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Word Harvest News Letter

2011-12-14T14:01:00.000-08:00

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Anne Hillerman

Greetings!
Santa Fe had touch of winter last week. Ski Santa Fe is open and the twinkle lights shine from the trees on the Plaza. A great time to hunker down and get that writing project finished before the year ends.

Thanks again to everyone who made the 2011 Hillerman Writers Conference such a success. To see a snapshot of this year's conference, watch this video.

For 2012, we are considering adding a Bulletin Board section to our website and a sponsor section to our e-newsletters where editors and perhaps authors could buy an ad or listing to let our readers know about their services and/or books. Please let us know what you think of the idea and if you might be interested in participating.

Hillerman Prize and Hillerman Short Story Contests
Thanks to both partners, St. Martin's Press and New Mexico Magazine for agreeing to work with us again in 2012. The deadline for manuscripts for the Hillerman Prize is June 1.

The deadline for the short story contest is September 15. You'll find the guidelines for both contests here.

Please help us spread the word to other writers' groups, reading clubs, college writing classes and individuals who might be interested.

Hoffer Award seeks entries

The 2012 Eric Hoffer Award is open to academic, independent, small press, and self-published books that were released or copyrighted in the last two years. (Books more than two years old may enter the Legacy Fiction or Legacy Nonfiction categories.) Deadline is Jan. 21, 2012. Find general information here.

New Mexico Press Woman Awards open for entries

Women who live in New Mexico or have a strong connection to the state, and published non-fiction book over the past three years are invited to submit their books for consideration for the Zia Award. The contest is open to all subgenres of nonfiction, from memoir to textbook. Submissions can be made by the author or by someone else on her behalf, such as a publisher. The book may have been published anywhere. To be eligible to receive the award, selected winners must be available to read from their work at the award luncheon during the 2012 New Mexico Press Women conference May 4-6 in Santa Fe.

Entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.

New Mexico Press Women also welcome books of many genres, by men and women, in the annual Communications Contest.

2012 Hillerman Writers Conference: Save the date
We are pleased to announce that the conference will be back at Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, N.M. Save the dates: November 8-10, 2012. According to evaluations, there's demand to learn more about the mysterious and potentially lucrative world of e-books. That topic is on our radar, along with an opportunity for newly published authors to introduce themselves and their books, and a re-formatted edition of "Writing with the Stars."

Video from the conference including interviews with attendees and writing tips from our faculty, will soon be on our website and our Facebook page. Take a look. Thanks to Ashley M. Biggers for doing the interviews and creating these movies. Watch for our WORDHARVEST channel soon on You Tube.

We want to give a big thanks to Laureen Pepersack who runs the conference bookstore. Her calm demeanor and organizational skills are key to our success. We couldn't do it without her.

Also thanks to Felicia Lujan for such nice mentions of the conference on her blog. You can read all about it here.

Warm wishes for the holiday season,
Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
WORDHARVEST

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

2011-12-06T06:51:00.000-08:00

Next Meeting—Holiday Party
Next lunch meeting of the New Mexico Book Co-op is Friday, December 16. 2011, at the Golden Corral on Alameda & Coors in Albuquerque. It is no host, no program but we will talk. Come as early as 11am.
Hats off to Florentin Smarandache
We have said it many times – the New Mexico Book Awards are for you to make something of it. Florentin Smarandache has had info of his award go to people all over the world and UNM has a story about him on their website. We like to see someone go full tilt. He is a math/physics professor and his natural inclination is to promote. If it is good for math people you should take something from his playbook!
Speaking of the New Mexico Book Awards
We are asking all Co-op members to think of someone who would like to judge in the New Mexico Book Awards next year. We will start sending out books to judges in February. They have at least two months to read their books, have a one sided score sheet to fill out on each book, and can pick the categories and the number of books they like. If you have someone in mind email us with their email. We anticipate that there will be more entries in 2012. We take care of getting them books and picking up books. There is no compensation for judges but if we are able they can request books they like and we will give them their choices.
Need Your Feedback
The Arizona Book Publisher’s Association has gone out of business and will cease all operation before December 31, 2011. This means that the major book award program in Arizona will cease as well. We think it is a shame and want to invite them to enter our Book Awards. If this happens we will have to rename the Book Awards to reflect their involvement. We would also create some categories just for Arizona publishers and authors and keep ones for just New Mexicans. Our schedule would stay the same. If they get back on their feet they can reclaim their awards. This may give our awards even greater visibility since we are covering two states. What do you think? Email us ASAP so we can make a decision. Timing is good for us.
Sad News
Richard K. Harris died at home on November 24 after a short illness. Richard was the author of more than 30 books, mostly travel related; and editor or designer/producer of some 250 books. Richard was a founding member and past president of New Mexico Book Association and continued on the board until the end. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to Ambercare Hospice, www.ambercare.com, Santa Fe.
Excellence in Communications Context Includes Books
New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) invites entries for the 2012 Communications Contest, recognizing excellence in print or electronic media, books, photography, advertising, public relations, graphic arts, blogs/websites, and academic journalism throughout New Mexico. You don’t have to be a member of NMPW to participate in this open competition. The contest is meant to improve professional skills with critiques from judges and by rewarding communications that are skillfully executed, well directed to their target audience, and achieve their objectives. Entries must be postmarked by Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. To be eligible, the work must have been distributed, published or broadcast between Jan. 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011. With 81 categories, NMPW offers the largest range of categories for work. Entry fees are $15 for the first entry and $10 for each succeeding entry, for members; $20 for the first entry and $10 for each succeeding entry, for nonmembers. Organizations – including media, companies and institutions – can take advantage of the member rate for all its entries. Send submissions to: Sherry Robinson, PO Box 70323, Albuquerque, NM, 87197. All the details on contest categories and submission rules are available online at www.NewMexicoPressWomen.org. Entries will be judged by out-of-state media and communications professionals. All award places, including honorable mentions, receive a certificate. The awards will be announced at the NMPW annual conference to be held in April in Santa Fe. First place winners that are NMPW members as well as members of the National Federation of Press Women, will go on to compete nationally.
Contest for Women Authors of Nonfiction
An outstanding New Mexican writer will be honored for her work in nonfiction next spring when her book receives the prestigious Zia Award. New Mexican women writers are invited to submit their books for consideration for the award, given each year by New Mexico Press Women at the annual spring conference. To be eligible to receive the award, selected winners must read at the award luncheon during the 2012 conference in April. The 2012 Zia Award will be given to the author of an outstanding nonfiction book published in 2009, 2010 or 2011. The contest is open to all subgenres of nonfiction, from memoir to textbook. Submissions can be made by the author or by someone else on behalf of the author, such as a publisher. Membership in New Mexico Press Women is not required, but the writer must be a woman who lives in or has a strong connection to New Mexico. The book may be published anywhere. To submit for consideration for the Zia Book Award, send a brief cover letter including complete contact information, the author’s biography (including her connection to New Mexico) and a description of the book, a copy of the book and a check for the $10 entry fee payable to New Mexico Press Women to:
Sari Krosinsky
Zia Book Award Chair
315 Terrace Street SE
Albuquerque, N.M. 87106
Scholarship Opportunity
Los Alamos Employees Scholarship Fund (LAESF), administered by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation, has established a new scholarship program for non-traditional students. These scholarships are awarded to motivated students returning to a formal education after a hiatus for other pursuits. Candidates may have left formal education for business, the military, or other reasons, possibly for an extended period, and are now seeking to expand their opportunities with a certificate or a two-year degree through a program in the regional area. Applicants must be a resident of the 7 counties of Northern New Mexico: Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, and Taos as well as Pueblos in the same region. Additional information as well as the on-line application are available at: http://lanlfoundation.org/Scholarships/LAESF-RCRS-2012/.

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

Nadia Sahari

2011-11-30T06:48:00.000-08:00

HELLO SUPER STARS!!!

Cindy Williams, Ph.D. Is the Executive Director of Women Are Dreamers Too, Inc., which is a non-profit organization helping victims of domestic violence, transcend poverty. Williams joins The Nadia Sahari Show to discuss the goals and initiatives of this organization as well as how the public can become more involved with insuring all homes and communities are violence free.

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT — LISTEN IN AND CALL OUR GUEST:
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LIVE YOUR DREAM! YOU ARE WORTHY!

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NaConnie 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
dia Sahari

New Mexico Book CoOp News

2011-11-29T14:11:00.000-08:00

January Lunch
The first New Mexico Book Co-op lunch of the New Year will be Friday, January 27 – What We Have Learned From the 2011 Book Awards and the Announcement of the 2012 New Mexico Book Awards. At the Golden Corral – Alameda & Coors in Albuquerque.
Speaker Series
We get a number of calls for authors to be speakers to various groups. The NM Book Co-op is setting up a Speakers Bureau. If you want to be on the list of available authors to speak go to WEBSITE and fill out the form. We will list available authors for any organizations to contact.

QR Codes for Coop Website
Scan the QR Code to the right on your Android or iPhone to go directly to the NM Book Co-op website.
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

News from Carolyn Howard Johnson

2011-11-18T08:52:00.000-08:00

USA BOOK NEWS ANNOUNCES
WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF
THE USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” AWARDS
Simon & Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and hundreds of Independent Houses contribute to this year’s Outstanding Competition!
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LOS ANGELES – USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced two of Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s books were among those that placed in THE USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” AWARDS on November 1, 2011. Awards were presented for titles published in 2010 and 2011.

Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year’s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries. Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and hundreds of independent houses contributed to this year’s outstanding competition. Keen adds, “Our success begins with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise.”

Award highlights include the following:
(Full results listing available on USABooknews.com)
• The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher (Second Edition) by Carolyn Howard-Johnson won best business book in the writing category.
• Blooming Red: Christmas Poetry for the Rational by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball was a finalist in the poetry category.
• Prodigal Father Pagan Son: Growing Up Inside the Dangerous World of the Pagans Motorcycle Club by Anthony Menginie and Kerrie Droban (St. Martin's Press) was honored in the “Autobiography/Memoirs” category
• Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley (Crown Books/Random House) was awarded “Best Biography"
• Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers by Pam Anderson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) placed number one in “Cookbooks”
• The Daughter's Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick (Water Brook/Random House) took home the “Best General Fiction” prize
One reviewer said reading Howard-Johnson’s books is like picking the brains of a master marketer. It received plaudits from industry shakers like Marilyn Ross, founder of Small Publishers or North America and Tim Bete, director of Dayton University’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Conference. The new one carries endorsements from the likes of Dan Poynter and Tony Eldridge.

Howard-Johnson, an instructor for nearly a decade at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, chose to have the new edition published in both e-book format and paperback in order to give her struggling students and clients affordable and convenient choices. Whichever format a reader chooses, The Frugal Book Promoter assures an author’s book the best possible start in life. Full of nitty-gritty how-tos for getting nearly free publicity, the author shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the successes of her own book campaigns. A former journalist and publicist (she wrote media releases for fashion designers like Christian Dior), she tells authors how to do what their publishers can’t or won’t and why authors can often do their own promotion better than a PR professional. Her poetry is published in dozens of literary and review journals worldwide.
USABookNews.com is an online publication providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world online community. JPX Media Group, in Los Angeles, California, is the parent company of USABookNews.com.

A complete list of the winners and finalists of The USA “Best Books 2011” Awards are available online at http://www.USABookNews.com.
Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com and http://carolynhoward-johnson.com..
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Cover image and media kit available on request at HoJoNews@aol.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

Barbe Awalt and Paul Rhetts Win Award

2011-11-01T14:23:00.000-07:00

LOCAL PUBLISHERS HONORED WITH INAUGURAL HILLERMAN LEAPHORN AWARD
Barbe Awalt and Paul Rhetts of Los Ranchos, New Mexico, will receive the inaugural Leaphorn Award at the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference in Santa Fe, November 12, at the Hotel Santa Fe. The Award is named after Tony Hillerman’s legendary Navajo detective, Joe Leaphorn.
“We are honored to present the first Leaphorn Award to Awalt and Rhetts for their generous efforts to call attention to the world of literary talent in New Mexico,” Anne Hillerman said. “Just as Joe Leaphorn never gave up on a case, Paul and Barbe continue to work tirelessly to help our state’s writers and publishers receive the recognition they deserve.”
Awalt and Rhetts are the owners of LPD Press/Rio Grande Books and founders of the New Mexico Book Co-op with over 1,000 members. LPD Press/Rio Grande Books is a regional publisher and one of the biggest independent publishers in New Mexico. They specialize in New Mexico titles and authors. Awalt and Rhetts have won many awards for their books and work including the 2006 Laureates for the Mother Teresa Award. That year the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Dalai Lama were also recognized.
Awalt and Rhetts have also received awards for their magazine Tradicion Revista now available online. They have also received awards from the Public Relations Society of America and the National School Public Relations Association. Their books have received awards from the Border Regional Library Association, Pima/Tucson Library Association, New Mexico Press Women, and the New Mexico Book Awards. They annually present awards for New Mexican Hispanic art at the New Mexico State Fair and Contemporary Hispanic Market.
The New Mexico Book Co-op formed the New Mexico Book Awards five years ago and recognizes New Mexico books published each year. The New Mexico Book Co-op, the largest book advocacy organization in New Mexico, has promoted literacy projects, libraries, schools, New Mexico magazines and newspapers, as well as New Mexico books and New Mexico authors. Activities have included book fairs, a store in Cottonwood Mall, special events, and workshops, while the Book Co-op survives and grows with no dues. The New Mexico Book Co-op has published its’ first book Voices of New Mexico commemorating New Mexico’s Centennial with 35 contributors and the book is a Finalist in the New Mexico Book Awards. This year the Book Co-op also instituted Nuevo Books - a book publishing service for authors.
Awalt and Rhetts are particularly pleased with the Award because the books of Tony Hillerman helped them make the decision to move from Maryland to New Mexico, 22 years ago. Joe Leaphorn has always been one of their favorite characters and epitomizes the drive of New Mexicans
The Award will be presented as part of the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference and Workshop at the annual banquet.
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

nEW mECIVO bOOK aSSOCIATION nEEDS aDMINISTRATOR

2011-10-31T14:34:00.000-07:00

URGENT!

New Executive Administrator Needed

Due to a family health issue, Valerie Stasik, our executive administrator, has resigned effective October 31. We are looking for a replacement who has word processing, spreadsheet, and other computer skills; internet communication; strong written and verbal communication abilities; and experience with organizing and maintaining systems and procedures. Knowledge of the aspects of book publishing is helpful.

The job involves

• coordinating volunteer activities
• overseeing membership matters
• communications
• overseeing finances
• assisting with events
• general office matters

The board is able to offer a modest stipend, plus you will be able to place a free advertisement for your business in Libro and on our website.

For more information or to apply, please contact

Jim Mafchir
(505) 988-7214
westernedge@santa-fe.net

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

2011-10-28T09:39:00.000-07:00

Greetings!
Thank you for staying in touch via our e-newsletter. Jean Schaumberg and I, the worker bees behind WORDHARVEST, value your comments and welcome your suggestions--and news of your personal writing successes.

We'll be announcing the winner of the Hillerman Prize for First Mystery and the Hillerman Short Story Contest at the conference on Nov. 12, and we'll post the names on our website after that. Thanks to all who entered. (If you'd like to join us at the conference, there's still room and one-day passes are available.) For other highlights from this year's conference program, check out this video!

Santa Fe in the News (Again)
Travel + Leisure magazine's "America's Favorite Cities" 2011 survey again puts Santa Fe (the location of the Hillerman Writers Conference) at the top or in the top ten in several notable categories. The magazine's readers ranked Santa Fe ranked especially high as a place for culture, fine food, peace and quiet, shopping, and romance.

The survey respondents compared Santa Fe to some of America's other great cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans, and New York. An online survey that appeared on travelandleisure.com was used to gather ratings during a 90-day period this spring and summer. Thirty-five cities were included in the survey and respondents were asked to rate cities in seven different categories: Type of Trip, Nightlife, Culture, Shopping, Food/Drink/Restaurants, Quality of Life/Visitor Experience, and Best Times to Visit. Visitor's responses are published in the November issue of the magazine. Full results can be seen on the magazine's website.

Faculty and Alumni Updates
Sally Denton's newest book, The Plots Against the President: FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right is due for release in January. The book already is receiving positive reviews from
Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. Kirkus wrote: "Investigative journalist Denton (Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas, etc.) follows critical moments in the career of four-term president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, demonized by far left and far right, escaped an assassin's bullet and a bizarre coup plot. In this tale of a popular president, resentful Wall Street bankers and wacko wing-nuts,the author has found a story whose parallels to today are eerie..."

WORDHARVEST and the Tony Hillerman Conference are mentioned in writer-editor Wolf Schneider's blog.

Several WORDHARVEST students and faculty are among the finalists for the New Mexico Book Award. Rob Kresge, Best Historical Fiction; Christine Barber, Best Mystery; Tania Caselle, Best Travel; Margaret Tessler, Best Mystery and Best Romance; Anne Hillerman, Best Garden Book; Susan Guyette, Best Nature/Environment and Best Self-Help; Joan Logghe, Best Poetry. The winners will be announced November 19. Bravos to you all!

Hillerman Conference featured speaker Jo-Ann Mapson was among the presenters at the New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival sponsored by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation earlier this month. Past faculty Suzy McKee Charnas, Judith Van Gieson and conference organizer Anne Hillerman also were among those authors honored to be invited as presenters.
Judith Van Gieson is working with two different filmmakers on television series based on both her Neil Hamel and Claire Reynier novels. "Both of these filmmakers are wonderful. Working with them and getting to know them has been an amazing experience for me," she writes.

Sandi Ault was one of three featured authors at the second annual Conversation with Authors, sponsored by the Loveland Colorado branch of the American Association of University Women. Proceeds fund scholarships for deserving women. Sandi is teaching our pre conference workshop, "A Writer's Toolkit."

Santa Fe author Robert Mayer's twelfth book, his tenth novel-was published Sept. 13. The Origin of Sorrow is a 578-page book of historical fiction set in a Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt in the 1770s. Longtime New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte has called it "a masterpiece." Congratulations!

Douglas Preston's comments on the case of Amanda Knox, the American held in an Italian prison on charge of murdering her roommate, drew international attention when they were published by the U.K. Guardian. Preston's own brush with the Italian legal system forms an exciting part of his non-fiction book, Monster of Florence. He will discuss his experience on Nov. 12 in Santa Fe. The talk is included with registration for the conference that day, or may be purchased here.

Author Hampton Sides recently gave the will deliver the Sirchio Lecture at Cranbrook in Bloomfield, Michigan. Sides is editor-in-large for Outside magazine and is author of the award-winning Ghost Soldiers, and other works such as Hellhound on His Trail, and Americana. A Memphis, Tenn. native and graduate of Yale University with a B.A. in history, Sides is part of the 2011 Hillerman Writers Conference faculty.

Romance and romantic suspense author and teacher Robin Perini sold four books from February to August this year, and will have four books coming out over the next twelve months. Her newest books are: In Her Sights, Amazon Montlake Romance (Nov. 2011) and Finding Her Son, Unwilling Witness, and Royal Secrets (coming in 2012) all from Harlequin Intrigue. Her book Stolen Lullaby received the Golden Heart award from Romance Writers of America.

Thank you to all who have registered for the Hillerman Writers Conference! We look forward to seeing you in November. If you'd like to come, there's still room for you.
Remember: You can connect with fellow writers throughout the year on our Facebook page.

