Word Harvest News

Greetings!
We have some exciting news to share: information on our free Thursday evening program about the people and places involved in real cold war espionage in Santa Fe; a podcast about writing and the creative process; success stories from former students and faculty; and more writing tips from David Morrell.

Don't fret if you missed the early registration deadline for the Conference. We know how crazy life can be! We still welcome your online registration. For your convenience we will also take onsite registrations beginning before the pre-conference workshop on Thursday, Nov. 10. (Please be aware that the Hotel Santa Fe needs advance notification to accommodate special needs such as vegetarian and gluten-free meal options.)
.Greetings!
We have some exciting news to share: information on our free Thursday evening program about the people and places involved in real cold war espionage in Santa Fe; a podcast about writing and the creative process; success stories from former students and faculty; and more writing tips from David Morrell.

Don't fret if you missed the early registration deadline for the Conference. We know how crazy life can be! We still welcome your online registration. For your convenience we will also take onsite registrations beginning before the pre-conference workshop on Thursday, Nov. 10. (Please be aware that the Hotel Santa Fe needs advance notification to accommodate special needs such as vegetarian and gluten-free meal options.)
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Free presentation on real-life spy stories

A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe, a free evening presentation about espionage, will open the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference on Nov. 10. Created by Edward Held (author of A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque), the program will reveal some of the locations used by KGB operatives to meet with informers and gather information on atomic secrets. The KGB's single greatest intelligence and counterintelligence coups, and the planning of the organization's most infamous assassination, all took place within one mile of Saint Francis Cathedral in historic Santa Fe.

A retired CIA agent, Held served as Chief
of Counterintelligence at Sandia National Laboratories and is now Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.

KSFR radio podcast

Catch the podcast of the delightful radio interview with conference presenters Douglas Preston and Hampton Sides, and organizer Anne Hillerman, from Tuesday, September 13th Santa Fe Radio Café with Mary-Charlotte Domandi on KSFR 101.1FM via Santa Fe Public Radio.

News from students and faculty
Hampton Sides, a presenter at the 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference, got a mention in an op-ed piece in the Denver Post. The article concerned the potential closing of Colorado's historic Fort Lyon. Legendary mountain man Kit Carson died at the home of the post's doctor. The article notes that in Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides' account of America's westward expansion, which uses Carson's life as its driving wheel, Fort Lyon is described as "a dreary place." Click here to read more about the historic fort.

Jo-Ann Mapson, a presenter at this year's conference, Wordharvest's Judith Van Gieson, and Anne Hillerman are among the 75 New Mexico women authors invited to participate in the Fourth Annual New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival. Presented by the Museum of New Mexico at the New Mexico History Museum, the festival runs Sept. 30-Oct. 9. For a complete list of faculty and events, all free, click here.

Congratulations to past faculty member Cindy Bellinger on the release of her newest book, Into the Heat. And to conference student Joan K. Maze on a new paperback. Joan writes: "My book, Murder By Mistake, is now available in paperback on Amazon. To see this, type in Murder By Mistake or J. K. Maze and scroll down (far down) until you get to the paperback version. This is the Mollie Fenwick Mystery Series."

On Sunday, October 16th, from 2-4 p.m., New Mexico author and long-time Conference attendee and volunteer Rob Kresge will conduct a workshop for aspiring mystery writers at the Taylor Ranch Library, 5000 Bogart St., NW, in Albuquerque. Rob will offer handouts and advice on the query process, seeking agents and publishers, classic mysteries and helpful books on writing. Rob is the author of the Warbonnet mystery series, of which the first, Murder for Greenhorns, was a finalist for the 2011 Bruce Alexander Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery. The sequel to Greenhorns, Painted Women, will go on sale in October. Both novels were published by ABQ Press.

Peter Thorpe designed the cover for Kent Anderson's new book, Territory Tales, also to be published by ABQ publishing. Anderson is a past winner of the Tony Hillerman Mystery Short Story Contest. Thorpe, best known for his Tony Hillerman mystery book covers, also designed the covers for Judith Van Gieson's books published by HarperCollins.

Writing Tip: The Truth About Inspiration
by David Morrell

In my writing classes, I devote a session to daydreams, which are spontaneous messages from our subconscious. After one of my presentations, a puzzled member of the audience raised his hand and asked what a daydream was. Others were surprised, but I wasn't. Not everyone has a daydream-friendly mind. In fact, some people have been taught to repress daydreams as a distraction and a waste of time. Fiction writers, however, tend to have plenty of daydreams, and they should not only welcome those daydreams but train themselves to be aware of them. Daydreams are our primal storyteller at work, sending us scenes and topics that our imagination (i.e. our subconscious) wants us to investigate. Each day, we should devote time (I usually do this before sleeping) to reviewing our daydreams and determining which of them insists on being turned into a story. The more shocking the daydream, the more truthful about us it is, but often we push away those daydreams that make us uncomfortable when we should actually embrace them.

