsSmith Publisher. The book is available in many book stores and through the publisher. She'll be signing Saturday, July 11, at 10 a.m. at the Lavender Festival in Los Ranchos (just northwest of Albuquerque) and again on July 26 at 1 p.m. in Santa Fe at the Spanish Market.
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
If you want to know what it's like to study with Sandi, take a look at the guest blog by Pat Wood, one of Sandi's students at the 2008 Hillerman Conference.
Sandi's WILD INFERNO was a finalist at the recent Colorado Book Awards. The July issue of Women of Writing Magazine and the September issue of Cowboys & Indians both feature Ault. C&I also reviews WILD SORROW. (The same magazine will have an interview with Anne Hillerman about her newest book, Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes.)
Ellen Barone recently received the Travel Blissful Blog Award which she posted on her website. She notes, "By now, most businesses (yes, freelancers you ARE a business) realize that there are advantages to having a company website and blog. But, if you're like a lot of the people I meet, you may feel a bit confused, overwhelmed, puzzled and even frustrated by the world of new media and the Internet. You want to spend your time creating, not building a website or navigating Facebook, Twitter or Linked-In. Here's where I come in: I not only understand the new technology, I ENJOY it!"
Ellen will talk about how to use the web to jumpstart new sources of revenue or parlay your interests into creative new platforms during her Santa Fe workshop on Internet marketing on August 7. Space is still available in this interactive class, co-sponsored by Santa Fe Community College.The workshop is intended for writers, photographers, artists, entrepreneurs, and any one curious about websites, internet marketing and other on-line promotional tools.
WORDHARVEST Faculty on the Move
Craig Johnson, past winner of the Tony Hillerman Short Story Contest, received the 2009 Spur Award for best western novel for Another Man's Moccasins The Spur, given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, is among the oldest and most prestigious awards in American literature. Past winners include Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances With Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalkers. Johnson's newest, The Dark Horse, was released this spring.
David Morrell celebrates the 25th anniversary of his classic trilogy, The Brotherhood of the Rose this year. Ballantine is re-releasing all three novels as trade paperbacks with new afterwords by Morrell explaining how the books evolved. David's newest book, The Shimmer, is set for release in July by Vanguard Press.
Michael McGarrity reports steady progress on his new book, a historical novel tentatively titled Hard County, a prequel to the Kerney novels. Set in the territorial period of New Mexico, the book weaves crimes and misdeeds into the plot. On August 5, McGarrity will be speak at the Full Moon event at White Sands National Monument, east of Alamogordo, and on August 15 at the SouthWest Writers Conference in Albuquerque. He's also generously agreed to help with the launch of Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn Nov. 5 at the University of New Mexico and Nov. 8 in Santa Fe.
Steve Havill, faculty member at the Tony Hillerman Conference in 2007 and 2008, has a new book out, The Fourth Time Is Murder. This is his 15th novel set in fictional Posadas County, New Mexico. Booklist called it, "a satisfying, intelligent mystery."
Pari Noskin Taichert was in Washington, D.C. at Malice Domestic where she served on the humor panel and the social issues panel.
Susan Slater's newest book 0 to 60, which she calls an autobiographical novel, has a July 15 publication date from Bascom Hill Publishing Group. As part of the book launch, Susan has generously offered free critiques to other writers of fiction based on their own lives. Deadline for submissions is September 30th.The winner receives the Novel in a Weekend course with mystery writer Connie Shelton. For more visit Susan's website
NEWS FROM OUR STUDENTS.
Bob Haas has released Carbolic Smoke Ball Presents: Zombies Ate My Headlines. He produces a website (http://carbolicsmoke.com/), a weekly page in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and a radio spot--- in addition to having a full time job.
Sally Severino has published Becoming Fire, a Freudian Psychoanalysist's Spiritual Journey and Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living (with co-author Nancy K. Morrison).
Stephen Grogan's book, Vegas Die, was selected by The Independent Publisher Book Awards as the 2009 Silver Medal Winner for Best Regional Fiction (West & Mountain category). Known as "IPPY Awards," winners were announced at the 13th Annual Awards Ceremony in New York City during Book Expo.
Jennifer Kitchell's new book, Girl with Skirt of Stars, is due for release in August.Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn will be released Oct. 27, 2009 by HarperCollins and celebrated at an event at the University of New Mexico on November 5 and in Santa Fe Sunday, Nov. 8. If you'd like an invitation to these inaugural happenings, a benefit for the Hillerman-(Michael) McGarrity Scholarship for Creative Writing in Albuquerque and for the Public Libraries in Santa Fe, just send an email. The book, written by Anne Hillerman with photos by Don Strel, uses Tony's descriptions of Indian country scenery from the Chee/Leaphorn books, Don's pictures and Anne's memories of her father and non-fiction commentary.