Sincerely,
Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
WORDHARVEST

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

Sandoval Historical Society

2011-10-21T09:32:00.000-07:00

The Sandoval Historical Society will be holding its Annual Book Event, Sunday, November 13, 2pm at the Delavy House in Bernalillo.
Moderator Don Bullis will sign copies of his new book, New Mexico Historical Biographies. Nasario Garcia will sign Fe y Tragedias and his new book on Ruben Cobos called An Indelible Imprint. Irene Blea will sign Susana. Paul Rhetts and Barbe Awalt will sign 25th Anniversary Contemporary Hispanic Market and Rhetts will sign The World Comes to Albuquerque. Centennial Poet Levi Romero will sign his books and Melody Groves will sign her new book, Hoist A Cold One. Richard Melzer will sign a History of New Mexico Since Statehood and Mario Martinez will sign Converso. Robert Torrez, former State Historian, will sign Rio Arriba and Sherry Robinson will sign Apache Voices. Jim Jones will sing and sign Colorado Moon. Many books will be on sale for gifts and for personal libraries.
The event is free and open to the public. Delavy House is located off Rt. 550 at 151 Edmund Road, near Santa Ana Star Casino.
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

Loretta Hall

2011-10-19T06:47:00.000-07:00

OUT OF THIS WORLD AUTHOR LORETTA HALL SIGNS AT ALL THREE COSTCO STORES IN ALBUQUERQUE
Loretta Hall, author of Out of This World (a Finalist for the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards), is signing her new book at all three Albuquerque Costco stores.
The schedule is:
Costco at Cottonwood, Saturday, October 29, 1-3pm
(9955 Coors Bypass NW)
Costco at Renaissance, Sunday, October 30, 1-3pm
(1420 Renaissance Blvd NW)
Costco at Eubank, Saturday, November 5, 1-3pm
(500 Eubank Blvd SE)
The book is a history of space exploration and space travel in New Mexico, including the Spaceport. Costco realized this would make a great gift for the holiday season and scheduled Hall at all three Costco’s in the Albuquerque area.
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PRESS RELEASE
October 18, 2011
Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382

OUT OF THIS WORLD AUTHOR LORETTA HALL SIGNS AT ALL THREE COSTCO STORES IN ALBUQUERQUE
Loretta Hall, author of Out of This World (a Finalist for the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards), is signing her new book at all three Albuquerque Costco stores.
The schedule is:
Costco at Cottonwood, Saturday, October 29, 1-3pm
(9955 Coors Bypass NW)
Costco at Renaissance, Sunday, October 30, 1-3pm
(1420 Renaissance Blvd NW)
Costco at Eubank, Saturday, November 5, 1-3pm
(500 Eubank Blvd SE)
The book is a history of space exploration and space travel in New Mexico, including the Spaceport. Costco realized this would make a great gift for the holiday season and scheduled Hall at all three Costco’s in the Albuquerque area.
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PRESS RELEASE
October 18, 2011
Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382

2011-10-17T10:44:00.001-07:00

2011 - 2012 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
NETS FOUR MONTH BONUS
At the Octobe 14, 2011, Board meeting, the membership year was changed to January through December instead of September through August.

All members who have joined or renewed get an additional four months of membership - September 2011 through December 2012.

Renew now to be sure you continue to have access to the membership section of the website and other member privileges.

You may renew online at www.nmbook.org or mail your check and any changes to your contact information to

New Mexico Book Association
P.O. Box 1285
Santa Fe, NM 87504

Questions? Email admin@nmbook.org or call 505-660-6357

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

2011-10-14T10:16:00.001-07:00

Join Centennial Author Don Bullis at Bookworks
on Oct. 15 at 3pm for a talk and book signing
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW
Albuquerque, NM
505/344-9382
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

Halloween Howl NM Book Coop

2011-10-14T10:12:00.000-07:00

Shop with some of New Mexico's best authors
Come to the Los Ranchos Community Barn at 6718 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Los Ranchos, NM on October 29 from 8am to 3pm
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

nM Book CoOp News

2011-10-14T09:46:00.000-07:00

Halloween Holiday Howl at the Barn in Los Ranchos – Saturday, October 29
Though there was no Lavender in the Village this summer, the Barn in Los Ranchos, just north of Albuquerque, is the setting for a spooky, Saturday afternoon for the whole family on October 29. Visit with some of New Mexico’s most important, local writers and artists. The event has local books, foods, jewelry, soaps, art, and is a fundraiser and awareness project for ReadWest Literacy. There will be bargains, new titles, and arts.
Authors signing books include: historian and New Mexico Centennial Author Don Bullis at 11am signing "New Mexico Historical Biographies" and his other books; Loretta Hall signing at 9am her new book "Out of This World" and "Underground Buildings;" Jerry Davis will be signing his new book on "Michigan Barns" all day.
Other crafts include jewelry by Gertrude Zachary and the yarn necklaces of Kathy Barco. Santos by Charlie Carrillo and the pottery by Debbie Carrillo will be featured.
Los Ranchos’ favorite was Tony Hillerman and his daughter Anne will be one of the local authors. Her book, "The Gardens of Santa Fe," photographed by her husband Don Strel is a Finalist for this year’s New Mexico Book Awards. The Winners will be announced November 18. The Los Ranchos store, New Mexico Food & Gift Showcase will have tempting foods made in New Mexico. Slim Randles will be available to sign copies of his new book "A Cowboy’s Guide To Growing Up Right." His other book "Sweetgrass Morning" and "A Cowboy’s Guide" are both Finalists for the New Mexico Book Awards this year.
No book show would be complete without an appearance by Travelin’ Jack – the unofficial dog governor of New Mexico. He will paw-tograph copies of his new book "From Shelter to Star." Jack’s book is also a Finalist for this year’s New Mexico Book Awards.
Sci-Fi and tales of the dark side by David Corwell and Kirt Hickman will have plenty to stimulate your Halloween mood. Laughing Turtle Soap will have a gift selection. Stampin’ Up will have handcrafted ornaments. Melody Groves will have her new book "Hoist a Cold One" about the historic bars of the Southwest. Jonathan Miller will have his series of books set in New Mexico. Artemesia Publishing will have books for kids, young adults, and even art by Jerry Davis. Other authors include: Rob Kresge, Michael Arkin, Dolores Valdez de Pong, Jaima Chavalier, Hank Bruce, Tomi Falk, Jack Hudson, Gary Wilson, Jean Nevin, Joanne Bodin, Hana Samek Norton, Roger Long, Cynthia Davis, and many more. Karen Villanueva and Author Services will have many local titles.
The Barn Halloween Holiday Howl is open 8am to 3pm and is free. The Barn is located at 6718 Rio Grande Blvd. next to the Village of Los Ranchos firestation. Come early and enjoy the Grower’s Market and parking is right at the Barn.
PRESS RELEASE
October 13, 2011
Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382
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

2011-10-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

Please come by to say BOO to Travelin' Jack at the Halloween (or is it HOWLoween?) Howl at the Barn in Los Ranchos!

From books to Halloween tricks and treats
...from Arts to Crafts
...from Pups to People
.....sure to be a howling good time for all!

Here's what NM Book Coop has to say about Travelin' Jack's participation at Halloween Howl------

No book show would be complete without an appearance by Travelin’ Jack – the unofficial dog governor of New Mexico. He will paw-tograph copies of his new book "From Shelter to Star." Jack’s book is also a Finalist for this year’s New Mexico Book Awards.

Hope to see you there! FREE ADMISSION. 9AM - 3PM, Saturday, October 29th!

Travelin' Jack and Jill

PS In addition to Jack's book, Jill will also have her other children's books .....as well as "Voices of New Mexico" and the JUST now released "Holiday Word Gifts". There are two of Jill's short stories in these two wonderful anthologies. All these make great holiday gifts for you and your friends/family!

jill
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

NMBA News

2011-10-05T12:08:00.000-07:00

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

News from Carolyn Howard Johnson

2011-10-05T08:20:00.000-07:00

More than a dozen authors, mentors, and nationally known book marketers will offer thousand in bonus gifts focused on the needs of authors when novelist, poet, and book marketer Carolyn Howard-Johnson releases the second edition of the first book in her HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, The Frugal Book Promoter.

Among those supporting Howard-Johnson’s book are self publishing gurus Dan Poynter and Shelley Hitz, book marketers Dana Lynn Smith, Patricia Fry, D’vorah Lansky, and Aggie Villaneuva and even some fun stuff like a full book of poetry from Magdalena Ball and advice on feng shui from Anna Maria Prezio, Ph.D. Leading the charge is Amazon and book launch expert Denise Cassino.

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

Collectively, these bonses offer an inestimable value in career boosting bonus gifts to anyone who pays a mere $9.95 for The Frugal Book Promoter in its Kindle iteration (www.budurl.com/FrugalBkProKindle) or $12.82 (discounted from $17.95) for the paperback on Amazon (www.budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo).

The project will reach a crescendo on Wednesday, October 8, when an unprecedented number of people will visit Howard-Johnson’s launch page and launch her valuable to number one on Amazon.com, a great way to help make this book visible to even more authors who need it. Check out her site on October 8 at http://frugalbookpromoter.homestead.com/index.html

Howard-Johnson, an instructor for nearly a decade at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, chose to have the new edition published in both e-book format and paperback in order to give her struggling students and clients affordable and convenient choices. Whichever format a reader chooses, The Frugal Book Promoter assures an author’s book the best possible start in life. Full of nitty-gritty how-tos for getting nearly free publicity, the author shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the successes of her own book campaigns. A former journalist and publicist (she wrote media releases for fashion designers like Christian Dior), she tells authors how to do what their publishers can’t or won’t and why authors can often do their own promotion better than a PR professional.

Howard-Johnson even assigned a new subtitle to this edition of her book to reflect its appeal to a broader array of authors. It is now The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher. She says, "With the advances in Internet marketing and the role social media plays in communicating, it was high time even writers who had the first edition had access to my frugal (frugal of both time and money!) ideas for new networking opportunities." The big, fat book (416 pages) also has money-saving ads in the back and an amazing new cover—the epitome of “frugalness”—by Chaz DeSimone, www.chazdesimone.com.

Howard-Johnson is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, her community’s Character and Ethics award for her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly’s list of 14 women of “San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen.” She has worked for Good Housekeeping Magazine and as a journalist for several newspapers and has been a popular presenter at writers’ conferences nationwide like the one at San Diego State University and the Sinclair Lewis Writers’ Conference. She is also a novelist and poet, which informs the advice she gives to authors of those genres.

Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com and http://carolynhoward-johnson.com.

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Support materials available on request

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Instructor for the renowned UCLA Extension Writers' Program

Author of the multi award-winning series of HowToDoItFrugally books:

The Frugal Book Promoter

The Frugal Editor

The Great First Impression Book Proposal

Great Little Last-Minute Edits

E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Web site: http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com

2011-10-05T06:54:00.000-07:00

October Coop Meeting
Next NM Book Co-op Lunch is October 28 at the Golden Corral on Coors and Alameda in Albuquerque. Lynn Baca, Director of SAR Press, and Renee Tambeau, Marketing Director at Museum of New Mexico Press, will be the speakers; they will talk about how their presses are adapting to today's changes in book publishing. Email info@nmbookcoop.com or call 505/344-9382 if you want to reserve a seat at this meeting. Lunch begins at 11:30am and the programs starts at 12 noon.
Five Spaces Left for Halloween Book Event
There are still a few spaces available for the Halloween Holiday Howl, October 29, at the Barn in Los Ranchos on Rio Grande. Details to get a spot are HERE. The cost is $50 per table and space sharing is allowed. We have just a few spots left so see if you can share a table and save some money and sell some books! Any other crafts, foods, or art is also invited. Remember we want a lot of people come. An ad has been put in the October Village Vision Magazine and we will do our part sending out press releases but you have to do your part!
Book Awards Banquet
The winners in the 2011 NM Book Awards will be announced at the Banquet on Friday, November 18. The cost is $40 per person until November 1 (it goes up to $48 after Nov. 1). Come be at the biggest gala event in books in New Mexico. Get your reservation by CLICKING HERE.
Award Finalist Stickers Available
Stickers are available for anyone who was named as a finalist in the 2011 NM Book Awards. The cost is $18 (same as last year). CLICK HERE to order stickers.

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

QR Codes for Coop Website
Scan the QR Code to the right on your Android or iPhone to go directly to the NM Book Co-op website.

2011-09-30T09:48:00.000-07:00

Monday, October 3rd, 7:30pm
Swarthmore, PA
Josey Foo, Leah Stein & Leah Stein Dance Company Dancers
Scheuer Room at Kohlberg Hall
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave
Swarthmore, PA
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

Jews from poet Joey Foo

2011-09-30T09:45:00.000-07:00

A Lily Lilies is the product of an 8-year collaboration between poet Josey Foo and Leah Stein, and is a cross-genre book of poetry, photography, and notes for choreography. It maps space through language, language through movement, and both space and movement through pictures in sections that move from immense spaces of the American Southwest to a dance stage in Philadelphia to the space of the self.

"A swallow swallows, a lily lilies . . . living beings, in a manner, keep living"

Mapping across space/time, cultures and sensibilities A Lily Lilies expresses the interweaving of the poetry of dance and the dance of poetry. Beautiful work!—Pauline Oliveros
What Josey Foo and Leah Stein have created here is a dramaturg's delight — poetry and movement on the page, with hints for the stage, and sound poems that may live only in the reader's mind. Foo's poems and Stein's responses become layered experiences in the synergy between the two artists. In their introduction they state that "Words and music contain pace and rhythm for movement in both illusionary and physical space." Let us now witness the grace of poetic imagery and the elegance of dance in words. Poetic images and stage images and stage directions and more morph and mingle into a sweet work of art.—Martha Wade Steketee
SEPTEMBER 2011
Saturday & Sunday, September 24-25th, 12-7pm
Blanco, NM
Josey Foo & Liz Stannard at a booth at the Harvest Festival -- 2 serendipitous days of celebration.
Wines of the San Juan
233 Highway 511
Blanco, NM 87412
(505) 632-0879
OCTOBER 2011
Tuesday, October 4th, 6pm
Philadelphia, PA
Leah Stein, Josey Foo, Emma Crandall and Lonely Christopher. Readings followed by roundtable discussion on influence, emergence and culture.
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Wednesday, October 5th, 7pm
New York, NY
Josey Foo, Leah Stein & others in readings, performance and dialogs on poetry and movement.
Asian American Writers Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, Ste 600
New York, NY 10011
(212) 494-0061 or desk@aaww.org
Friday, October 7th, 5-7pm
Mt Airy, Philadelphia, PA
Josey Foo & Leah Stein
Big Blue Marble Bookstore
551 Carpenter Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19119
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

Word Harvest News

2011-09-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

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

New Mexico Book Awards Finalists

2011-09-23T11:57:00.000-07:00

Finalists in 2011 New Mexico Book Awards
The Finalists in 2011 New Mexico Book Awards were announced today at the regular monthly meeting of the New Mexico Book Coop, a not-for-profit organization serving authors and book publishers. Finalists have been selected in thirty-six categories ranging from children's and parenting/family issues books to romance and science fiction and New Mexico history. One hundred and eighty-four books were selected as finalists this year, about the same number as last year. But entries in this year's program were about double those of last year. This is the fifth year for the New Mexico Book Awards.
The complete list of finalists can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE.
The winners will be announced at the annual Awards Banquet on November 18 at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Albuquerque, NM.
The New Mexico Book Awards is organized by The New Mexico Book Co-op and Category sponsors include: Alamosa Books, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Artemesia Publishing, AZRO Press, Bookworks, Friends of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co Public Library, Hope Kiah-Santa Fe Web Design, Humanist Society of New Mexico, LithExcel Communication, LPD Press & Rio Grande Books, Miche Bags New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, New Mexico Book Association, New Mexico Breeze Newspaper, New Mexico Business Weekly, New Mexico Centennial Office, New Mexico Coalition for Literacy, ReadingNewMexico.com, ReadWest, Rio Rancho Public Library, Santa Fe Public Library, Southwest Writers, Sunbelt Shows, Sunstone Press, Tradición Revista Magazine, Treasure House Books & Gifts, University of New Mexico Press, WalMart, Word Harvest Writers Conference, and Zimmermann Library (University of New Mexico).
New Mexico Book Co-op 925 Salamanca NW Los Ranchos, NM 87107 info@nmbookcoop.com
www.nmbookcoop.com
505/344-9382
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

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New Mexico Women Author’s Festival
Remember to attend the 4th Annual New Mexico Women Author’s Festival September 30 – October 9, at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. Details on all of the speakers are on newmexicocreates.com. Especially new is the Voices of New Mexico Panel at 2pm on Sunday, October 9, and the Publishers Panel 12:30pm on Sunday, October 9. All events are free. You don’t have to be a woman to attend!
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

New Mexico Publisher news

2011-09-22T13:13:00.000-07:00

FOUR LARGEST BOOK PUBLISHERS IN NEW MEXICO PRESENTING PANEL AT THE SANTA FE WOMEN AUTHOR’S FESTIVAL OCTOBER 9
UNM Press, LPD Press/Rio Grande Books, SAR Press, and Museum of New Mexico Press are going to tell it–like–it–is at a panel at the Women Author’s Festival at the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium in Santa Fe, Sunday, October 9, at 12:30pm. The four panelists: John Byram, Director of UNM Press; Barbe Awalt, Senior Partner of LPD Press/Rio Grande Books; Lynn Baca, Director of SAR Press; and Renee Tambeau, Marketing Director of Museum of New Mexico Press, will talk about the future of book publishing, how to be published, Print On Demand, EBooks, and books stores. This is the first time four of the largest book publishers in New Mexico are doing a panel for interested attendees. The panel is a new addition to the Women Author’s Festival. The Festival is scheduled from September 30 to October 9 will presentations by women authors in all genres. All events are free and open to the public. For a full list of authors visit newmexicocreates.org.
For information call 505/344-9382 or go to info@nmbookcoop.com.
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September 16, 2011
Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382 or 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

Tony Hillerman Conference

2011-09-22T08:14:00.000-07:00

Greetings!
We'd like to give you a friendly reminder that the deadline for early-bird registration to the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference is quickly approaching! This year, our conference will be held in the lovely Hotel Santa Fe, just steps away from the dynamic Railyard district with its shops and restaurants. The conference program includes a day devoted to the craft of writing and one dedicated to the business of writing. We're proud that experts like Douglas Preston, David Morrell, Sandi Ault, and Hampton Sides are joining our faculty. And, don't forget the opportunity for manuscript critiques with Sean Murphy and Tania Casselle. Be sure to register before September 24 to take advantage of great rates!

And, don't forget: October 9 is the last day to reserve a room at Hotel Santa Fe to the conference rate.

Psst! Be sure to join our growing community of writers on Facebook, where you may just find a special offer for Conference registration.

Sincerely,
Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
WORDHARVEST

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

2011-09-19T08:34:00.000-07:00

The Corrales Historical Society will feature authors, publishers, journalists, and collectors, Barbe Awalt and Paul Rhetts, speaking about “New Mexico Art & Culture: Santos, Balloons, Food & History.” Owners of one of the largest book publishing companies in New Mexico and Tradicion Revista Magazine, Awalt and Rhetts have an expertise in New Mexican Hispanic santos and have taken their collection all over the country. They have recently published the award-winning official Balloon Fiesta book The World Comes To Albuquerque. Awalt and Rhetts also received the Mother Teresa Award for their furthering of New Mexico Hispanic art and culture.
The talk takes place Thursday, September 22, at 7pm, in the Old San Isidro Church – 966 Old Church Road and is free and open to the public. Awalt and Rhetts will bring some of their santos for display and some of their books for sale including the recent Contemporary Hispanic Market 25th Anniversary and the Centennial Grant book, New Mexico Biographical Histories, by Don Bullis.
For information call 505/344-9382 or go to info@nmsantos.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

2011-09-19T08:27:00.000-07:00

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

Book signiong

2011-09-19T08:25:00.000-07:00

AWARD-WINNING BOOK — THE WORLD COMES TO ALBUQUERQUE — TO BE SIGNED AT TREASURE HOUSE ON OCT 1
The Award-winning book, The World Comes To Albuquerque: The Dream Takes Flight, the official book of the 40th Balloon Fiesta, will be signed by authors Dick Brown, Kim Vesely, Tom McConnell, and Paul Rhetts on Saturday, October 1, from 2-4pm at Treasure House on Old Town Plaza. This signing the first weekend of Balloon Fiesta and appropriately features the 40 years of Balloon Fiesta and the history of hot air ballooning in New Mexico. The book won the 2011 Caliente Award from Reading New Mexico. The World Comes To Albuquerque is 192 pages and with 190 photos in hardback and softback.
For information call 505/344-9382 or go to info@nmsantos.com.
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September 18, 2011
Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382 or 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

NMBA News

2011-09-19T07:40:00.000-07:00

Reminder
It's MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME

NMBA'S new membership year begins September 1. Everyone delighted with words and interested in publication, book art or the literary professions is invited to join. We also welcome out-of-state members.

