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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, NEW MEXICO BOOK CO-OP LUNCH FEATURES LYNN BACA OF SAR PRESS & RENEE TAMBEAU OF MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
The Friday, October 28, 2011, New Mexico Book Co-op Lunch will feature Lynn Thompson Baca, Director of SAR Press, and Renee Tambeau, Marketing Director of Museum of New Mexico Press. They will discuss “What Our Presses Are Doing in This Challenged Book-Selling Environment.” Both will talk about the closing of Borders, bookstores with financial problems, ebooks, marketing, limited budgets, and new trends in book publishing.
The lunch will have an update on the Halloween Holiday Howl, The New Mexico Book Awards Banquet, and other book events in New Mexico.
The lunch starts at 11am with networking and lunch and the meeting begins at noon. Attendees pay for their own lunches. The lunch is held at Golden Corral at Coors & Alameda in Albuquerque.
For information call 505/344-9382 or go to info@nmbookcoop.com
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning youth novels ‘Belle’s Star,’ and ‘Belle’s trial,’ based on the life of a real dog and written from her point of view. Available from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and Anazon,com Belle’s Star was a New Mexico BookAward in 2009 and 2010; First Place for Juvenile Fiction New Mezxico Press Women and National Federation of Press Women Communication Contests 2010’ Silver Mom’s Choice Award 2010.
Belle’s Trial’ won First Place for Juvenile Fiction in the 2011 New Mexico Press Press Women’s Commuication Contest, and a Silver Mom’s Choice Award for 2011. The book received an Eric Hoffer Award nomination for 2011.

Sept. 2011 Casa de Snap Dragon Publishers released a reprint of Gotsch’s novel for adult, Snap Me a Future as an ebook at casadesnampdragon.com