Anne also published Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes this spring with GibbsSmith Publisher. The book is available in many book stores and through the publisher. She'll be signing Saturday, July 11, at 10 a.m. at the Lavender Festival in Los Ranchos (just northwest of Albuquerque) and again on July 26 at 1 p.m. in Santa Fe at the Spanish Market.
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
Barbara Mayfield and Mrs. Iptweet go to Philadelphia
Barbara Mayfield, author/illustrator of The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, at the Chestnut Hill Book Festival in Philadelphia
Mayfield to conduct Mrs. Iptweet Playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking at O'Doodles Toy Store and the TreeHouse Play Cafe
Santa Fe, NM.------Author/illustrator/performer Barbara Mayfield will read excerpts from her first children's novel, The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, as part of the first annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival to be held July 10 -12.
As part of her readings, she'll be conducting free playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking, in the style of Aunt Belle and Prudence Fish Hornby, two of the stars in The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me.
"Mrs. Iptweet", a novel for children ages 8 and up, won a New Mexico Discovery Award in 2006. Heroine Prudence Fish Hornby, age nine-and-a-half, and her new neighbor, the quirky artist and Parade Specialist Mrs. Iptweet tap the power of the ground, study the magic and power of names and, against all odds, pull together the first annual Midsummer's Day Mythical Creatures Parade on boring old Durham Street.
Mayfield will be also be performing as Roving Puppeteer with her marionette, Beauty the Pink Flamingo, during the festival before and after her reading/signing times.
Mayfield was born and raised in Philadelphia. She lived for 15 in the West Mt. Airy section of the city on Durham Street, the setting for The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me. She studied at the Tyler School of Art and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She now lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works as a writer, a S.A.G. actor, an artist and as a puppeteer for Teatro Duende at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Chestnut Hill Book Festival Free and open to the public.
Mayfield's reading, signing and playshops:
7/11 Saturday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
O'Doodles Toy Store
8335 Germantown Ave,
Chestnut Hill, PA 19118
215-247-7405
www.odoodles.com
7/12 Sunday 11-1 p.m.
The Treehouse Play Cafe
8524 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19118
215 247-3637
www.treehouseplaycafe.com/main.php
info@TreehousePlayCafe.com
The Chestnut Hill Book Festival is hosting 60 authors in all genres.
www.yelp.com/events/philadelphia-chestnut-hill-book-festival
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, A Story of Life, Quirkiness and a Parade
Written and Illustrated by Barbara Mayfield
Published by Azro Press (www.azropress.com) Spring 2009
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
Mayfield to conduct Mrs. Iptweet Playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking at O'Doodles Toy Store and the TreeHouse Play Cafe
Santa Fe, NM.------Author/illustrator/performer Barbara Mayfield will read excerpts from her first children's novel, The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, as part of the first annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival to be held July 10 -12.
As part of her readings, she'll be conducting free playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking, in the style of Aunt Belle and Prudence Fish Hornby, two of the stars in The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me.
"Mrs. Iptweet", a novel for children ages 8 and up, won a New Mexico Discovery Award in 2006. Heroine Prudence Fish Hornby, age nine-and-a-half, and her new neighbor, the quirky artist and Parade Specialist Mrs. Iptweet tap the power of the ground, study the magic and power of names and, against all odds, pull together the first annual Midsummer's Day Mythical Creatures Parade on boring old Durham Street.
Mayfield will be also be performing as Roving Puppeteer with her marionette, Beauty the Pink Flamingo, during the festival before and after her reading/signing times.
Mayfield was born and raised in Philadelphia. She lived for 15 in the West Mt. Airy section of the city on Durham Street, the setting for The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me. She studied at the Tyler School of Art and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She now lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works as a writer, a S.A.G. actor, an artist and as a puppeteer for Teatro Duende at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Chestnut Hill Book Festival Free and open to the public.
Mayfield's reading, signing and playshops:
7/11 Saturday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
O'Doodles Toy Store
8335 Germantown Ave,
Chestnut Hill, PA 19118
215-247-7405
www.odoodles.com
7/12 Sunday 11-1 p.m.
The Treehouse Play Cafe
8524 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19118
215 247-3637
www.treehouseplaycafe.com/main.php
info@TreehousePlayCafe.com
The Chestnut Hill Book Festival is hosting 60 authors in all genres.
www.yelp.com/events/philadelphia-chestnut-hill-book-festival
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, A Story of Life, Quirkiness and a Parade
Written and Illustrated by Barbara Mayfield
Published by Azro Press (www.azropress.com) Spring 2009
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 6, 2009
Old West Trivia Book Unveiled
July 5, 2009
NEW & COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION RELEASED!