Cost:
• First-time members $50
• Renewal dues $65; add $20 to include a partner
• If you are a member, and you sign up a new member, you get to renew for $50 as well
• Institutional dues $65
How to renew or apply:
• Go online to nmbook.org
• Complete your secure online registration, or print out the membership application and send it in along with your check made out to New Mexico Book Association to New Mexico Book Association, P.O. Box 1285, Santa Fe, NM 87504
Renewal Deadline is September 30. (New members may apply any time, but applying now gives you a full year of benefits.)

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Also of Interest

Red Mountain Press celebrates the publication of

Drawing the Line ~ A Passionate Life by Susan Gardner.

Sunday, September 25 at 3:00 p.m. at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Ste H, Albuquerque

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And Coming in October--Understanding & Managing Social Media

Another presentation in our professional development program will give us a good glimpse into Facebook and Twitter, how they work, and why these Internet phenomena have become such powerful marketing tools.
• Tuesday, October 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
• St. Bede's Episcopal Church on W. San Mateo off St. Francis Dr. in Santa Fe
• Presenters: Jan Zimmerman (author of Web Marketing for Dummies) and Joan Sotkin (gives workshops about Facebook, Twitter, blogs, website development and Internet marketing)
• Cost: $20 at the door or pay online at nmbook.org
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Deadline for Nov/Dec LIBRO is OCT. 15. Go to www.nmbook.org to submit all events. Click on the Calendar and Event Submission Form; then follow the prompts.

For more event listings, please visit www.nmbook.org. NMBA is New Mexico's only nonprofit serving all book professionals.
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

2011-09-13T13:06:00.001-07:00

Writing Tip: Stay Organized
by Tricia Fields, 2010 Winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for The Territory

Writing a novel without a clear plan for organizing the project-from broad plot outline down to specific details-would be a nightmare for me. Here are three different methods that I use to maintain order.

1. The Spreadsheet: I use Microsoft Excel extensively. The different tabs enable the writer to store and sort a variety of information that is important to keep track of when writing a full length book. For example, I have a character tab that lists the basics for each character in the book: name, age, physical description, distinguishing traits, etc. I have another tab for businesses in town, another tab houses my scene outline, another lists ideas for future books in the series..

2. The Binder: I maintain a reference binder to store all of the printed material that can't be easily stored in an Excel file. For example, I have a section on average weather ranges in West Texas for each month of the year, a section for newspaper/magazine stories that relate to the area or the topic I'm writing about, etc.. I keep state, county and town maps that I have either copied or created myself. Detailed maps of my fictional town have proven extremely helpful in writing both my books.

3. The Notecards: Post-It notes, or stickable notecards, are another great tool for organizing the storyline. Most of my book is plotted out in a scene outline using Excel. Each scene is written on a separate row with specific details noted in the columns (POV, Characters, Purpose, etc.). Post-it notes serve a similar purpose, but they allow me to see more of the story at one time. Each scene can be summarized on a sticky note. For the BIG picture, post a piece of butcher block paper on a wall and map out each scene using sticky notes. This gives you the flexibility to easily move and add scenes as your changing plot dictates. This is also a great exercise to check the pacing in your book.

If you are interested in more detailed information you can visit my Sunday Afternoon Writer's Blog.

Tricia Fields is well into her second book in a mystery series to be published by St. Martin's/Minotaur in October.
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

News of Howard Bryan

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passing of Howard Bryan, a long-time journalist and one of New Mexico's giants in the field of history. Howard received the Friends of New Mexico Authors Award in the 2009 New Mexico Book Awards. He also received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1994 as well as a SPUR Award from Western Writers of America. He was a journalist for 42 years.
A funeral will be this Friday 8:30 am at the National Cemetery in Santa Fe.
A Remembrance & Celebration to his life will be held at the Albuquerque Press Club on Saturday September 24th 1:00pm to 5:00pm. The Press Club is at 201 Highland Circle SE, (Off Central); 243-8476.

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

2011-09-06T13:26:00.000-07:00

SEPTEMBER NEW MEXICO BOOK CO-OP LUNCH FEATURES DON BULLIS & THE FINALISTS IN THE NM BOOK AWARDS
The Friday, September 23, 2011, lunch meeting of the New Mexico Book Co-op features New Mexico Centennial Author Don Bullis. Bullis will speak about his experiences with publishers, New Mexico history, and his new book, New Mexico Historical Biographies that won a New Mexico Centennial Grants in 2010. Bullis lives in Rio Ranchos and has written many award-winning books in addition to a newspaper column for the Rio Rancho Observer and he was a contributor for New Mexico Magazine. Bullis is also Vice President of the Historical Society of New Mexico and is Sheriff (President) of the Albuquerque Corral of Westerners.
The Finalists for the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards will also be announced. The Winners will be announced at the November banquet.
Lunch is at the Golden Corral at Coors and Alameda in Albuquerque. Attendees pay for their own buffet, tax, and tip.
For information call 505/344-9382 or go to info@nmbookcoop.com.
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September 4, 2011
Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382 or 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

October Write On Four Corners Schedule

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10/5 Nasario Garcia Fe Y Tragedias Faith and Tragedies Hispanic Villages of New Mexico Rio Grande Books 10:30 Wed

10/7 Kris Neri High Crimes on the Magical Plane Red Coyote Press Fri 2:30

10/12 B. Frank Livin the Dream Raven’s Eye Press 10:30 Wed.

10/14 Betsy McKee Henry How to Be a Zen Mama Zen mama Publishing 2:30 Fri

10/19 William (Bill) Ramsery Tapacitos Create Space South Carolina 10:30 Wed.

10/21 Martin Janowski Not Just New Mexico’s Senat5or 2:30 Friday Rio Grande Books

10/26 Kathleen McGowan The Poet Prince Simon and Schuster 10:30 Wed

10/28 Junie Davis (Lloyd Olivia Davis) confessions of an uppity woman ABQ press Fri 2:30

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.

Writing Contest for Romance Writers

2011-09-02T09:24:00.000-07:00

YourNovel.com Celebrates 20 Years:
Writing Contest Features $35,000 in Prizes
RALEIGH, NC, September 2, 2011 -- Romance writer wannabes have the chance to see their work published in a book and win one of 10 romantic getaways (total value of more than $35,000) in the YourNovel.com Personalized Romance Writing Contest to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary.
Ten winners will be selected to have their personalized, romantic stories published in an anthology called Celebrating Romance II to be sold online with YourNovel.com's other books and eBooks. Like the others, this book will be capable of being personalized so that any couple can star as the hero and heroine in the stories.
People ordering from YourNovel.com answer 23 questions about the starring couple, like names, eye and hair color, pet names they call one another, their careers, hometown, best friends, favorite perfume and favorite music. Then YourNovel.com takes those details and weaves them throughout any of their offerings.
The books are set in exotic destinations like Tahiti, Rome, the Caribbean, Africa, and at locations like luxury hotels, cruise ships, a ski resort, a dude ranch, or as a detective novel, a golf fantasy book, historical fiction, and even a vampire saga.
Contest entrants will need to do the same thing - use all 23 personal bits of information in a 2,500- to 4,000-word story in a romantic setting while employing all the techniques of romance writing, including those titillating yet tasteful love scenes that come in YourNovel.com's Wild or Mild versions of each book.
YourNovel.com held a similar contest for their 10th anniversary producing Celebrating Romance, still a popular seller. An impressive six of the 10 winning writers went on to publish full-length books. Ma rcy Thomas and Gail Gibbs have written full-length novels for YourNovel.com. LuAnne McLane (with 13 novels under her belt), Lori Pepio, Janet Welch and Regina Hammond all went on to publish books for other companies.
For the 20-year milestone, YourNovel.com's founders and co-authors J.S. Fletcher and Kathy M. Newbern (a husband/wife team using the pen name Fletcher Newbern) have teamed up with sponsors in the travel industry for prizes to inspire writers to produce award-winning work just like Fletcher and Newbern have as travel journalists, their other vocation.
Prizes valued at more than $35,000 include:
• 7 nights at Palm Island Resort, Grenadines (palmislandcaribbean.com) $5,540 value;
• 7 nights at St. James's Club & Villas, Antigua (stjamesclubantigua.com) $4,515 value;
• 7 nights at The Verandah Resort & Spa, Antigua (theverandah.com) $4,200 value;
• 5 nights at Bolongo Bay, St. Thomas, USVI (bolongobay.com) $2,354 value;
• 2 nights at Rosewood Country Inn, Bradford, NH (rosewoodcountryinn.com) value $798;
• 2 nights Ozarks Mountain Christmas, Branson, MO (explorebranson.com) $700 value;
• 2 nights at Old Edwards Inn & Spa, Highlands, NC (oldedwardsinn.com) $625 value;
• 2 nights at Chesterfield Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL (chesterfieldpb.com) $538 value;
• 2 nights in Raleigh, NC (VisitRaleigh.com) at Oakwood Inn B&B, (oakwoodinnbb.com) and personalized tours (total package value $500);
• A surprise destination to be announced;
• 10 complimentary copies of Celebrating Romance II valued at $1,270 to winners ranked 1-5;
• 5 complimentary copies valued at $635 to each of the winners ranked 6-10.
Fletcher says, "Whenever we explain what we do, someone invariably responds, 'I should write a book.' We agree, and now's the time."
Newbern adds, "We know from our own customers these past 19 years that there are a lot of romantic people out there. And this is their chance to create a romantic piece of fiction and see it published in a book. Plus, the prizes are terrific."
How To Enter: For information on how to enter the contest, prize details and the official rules, visit www.YourNovel.com/contest.aspx Entry deadline is Oct. 15, 2011, with winners announced by Nov. 28, 2011. The contest has no entry fee, but will be limited to 300 entries. It is open to U.S. or Canadian legal residents at least 18 years old. Entries must be submitted via email and will be judged on how well the story works for any starring couple; the plot; story originality; story location; entertaining and spicy romantic interludes; dialogue, exposition, mechanics and grammar; plus the climax.
Current Books: YourNovel.com currently offers 28 books and 16 eBooks where any couple become the hero and heroine. Novels come in hardback or paperback and the starring couple's photo can even be added to the book's cover. Paperbacks range from 150-190 pages and start at $39.95; hardbacks, 200-230 pages, start at $84.95; eBooks are 32-124 pages starting at $19.95. Photos can be added to the cover for an additional $25. Priority S/H is $7 in the U.S. or $16 on global orders. The fastest way to order is on the web at www.YourNovel.com. Those without Internet access can call (800) 444-3356 in the U.S. to have information faxed or mailed.

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.

2011-09-01T12:00:00.000-07:00

NMBA will once again represent members at the annual Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Show in Denver, taking place September 30 to October 2. And we’ll be sharing prime position with the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Richard Polese, our Senior Advisor, who will oversee our setup at the Renaissance Denver Hotel says, “This show lets us display members’ books to bookstore buyers during the largest and best book trade event in the region.” Wholesalers, distributors, sales reps and publishers and printers, as well as other trade professionals also attend the show. NMBA is compiling a catalog of participating members’ books.

To participate, make your reservation now. Call Valerie Stasik at (505) 660–6357 or email admin@nmbook.org.

Provide 50 copies of a sell-sheet for binding in our catalog—an 8.5x11-inch paper with an eye-catching design that contains the following information:
• an image of the book cover(s)
• title
• author
• publisher
• ISBN
• binding (soft/hard)
• page count
• price(s)
• ordering info
• brief author bio
The sheet may be printed on one or both sides. Please do NOT use paper heavier than 24#. Your title and book cover will grab attention better on white rather than colored paper or card stock.

Submit up to two titles for $50. You may add additional titles for $20 each. Make check payable to New Mexico Book Association.

Include one copy of each book.

Deliver the package—check, sell-sheets and book(s)—to the NMBA office at 805 Early Street, Bldg. C, Suite 205 in Santa Fe. Or mail to P.O. Box 1285, Santa Fe, NM 87504.
If you need help designing a sell-sheet, contact Mary Neighbour at lifelines@cnsp.com or Cindy Bellinger at bellinger.cindy@gmail.com.
NMBA authors and publishers who plan to attend (and we encourage you!) will need to have a show badge. Please contact Richard Polese (richard@oceantree.com) or Valerie (admin@nmbook.org) by Sept. 16 to let us know if you might attend.
Again NMBA Deadline is Friday, September 16!

September Calendar of Events

Wednesday, September 1, 2011

Wayne Lambert Gallery Opening! 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
805 Early St. Bldg. C, Ste. 205, Santa Fe
What Ansel Adams did for scenery, Wayne Lambert does for portraiture. Come see his extraordinary photographs of New Mexico's people. Gallery hours are from Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (505) 983-6160. info@waynelambertgallery.com. www.waynelambertgallery.com.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

IWWG-and-Friends Meeting 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Open to all women writers. For information, contact Paula Lozar at lozarpaula@cs.com.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

International Literacy Day 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Albuquerque Main Library
501 Copper NW
Free admission and free parking wtih stamped ticket. Family activities, food, and offerings from publishers and authors.

Friday, September 9, 2011

NMBA Networking Luncheon 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location this month: St. Bede's Episcopal Church Common Room, W. San Mateo in Santa Fe.
Come join in discussions of interest to all book people. $2.00 at the door. Contact: Valerie Stasik (505) 660-6357 or admin@nmbook.org.

NMBA Board Meeting 1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Follows the luncheon. NMBA members are welcome to observe. Contact: Valerie Stasik (505) 660-6357 or admin@nmbook.org.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Deadline for submission of promotional materials for the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Show. (See lead article above.)

Saturday, September 17, 2011

NMBA Professional Development Seminar - Making & Making Sense of Ebooks 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Community Room at DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe
Industry experts Anita Quintana and Rebecca Carrier will share their forays into the new frontier of ebooks--making an ebook, formatting manuscripts, distributing the product. Cost: $20.00. Pay at the door or register online. Contact: admin@nmbook.org, (505) 660-6357 or lozarpaula@cs.com.

La Ranfla Celebration 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Parking Lot of the Double Six Gallery in Gallup
Martha Egan will read from her book La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories. Contact: Michael Hice at michaelhice@earthlink.net. URL: http://www.papalotepress.com.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Author Symposium 7:00 p.m.
Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos
Shirley Raye Redmond willl speak. The event is free and open to the public. Contact: Carole Meine, Mesa Public Library, carol.meine@lacnm.us. URL: http://www.losalamosnm.us/Pages/default.aspx.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Author Symposium 7:00 p.m.
Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos
Shirley Raye Redmond willl speak. The event is free and open to the public. Contact: Carole Meine, Mesa Public Library, carol.meine@lacnm.us. URL: http://www.losalamosnm.us/Pages/default.aspx.

NMBA will once again represent members at the annual Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Show in Denver, taking place September 30 to October 2. And we’ll be sharing prime position with the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Richard Polese, our Senior Advisor, who will oversee our setup at the Renaissance Denver Hotel says, “This show lets us display members’ books to bookstore buyers during the largest and best book trade event in the region.” Wholesalers, distributors, sales reps and publishers and printers, as well as other trade professionals also attend the show. NMBA is compiling a catalog of participating members’ books.

To participate, make your reservation now. Call Valerie Stasik at (505) 660–6357 or email admin@nmbook.org.

Provide 50 copies of a sell-sheet for binding in our catalog—an 8.5x11-inch paper with an eye-catching design that contains the following information:
• an image of the book cover(s)
• title
• author
• publisher
• ISBN
• binding (soft/hard)
• page count
• price(s)
• ordering info
• brief author bio
The sheet may be printed on one or both sides. Please do NOT use paper heavier than 24#. Your title and book cover will grab attention better on white rather than colored paper or card stock.

Submit up to two titles for $50. You may add additional titles for $20 each. Make check payable to New Mexico Book Association.

Include one copy of each book.

Deliver the package—check, sell-sheets and book(s)—to the NMBA office at 805 Early Street, Bldg. C, Suite 205 in Santa Fe. Or mail to P.O. Box 1285, Santa Fe, NM 87504.
If you need help designing a sell-sheet, contact Mary Neighbour at lifelines@cnsp.com or Cindy Bellinger at bellinger.cindy@gmail.com.
NMBA authors and publishers who plan to attend (and we encourage you!) will need to have a show badge. Please contact Richard Polese (richard@oceantree.com) or Valerie (admin@nmbook.org) by Sept. 16 to let us know if you might attend.
Again NMBA Deadline is Friday, September 16!

September Calendar of Events

Wednesday, September 1, 2011

Wayne Lambert Gallery Opening! 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
805 Early St. Bldg. C, Ste. 205, Santa Fe
What Ansel Adams did for scenery, Wayne Lambert does for portraiture. Come see his extraordinary photographs of New Mexico's people. Gallery hours are from Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (505) 983-6160. info@waynelambertgallery.com. www.waynelambertgallery.com.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

IWWG-and-Friends Meeting 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Open to all women writers. For information, contact Paula Lozar at lozarpaula@cs.com.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

International Literacy Day 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Albuquerque Main Library
501 Copper NW
Free admission and free parking wtih stamped ticket. Family activities, food, and offerings from publishers and authors.

Friday, September 9, 2011

NMBA Networking Luncheon 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location this month: St. Bede's Episcopal Church Common Room, W. San Mateo in Santa Fe.
Come join in discussions of interest to all book people. $2.00 at the door. Contact: Valerie Stasik (505) 660-6357 or admin@nmbook.org.

NMBA Board Meeting 1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Follows the luncheon. NMBA members are welcome to observe. Contact: Valerie Stasik (505) 660-6357 or admin@nmbook.org.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Deadline for submission of promotional materials for the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Show. (See lead article above.)

Saturday, September 17, 2011

NMBA Professional Development Seminar - Making & Making Sense of Ebooks 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Community Room at DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe
Industry experts Anita Quintana and Rebecca Carrier will share their forays into the new frontier of ebooks--making an ebook, formatting manuscripts, distributing the product. Cost: $20.00. Pay at the door or register online. Contact: admin@nmbook.org, (505) 660-6357 or lozarpaula@cs.com.

La Ranfla Celebration 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Parking Lot of the Double Six Gallery in Gallup
Martha Egan will read from her book La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories. Contact: Michael Hice at michaelhice@earthlink.net. URL: http://www.papalotepress.com.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Author Symposium 7:00 p.m.
Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos
Shirley Raye Redmond willl speak. The event is free and open to the public. Contact: Carole Meine, Mesa Public Library, carol.meine@lacnm.us. URL: http://www.losalamosnm.us/Pages/default.aspx.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Author Symposium 7:00 p.m.
Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos
Shirley Raye Redmond willl speak. The event is free and open to the public. Contact: Carole Meine, Mesa Public Library, carol.meine@lacnm.us. URL: http://www.losalamosnm.us/Pages/default.aspx.

News from Write On Author Jenny Sue Kostecki Shaw

2011-08-31T06:44:00.000-07:00

I wanted to let you know my new book, Same, Same but Different, will be released on September 13th. My publisher will be sending you a copy, soon I hope.

http://us.macmillan.com/book.aspx?isbn=9780805089462

I am having an event with Uma Krishnaswami at Maria's Bookshop in Durango, CO on Saturday, Sept 17th from 10-11am. I was wondering if you could share this announcement on your show the week before. We'd really appreciate it if you can. I think it will be a fun event!

http://mariasbookshop.com/event/meet-author-saturday-morning-story-time-jenny-sue-kostecki-shaw

Take care and hope your summer has been nice,
jenny sue
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.

2011-08-30T09:51:00.000-07:00

Greetings!
Welcome to our newest newsletter! In this issue, we're pleased to share a writing tip from best-selling and prolific author David Morrell, the creator of Rambo and co-founder of the International Thriller Writers organization. We were honored when David, who has eighteen million copies of his work in print, translated into twenty-six languages, agreed to speak at the up-coming Tony Hillerman Writers Conference. He will share his insights into the future of publishing. Visit this link to find out more about how you can join us for the conference November 10-12 in Santa Fe. Thanks for reading!