David Morrell, the author of numerous thrillers and three non-fiction books, created the character Rambo. A long-time student of the book business, he will speak about the latest trends in publishing at the 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference.



Thank you to all who have registered for the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference! We look forward to seeing you in November. Remember: You can connect with fellow writers throughout the year on our Facebook page.

Sincerely,
Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
WORDHARVEST





Free presentation on real-life spy stories

A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe, a free evening presentation about espionage, will open the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference on Nov. 10. Created by Edward Held (author of A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque), the program will reveal some of the locations used by KGB operatives to meet with informers and gather information on atomic secrets. The KGB's single greatest intelligence and counterintelligence coups, and the planning of the organization's most infamous assassination, all took place within one mile of Saint Francis Cathedral in historic Santa Fe.

A retired CIA agent, Held served as Chief
of Counterintelligence at Sandia National Laboratories and is now Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.

KSFR radio podcast

Catch the podcast of the delightful radio interview with conference presenters Douglas Preston and Hampton Sides, and organizer Anne Hillerman, from Tuesday, September 13th Santa Fe Radio Café with Mary-Charlotte Domandi on KSFR 101.1FM via Santa Fe Public Radio.

News from students and faculty
Hampton Sides, a presenter at the 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference, got a mention in an op-ed piece in the Denver Post. The article concerned the potential closing of Colorado's historic Fort Lyon. Legendary mountain man Kit Carson died at the home of the post's doctor. The article notes that in Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides' account of America's westward expansion, which uses Carson's life as its driving wheel, Fort Lyon is described as "a dreary place." Click here to read more about the historic fort.

Jo-Ann Mapson, a presenter at this year's conference, Wordharvest's Judith Van Gieson, and Anne Hillerman are among the 75 New Mexico women authors invited to participate in the Fourth Annual New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival. Presented by the Museum of New Mexico at the New Mexico History Museum, the festival runs Sept. 30-Oct. 9. For a complete list of faculty and events, all free, click here.

Congratulations to past faculty member Cindy Bellinger on the release of her newest book, Into the Heat. And to conference student Joan K. Maze on a new paperback. Joan writes: "My book, Murder By Mistake, is now available in paperback on Amazon. To see this, type in Murder By Mistake or J. K. Maze and scroll down (far down) until you get to the paperback version. This is the Mollie Fenwick Mystery Series."

On Sunday, October 16th, from 2-4 p.m., New Mexico author and long-time Conference attendee and volunteer Rob Kresge will conduct a workshop for aspiring mystery writers at the Taylor Ranch Library, 5000 Bogart St., NW, in Albuquerque. Rob will offer handouts and advice on the query process, seeking agents and publishers, classic mysteries and helpful books on writing. Rob is the author of the Warbonnet mystery series, of which the first, Murder for Greenhorns, was a finalist for the 2011 Bruce Alexander Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery. The sequel to Greenhorns, Painted Women, will go on sale in October. Both novels were published by ABQ Press.

Peter Thorpe designed the cover for Kent Anderson's new book, Territory Tales, also to be published by ABQ publishing. Anderson is a past winner of the Tony Hillerman Mystery Short Story Contest. Thorpe, best known for his Tony Hillerman mystery book covers, also designed the covers for Judith Van Gieson's books published by HarperCollins.

Writing Tip: The Truth About Inspiration
by David Morrell

In my writing classes, I devote a session to daydreams, which are spontaneous messages from our subconscious. After one of my presentations, a puzzled member of the audience raised his hand and asked what a daydream was. Others were surprised, but I wasn't. Not everyone has a daydream-friendly mind. In fact, some people have been taught to repress daydreams as a distraction and a waste of time. Fiction writers, however, tend to have plenty of daydreams, and they should not only welcome those daydreams but train themselves to be aware of them. Daydreams are our primal storyteller at work, sending us scenes and topics that our imagination (i.e. our subconscious) wants us to investigate. Each day, we should devote time (I usually do this before sleeping) to reviewing our daydreams and determining which of them insists on being turned into a story. The more shocking the daydream, the more truthful about us it is, but often we push away those daydreams that make us uncomfortable when we should actually embrace them.

David Morrell, the author of numerous thrillers and three non-fiction books, created the character Rambo. A long-time student of the book business, he will speak about the latest trends in publishing at the 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference.



Thank you to all who have registered for the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference! We look forward to seeing you in November. Remember: You can connect with fellow writers throughout the year on our Facebook page.

Sincerely,
Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
WORDHARVEST