OLD WEST TRIVIA BOOK
by Don Bullis
228 pages 32 photographs; 6x9
ISBN 978-1-890689-61-2 ($17.95) (Trade paper)
The glamour and fascination of the Old West is brought to life in a new way in this interesting collection of facts and figures. Historic photographs tell stories of their own as the faces of such Old West characters as Geronimo, General Custer and the Unsinkable Molly Brown enliven the text. This book covers the who, what, where, and how in the often violent settling of the land west of the Mississippi. The scope and history of the Old West is highlighted in a way that is both factual and entertaining in this unique presentation that will appeal to anyone interested in the Old West and the people and places that made it happen. Author Don Bullis has spent his life covering the people and places of New Mexico as a small-town newspaper editor and as a deputy sheriff and town marshal. He has traveled extensively throughout the Western United States to gather the facts, figures, and photos that make up this collection.
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Signings/Presentations
Friday, June 19, 2009 -- 5:30-7:30pm, Western Writers of America Booksigning, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (book signing)
Saturday, July 11, 2009 -- 10am, Hispanic Geneaology Research Center, Albuquerque, NM (talk & signing)
Sunday, July 12, 2009 -- 12noon, Lavender in the Village Festival, Los Ranchos, NM (book signing)
Sunday, July 26, 2009 -- 12noon New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM (book signing)
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
The Old West Trivia Book was reviewed in the July 5 issue of the Albuquerque Journal.
"Old West trivia book revels in minutiae about the good, the bad and the ugly of life on the frontier. Bullis' book covers hundreds of ... famous and infamous individuals from the Old West in chapters on soldiers, Indians, cowboys, cattlemen, politicians, and literature. There's a newly added chapter on "Movie and Television of the Old West." -- Albuquerque Journal, July 5, 2009
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Other Reviews
Newspaper editor and deputy sheriff Don Bullis presents The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book, a great source for trivia games or simple browsing. Presented in a question-and-answer format, with questions grouped in chapters by subject, the trivia ranges in topic from lawmen and outlaws, to Indians of the West and their chiefs, to wagon trains, boomtowns, women of the Old West, literature and art of the Old West, moves of the West, and much more. Now packed with even more fascinating facts than the first edition, The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book is highly recommended to Western trivia buffs. "Q: What was Geronimo's real name? A: Three different sources give it three different spellings: Gokhlayeh, Goyathlay and Goyalka. One source says it translates as 'the yawner'." – MidWest Book Reviews, June 2009
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 & COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION RELEASED!
OLD WEST TRIVIA BOOK
by Don Bullis
228 pages 32 photographs; 6x9
ISBN 978-1-890689-61-2 ($17.95) (Trade paper)
The glamour and fascination of the Old West is brought to life in a new way in this interesting collection of facts and figures. Historic photographs tell stories of their own as the faces of such Old West characters as Geronimo, General Custer and the Unsinkable Molly Brown enliven the text. This book covers the who, what, where, and how in the often violent settling of the land west of the Mississippi. The scope and history of the Old West is highlighted in a way that is both factual and entertaining in this unique presentation that will appeal to anyone interested in the Old West and the people and places that made it happen. Author Don Bullis has spent his life covering the people and places of New Mexico as a small-town newspaper editor and as a deputy sheriff and town marshal. He has traveled extensively throughout the Western United States to gather the facts, figures, and photos that make up this collection.
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Signings/Presentations
Friday, June 19, 2009 -- 5:30-7:30pm, Western Writers of America Booksigning, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (book signing)
Saturday, July 11, 2009 -- 10am, Hispanic Geneaology Research Center, Albuquerque, NM (talk & signing)
Sunday, July 12, 2009 -- 12noon, Lavender in the Village Festival, Los Ranchos, NM (book signing)
Sunday, July 26, 2009 -- 12noon New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM (book signing)
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
The Old West Trivia Book was reviewed in the July 5 issue of the Albuquerque Journal.