Warm wishes,
Anne and Jean

Writing Tip: Watch for the Flow
From David Morrell

A story is a living thing. Our goal should be to serve it and do what it wants, to be its instrument. Its flow from our imagination to the page is impeded in two main ways---if we try to make the story do something that it doesn't want to do, or if something in us isn't ready to face the full implications of the story's theme and emotions. Avoiding those blocks requires developing a relationship with the story, as if it were a person. At the start of each writing session, especially if I'm having trouble moving a scene forward, I literally ask the story, "What do you want to do? Where do you want me to go with you? Why are you stalling?" This is a psychological trick that almost always creates an imagined response, along the lines of "This scene is boring. Why are you making me do it?" or "This scene is full of gimmicks. Why aren't you being honest with me?" The device takes only a minute. It's part of my ritual, and over the years, it saved me from writing a lot of scenes that were either unnecessary or else dishonest.

(This excerpt comes from a piece Morrell first wrote for WRITERS DIGEST. Copyright F + W Media and David Morrell, 2011.)

Morrell, a presenter at the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference, is the author of numerous best-selling thrillers. He has been nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity awards for THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS, which he co-edited with Hank Wagner.

Five More Things to Like About Santa Fe (Besides Our Conference)
The Santa Fe Children's Museum: This family-oriented center offers great, hands-on activities for children from toddler to pre-teens. Evenings often include musical entertainment.

El Rancho de las Golondrinas: "The Ranch of the Swallows" is a living history museum that dates from the early 1700s and was an important paraje or stopping place along the famous Camino Real, the Royal Road from Mexico City to Santa Fe.

Sopaipillas! You can eat these little clouds of fried, yeasty goodness with honey or use them to soak up the final traces of that luscious red and green chile sauce. They come with your meal at many Santa Fe restaurants that specialize in New Mexican cuisine.

The Sangre De Cristo Mountains: The southernmost range of the Rocky Mountains, the Sangre de Cristos sit in Santa Fe's backyard, just a 20-minute drive from the Plaza. Hiking, biking, camping, skiing and more await. The aspen usually turn around the end of September, creating a
wonderful reason for a fall picnic.

The New Mexico Rail Runner Express: Take the Rail Runner from Albuquerque to Santa Fe-no car is needed! (An express bus takes passengers from the airport to the train depot.) Once in Santa Fe, the Depot stop is walking distance to many shops, restaurants and our conference hotel.

WORDHARVEST Contest Updates

Thanks to everyone who entered the Hillerman Mystery Short Story Contest and who submitted novels for the Hillerman Prize. Your entries are with our judges. The winners will be announced at the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference in November and posted on our website afterward.

Editor Peter Joseph of St. Martin's Press will announce the 2011 novel award (we hope the winner will join us!) at lunch, Friday, November 11. Peter will also discuss what makes a good mystery with 2010 Hillerman Prize Winner Tricia Fields. The short story winner will be announced on Saturday, November 12, at the keynote dinner. Author Douglas Preston will be on hand to give an intriguing after-dinner talk. Stay tuned!

We'll leave you with a few words from one of the previous Tony Hillerman Writers Conference participants. She described the conference as, "content rich, fun, lively and informative." We couldn't have said it better ourselves!

Sincerely,

Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
WORDHARVEST
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.

Slim Randalls Bok Signing

2011-08-30T06:42:00.000-07:00

You are cordially invited
to come and visit with Ol' Slim Randles
on Tuesday, September 6 at 7pm at Bookworks
at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque
for a little sound advice and fun
as he talks about his new book
"A Cowboy's Guide to Growing Up Right"
Hope to see you there, partner!
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.

2011-08-26T06:39:00.000-07:00

September Book Co-op Newsletter
International Literacy Day – September 8, at the Albuquerque Main Library, 10:30am – 4pm
Even if you are not a vendor you are invited to drop in to the all day activities for Literacy Day at the Albuquerque Main Library at 501 Copper NW. Admission to the events and Book Market is FREE and if you park diagonally from the Library on Copper, stamped parking tickets give you 2 hours FREE – just go to the front desk. If you are thinking about publishing, come see publishers and authors at the Market and check out what has been done. If you have kids that are too young for school, the story times will be great! And if you get hungry the Library has a Café. But above all, support literacy because if people can’t read they can’t buy a book!

Book Howl for Halloween in Los Ranchos
There are about 10 spaces left for the Halloween Holiday Howl at the Los Ranchos Barn October 29. Don’t wait too long or all the spaces will be gone! There will be jewelry, books, foods, soaps, and much more and be spooky too!

BOOK NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT...
Internet Book Tour Gone
BookTour will be shutting down on Thursday, September 1, 2011. On that date, all of their services will end and the data will no longer be available. Fewer author tours and changes in book marketing budgets made the company financially unviable.
Another Shoe Dropping…?
We alerted all Co-op members starting in 2009 (it actually may have been even earlier than that) that Borders was in trouble and may close its doors. We advised everyone to monitor any inventory that they may have at Borders so that you would not lose those assets. Well, as we have also told everyone, things don’t sound very good over at Barnes & Noble either. Their big refinancing deal has fallen through. So watch out for any tell-tale signs. Be alert! Find out what is going on.
Book club members increasingly using e-readers
Some 21 percent of reading group members are now reading all or most of their selections on e-readers, up from 11 percent in 2009, according to a Reading Group Choices survey. Groups representing more than 200,000 members were surveyed online and via a traditional mailing in the first three months of the year.
Of reading group members reading e-books, 59 percent use Amazon Kindles, 26 percent use Barnes & Noble's Nook and 20 percent use a tablet. In 2009, only seven percent used the Nook.
Romance, always a popular e-book category, is most frequently read on e-books by book group members: 60 percent of romance fiction read for the book groups is bought as e-books.
One difficulty that may hold back e-book usage by book group members: many publishers' backlists are not available as e-books.
Reading Group Choices owner Barbara Mead commented: "The use of e-books in concert with printed books only serves to reaffirm book clubs' passion for literature. And e-readers are a great investment for avid readers who are consuming books well in excess of their reading group selections or for book club members with a dwindling amount of free shelf-space."
Hastings first quarter earnings slide, will start selling e-books
Hastings Entertainment reported a drop in net income for its first quarter to 5 cents per share compared to 11 cents per share a year ago.
Total sales declined by 3.8 percent, to $124.1 million. Overall book comps decreased 9.1 percent for the quarter, new book sales fell 8.6 percent in the period and used books sales declined 19.6 percent. However, value books (remainders and white sales) gained by 8.7 percent.
The retailer said there was a 22 percent drop in “titles for which we purchase more than 1,000 copies,” blaming publishers for weak releases.
The company said that it is working on a new program to sell e-books through its GoHastings.com website.
Author drops e-book price to $0.99, ups sales by 2,500 percent
An author who remains anonymous, with control of the rights to five of his titles previously published by a traditional publisher, initially listed the titles as Kindle selections priced at $2.99 each.
When the books moved slowly, he decided to drop the price to $0.99 per title, and more than tripled his sales.
The books were formatted for and made available only on the Amazon Kindle and Nook platforms since November 2010.
The books sold an average of 20 e-books a month until the beginning of May.
That’s when he decided to try lowering the price of the five e-book titles to $0.99 each, just to see what happened. He calculated that he had to increase his sales to 120 copies per month to match the small income he was receiving from the same books at $2.99.
Since dropping the price, he’s sold over 400 copies in three weeks, and if current trends continue, estimates he will easily eclipse 500 copies for the month.
“A number of his titles sold in excess of 10,000 copies when they were first released years ago, but to have them find new life as e-books,” he says, “is especially gratifying.”
Publishing revolution: Amazon now selling more ebooks than pbooks
Amazon said on May 19 that “Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books - hardcover and paperback –combined,” adding that “Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon where there is no Kindle edition.” Amazon says ebook unit sales are more than three times sales for the same period in 2010. Amazon reiterated that its print book sales continue to grow - taking share from everyone else - and that their U.S. books business overall, including ebooks, is showing “the fastest year-over-year growth rate, in both units and dollars, in over 10 years.” … “The book publishing industry has entered a period of long-term decline because of the rising sales of ebook readers,” reads an April 28 research note from IHS iSuppli, which predicted a decrease in book revenue at a compound annual rate of three percent through 2014 - a reversal from the period between 2005 and 2010, when revenue rose. For the traditional book publishing industry, the implications of the rise of the ebook and ebook reader markets are frightening, given the decline in paper book printing, distribution and sales,” Steve Mather, IHS iSuppli’s principal analyst for wireless, wrote in the April 28 statement. “The industry has entered a phase of disruption that will be as significant as the major changes impacting the music and movie business.” The firm predicts that physical book sales will decline at a compound annual rate of five percent. While ebook sales will rise during that same period, the increase won’t cover the revenue gap created by the decline in the physical book market. By 2014, the research note predicts, ebooks will occupy some 13 percent of U.S. book publishing revenue, more than twice its current level ... E-books were .05 percent of the trade-book market in 2002 and 3.2 percent in 2009. Last year, they shot up to 8.3 percent of the $5.3 billion market, according to the Association of American Publishers, totaling $441.3 million in sales … Barnes & Noble is releasing an upgrade to the Nook reader that allows Nook owners to have authors sign their ebooks using a stylus. Nook owners can activate the autograph function, hand the stylus over, and get the signature. Just like with a paper book… According to an article posted to the Web by Piotr Kowalczyk, of the top-100 Amazon Kindle titles on April 21, 2011, 28 were by self-published authors. Eleven of the self-published titles were in the Kindle top 50. All of the self-published best-sellers were priced at $3.99 or less. Eighteen of the titles were selling at the lowest possible price tag: $0.99… Jeffrey Trachtenberg in a Wall Street Journal article noted that advance sales of a short story by best-selling author David Baldacci hit no. 51 on Amazon's digital best-seller list in April. Grand Central Publishing, a unit of Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group, listed Baldacci's original short story "No Time Left," which features Frank Becker, an aging assassin with work-life balance issues, for 99 cents. The work was published May 2. "No Time Left" was originally published in January 2010 when it was included in an anniversary edition of Baldacci's thriller Absolute Power… App maker Scroll Motion will create mobile apps out of Smashwords' "premium" catalog of over 30,000 ebooks at no additional charge to the authors and publishers. The royalty rate on the apps will be 60 percent of list price.
Author recognition: Relationship guru offers 10 tips for writers
Blane Bachelor, journalist, nationally syndicated columnist and author, has 10 tips for wannabe writers and authors.
Bachelor was among 16 distinguished presenters at the Authorship 101-201 workshops held in conjunction with the GABBS Atlanta Spring Book Show at Atlanta's Cobb Galleria Center. Bachelor, a long-term columnist with Atlanta's The Sunday Paper, is a former staffer at two metropolitan newspapers. She has written hundreds of articles and columns about dating, relationships, travel and pop culture for outlets including Marie Claire, Women's Health, People.com, Tango.com, Modern Bride, Zink!, the Christian Science Monitor and USA Today. Her popular advice column, "Ask a Bachelor," appears weekly in metro newspapers across the United States.
She offered fledgling writers advice on how to avoid "10 Pitfalls to Avoid on Your Way to Being Published." The Top 10 tips:
(1) Know the trade terminology used by professional writers, authors, editors and publishers.
(2) Always submit clean copy that avoids bad spelling and grammar and punctuation errors.
(3) Do your homework. Avoid accuracy errors. Check to be sure you have your facts correct - accurate names, addresses, ages and other information.
(4) Become a reader. You're not going to become a successful author if you don’t read.
(5) Avoid being short on patience and drive. Writing is a high-energy profession.
(6) Avoid tormented, tortured, insane query letters. Be calm and professional.
(7) Avoid listening to advice from unqualified critics. Your Mom loves you, but she's probably not capable of judging the excellence of your writing.
(8) Have some Web presence. You should be on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like.
(9) Don't assume that your book or writing will sell itself. You have to play the prime role in marketing.
(10) Avoid unrealistic expectations. Believe in yourself, but recognize that not everything you write is worthy of publication.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
If a form says write a check to the Friends of the Albuquerque Library do not write it to LPD Press, NMBA, NM Book Co-op, or anyone else. You are an author - READ! Now at this point you may be laughing but it created big problems because the Friends can not cash checks made out to someone else. Was that the point?
Why You Need To Check Our Outlets
This story is so stupid we had to share it with you. One of our books was the exclusive subject of a store and was delivered it to them in May. On another book delivery down the street in August, we decided afterwards to check them out. Upon looking we asked the clerk did they have it? We were told, “No – they never had it and it was not out yet – no one has it!” We knew that was wrong and said it is in display at the store down the street. We were told this store sold things for less than the store down the street. We said, ”How can you, the price of the book is printed on the back?” When we got back to the office we first checked that the store paid their bill and they had. We emailed the owner and told her the book is almost sold out do you want to get a few more for a big event coming up? The email back was priceless. It seemed that ONE copy of the book on display had sold – who knows when – and the box with the rest of the books was in the back room and no one, including the owner, had the common sense to put them out. You can’t sell books you don’t put out for sale!
This is a lesson that you have to drop in to your outlets to see what is going on. It doesn’t help the publisher or author one bit if the books are not put out for customers.
Can you say stores going under?
Congratulations
Congratulations to Marilyn Stablein who received the First Place Award at the National Federation of Press Women's Book Awards for her book "Splitting Hard Ground. Her book had previously won the New Mexico Book Award.
Next Meetings & Events
September 8, Literacy Day at ABQ Main Library 10:30 to 4pm
September 23, Don Bullis & The Finalists Announced for the New Mexico Book Awards
October 1-9, NM Women Authors Book Fair in Santa Fe
October 28, Lynn Baca of SAR Press & Renee Tambeau of Museums of New Mexico Press talking about What They Do For Survival
October 29 - Barn Holiday Howl in Los Ranchos 8am -3pm.
November 18 – NM Book Awards Banquet at MCM Elegante, Reservations ONLY
December 16 - Holiday Party – no business - Just Fun!
2012
January 27 – What We Have Learned in the NM Book Awards & Announcing 6th year of the NM Book Awards ( and maybe get some winners in to meet!)
February 24 - Michael Hice – pr & marketing for books
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.

2011-08-23T06:39:00.000-07:00

Celebrate International Literacy Day
Thursday, September 8, 2011
10:30am – 4pm
At the Albuquerque Main Library
501 Copper NW, Albuquerque
Admission is FREE!!!!
Sponsored by the Friends of the Albuquerque Library, New Mexico Book Co-op, ReadWest Literacy Volunteers, Reading Works Adult Literacy in Albuquerque.

Schedule
All Day – Book Fair Sponsored by the New Mexico Books Co-op – meet local authors and publishers and buy a book for kids and adults. Community Room Lower Level.
Main Library Bookshop – great bargains on books operated by the Friends of the Library. Lower Level.
Literacy information at tables located outside of the auditorium.
ABQ Coffee Connection located at the Main entrance for lunch or snacks.

10:30 am – 11am – Children’s Storytime for babies & toddlers in Children’s Room Lower Level.
Open Ceremony – in Auditorium
11am – Noon – Carla Aragon – Author of Dance of the Eggshells & Emmy Award-winning broadcaster in Auditorium.
Noon – 1pm – Slim Randles – Author of A Cowboy’s Guide To Growing Up Right -2nd Floor Genealogy Area.
Noon – 2pm Book Readings by celebrities & authors in Auditorium.
1-2pm – Anne Hillerman & Don Strel author and photography of the Garden’s of Santa Fe, in the Genealogy Center.
2-3pm – Readr’s Theater – Appear onstage to read a part from a script in Auditorium.
2-3pm – Nasario Garcia – Author of Fe y Tragedias in the Genealogy Center..
3-4pm Book Trivia in the Auditorium.
3:30-4pm – Albuquerque Youth Symphony

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

2011-08-18T10:53:00.000-07:00

Booksignings for Slim Randles
Slim Randles, author of A Cowboy's Guide to Growing Up Right, will have two book signings in September.
BOOK SIGNING EVENTS
Saturday, September 3, 2011 — 11am to 2pm
Wagon Mound Ranch Supply
6855 4th St NW, Albuquerque, NM
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 — 7pm to 8:30pm
Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM
BOOK REVIEWS
“This cowboy has a hit on his hands...I can say this book is a beacon of hope in troubled times.” — Daily Sun News, Sunnyside (Yakima), WA
“Slim Randles’ advice about living life comes from someone who has endured the rigors of the outdoors and stuck with the discipline of writing. Randles hammers the point with humor.” — The Graham (TX) Leader
Every cowboy knows there is a great deal more to being a grown-up than getting tall and inheriting the ability to reproduce. A cowboy (and by this we’re including girls, too) is simply the pinnacle of evolution, the nadir of American culture. You’ll find there are the right ways to do something, the wrong ways, and the cowboy ways. And this little book will help you become an adult cowboy, a grown-up able to spit in the eye of evil and sloth and be respected—perhaps revered—for your independent thought and kindness to others. These steps are simple and learnable, whether we have had the privilege of growing up with a full loving family or not. You can do nothing good about your past except to learn from it. So take what you have been given, roll up your sleeves, and get ready for a wonderful future.
Growing up right is never easy, even if all the stars line up and you win the parent lottery. If you don’t, it’s even tougher. Since a cowboy is the pinnacle of human evolution (just ask one) he has certain values and responsibilities and attitudes to pass along to help others, even if they are in the city, and regardless of age or gender.
Told with the frank humor of the range and mountains by a master storyteller whose column is read by nearly two million people each week, this book gives unique advice straight from the shoulder for those who would aspire to have a great life.
Looking for work? Work for free. Do the right thing, even when no one’s looking. Courtesy makes the homeliest of us beautiful. And lots more …
Remember: the saddest thing is not that someone dies, but that some people never quite live.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Slim Randles learned mule packing from Gene Burkhart and Slim Nivens. He learned mustanging and wild burro catching from Hap Pierce. He learned horse shoeing from Rocky Earick. He learned horse training from Dick Johnson and Joe Cabral. He learned humility from the mules of the eastern High Sierra. Randles lives in Albuquerque.
Randles has written newspaper stories, magazine articles and book, both fiction and nonfiction. His column appeared in New Mexico Magazine for many years and was a popular columnist for the Anchorage Daily News and the Albuquerque Journal, and now writes a nationally syndicated column, “Home Country,” which appears in several hundred newspapers across the country.
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.

Latest From Word Harvest

2011-08-17T06:55:00.000-07:00

In This Issue
Five great things about Santa Fe

Writing tip

Need a second opinion?

Quick Links
About WORDHARVEST
Anne Hillerman's Books
2010 Hillerman Prize Winner Tricia Fields

Greetings!
Welcome to our newest newsletter. We hope you will find the writing tips of value, and that you'll consider joining us for the 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference, in Santa Fe, November 10-12, at the beautiful Hotel Santa Fe, the city's only Native-owned hotel. Jean and I are excited about the upcoming conference. We're happy about our expansion from last year to include more well-known non-fiction and mainstream fiction authors on the faculty, along with our friends from the world of mysteries. Judges are at work selecting the winners of the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery novel and the Mystery Short Story contest.The winner will be announced in November. Stay tuned.

Warm wishes,
Anne and Jean

Five great things about Santa Fe (besides our conference)
The New Mexico History Museum-This recently-opened museum tells the complex story of our beautiful state.

The Plaza-This square is not only the end of the Old Santa Fe Trail but also a great place to buy Indian jewelry or pottery directly from the Indian artist who made them.

Chile-You can eat red and green chile for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Sunsets-Take a drive up Old Taos Highway for a great view of the day's end over the beautiful Jemez Mountains.

Three major independent bookstores-The Ark, Collected Works and Garcia Street Books each has its own focus and clientele.
Writing tip: 1,000 words a day brings success
By Sally Denton, 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference Presenter

These are my tips. Although they are all clichés, they work for me:

Write 1,000 words a day, five days a week. Finished, edited, polished, words. Words that you don't go back the next day and change. If it takes two hours to write a thousand perfect words, be grateful and reward yourself by spending the rest of the day doing something you love to do. If it takes 12 or 14 hours, be grateful that you finally did it and reward yourself with a great dinner and glass of wine. Ninety percent of the time it takes 6 or 7 hours, which is a wonderful block of time that leaves you with several hours to also enjoy a hike, read a book for pleasure instead of work, pay attention to your long suffering family, friends, and pets.

Hold this rule inviolable and do not take phone calls, surf the Internet, write emails or emerge from your study until you've got your thousand words. Then, enjoy every weekend with gusto!

Write about what you know. While this adage is typically applied to fiction, it is equally critical for non-fiction. One must be in complete command of one's material. If you don't know the subject you're writing about, immerse yourself in it until you do. Only then will you find your authentic voice.

Trust and respect the reader. Less is almost always more. I just completed a book about 1933 that has stunning, even eerie, parallels to contemporary politics, events, and people. While it is tempting to draw those parallels for the reader-FDR and Obama; the Great Depression and the Debt Ceiling Debacle; the Liberty League and the Tea Party-I find it much more compelling to engage the reader to such a depth that the reader draws the parallels for himself.

Show Don't Tell. I am not of the school of writing-which one often sees in full display in nonfiction writing-in which each paragraph begins with a sentence that tells the reader what she is going to read, followed by several sentences of content, followed by a concluding sentence telling the reader what she just read. I prefer to let the story unfold through the actions of the characters.

Sally Denton's seventh book, The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right will be published by Bloomsbury Press in January 2012. Her most recent book, The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas is being issued in paperback at the same time. She will present "Non-fiction, Fiction and True Storytelling" with Don Bullis, Doug Preston, John Vorhass and Virginia Scharff at the Tony Hillerman conference Nov. 10-12 in Santa Fe.
Need a second opinion?
Being your own editor can be tough, if not impossible. Authors Sean Murphy and Tania Casselle have joined the Hillerman conference this year to offer a second opinion, professional, face-to-face, 20- minute critique. The two authors will evaluate short fiction, non-fiction essays, synopses, and first chapters of novels or non-fiction books. Even better, they will offer a price discount to those who sign up for the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference.

Submission deadline is October 1, 2011. Price is $165 per submission for those registered for at least one day of the conference (or pre-conference workshop) and $200.00 per submission for those not registered for the conference.

Sean and his wife Tania live in Taos and teach writing around the world. Sean has taught at several WORDHARVEST programs, always to rave reviews. You'll find more information here.

Thank you to our colleague Karen S. Elliott. She calls herself a "voracious, nit-picky proofreading shark," and she has kept us out of trouble for months by helping with our newsletter. If you need a second set of eyes for your projects, Jean and I highly recommend
her. Karen has made significant changes to her recent blog and shares grammar, punctuation, and proofreading tips you can use. Contact Karen via her blog.

Sincerely,

Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
WORDHARVEST

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.

News from UNM Press

2011-08-17T06:49:00.000-07:00

August 2011

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www.unmpress.com

KUDOS AND SALUDOS

THE CIRCUIT: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez has been selected as an Oregon Battle of the Books title for 2012 and will be read by students in over 200 schools across the state!

These independent but intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots--and back again--over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, August 21 at 3pm: E. B. Held discusses and signs A SPY'S GUIDE TO SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Wednesday, August 24 at 6pm: Paul Berkowitz discusses and signs THE CASE OF THE INDIAN TRADER: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM.

Saturday, August 27 at 2pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at Barnes & Noble in Topeka, KS.

Friday, September 16 from 10am-12pm: Lawrence Welsh discusses and signs BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 at the Barnes & Noble at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM.

Saturday, September 17 from 2-4pm: Ana Baca discusses and signs TIA'S TAMALES at the Barnes & Noble at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM.

Saturday, September 17 at 3pm: WildEarth Guardians present THE RIO GRANDE: An Eagle's View at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Wednesday, September 28 at 7pm: Jim Kristofic discusses and signs NAVAJOS WEAR NIKES: A Reservation Life at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

More event information available here.

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AMADITO AND THE HERO CHILDREN: Amadito y los Niños Héroes by Enrique Lamadrid, illustrated by Amy Córdova
Recounting the two most deadly epidemics to strike the Southwest, this beautifully illustrated narrative reveals that with tragedy comes heroism, as demonstrated by the children who bravely transported the smallpox vaccine from Mexico's interior to New Mexico in 1805.

BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009
by Lawrence Welsh
The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years.

THE WRATH OF GOD: Lope de Aguirre, Revolutionary of the Americas
by Evan L. Balkan
Deliberately provocative, Evan Balkan's The Wrath of God examines Aguirre, a symbol of Basque fury and rampage, arguing that Aguirre's historical representation as a one-dimensional madman deserves revisiting.

COWBOYS DON'T CRY by Charles Berry
As Scout McBride navigates the rugged path to becoming a man, he knows that to emulate the men he admires, he must keep one thing in mind: Cowboys don't cry.

AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Tuesday, August 23 at 8:05am MST: Paul Berkowitz discusses THE CASE OF THE INDIAN TRADER: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post on "Santa Fe Radio Cafe," KSFR-FM (Santa Fe).

Tuesday, August 23 at 5:35pm MST: Emlen Hall discusses REINING IN THE RIO GRANDE: People, Land, and Water on "The Journey Home," KSFR-FM (Santa Fe).

Thursday, September 1 from 8am-9am MST: Emlen Hall discusses REINING IN THE RIO GRANDE: People, Land, and Water on the KUNM-FM "Call-In Show" (Albuquerque).

Saturday, September 3 from 7-10pm: Lawrence Welsh discusses BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 on "Folk Fury," KTEP-FM (El Paso).

Thursday, September 8 at 8am: Jim Kristofic discusses NAVAJOS WEAR NIKES: A Reservation Life on "New Mexico People, Places, and Ideas," KUNM-FM (Albuquerque).

Saturday, September 10 at 1pm: Ana Baca and illustrator Noel Chilton discuss TIA'S TAMALES on "Women's Focus," KUNM-FM (Albuquerque).

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Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning 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.

News From Write On Four Corners Author Lauren Camp

2011-08-15T07:37:00.001-07:00

Hi there. I have been invited to be part of several intriguing readings / performances in the next few months, and I’m also leading a few classes. Below, you’ll find information on the first reading and a writing class that begins next week. Visit my News & Events page to find out about other upcoming events. I hope to see you soon!
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Four Writers Reading the Landscape

photo by Margaret Randall
I will be participating in this month’s “Third Thursday Lectures” presentation at the Public Lands Information Center, along with Santa Fe Poet Laureate Joan Logghe, author and photographer David Grant Noble, and longtime journalist and author Anne Hillerman. The four of us will share our writings about New Mexico’s spectacular environments. There will be a meet-and-greet after the reading, with a book-signing and refreshments.

When: Thursday, August 18 • 7pm
Where: Public Lands Information Center
at the Bureau of Land Management Office,
301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe
Cost: FREE
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Sign Up for Monday “Word Play” Series

Self-expression feels so good! Spirited activities, strong examples and the gentlest feedback allow you to experiment with words and emotions, and bring you to a place of surprise. Let me draw you into the genres of poetry, fiction and memoir. Each class helps you find exciting beginnings from an empty page. The “Word Play” series requires no experience, but is also worthwhile for seasoned writers.

When my upcoming Tuesday night series filled and over-filled, I decided to open up a new section on Monday evenings. The class starts in about a week, and is already more than half-full. Register by Wednesday, August 17, if you want to be part of it.

When: Monday evenings for 8 weeks, August 22 to October 17 • 7 to 9pm
(no meeting on Sept. 19)
Where: Kingston Residence, 2400 Legacy Court, Santa Fe
Series Cost: $175 + NM sales tax ($186.59 total)
To register: You can reserve a space by clicking the button below and dropping in your Paypal info, or let me know pronto, and we’ll find another way.
lauren@laurencamp.com • (505) 474-7943

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.

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2011-08-15T06:58:00.000-07:00

August Book Co-op Newsletter
Next Coop Meeting
September 23, New Mexico Book Co-op lunch features Don Bullis talking about his role as New Mexico Centennial Author, his experiences with publishers, and his newest book for the Centennial. We will also announce the Finalists in the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards!
The October meeting (Oct. 28) will feature Lynn Baca of SAR Press & Renee Tambeau of Museum of New Mexico Press talking about What They Do For Survival.
Price Going Up For The Halloween Holiday Fiesta at the Barn in Los Ranchos
The Book Coop is renting the Los Ranchos Community Barn for a special day of bookselling on Saturday, October 29. We are calling it the "Halloween Holiday Book Howl." This should be a great event to show-off and sell local NM books. You can get more information and sign up by CLICKING HERE. Spaces for this will go very fast so don't delay.
Make sure you get your spot for the Los Ranchos Barn October 29. Already other sellers – other than books- are reserving. Fees go up September 1.
Last call for Literacy Day
There are few spaces left so if you want to be a part of Literacy Day at the Albuquerque Public Library Main location and sell books join Slim Randles, Anne Hillerman & Don Strel, Nasario Garcia, Joe Hayes, and many other but sign up NOW! CLICK HERE You need to reserve your table now for Literacy Day at the Main, Albuquerque Library. Library folks need time to email a selling release sheet so no last minute walk-ins will be handled.
Books In The Movie Odd Thomas
Thanks to Loretta Hall a number of New Mexico books are on the set of a fake bookstore for the filming of the Dean Koontz movie Odd Thomas. We saw quickly: Old West Trivia by Don Bullis, Out Of This World and Underground Buildings by Loretta Hall, Voices of New Mexico, Navajo and Pueblo Earrings by Robert Bauver, The World Comes to Albuquerque: The Official Balloon Fiesta Book for the 40th Anniversary, Saints of the Pueblos by Charlie Carrillo, Memories of Cibola by Abe Pena, Avenging Victorio by Dave DeWitt and books by David Corwell and Lela Belle Wolfert in the window display in the old Borders in Winrock. We hope they survive the cuts! The downside of the books being in a movie is that some were destroyed in a fight seen when the “bookstore” window was blown up. But that is what contracts are for!
Nasty
Seems some Board Members of NMBA don't like the Book Co-op. On July 31, 2011, Scott Tyson, an NMBA Board member, sent an email to New Mexico Book Association Board members that was vile, nasty, and just wrong. Besides the many factual errors, he maligned Ruthe Francis, Barbe Awalt, and Paul Rhetts. His ill-informed and ill-timed remarks set back relations between NMBA and the Co-op. To compound the issue, another NMBA Board Member, Richard Harris, then proceeded to send out an email to the NMBA Board and the Book Co-op implying that the Book Co-op was not a legal or legitimate organization and that it did not comply with state regulations. Both of these accusations are false and again show a complete disregard for the facts. Another blow to NMBA-Book Coop relations. Who knows what else has been said. The sad thing is that both organizations were considering some future joint projects in these tough times. These joint efforts on behalf of authors and publishers are probably no longer possible. The Co-op is the largest not-for-profit book organization for authors and publishers in New Mexico and these remarks seem to be sour grapes multiplied.

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.

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Wednesday
September 21, 2011 7-8:30 pm
Farmington Public Library
Multipurpose Room
2101 Farmington Ave., Farmington
Book signing and slide-lecture on New Mexico's Tasty Traditions.
Contact: 505-599-1272.
Free
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.

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BOOK SIGNING WITH DON JAMES (photographer of ONE NATION ONE YEAR) AT TREASURE HOUSE AUGUST 28
"One Nation One Year," the story in pictures of one year on the Navajo Nation by photographer Don James, will be featured at Treasure House, Sunday, August 28, 2pm. Don James, a Navajo, will talk informally about his adventures and the $100 a week he lived on during the year. "One Nation One Year" won the 2010 New Mexico Book Awards for Best New Mexico Book.
Treasure House is located at 2012 S. Plaza NW, in Old Town Albuquerque.
For information call 505/344-9382 or go to LPDPress.com.
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August 14, 2011
Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382 or LPDPress@q..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.

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Important Reminders

NMBA Networking Luncheon: This Friday
So many of you turned out in July that we decided not to take a break—we'll hold our next Networking Luncheon on Friday, August 12, 11:30am - 1:00pm at our office: 805 Early Street, C205. Check out the Google map on our website.

Libro Deadline
Be sure to get your news and announcements to Cindy Belllinger, bellinger.cindy@gmail.com, before August 15.

Renew Your Membership
NMBA's new membership year begins September 1. You can renew online right now or wait for a form and envelope in the next issue of Libro. Be sure to renew, because we have a lot in store for you in the 2011-2012 year. The NMBA board of directors met in July for a planning retreat, and we have many great ideas to roll out in the months ahead. Topic areas include:
• a chance to meet and speak with an Amazon representative
• Scott Flora (SPANNET) will present a workshop on developing a marketing plan
• expanded book catalog
• advertising opportunities for members
• and much, much more
If you are not a member and would like to join, dues for the initial year are $50, and you can learn about several different methods of payment on our website.

For more event listings, please visit www.nmbook.org. NMBA is New Mexico's only nonprofit serving all book professionals.
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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.

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2011-08-10T06:22:00.000-07:00

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Dr. Howard is a Professor of Performance Studies and Film at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX. Diane Howard has been a professionalactor and teacher for over 40 years. She has been a university professor for over 20 years. Dr. Howard has been a professional actor and teacher for over 40 years.

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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.

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Hello, everyone!
Hope your writing is going well. We are happy to provide suggestions for writing a winning mystery short story, just in time for our August 15 mystery short story contest deadline. Plus author John Vorhaus, a rising star in the literary galaxy and all-around nice guy, shares a writing tip. Please consider joining us in Santa Fe for the 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference.

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Anne and Jean

Six Clues for a Winning Mystery Short Story
The deadline for the Tony Hillerman Mystery Short Story Contest is August 15, 2011.

WORDHARVEST welcomes our new co-sponsor, New Mexico Magazine, which will publish the winning entry and give the writer $1,000. To qualify the story:

• Must be 2,500 words or less
• Must be set primarily in New Mexico
• Must be a mystery
• Must be postmarked no later than August 15
• You'll find the entry form and complete rules here.

Here are some clues to help you create a winning entry from Wolf Schneider, mystery book reviewer and emcee for Writing with the Stars:

1. Make sure the story has a beginning, middle, and end that resolves the mystery-no vague endings or "to be continued."

2. Create compelling, memorable characters with character development.

3. Be sparing with adjectives and descriptions.

4. Plot out a storyline where things happen.

5. Avoid wasted words. Study the work of a good mystery writer, like Tony Hillerman, Robert Parker, Michael McGarrity, Sandi Ault, Margaret Coel, etc.

6. Create suspense---a ticking clock that gives urgency to the solving of the mystery.
Writing Tip: The Face of the Wave
From John Vorhaus, Hillerman Conference Speaker

"The face of the wave" is the name I give to the place where the written words end and the blank space begins. It can be a scary place, but I conquer it through momentum. I go back and read what I wrote yesterday - not editing, just gathering speed and reacquainting myself with the work. Then, when the written words run out and I'm back there at the face of the wave, I just... ride it! I remind myself that everything written can be rewritten, and that the only thing I have to do right now is just put more words on the page. Not good words, not bad words, just words. The good news is that by this method, I always advance the face of the wave. The bad news is that the face of the wave will be right back there tomorrow to confront me once again. So I repeat the process: review, reacquaint, remind myself to keep expectations low, and plunge ahead. I don't worry too much about results; as any good surfer will tell you, wipeouts are part of the game."
John Vorhaus is the author of what he calls "sunshine noir" novels: The California Roll and The Albuquerque Turkey and the comedy writing classic, The Comic Toolbox. He tweets for no apparent reason @TrueFactBarFact, and secretly controls the world from johnvorhaus.com He joins the HIllerman Conference on Nov. 11 for the panels "Creating Good Bad Guys" and "Non-fiction, Fiction and True Storytelling." Learn about other conference presenters here.

News from the Trenches: Author Updates
Author Tricia Fields is now accepting pre-orders for The Territory, winner of the 2010 Tony Hillerman Prize for best first mystery novel. Tricia's blog talks about why it's worth the trouble to enter contests. She also has good advice on manuscript organizing, first drafts and other insights for fiction writers. Tricia and her editor, Peter Joseph of St. Martin's Press, will swap stories at this year's Tony
Hillerman Conference.

Sandi Ault's latest installment in the WILD mystery series, Wild Penance was a finalist for the Spur Award and three other major awards over the past few months. Sandi, a popular teacher who will be in Santa Fe to lead the Hillerman pre-conference workshop, is at work on a new novel which will introduce an exciting new detective. Stay tuned!

Among the nominees for the 2011 Macavity Award is thriller expert David Morrell. The MaCavity Award nominees are selected and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International. The Awards will be presented at Bouchercon 2011: Sprits of St. Louis in September. Morrell and co-editor Hank Wagner were nominated in the Best Mystery Nonfiction category for "Thrillers: 100 Must Reads." Morrell, a successful writer for many decades, will talk about changes in the world of publishing at the Hillerman Conference.

John Trudel's first novel, God's House, is being published to excellent
early reviews. It will be out in paper and eBook formats in September. John calls it "a new type of thriller." For early information, check here. God's House will be up on Amazon.com in September, so, if you like it, please post a review. John's second novel, Privacy Wars, will be out in 2012.
Santa Fe Ranks High Among Travelers
Need a reason (besides our conference) to come to Santa Fe? For the tenth consecutive year Santa Fe is included in Travel + Leisure (T+L) magazine's "World's Best Awards" list of top 10 favorite United States and Canadian travel destinations. For 2011, Santa Fe is ranked as the fifth most popular travel city in North America by the magazine's travel-savvy readers.

Of Santa Fe, T+L says: "...in this ever-changing city... thick-walled adobe buildings nearly 400 years old stand cheek-by-jowl with avant-garde art galleries and edgy modern restaurants. It's a reminder that, despite its vibrant population of skiers and hikers, painters and photographers, alternative healers, hippies, and gays, this city is strongly connected to its Spanish-Native American heritage-and to the pristine landscape that surrounds it."
Preview: 2011 Tony Hillerman Conference Highlights
Look forward to these presentations and events at the Hillerman Conference:

"A Writer's Toolkit: Seven Essentials for Success" with Sandi Ault

A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe, with Edward Held, author and Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

"The Plot Thickens: Keep Readers Turning Those Pages" with best-selling author Douglas Preston

"The Art and Craft of Narrative Non-Fiction" with Hampton Sides

"Building Tension" panel with Jo-Ann Mapson, David Morrell, Sean Murphy and Hampton Sides

"Harnessing the Beast: Organizing your Manuscript" with Steve Havill

"Pitches, Synopses and Queries to Seduce an Editor/Agent" with author Bill O'Hanlon, St. Martin's Press editor Peter Joseph, New Mexico Magazine editor in chief Dave Herndon, and agent Liz
Trupin-Pulli

Presentation of the Tony Hillerman/New Mexico Magazine Short Story Prize.

Don't forget: The deadline for the Hillerman Short Story Contest is August 15. Enter soon!

Sincerely,

Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg
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Calendar Highlights
It's membership renewal time
NMBA's new membership year begins September 1. You will be able renew online, or look for a form and envelope in the next issue of Libro. Be sure to renew, because we have a lot in store for you in the 2011-2012 year. The NMBA board of directors met in July for a planning retreat, and we have many great ideas to roll out in the months ahead. Topic areas include:
• a chance to meet and speak with an Amazon representative
• copyrights & permissions panel
• Scott Flora (SPANNET) will present a workshop on developing a marketing plan
• expanded book catalog
• advertising opportunities for members
• and much, much more
NMBA Networking Luncheon
So many of you turned out in July that we decided not to take a break—we'll hold our next Networking Luncheon on Friday, August 12, at our office: 805 Early Street, C205. Check out the Google map on our website.

The livin' is easy
It's summertime, and the calendar is as light as the breezes. But we know many of you have events in the works, and we'd like you to submit them to the calendar. Simply go to our website and fill out the form. Don't forget to include the location of your event in the main description and remember: the deadline for submission of news and events to Libro is August 15.

August Calendar of Events
Saturday, August 6
SWW Program: Fiction Craft Q&A with Joe Badal (10:00 a.m. to noon)
Joe Badal, a multi-published fiction author, will discuss fiction craft, but he wants to cover the craft questions that are most important to SWW members. So, Joe will take your questions and frame his presentation around those questions that are most frequently asked. Members can email their questions to Joe at josephbadalbooks@aol.com or Gail Rubin at gail_rubin@comcast.net. SWW programs are held at the New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank NE in Albuquerque. You can park on the dirt hill directly east of New Life Church for additional parking spots.