"Old West trivia book revels in minutiae about the good, the bad and the ugly of life on the frontier. Bullis' book covers hundreds of ... famous and infamous individuals from the Old West in chapters on soldiers, Indians, cowboys, cattlemen, politicians, and literature. There's a newly added chapter on "Movie and Television of the Old West." -- Albuquerque Journal, July 5, 2009
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Other Reviews
Newspaper editor and deputy sheriff Don Bullis presents The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book, a great source for trivia games or simple browsing. Presented in a question-and-answer format, with questions grouped in chapters by subject, the trivia ranges in topic from lawmen and outlaws, to Indians of the West and their chiefs, to wagon trains, boomtowns, women of the Old West, literature and art of the Old West, moves of the West, and much more. Now packed with even more fascinating facts than the first edition, The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book is highly recommended to Western trivia buffs. "Q: What was Geronimo's real name? A: Three different sources give it three different spellings: Gokhlayeh, Goyathlay and Goyalka. One source says it translates as 'the yawner'." – MidWest Book Reviews, June 2009
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, July 2, 2009
Lavender in the Village Book
THREE DOG NIGHT BY THE MONTOYAS OF GRANTS TO BE SIGNED AT LAVENDER IN THE VILLAGE & SPANISH MARKET
The new ‘adult cuento’ “Three Dog Night” by Grants author Cheryl Montoya and her husband Jerry Montoya will be featured at both Lavender in the Village July 11, at 2pm in the Village of Los Ranchos (north of Albuquerque) in the New Mexico Book Co-op booth in the Barn and the New Mexico History Museum Speigelberg Bookshop (113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe) on July 25, at 1pm during Contemporary Hispanic/Spanish Market. Both the author and illustrator will be at both of these events.
Reviewed by Reading New Mexico:
A cuento is a story generally passed from generation to generation. This one just happens to be for adults as Juan the Coyote, his love Maria, the local cantina girl, and his cousin Manuelito get involved in a triangular relationship. Manuelito is a bad influence on Juan and talks him into stealing a Maria's rooster that's expected to win the prize at the State Fair.
This is a fun story with charming illustrations that will make a nice gift to take home from New Mexico to the neighbors who watched your cat while you were gone or to give to your uncle that's impossible to buy for at Christmas.
However, I do have some problems with the formatting of the book combined with the contents. At 8.5 inches square, it has the appearance of a children's book. Yes, “Grown-ups” is boldly printed on the cover, but the formatting will guarantee that this book ends up mis-shelved in the children's section of the library or picked up by a well-meaning grandparent unaware that the story contains adult situations and language.
Three Dog Night is a great book for its intended audience and will bring a lot of laughs to the right readers. It does the traditional cuentos proud. -- Reading New Mexico, July 2009
The new book was released in the spring as part of La Fiesta de Colores event. The book is available at Borders, New Mexico History Museum Bookstore, Hispaniae in Old Town, El Camino Real Store in San Antonio, Korners in Grants, nmsantos.com, and many other outlets.
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 new ‘adult cuento’ “Three Dog Night” by Grants author Cheryl Montoya and her husband Jerry Montoya will be featured at both Lavender in the Village July 11, at 2pm in the Village of Los Ranchos (north of Albuquerque) in the New Mexico Book Co-op booth in the Barn and the New Mexico History Museum Speigelberg Bookshop (113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe) on July 25, at 1pm during Contemporary Hispanic/Spanish Market. Both the author and illustrator will be at both of these events.
Reviewed by Reading New Mexico:
A cuento is a story generally passed from generation to generation. This one just happens to be for adults as Juan the Coyote, his love Maria, the local cantina girl, and his cousin Manuelito get involved in a triangular relationship. Manuelito is a bad influence on Juan and talks him into stealing a Maria's rooster that's expected to win the prize at the State Fair.
This is a fun story with charming illustrations that will make a nice gift to take home from New Mexico to the neighbors who watched your cat while you were gone or to give to your uncle that's impossible to buy for at Christmas.
However, I do have some problems with the formatting of the book combined with the contents. At 8.5 inches square, it has the appearance of a children's book. Yes, “Grown-ups” is boldly printed on the cover, but the formatting will guarantee that this book ends up mis-shelved in the children's section of the library or picked up by a well-meaning grandparent unaware that the story contains adult situations and language.
Three Dog Night is a great book for its intended audience and will bring a lot of laughs to the right readers. It does the traditional cuentos proud. -- Reading New Mexico, July 2009
The new book was released in the spring as part of La Fiesta de Colores event. The book is available at Borders, New Mexico History Museum Bookstore, Hispaniae in Old Town, El Camino Real Store in San Antonio, Korners in Grants, nmsantos.com, and many other outlets.
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 Write on Blog
We have a new Write On Blog. It belongs to Liz Adair who wrote a book based on family history called Counting the Costs. It's set in New Mexico. She grew up near Truth or Consequences. I'll connect to her blog, but here it is if you want to paste it. She will be on Write On in the fall.
www.sezlizadair.blogspot.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
www.sezlizadair.blogspot.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
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