Sunday, August 7
Author Nina Brown's Gathering Of Golden Dolphins (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm)
A new era of alchemy has begun, the Age of the Golden Dolphins. Nina Brown, author of Return of Love to Planet Earth: Memoir of a Reluctant Visionary, invites you to a gathering and discussion of golden dolphin awareness as an incubator for human divinity awareness. The return of the golden dolphin frequency to humanity activates the highest vibration of your higher self. The time has come to embrace your wholeness and to declare your divinity, for it is now safe to do so.

A monthly Gathering of Golden Dolphins will be held on the first Sunday of the month, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, in the Skylight Room at Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort (5 min. from the Plaza); www.bishopslodge.com. $10 per gathering; RSVP required: Nina Brown nina@crystalsinger.com.

Friday, August 12
NMBA Networking Luncheon (11:30 am - 1:00 pm)
Come to our office, 805 Early Street, Bldg. C, Room 205, to join in discussions of interest to all book people. Contact Mary Neighbour, office@nmbook.org.

NMBA Board Meeting (1:30 pm - 3:30 pm)
Follows the Networking Luncheon at NMBA. Board meetings are open to the public.

Sunday, August 14
The Unobservable Universe - Talk And Book Signing Event (2:00 pm - 3:30 pm)
At Blue Eagle Metaphysical Emporium
Award-winning scientist and local author Scott M. Tyson will present his interactive talk, “Illuminating the Mind-Body-Universe Experience.” He will speak about the nature of perception and the role of the individual observer as discussed in his new book, The Unobservable Universe: A Paradox-Free Framework for Understanding the Universe. The thoughts he shares are sure to alter the relationship between your inner self and the world around you. In his book, Tyson overcomes paradoxes new and old to reveal the fundamental nature of the universe and complete humanity’s quest for The Theory of Everything.

The Unobservable Universe takes readers on an exciting 2,500-year journey through which they can comprehend all the phenomena in the universe. This enlightening and entertaining book unravels the mysteries with which humanity has been grappling for millennia; offers insight into the past, present, and future of the universe; and outlines a solid basis for future cosmological research in a passionate page-turner that never loses its readers or its credibility.

Tyson’s provocatively bold and compelling theories − supported by scientific evidence, real-life anecdotes, down-to-earth humor and a contagious passion for his subject − translate quantum physics into a comprehensible framework for all cosmology readers to examine, explore and contemplate, propelling them toward a new paradigm of greater awareness and understanding of the universe, and revealing the underlying Theory of Everything.

Presented in Tyson’s usual lively, upbeat style, this event promises to provide a riveting and entertaining evening. Book signings will be held following the talk. Refreshments will be served. Special offer: Attendees who purchase the book from Blue Eagle Metaphysical Emporium before or during the event will receive a complimentary copy of either the eBook or audio book edition of The Unobservable Universe (valued at $9.99 or $24.99 respectively).
Blue Eagle Metaphysical Emporium 2422 Juan Tabo Boulevard NE Albuquerque; (505) 298-3682; blueeaglenews@aol.com; http://blueeaglemetaphysical.com/index.html.

Tuesday, August 16
SWW Program: Research for Writers with Ed Eisenberg (7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.)
SWW programs are held at the New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank NE in Albuquerque. You can park on the dirt hill directly east of New Life Church for additional parking spots. Contact: gail_rubin@comcast.net.

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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.

Write On Four Corners August Schedule

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8/3 Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea Run Like a MotherAndrews McMeel Publishing Wed. 10:30

8/5 Stephen Fried Appetite for America How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvy Built a Railroad Hospi8tality Empire That Civilized the Wild West Bantam Books. Fri 2:30

8/10 Harlen Campbell Sea of Deception Abq Press Wed. 10:30

8/17 Kris Neri Revenge for Old Time’s Sake Cherokee McGee Wed 10:30

8/24 George Hensler Startin’ the Fire Everything You Need to Know About Starting a Competitive BBQ Team Wed. 10:30

You can listen to Write On Four Corners at www.ksje.com at the appointed time MDT. You will have to convert that to the proper time zone in your area. Go to www.ksje.com and click on now laying. Also you can later in the week go to ksje.com podcasts write on four corners and look up the date of the show you want to hear.

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.

8/26 Christopher Valen The Black Minute North Star Press of St. Cloud Friday 2:30

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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

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News of Write On Four Corners Author, Carolyn Howard Johnson

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Award-Winning Poetry Partners Release
Feminist Chapbook for All E-Readers
“Vivid images… distil the lives of the women who wrote them. They speak to all the stages of life—even celebrate ageing--and our roles as women. These are poems [that] will stay with you forever.” ~ Nancy Famolari

Poets living half a world apart naturally understand the value of e-books, the best way for people living anywhere in the world to access a work.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a Californian while Magdalena Ball lives down under. Together they have published their fifth in the Celebration Series of chapbooks, Deeper into the Pond, A Celebration of Femininity. And now it can be read by anyone who can find a computer. (See the list of formats available below).
To make reading this lovely little booklet even easier, the two have arranged for an introductory and discounted price of $2.79. Go to
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and use the coupon code HV73F until August 21.
Other chapbooks in the celebration series are Cherished Pulse (for Valentine’s www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse), Imagining the Future (for Father’s Day www.budurl.com/Imagining), She Wore Emerald Then (for Mother’s Day www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook), and Blooming Red (for Christmas www.budurl.com/bloomingred). Deeper into the Pond . (www.budurl.com/DeeperPond) and the other chapbooks are also available as paperbacks on Amazon.
Magdalena Ball runs the highly respected CompulsiveReader.com review site. She is the author of the poetry book Repulsion Thrust, which was published to unanimous 5-star reviews. Her novel Sleep Before Evening, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poetry appears frequently in review journals. She is listed in Poets & Writers and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings (www.budurl.com/CarolynsTracings), was given the Award of Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and She Wore Emerald Then won its highest honor of gold. One of her poems recently won the Franklin Christoph Poetry Prize. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer and instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
Learn more about these inexpensive chapbooks that are meant to become your most thoughtful greeting cards ever at www.howtodoitfrugally.com/poetry_books.htm
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Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning 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.

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Jemicia Olivia is a half latin and black phenomenon and lead vocalist and key songwriter for the Breathe Easy Quasisoul Band, a band that has captivated invited listeners all over San Antonio, with their very easy Neo Soul/R&B Jazz Appeal with some R&B Covers that have a transformed rock age to it......definitely different but always embraced on an international level.

Jemicia has opened for major industry artists including Ludacris, Bizzy Bone and Truth Hurts just to name a few. You may find her hit singles "Insanity Listed" and “This Joint is Bumpin” online in all of the online music stores like iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Emusic, and more. You may also find her hit music video on YouTube titled “This Joint is Bumpin”

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FRIENDS: PLEASE . . . Listen to this young lady's story of her life and music. She is amazing!

CLICK ON THIS LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nadiasahari/2011/07/21/jemicia-oliviarb-soul-neo-soul-jazz-1

Tonight at 9 pm CDT. Listen and call in 877-907-8063

Jemicia Olivia is a half latin and black phenomenon and lead vocalist and key songwriter for the Breathe Easy Quasisoul Band, a band that has captivated invited listeners all over San Antonio, with their very easy Neo Soul/R&B Jazz Appeal with some R&B Covers that have a transformed rock age to it......definitely different but always embraced on an international level.

Jemicia has opened for major industry artists including Ludacris, Bizzy Bone and Truth Hurts just to name a few. You may find her hit singles "Insanity Listed" and “This Joint is Bumpin” online in all of the online music stores like iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Emusic, and more. You may also find her hit music video on YouTube titled “This Joint is Bumpin”

Thank you so much for listening and making my show great!

Nadia Sahari
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.

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July 2011

visit us at
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Spanish Market July 30 & 31
UNM Press is proud to be a part of the 60th Annual Spanish Market in Santa Fe. Stop by our tent on the Plaza Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31
(see a list of author signings below)

KUDOS AND SALUDOS
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture by Roberta Price

Gold Medal Winner for Photography, ForeWord Reviews 2010 Book of the Year Awards

COME UP AND GET ME: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger by Joe Kittinger and Craig Ryan

Silver Medal Winner for Autobiography / Memoir ForeWord Reviews 2010 Book of the Year Awards

UPCOMING EVENTS
Authors at Spanish Market

Saturday, July 30:

11am: Carla Aragón signs DANCE OF THE EGGSHELLS: Baile de los Cascarones

1pm: Illustrator Amy Córdova signs various titles, including THE FIRST TORTILLA and THE SANTERO'S MIRACLE

2pm: Tony Mares signs ASTONISHING LIGHT: Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela

3pm: Nasario García signs various works, including his most recent poetry collection, BOLITAS DE ORO: Poems of My Marble-Playing Days

Sunday, July 31:

11am: Ana Baca and illustrator Noel Chilton sign TIA'S TAMALES

1pm: Gloria Zamora signs SWEET NATA: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico

2pm: Demetria Martínez and Rosalee Montoya-Read sign GRANDPA'S MAGIC TORTILLA

Thursday, August 4 at 7pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Saturday, August 13 from 2-4pm: Melody Groves discusses and signs HOIST A COLD ONE! Historic Bars of the Southwest at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM.

Wednesday, August 24 at 6pm: Paul Berkowitz discusses and signs THE CASE OF THE INDIAN TRADER: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM.

Saturday, August 27 at 2pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at Barnes & Noble in Topeka, KS.

More event information available here.

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NEW FROM UNM PRESS

rode by Thomas Fox Averill
Averill's novel captures the spriit of the ballad "Tennessee Stud" while telling the story of Robert Johnson, a man who holds love in his heart though adventure rules his time. Pursued by a bounty hunter, Indians, and his conscience, Johnson and his horse are tested, strengthened, and made resolute.

HOIST A COLD ONE! Historic Bars of the Southwest
by Melody Groves
photographs by Myke Groves
This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop in and belly up to the bar.

REINING IN THE RIO GRANDE: People, Land, and Water
by Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, and Mary Black
This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.

RUINS by Margaret Randall
In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement--through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people who have experienced time's transformations and traumas.

MARVELS AND MIRACLES IN LATE COLONIAL MEXICO: Three Texts in Context by William B. Taylor
Consisting of three rare documents about miracles from this period, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study serves as a source book and complement to the author's Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma.

SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND ABOLITION IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.

AUTHORS ON THE AIR
Jim Kristofic discusses his memoir NAVAJOS WEAR NIKES: A Reservation Life on thereporteronline.com.

Ben Radford discusses TRACKING THE CHUPACABRA: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore on Skeptically Speaking.
Wednesday, July 20 at 10:30am MST:
Carla Aragón discusses DANCE OF THE EGGSHELLS: Baile de los Cascarones on KSJE-FM's "Write On Four Corners."

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Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning 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

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Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning 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.

News from Rio Grande Books

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JULY 29 SIGNING AT THE SANTA FE CONVENTION CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC MARKET BOOK RELEASED FOR THEIR 25th ANNIVERSARY
The Contemporary Hispanic Market is celebrating their 25th anniversary at their Preview on July 29, 2011, at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center 5:30pm, with a signing of their new book. 87 artists are featured in the book and they along with the editors, Paul Rhetts and Barbe Awalt, will be available for singing. The book will be released from 5:30-8pm and also at the INFORMATION Booth for Contemporary Hispanic Market on Saturday and Sunday, July 30 & 31.
The book has the history of Contemporary Hispanic Market by Corrales artist Edward Gonzales who has been a part of the Market for 25 years. The book also contains a list of the Best of Show winners. According the CHM President, Albuquerque artist Ramona Vigil-Eastwood, “This is a celebration of how far we have come and of the artists who make this show successful.” Grants artist Jerry Montoya designed the cover of the book.
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PRESS RELEASE July 13, 2011 Contact: Paul Rhetts 505/344-9382 or info@nmsantos.com

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Christmas in July: Prepare Memorable Greetings Now
Little Known Poetry History: Chapbooks, a tradition in the poetry world since Elizabethan times, are named after the itinerant chapmen who travelled from village to village selling their goods.

Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball figure nothing is more meaningful at any holiday than a poem—a real poem, not sing-songy impersonal verse from the shelves of card shops. They also noticed that many people order imprinted holiday greetings (very expensive ones!) in July. With that in mind they are offering a great Christmas- in- July incentive to those early birds who want to gift a chapbook Blooming Red: Christmas Poetry for the Rational to their most cherished friends. .

But how would poetry lovers, literature lovers and those who just like something different and beautiful to use as mini gifts or greetings know if this little booklet is for them?

These multi award-winning authors have arranged to get the e-book version for 50% off until August 6. That means your sample comes to you for a mere $1.98 using the special coupon code ZZ47S when you go to http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/45393

Then, when you fall in love with the exquisite poetry and the beautiful artwork by award-winning California watercolorist Vicki Thomas, you can order 25 full paperback booklets for only $3.00 each. This is a substantial discount from Amazon’s price of $6.95 each. They become your card and gift in one and orders of 12 or more come autographed by one of the poets. That’s got to be more personal than an imprint.

You just send your shipping address with your check or money order to:

Carolyn Howard-Johnson
PO Box 1101
LaCanada-Flintridge, CA 91012-1101

Include $6. Ship charges for the continental US and $12 worldwide, any quantity. Please order before August 15th.

Blooming Red includes Maggie’s science-inspired and Carolyn’s nostalgic poetry. It also includes some humorous poems for fair measure.

Magdalena Ball runs the highly respected CompulsiveReader.com review site. She is the author of the poetry book Repulsion Thrust, which was published to unanimous 5-star reviews. Her novel Sleep Before Evening, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poetry appears frequently in review journals. She is listed in Poets & Writers and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings (www.budurl.com/CarolynsTracings ), was given the Award of Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and She Wore Emerald Then won its highest honor of gold. One of her poems recently won the Franklin Christoph Poetry Prize. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer and instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program.For more information on any of the chapbooks in this poetry series, contact either of the authors or visit media rooms at www.howtodoitfrugally.com or www.magdalenaball.com. To learn more about artist Vicki Thomas and to see her selections of her work, go to www.vickithomasartist.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.

Fun Things from Anne Hillerman of the Write On Four Corners family

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Happy summer, everyone! Hope your writing is going well. We are pleased that Tania Casselle, a 2011 faculty member, has agreed to share a writing tip in this issue. Tania and her novelist husband Sean Murphy will be offering manuscript critiques this year in conjunction with the Hillerman Conference for those in the market for good advice on their writing. Also please remember our mystery short story contest deadline is August 15th.
Finally, send us your news for our next newsletter. We're happy to help fellow writers and our former students share their accomplishments.
Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg

Are you working on that short story?
The deadline for the Tony Hillerman Mystery Short Story Contest is August 15. WORDHARVEST welcomes our new co-sponsor, New Mexico Magazine, which will publish the winning entry and give the writer $1,000. To qualify the story:
Must be 2,500 words or less
Must be set primarily in New Mexico
Must be a mystery
Must be postmarked no later than August 15, 2011
You'll find the entry form and complete rules here
New Mexico Magazine's new editor, Dave Herndon, has graciously agreed to join us at the Tony Hillerman Conference on a panel: Pitches, Synopses, and Queries to Seduce an Editor/Agent. Fellow panelists will include St. Martin's Press editor Peter Joseph, author Bill O'Hanlon, and literary and film agent Liz Trupin-Pulli. Don't miss it! Their talk will be Saturday, November 12. You'll find more information by clicking on the complete conference schedule.

Writing Tip: Look for the True Beginning of a Story
From Tania Casselle
"To find the true beginning of a story, read your work out loud. Notice the first place that you feel hooked in, the first place with vital energy. One of the most valuable things I learned as a magazine editor was that the REAL story often starts at the bottom of page one. That's where it 'drops' and gets juicy. The previous paragraphs could be cut, because they were just the writer warming up, flexing muscles to ease into the piece. Sometimes it's just a question of changing the order of the story's unfolding so you start at the strongest point possible. Often, the best place to start is in Media Res (in the middle of things) so the story kicks off with some immediate action or forward thrust, without any explanation of how we got here. (You can fill in back-story details later, once you've drawn your reader in.) Hemingway's Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is a classic example - you're dropped into a conflict between the characters, and only later find out what triggered it."
(Casselle has been a writer and editor for more than 20 years, contributing to magazines, newspapers and online media. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee for short fiction, and her stories have been selected for several anthologies including the forthcoming Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snowvigate Press). She has received the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, the Virginia Woolf Asham Award, and numerous other awards. She's the author of Insiders' Guide to Albuquerque (Globe Pequot Press, 2010) She and Sean Murphy, winner of the Hemmingway Prize, will offer critiques as part of the Tony Hillerman Writer's Conference.)

2011 Hillerman Conference Schedule
Thursday, Nov. 10
Pre-conference writing workshopA Writer's Toolkit: 7 Essentials for Success with Sandi Ault
Evening opener: A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe with author Edward Held, Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.

Friday Nov. 11, The Craft of Writing
Breakfast talk with novelist Jo Ann Mapson
Presentation: The Plot Thickens: Keep Readers Turning Those Pages with best-selling author Douglas Preston
Lunch talk author Steve Wolf on Comet: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life.Presentation: The Art and Craft of Narrative Non-Fiction with Hampton Sides
Panel Discussions: Creating GOOD Bad Guys: with Joe Badal, Steve Havill, John Vorhaus and Sandi Ault
Building Tension: with Jo-Ann Mapson, David Morrell, Sean Murphy and Hampton Sides
Book signing with the day's speakers
Flash Critiques: Writing with the Stars with David Morrell and Sandi Ault

Saturday Nov. 12, The Business of Writing
Presentation: The Changing Face of Publishing with Edgar nominee David Morrell
Tony Hillerman Prize Luncheon: A conversation with Editor Peter Joseph and Tricia Fields, 2010 Tony Hillerman Prize Winner
Presentation: Harnessing the Beast: Organizing your Manuscript with Steve HavillPanel Discussions: Non-fiction, Fiction and True Storytelling: with Don Bullis, Doug Preston, John Vorhas, Sally Denton and Virginia Scharff Pitches, Synopses and Queries to Seduce an Editor/Agent: with author Bill O'Hanlon, St. Martin's Press editor Peter Joseph, New Mexico Magazine editor Dave Herndon, author Bill O'Hanlon and agent Elizabeth Trupin-PulliReception and book signing Dinner, Presentation of the Tony Hillerman/New Mexico Magazine Short Story Prize. Keynote speaker Douglas Preston: The Monster of Florence, or How I Fell into One of My Novels
We are also offering one-on-one critique sessions for first chapters, short fiction, synopses, and non-fiction essays with the dynamic team of Sean Murphy and Tania Casselle. Conference registrants receive a discount on critiques and on the pre-conference workshop. Our on-line registration is up and running with a variety of options including one-day passes. The conference welcomes beginners and experienced writers.

Hotel Santa Fe offers style, convenience
Hotel Santa Fe hosts the 2011 Hillerman Conference

Hotel Santa Fe, our headquarters for the 2011 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference, is Santa Fe's only American Indian-owned hotel. Located in historic downtown Santa Fe and adjoining the new Railyard District, the hotel offers easy access to museums, galleries, shops, nightlife, and restaurants. It sits on three lushly landscaped acres adorned with Native American sculpture.
Rates for conference attendees, valid November 9-13, 2011:
Hotel Santa Fe Suite $115
Deluxe Hacienda Suite $189
The rates (single or double occupancy) include parking, Internet access, use of on request in-town shuttle, pool and hot tub. All rooms and suites are furnished with hand-crafted, Southwestern-style natural pine furnishings and granite bathrooms. To reserve call 800-825-9876 or 505 982-1200 or email stay@hotelsantafe.com. Please ask for the WORDHARVEST or the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference room rate.

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Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning 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.

New Book to Debut on Write On Four Corners in 2012

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Calendar of Events for
Bullet Trains to Yaks:
Glimpses into Art, Culture, and Politics in China and Tibet
by Stan Biderman and Kathryn Minette

Thursday, July 21, 7:30 pm

TALK, SLIDE SHOW, BOOKSIGNING
TATTERED COVER, LoDo Store
1628 16th Street at Wynkoop St, Morey Mercantile Bldng.
Denver CO 80202
Store Contact: 303-436-1070
Contact: 303-322-1965 ext: 2736 charles.stillwagon@tatteredcover.com

More events to come...

www. ironypress.com

Most travelers to China visit the eastern cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Wonderful destinations in themselves, they give a limited perspective on the country, as a traveler from China would get if they visited New York, Washington, and Miami, and thought they had seen America.

Husband and wife team, Stan Biderman (author), and Kathryn Minette (photographer), criss-crossed the country initially seeking artifacts and cultural mementos--visiting the Silk Road, Gobi Desert, and ancient market outposts of Dunhuang, Turpan, and Kashgar--what they experienced was marching troops in the western city of Urumqi, where only a few months before their visit 197 people were killed in clashes between the majority Han and the Uighur people of the Xinjiang Province. Then they traveled to Tibet to see the beauty of the Tibetan people striding with prayer wheels under the threatening watch of the Chinese army patrolling with machine guns. Their trip became so much more than they expected.

Stan and Kathryn also went to observe what the media is portraying as the next nation to test the U.S. as a superpower. Having visited Tiananmen Square, seen the Shanghai skyscrapers, and breathed acrid air throughout the country, they saw a rapidly growing land on the rise and flush with money, much of it derived from manufacturing goods much cheaper than western nations are able to produce them. What they did not see was innovation, and observed that in a country with no free speech there was no true innovation. They concluded that, like the Soviet Union before, China’s restrictions on its citizens was a metaphor for the ultimate restriction of the success of the country.
China will rise but its ceiling is limited, and as we have seen in the Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya nations which oppress their citizens, these countries ultimately pay a deadly price.
A slide show of Minette's photos will be presented at their book discussions and signings.

Nonfiction—Travel/Art/Politics/Culture (Travelogue and Photos)
Irony Press, Santa Fe, NM, Distributor: Atlas Distributing
Pub. Date: May 2011, ISBN: 978-0-9832636-0-9, List price: $24.95
Pages: 176, 32-page full-color photo insert, 70 b&w photos

For review copies, event or interview requests, and print, radio, and television media requests, contact:
Mary Neighbour, 505-474-6309, mneighbour@blessingway.com, www.blessingway.com or call Stan Biderman at (505) 983-7663.

Books will be overnighted upon request.

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.

Write On Four Corners August 23011Schedule KSJE Farmington

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Here is the schedule for KSJE FM's author show Write On Four Corners for August 2011. To listen in the Four Corners go to 90/9 FM. On the web listen in real time at www.ksje.com in real time. All times are in mountain time, so if you are in a different time zone you will have to figute out the correct time where you are. After the program airs, you can go to ksje.com podcasts writeon four corners and look for the date you want to hear.

8/3 Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea Run Like a MotherAndrews McMeel Publishing Wed. 10:30

8/5 Stephen Fried Appetite for America How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvy Built a Railroad Hospi8tality Empire That Civilized the Wild West Bantam Books. Wed 10:30

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.

8/10 Harlen Campbell Sea of Deception Abq Press Wed. 10:30

8/17 Kris Neri Revenge for Old Time’s Sake Cherokee McGee Wed 10:30

8/24 George Hensler Startin’ the Fire Everything You Need to Know About Starting a Competitive BBQ Team Wed. 10:30

8/26 Christopher Valen The Black Minute North Star Press of St. Cloud Friday 2:30

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July New Mexico Book Co-op News
Calling All Children's Book Authors
Have you published a children's book? Would you be willing to read a portion of it live on the radio in Albuquerque? Kathy Barco is compiling a list of authors who would be interested in taking part in a Sunday afternoon radio show that happens almost every Sunday during the school year. If this appeals to you, please e-mail Kathy your contact information and she will pass it along to the show's coordinator.
NOTE: You won't be paid, but you will get to plug your book on the air. And think of the fun you'll have telling your friends to tune in! Contact Kathy Barco at barcok@newmexico.com if you are interested.
July Co-op Meeting
As you should know there are no meeting of the Book Co-op during the summer. So our next meeting will be on September 23 at our regular location (Golden Corral on the Westside). Our speaker will be Don Bullis, who is the NM Centennial Author. He will be talking about the program for NM Centennial, the Centennial authors, and his newest book projects.

Voices in Abiquiu
Linda Dunning has organized a special event for the authors/contributors to the NM Book Co-op's "Voices of New Mexico" book. On Saturday, July 16 at the Abiquiu Inn from 1-3pm, authors will be talking about their entries in the book and will be available for signings. Come and support our great local NM authors.
Literacy Day at the Main Albuquerque Library
This is an opportunity for all of us to sell books, support literacy, and support the Albuquerque Library. This has not be done on this scale before so we do not know what to expect but if it is to be successful YOU have to tell family and friends who can come to make an appearance and enjoy. It is an especially kid friendly event!
Thursday, September 8, 2011, 11am to 4pm
The book sale area on the bottom floor will feature publishers, authors, and books of all kinds for sale. This is a very large area across from the auditorium and the story pit where a lot of the activities are taking place. There are a limited number of tables available and it is first come. Because the fee is so inexpensive ($20@) an author/publisher may have more than one table so if a group of friends want tables together it would be a good idea to have one person get them. All sellers have to fill out the City form to sell books and that is why we can not have last minute sign ups. We will give your name to the Library to send you by email a form that you can send back to them. Don’t wait to do this because the tables may be gone at this price!
Facts for the sale: • There will be advertising. • Food/drink is only allowed in the book sale room – a good thing • You may not set up until 10am because the library doesn’t open until then. You can set up between 10-11am and be ready for customers at 11am. NO late set ups allowed. • You may sell other things at your table. • Big names are speaking at the Fair – we just can’t tell you about it yet but so far Joe Hayes, Anne Hillerman & Don Strel, Nasario Garcia, & Slim Randles have confirmed. • All participating authors/publishers must pay and reserve in advance so the City can send you a form to fill out making you legal. No last minute shows! • Parking is available – 2 hours FREE at structure across the street or meters. You have to feed the meters. You must get your parking structure ticket validated at the front desk. We will see if vendors can have something else too. • A cute coffee shop sells drinks, lunches on premise. You can bring food & drink. • Checks must accompany reservations and made out to Friends of the Albuquerque Library. They must be mailed to NM Mexico Book Co-op, 925 Salamanca NW, Los Ranchos, NM 87107. • Exhibitors MAY NOT LEAVE AND PACK UP EARLY!! This is rude and may eliminate you from further events. • Albuquerque Library reserves the right to find materials objectionable to families and return rental fee. • No refunds except if dictated from Albuquerque Library. • Please have with you a tax/business registration in case you are asked. Remember this is a City property and they can ask! The worst case scenario – you can be shut down and asked to leave – you must charge tax or have a sign saying tax is included in book prices. • Bags are good.
Copy the form below and mail it back with your check to: LPD Press, 925 Salamanca NW, Los Ranchos, NM 87107
Name (author/publishers)
Address
Phone/Email
Number of tables Amount Enclosed at $20@
Any signing/special events at your table
If there is an opportunity to read from your book would you like to be included? YES
Don't wait too long to respond to this as space may run out! Don't delay!

Another Great Selling Opportunity is ...
We will be announcing in the next week or so the details of another new bookselling opportunity that will take place this fall. It will be on October 29. Details will be emailed to everyone. Keep your eyes pealed for this one.

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.

Nadia Sahari Blog Radio

2011-07-08T06:42:00.000-07:00

Wrote Pm Four Corners writer Nadia Sahari announces the schedule for her next blog talk radio show/

Christy Lee Hughes is an award winning actress, comedienne and film producer. She is a member in excellent standing with SAG, AFTRA, and AEA. She was born and raised in upstate New York and graduated with an AAS in Paralegal Studies and a BA in Communications from the University at Albany.

She has been chosen to work with some of Hollywood's most talented Directors including Steven Spielberg, Bill Condon, Arthur Ginsberg and Joe Pytka. Christy studied comedy and improvisation with Upright Citizens Brigade in Manhattan, Lesly Kahn in Hollywood and is currently with The Groundlings.

Call in 877-907-8063

Thank you for your support

Nadia Sahari
Christy Lee Hughes is an award winning actress, comedienne and film producer. She is a member in excellent standing with SAG, AFTRA, and AEA. She was born and raised in upstate New York and graduated with an AAS in Paralegal Studies and a BA in Communications from the University at Albany.

She has been chosen to work with some of Hollywood's most talented Directors including Steven Spielberg, Bill Condon, Arthur Ginsberg and Joe Pytka. Christy studied comedy and improvisation with Upright Citizens Brigade in Manhattan, Lesly Kahn in Hollywood and is currently with The Groundlings.

Call in 877-907-8063

Thank you for your support

Nadia Sahari

2011-07-07T21:41:00.001-07:00

July New Mexico Book Co-op News

Calling All Children's Book Authors

Have you published a children's book?
Would you be willing to read a portion of it live on the radio in Albuquerque?
Kathy Barco is compiling a list of authors who would be interested in taking part in a Sunday afternoon radio show that happens almost every Sunday during the school year.
If this appeals to you, please e-mail Kathy your contact information and she will pass it along to the show's coordinator.

NOTE: You won't be paid, but you will get to plug your book on the air. And think of the fun you'll have telling your friends to tune in! Contact Kathy Barco atbarcok@newmexico.com if you are interested.

July Co-op Meeting

As you should know there are no meeting of the Book Co-op during the summer. So our next meeting will be on September 23 at our regular location (Golden Corral on the Westside). Our speaker will be Don Bullis, who is the NM Centennial Author. He will be talking about the program for NM Centennial, the Centennial authors, and his newest book projects.

Voices in Abiquiu

Linda Dunning has organized a special event for the authors/contributors to the NM Book Co-op's "Voices of New Mexico" book. On Saturday, July 16 at the Abiquiu Inn from 1-3pm, authors will be talking about their entries in the book and will be available for signings. Come and support our great local NM authors.

Literacy Day at the Main Albuquerque Library

This is an opportunity for all of us to sell books, support literacy, and support the Albuquerque Library. This has not be done on this scale before so we do not know what to expect but if it is to be successful YOU have to tell family and friends who can come to make an appearance and enjoy. It is an especially kid friendly event!

Thursday, September 8, 2011, 11am to 4pm

The book sale area on the bottom floor will feature publishers, authors, and books of all kinds for sale. This is a very large area across from the auditorium and the story pit where a lot of the activities are taking place. There are a limited number of tables available and it is first come. Because the fee is so inexpensive ($20@) an author/publisher may have more than one table so if a group of friends want tables together it would be a good idea to have one person get them. All sellers have to fill out the City form to sell books and that is why we can not have last minute sign ups. We will give your name to the Library to send you by email a form that you can send back to them. Don’t wait to do this because the tables may be gone at this price!

Facts for the sale:
• There will be advertising.
• Food/drink is only allowed in the book sale room – a good thing
• You may not set up until 10am because the library doesn’t open until then. You can set up between 10-11am and be ready for customers at 11am. NO late set ups allowed.
• You may sell other things at your table.
• Big names are speaking at the Fair – we just can’t tell you about it yet but so far Joe Hayes, Anne Hillerman & Don Strel, Nasario Garcia, & Slim Randles have confirmed.
• All participating authors/publishers must pay and reserve in advance so the City can send you a form to fill out making you legal. No last minute shows!
• Parking is available – 2 hours FREE at structure across the street or meters. You have to feed the meters. You must get your parking structure ticket validated at the front desk. We will see if vendors can have something else too.
• A cute coffee shop sells drinks, lunches on premise. You can bring food & drink.
• Checks must accompany reservations and made out to Friends of the Albuquerque Library. They must be mailed to NM Mexico Book Co-op, 925 Salamanca NW, Los Ranchos, NM 87107.
• Exhibitors MAY NOT LEAVE AND PACK UP EARLY!! This is rude and may eliminate you from further events.
• Albuquerque Library reserves the right to find materials objectionable to families and return rental fee.
• No refunds except if dictated from Albuquerque Library.
• Please have with you a tax/business registration in case you are asked. Remember this is a City property and they can ask! The worst case scenario – you can be shut down and asked to leave – you must charge tax or have a sign saying tax is included in book prices.
• Bags are good.

Copy the form below and mail it back with your check to: LPD Press, 925 Salamanca NW, Los Ranchos, NM 87107

Name (author/publishers)

Address

Phone/Email

Number of tables Amount Enclosed at $20@

Any signing/special events at your table

If there is an opportunity to read from your book would you like to be included? YES

Don't wait too long to respond to this as space may run out! Don't delay!

Another Great Selling Opportunity is ...

We will be announcing in the next week or so the details of another new bookselling opportunity that will take place this fall. It will be on October 29. Details will be emailed to everyone. Keep your eyes pealed for this one.

2011-07-07T06:48:00.000-07:00

NMBA Networking Luncheon
Come share news about your independent book projects and learn from our book community. Meet and chat with folks who can help you take the next step toward your goals. We have a wealth of expertise among our members and an abundance of support and encouragement. We anticipate a report from Arielle Guttman on the INATS show in Colorado and another from Susan Gardner and Devon Ross about the ALA conference in New Orleans.Who: You! Members and nonmembers are welcomeWhen: Friday, July 8, 11:30am - 1:00pmWhere: NMBA Office, 805 Early Street, #C205, Santa Fe, NM 87505 (see the map on our website)No charge: bring your brown-bag lunch and we'll have juice and cookies on hand
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Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning 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.

2011-07-05T14:03:00.000-07:00

Local IQ Runs Rave Review
Local IQ Magazine ran a great review of THE WORLD COMES TO ALBUQUERQUE in the June 30 issue. Here is what they said:
"This is the big book that New Mexico ballooning fans have eagerly awaited. The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and this official book recounts how it all happened in chapters like “Early Balloon Heritage,” “First Ladies of New Mexico Ballooning,” and “The Balloon Fiesta That Almost Wasn’t.” The photography, with shots from 37 excellent photographers, is spectacular and really captures the flavor of the sport in Albuquerque. There are no shots of balloons entangled in power lines or in flames, so this is obviously a coffee-table book and not an exposé. I loved the tale of Albuquerque’s first balloon launch on July 4, 1882, that attracted a crowd nearly the size of the entire city (population about 6,000). Since that time, people from 49 of the world’s 196 nations have ballooned in Albuquerque—a remarkable record in a noteworthy book that’s a “B+,” and would make a great Christmas gift for out-of-town friends."
Thanks for your support!!!!
Plus, they ran a nice notice of the upcoming book signing event at Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque) on Saturday July 9 (3-4pm)
You'll notice we have some nice give-aways for all who attend and buy a copy! Hope to see you there!

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.

Write OIn Four Corners Author Hosts Blog Radio show for authors

2011-06-30T09:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nadiasahari/2011/06/30/christa-jan-ryan-author

CLICK LINK ABOVE.

ALCOHOLIC AT AGE 7, RAPED AT 11 BY SCHOOL TEACHER, MORE . . . . 9 PM CDT. TONIGHT-- Best always, Nadia Sahari

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.

2011-06-29T06:41:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 28, 2011Contact: Carolyn Howard-JohnsonE-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com Literary Journal Selects Best for Wall Scrawls
Los Angeles, CA--Editors of the literary journal Solo Novo Wall Scrawls Vol 1 was just published. It will include the poetry of UCLA Extension Writers’ Program instructor Carolyn Howard-Johnson.
The journal is published by Solo Novo Press, Carpinteria, CA and North Wilkesboro, NC. Editor Paula C. Lowe says, “Wall Scrawls” is inspired by an Iowa farm house wall. Eighty years abandoned and orphaned, it is a “hive of letters, a busy kitchen of words. Every kid with a can of spray paint somehow gets here and leaves his or her native tongue on the walls.” One of those walls has become the cover art of this journal.
The selected poem by Howard-Johnson is "Inevitably Walls.” It is inspired by the poet’s extensive travels where she has come upon walls that only occasionally impart hope for the future of mankind. A quote from the poem:
[This wall] like the one we foundyears ago when we lost our way
in a dark forest somewherein Germany, cried when we
found it there—unexpected…
Howard-Johnson’s poetry has appeared in literary journals like the Mochila Review, Banyan Review, Pear Noir, Manzanita and Poetic Voices. One of her poems won a reader award at The Pedestal Magazine.
Howard-Johnson has studied at UCLA with Suzanne Lummis, editor of Speechless the Magazine (http://www.speechlessthemagazine.org/ ) which featured her chapbook Tracings, winner of Military Writers Society of America’s Award of Excellence and published by Finishing Line Press.
The poet's literary novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction has won three. She is developing a new Celebration Series of poetry chapbooks with Magdalena Ball. Among them are She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood (www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook) and Cherished Pulse: Unconventional Love Poetry (www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse ). She also advocates with authors as the author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers (www.howtodoitfrugally.com).
Learn more about Solo Novo and how to order a copy at: http://www.solopress.com .
Learn more about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 28, 2011Contact: Carolyn Howard-JohnsonE-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com Literary Journal Selects Best for Wall Scrawls
Los Angeles, CA--Editors of the literary journal Solo Novo Wall Scrawls Vol 1 was just published. It will include the poetry of UCLA Extension Writers’ Program instructor Carolyn Howard-Johnson.
The journal is published by Solo Novo Press, Carpinteria, CA and North Wilkesboro, NC. Editor Paula C. Lowe says, “Wall Scrawls” is inspired by an Iowa farm house wall. Eighty years abandoned and orphaned, it is a “hive of letters, a busy kitchen of words. Every kid with a can of spray paint somehow gets here and leaves his or her native tongue on the walls.” One of those walls has become the cover art of this journal.
The selected poem by Howard-Johnson is "Inevitably Walls.” It is inspired by the poet’s extensive travels where she has come upon walls that only occasionally impart hope for the future of mankind. A quote from the poem:
[This wall] like the one we foundyears ago when we lost our way
in a dark forest somewherein Germany, cried when we
found it there—unexpected…
Howard-Johnson’s poetry has appeared in literary journals like the Mochila Review, Banyan Review, Pear Noir, Manzanita and Poetic Voices. One of her poems won a reader award at The Pedestal Magazine.
Howard-Johnson has studied at UCLA with Suzanne Lummis, editor of Speechless the Magazine (http://www.speechlessthemagazine.org/ ) which featured her chapbook Tracings, winner of Military Writers Society of America’s Award of Excellence and published by Finishing Line Press.
The poet's literary novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction has won three. She is developing a new Celebration Series of poetry chapbooks with Magdalena Ball. Among them are She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood (www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook) and Cherished Pulse: Unconventional Love Poetry (www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse ). She also advocates with authors as the author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers (www.howtodoitfrugally.com).
Learn more about Solo Novo and how to order a copy at: http://www.solopress.com .
Learn more about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com.
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Support Materials available on request.

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Book at Bookworks

2011-06-28T15:52:00.000-07:00

The new official Balloon Fiesta book -- "The World Comes to Albuquerque" -- will be featured at a booksigning on Saturday, July 9 starting at 3pm at Bookworks Bookstore located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque. The authors/editors will be there to talk about the book as well as some of the "back stories" about Balloon Fiesta.
Ballooning Magazine has a great review of the new book in its upcoming issue. They say, "In simple terms, this is the most beautiful, and the most detailed history of Balloon Fiesta ever and no collection of LTA (lighter than air) literature will be complete without a copy. Read it and you too will know 'the rest of the story.'"
The book has also just received its first award -- it received the 2011 Caliente Award from ReadingNewMexico. They noted this book was a "must read!"
This is a great chance to come and meet the authors/editors and get a signed copy of the book. Anyone who purchases a copy of the book during this book signing event will get a complimentary gift.
For more information call 505/344-9382.

©2011 LPD Press 925 Salamanca NW Los Ranchos, NM 87107-5647 505.344-9382 or 505.345-5129 fax
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.Powered by Mad Mimi®

Write On Four Corners Author Discusses Contests

2011-06-21T06:41:00.000-07:00

CONTESTS: Awards Set Your Book Apart But Ya Gotta Enter Contests to Get Them

By Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Excerpted from The Frugal Book Promoter (www.budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo)

I pity the poor reader these days. Reviews can’t be relied on for unbiased opinions, so a reader may have trouble telling which book is most likely to set her heart a’ beating. As she shops, she often turns to the blurbs or endorsements on the back of the book. She may read a few of the first pages. But a book that has won a contest for book awards from organizations like Jeff Keene’s USA Book News award (usabooknews.com) or the New Millennium award (indiebookawards.com.com) or, yes, from universities like Columbia’s Pulitzer, will probably clinch a sale faster than many others.

Let’s take that one step farther. Authors who have won literary contests (contests run by journals, publishers and the like for poetry, short stories, novellas, novels and other literary entities) also gets bragging rights that might get inserted into their media kits, query letters, and Web sites. That makes it easier to sell a promotion idea (or a next book!) than someone who is new to writing. Gatekeepers—anyone from acquisition editors to feature editors at newspapers—can be influenced by a contest. Make that a contest win, place, or show. It may be what’s needed to set you apart from the many authors clamoring for attention. In fact on a slow news day, just about any award looks like a nugget of gold to a busy editor.

So why are authors so ready to hate contests? Fear of rejection is an easy answer. An article in the revered Poetry & Writers’ magazine mentions that writers often consider contests rigged and resent the fees (usually from free to $25 for literary contests and from free to $125. for book awards.). The magazine article pointed out that publishers and organizations become dependent on the fees they charge for contests and note that rarely does an unknown author win. I’m not sure the last part isn’t sour grapes; the point of many contests is to find delicious new voices that will keep the not-so-voracious appetite of publishers for new material well fed. If it is the truth, perhaps we should do something to hone our own skills to approximate those of more established authors.

Hint: There are other benefits to contests. Some offer critiques of entries—a value that cannot be overestimated in terms of learning more about the contest-winning process and one’s craft. Some publishers sponsor contests to attract submissions of great new manuscripts.

Regardless of the category (and there are some that don’t seem to fit neatly into either category), a contest win is a contest win is a contest win in terms of marketing.

Some contests only accept nominations from publishers. You may need to prod your publisher a bit if you know of a contest for which you think your book would be suitable.

For guidelines for using contests to gain exposure and expand your credentials, a checklist for what to do to market your book once you’ve won a contest, and a plan of attack for authors who want to win contests, go to www.howtodoitfrugally.com/contests.htm.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson promotes her multi award-winning poetry and fiction using contests of all kinds. She also sponsors contests as a way to market her writing career including a cover contest for a chapbook of poetry celebrating women she wrote with Magdalena Ball. Learn more about her methods in any one of her HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers: www.howtodoitfrugally.com. The series has won several awards and the marketing plan for her Frugal Editor (www.budurl.com/TheFrugalEditor) won the New Millennium Award for Marketing.

Carolyn Howard-JohnsonAward-winning coauthor of theCelebration Series of Chapbooks with Magdalena BallCelebrate Father's Day! Send a copy of ImagininConnie 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 Juivenile 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.g the Futurewww.budurl.com.imagining
Website: www.howtodoitfrugally.comE-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com

New Mexico Book CoOp News

2011-06-20T13:50:00.001-07:00

June Co-op Meeting
The June New Mexico Book Co-op Lunch will feature Francoise Paheau, the new owner of Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe. She will talk about the store, authors’ events, getting books in the store, and events scheduled for the store. The meeting is on Friday, June 24, 2011.
The lunch will have an update on the New Mexico Book Awards and other book events in New Mexico including the New Mexico Women Authors Fair.
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 Westside at Coors & Alameda in Albuquerque.
Last Call NM Book Awards
The last time to enter the New Mexico Book Awards is BY July 1, 2011. Read all about it on the book co-op website. By the way we have reached and passed our goal record! We have surpassed the second year of the New Mexico Book Awards number. This is significant because the second year was the first time we began the published year criteria. The first year of the awards was open.
Letter to the Editor
Congrats to Maria Varela on her Letter to the Editor (June 6) to the Albuquerque Journal about New Mexico books on the Journal’s summer reading list for kids. There are great New Mexico books for kids – there was one New Mexico title on the list. Why they weren’t included we have no idea. ALL OF YOU, when the opportunity presents itself promote New Mexico books! After all, isn’t there a New Mexico Centennial NEXT YEAR celebrating Statehood and everything good about New Mexico?
The Caliente Award From Reading New Mexico
Reading New Mexico has come out with the fourth Caliente Award and it is The World Comes To Albuquerque – the Official 40th Anniversary Book from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta published with them by Rio Grande Books. The thing about the Caliente Award is that it is unplanned – you can’t lobby for it. It just happens. The editors decide. Reading New Mexico is the ONLY online review service for New Mexico books and you know what they say – if you don’t play you can’t win – the Caliente Award. Make sure Sabra gets your newest book to review and you never know – you too could be honored. And people read the reviews all over the world. Good advertisement!
Voices at Southwest Writers
Voices of New Mexico was featured at two Southwest Writers meetings. Hats off to Melody Groves who made it happen.
Voices in Abiquiu
Voices of New Mexico will happen at the Abiquiu Inn on Saturday, July 16, 1-3 pm. It is a nice ride to go up to Abiquiu and they might not have as much smoke! Hats off to Linda Dunning for arranging the event.
Voices in Santa Fe
More Voices of New Mexico – the women contributors will be featured on Sunday, October 9, 2-3:30pm at the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium for the New Mexico Women Authors’ Fair. Hats off to Loretta Hall and John Stafford for making it happen.
Publishers Panel Santa Fe
Speaking of the Women Authors’ Fair, a publishers panel will speak on the trends, the contributions of women, new books, and a lot of other topics of interest on Sunday, October 9, 12:30 -1:30pm in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. Confirmed as of this communication: John Byram – UNM Press, Lynn Baca – SAR Press, Barbe Awalt – LPD Press/Rio Grande Books, Museum of New Mexico Press (either Renee Tambeau or Anna Gallegos). This is your chance to see the players and ask the hard questions. Where does the book go from here? AND you don’t have to be female to attend!!!!!
List of Women Authors Participating Anne Hillerman - Gardens of Santa Fe Anne Valley-Fox - Reading and Questions Annette Spelman - Reading from The Fountain that Uncle John Built Barbara Berkenfield - Reading and Memoires, Reflections and Earth Connections Barbara Rockman - Reading and Women Write Into and Beyond Motherhood Bethany Mackin Baxter - Reading and Presentation on "wo Sons: A Novel Based on Misperceptions Carolyn A. Neeper - Changes in the World of Publishing - 1975 to 2011 Catherine A. Allen - Rebooting Your Life Catherine Wanek -The Hybrid House: Top Ten Energy-Saving Building Strategies Cherie Burns - Searching for Millicent Rogers Colleen Carias/Katherine Sluja/Laurie Hilton - Reading from Braided Voices Dana Levin - Reading and Presentation Demetria Martinez and Rosalee Montoya-Read - Reading from Grandpa`s Magic Tortilla Diane Smith - Reading from Big Bunny Adventures Diane Thomas - Fictionalizing Elvis Dodici Azpadu - Creating Fictional Mothers Dolores Valdez de Pong - Original Children's Songs and Plays about the History, Culture and Geography of New Mexico Elizabeth Robechek - The Heart Centered Garden Elizabth Raby - A reading - Poems in the Wheel of the Year Giovanna Paponetti - Who is Kateri Tekakwitha? Hadley Finch - Journey from Lost Love to the Fire of Love with Support from a Tribe of Blondes Jaima Chevalier - She Came From Beyond: Exploring Our Lady of Peace in New Mexico Iconography Janet K. Brennan - Reading from her novels Jeanne Simonoff - Reading from Memoir: Saving Myself Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw - The Birth of a Picture Book Jo-Ann Mapson - Reading from Work in Progress Joanne Bodin - From Inception to Completion: A Writer's Journey Judith McLaughlin - Women of New Mexico's Frontier Women of Tradition: Heritage of Faith Judith Van Gieson - How Books Live On Karen Taschek - Reading from current novel: The Risen Horse Laurie Franz, Lesley King, Marti Niman - Scenic Journey: Establishing a Byway, Creating A Book Lisa Bear Goldman - Reading from The Proud Little Burro Loretta Hall - The Mercury Program's Women Astronauts (Not) Lori Romero - Reading and The Shadow Life Lynne Hinton - Reading, Pie Town Maggi A. Petton - How I Tried NOT to Write This Novel Marcia Keegan - Photographing Four Generations of Pueblo People Marie Romero Cash - Reading from Current Work Marilyn J. Mason - An Ethos of Commitment in a Constantly Changing World Marrilyn Stablien: The Joy of Memoir: Living and Recording the Creative Life Meg Tuite - Reading from Domestic Apparition Pat Shapiro - The Journey Home to Your True Self Publishers Forum Renee Gregorio, Joan Logghe, Miriam Sagan - Reading from Love & Death - Greatest Hits Roberta Price - The Legacy of the Rural Counterculture in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado Sallie Bingham - Writing for the Majority: Fiction That Matters Sandi Wright - Reading from The Adventures of Santa Fe Sam Sandra K Toro - Jews in the Sixteenth Century: From Expulsion to Shylock Sarah H Baker - The New Face of Audio Books in New Mexico Sharon Niederman - New Mexico's Tasty Traditions: Revelations on the Road Shelby Tisdale - Joyce Begay-Foss - Spider Woman's Gift Susan Gardner - Reading from new memoir Drawing the Line Susan McDuffie - Timeless Motive, Historic Settings: The Joys and Pitfalls of Writing Historical Mysteries Suzy McKee Carnas - Reading from The Kingdom of Kevin Malone Valentine McKay-Riddell, Ph.D. - Real Magic: The River Goddess and other stories Valerie Martinez - Poetry Reading Valerie Nye & Kathy Barco - True Stories of Censorships Battles in American Libraries Valerie Stocking -Writing a Mystery Valerie Storey - Book Trailers: How and Why You Need One Veronica Golos - Witness Poetry: The Art of Protest and Remembering Victoria Rogers - A Contemporary Look at Old Architecture Voices of New Mexico Authors - 20 Writers Celebrating New Mexico Zelda Leah Gatuskin - Reading from Newest Work and discussing The Long Languishing Novel
More info on the Women Authors Festival will be posted on the NM Creates website at http://newmexicocreates.org in the near future.

Write On Four Corners Authors do Well in Contest

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Media Release
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson e-mail: HoJoNews@aol.comCONTACT: Magdalena Ball e-mail: maggieball@compulsivereader.com For Immediate Release

Actor/Producer Wins Contest for Bookcover Art
Winning Artist Says: Life’s highway has lots of off ramps, so why not try more than a few, really enjoy the ride, and the time to enjoy the scenery by the side of the road.

Worldwide Web--Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball announce the winner and runners-up of their first-ever contest for cover art of their poetry chapbooks. When published in July of 2011, Deeper into the Pond will celebrate, support, and inspire women and contest Jacquie Schmall’s winning entry reflects the powerful energy of women in the process of co-creation. Thus it seemed an ideal image for a chapbook conceived and published by Ball and Howard-Johnson that has resulted in this, the fifth in their award-winning series.

Schmall, who lives in San Diego, developed a style she calls “rainbow geometry.” After spending time in theatre productions, and on film sets, she was compelled to paint a series of watercolors reflecting the powerful energy of women. The selected painting is one of them; it will be reflected in three iterations on the cover.

The chapbooks in the Celebration Series include Cherished Pulse (for anyone you love), with artwork from California artist Vicki Thomas (www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse); She Wore Emerald Then (for mothers on your gift list) with photographs by May Lattanzio (www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook); Imagining the Future: For Fathers and Other Masculine Apparitions (for the men in your life) (www.budurl.com/Imagining); and Blooming Red, a celebration of Christmas (www.budurl.com/BloomingRed), also featuring Thomas’s work.

Runners up in the contest are Roxanne Kahan and Cynthia Uhrich.

Magdalena Ball runs the highly respected CompulsiveReader.com review site. She is the author of the poetry book Repulsion Thrust, which was published to unanimous five-star reviews. Her novel Sleep Before Evening, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poetry appears frequently in review journals. She is listed in Poets & Writers and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings, was published by Finishing Line Press ( www.budurl.com/CarolynsTracings) and was given the Award of Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America. One of her poems recently won the Franklin Christoph Poetry Prize. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer and instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program.For more information on any of the chapbooks in this poetry series, contact either of the authors or visit media rooms at www.howtodoitfrugally.com or www.magdalenaball.com. To learn more about artist Jacqui Schmall and to see her selections of her work, go to http://jacquie-pleasecallmelater.blogspot.com/2011/06/paintings-by-jacquie.html.

### Support material available electronically or by post on request.

Carolyn Howard-JohnsonAward-winning coauthor of theCelebration Series of Chapbooks with Magdalena BallCelebrate Father's Day! Send a copy of Imagining the Futurewww.budurl.com.imagining
Website: www.howtodoitfrugally.com

Neat Release Format from Write On Four Corners Author

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Write On Subscribers and Visitors:

This release is not only a template of how writers might attack their media releases, it is a good example of how writers of the so-called hard-to-market genres can promote their work--through contests!

Media Release
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson e-mail: HoJoNews@aol.comCONTACT: Magdalena Ball e-mail: maggieball@compulsivereader.com For Immediate Release

Actor/Producer Wins Contest for Bookcover Art
Winning Artist Says: Life’s highway has lots of off ramps, so why not try more than a few, really enjoy the ride, and the time to enjoy the scenery by the side of the road.

Worldwide Web--Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball announce the winner and runners-up of their first-ever contest for cover art of their poetry chapbooks. When published in July of 2011, Deeper into the Pond will celebrate, support, and inspire women and contest Jacquie Schmall’s winning entry reflects the powerful energy of women in the process of co-creation. Thus it seemed an ideal image for a chapbook conceived and published by Ball and Howard-Johnson that has resulted in this, the fifth in their award-winning series.

Schmall, who lives in San Diego, developed a style she calls “rainbow geometry.” After spending time in theatre productions, and on film sets, she was compelled to paint a series of watercolors reflecting the powerful energy of women. The selected painting is one of them; it will be reflected in three iterations on the cover.

The chapbooks in the Celebration Series include Cherished Pulse (for anyone you love), with artwork from California artist Vicki Thomas (www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse); She Wore Emerald Then (for mothers on your gift list) with photographs by May Lattanzio (www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook); Imagining the Future: For Fathers and Other Masculine Apparitions (for the men in your life) (www.budurl.com/Imagining); and Blooming Red, a celebration of Christmas (www.budurl.com/BloomingRed), also featuring Thomas’s work.

Runners up in the contest are Roxanne Kahan and Cynthia Uhrich.

Magdalena Ball runs the highly respected CompulsiveReader.com review site. She is the author of the poetry book Repulsion Thrust, which was published to unanimous five-star reviews. Her novel Sleep Before Evening, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poetry appears frequently in review journals. She is listed in Poets & Writers and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings, was published by Finishing Line Press ( www.budurl.com/CarolynsTracings) and was given the Award of Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America. One of her poems recently won the Franklin Christoph Poetry Prize. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer and instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program.For more information on any of the chapbooks in this poetry series, contact either of the authors or visit media rooms at www.howtodoitfrugally.com or www.magdalenaball.com. To learn more about artist Jacqui Schmall and to see her selections of her work, go to http://jacquie-pleasecallmelater.blogspot.com/2011/06/paintings-by-jacquie.html.

### Support material available electronically or by post on request.

Carolyn Howard-JohnsonAward-winning coauthor of theCelebration Series of Chapbooks with Magdalena BallCelebrate Father's Day! Send a copy of Imagining the Futurewww.budurl.com.imagining

UNM Press News

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Spanish Market July 30 & 31
UNM Press is proud to be a part of the 60th Annual Spanish Market in Santa Fe. Stop by our tent on the Plaza Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31!

New Poetry Series Editor
We are pleased to welcome Hilda Raz as the new editor for our Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series. Read the article at UNM Today.

KUDOS AND SALUDOS

HARD GRASS: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch by Mary Zeiss Stange
Gold Medal Winner for Best Regional Non-Fiction, 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards

Finalist for Best Memoir, Next Generation Indie Book Awards

GIVEAWAYS: An ABC Book of Loanwords from the Americas by Linda Boyden

Finalist
in the Children's Non-Fiction, Multicultural Non-Fiction, and Native American Studies categories,
2011 International Book Awards

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, June 18 from 1-3pm: Ana Baca reads and signs TIA'S TAMALES
at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM.

Monday, June 20 at 7pm: Ben Radford discusses and signs TRACKING THE CHUPACABRA: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego, CA.

Wednesday, June 22 at 7pm: Paul Berkowitz discusses and signs THE CASE OF THE INDIAN TRADER: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Thursday, June 23 at 6:30pm: Neal Singer, author of WONDERS OF NUCLEAR FUSION: Creating an Ultimate Energy Source, discusses "The Future of Nuclear Fusion Energy" at the UNM School of Law (Room 2401) in Albuquerque, NM.
Thursday, June 23 at 7pm: Paul Berkowitz discusses and signs THE CASE OF THE INDIAN TRADER: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post at the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, NM.

Saturday, June 25 from 1-3pm: Jose Rivera discusses and signs LA SOCIEDAD: Guardians of Hispanic Culture Along the Rio Grande at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM.

Sunday, July 3 at 3pm: Christopher Mead discusses and signs ROADCUT: The Architecture of Antoine Predock at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Monday, July 18 at 7pm: Tom Averill discusses his new novel, RODE, at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City, IA.

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NEW FROM UNM PRESS

THE ART OF AMERICANIZATION AT THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL by Hayes Peter Mauro
In this historical study, Mauro analyzes the visual imagery produced at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization at work. His work combines a consideration of cultural contexts and themes specific to the United States of the time and critical theory to flesh out innovative historical readings of the photographic materials.

JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC WALDECK: Artist of Exotic Mexico
by Esther Pasztory
A rediscovery of the lively and dramatic art of one of the first European artists to visit the ruins at Palenque in the early nineteenth century.

PRIMITIVE REVOLUTION: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968

by Jason H. Dormady
In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexico's urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianity-and the practice of Mexican citizenship-to a more pure and essential state.

THE WAY OF THORN AND THUNDER: The Kynship Chronicles by Daniel Heath Justice
Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes and tell a story set in a world similar to eighteenth-century eastern North America. The original trilogy-an example of green/eco-literature-is collected here in a one-volume novel.

WONDERS OF NUCLEAR FUSION: Creating an Ultimate Energy Source by Neal Singer
With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is-and isn't. With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is-and isn't. He explains the ways scientists have approached and developed fusion and discusses its advantages over other forms of energy production.
AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Photographer Rick Nahmias discusses THE MIGRANT PROJECT: Contemporary California Farm Workers and GOLDEN STATES OF GRACE: Prayers of the Disinherited on The Candid Frame.Roberta Price, author of ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture, discusses the important role of women in the counterculture movement on KUNM's "Women's Focus." She is joined by Mary Corey, Linda Fleming and Erin Elder.
Wednesday, July 20 at 10:30am MST:
Carla Aragón discusses DANCE OF THE EGGSHELLS: Baile de los Cascarones on KSJE-FM's "Write On Four Corners."

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Belle’s Trial’ won First Place for Juivenile 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.

Southwest Book Design Award Winners New Mexico Book Association

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FLASHnews June 15, 2011
Southwest Book DesignAward Winners Named The New Mexico Book Association is proud to announce the winners in this year's Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellence. These awards recognize creativity and quality in book design and distinction in production. The awards help raise the bar and set standards of book excellence throughout the Southwest.Trade Books: Non-illustratedWildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environment, and Place-based Writing, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan CohenTrade Books: IllustratedSanta Fe House, by Margaret Moore Booker Art and PhotographyLife at the Kiowa, Comanche & Wichita Agency, by Kristina Southwell and John Lovett Scholarly/TechnicalHeart & Soil, by Sharon Fried Guide and TravelThe Geology of Northern New Mexico's Parks, Monuments, and Public Lands, edited by L. Greer Price LifestyleGardens of Santa Fe, by Anne Hillerman Body, Mind, SpiritVital Yoga: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers, by Meta Chaya Hirschl Poetry Bolitas De Oro, by Nasario Garcia Children/Young AdultPaloma and the Dust Devil at the Balloon Festival, by Marcy Heller Graphic Novels Trickster: Native American Tales, edited by Matt Dembicki Cover and Jacket DesignHeart & Soil, by Sharon Fried Best of Show: Judges' ChoiceTrickster: Native American Tales, edited by Matt Dembicki Special Recognition: Jim's ChoiceYucatan Through Her Eyes, by Lawrence Gustave Desmond