New Mexico Book CoOp News

September 18 - Coop lunch
September 24-26 - Mountains and Plains Booksellers meeting
September 26 -- Women Authors Fair at Museum Hill, Santa Fe
October 23 - Coop lunch
October 24 -- Book Market at Clear Light in Santa Fe
November 7 -- Rio Rancho Book Fair
November 20 - NM Book Awards banquet
November 21 -- Book Market at Clear Light in Santa Fe
December 11 - Coop Holiday Party
December 12 -- Book Market at Clear Light in Santa Fe
December 31 - Voices Anthology deadline

Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com

Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!

And now out! Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and through your local book store.

New Mexico Book CoOp

NEW MEXICO BOOK EVENTS CALENDAR - SEPTEMBER 2009
+ September Is NMBA Membership Renewal
Our membership year runs from September 1, 2009 to September 2010. So now's the time for dues. We won't need to bill you if you'll send your check for $62 for the year to: NMBA, c/o Barbara Beasley Murphy, Treasurer, 486 Circle Drive, Santa Fe NM 87501. (If you joined NMBA after June 1 of this year, your membership is current until September 2010.)
+ NMBA Gatherings September 11 and 17
We are in a new location for our free Networking "Brown Bag" Luncheons - it's the same address, but downstairs! NMBA now occupies the first floor at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe. We're calling our meeting space the Writers Forum. Luncheon is Friday, September 11 from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm. No charge and no reservations! Bring a friend and talk about your publishing or writing project. Then join us the following week for NMBA’s Round Table Happy Hour on Thursday 9/17 at Santa Fe Bar & Grill, DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe, 5:30pm.
+ Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show Materials Now!
We need your books and flyers by Friday, Sept. 11 for NMBA's table at the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Trade Show in Denver later this month! If you haven't registered, send your check for $65 for up to two titles which we will represent for you at the show. We need one or two copies of each book to display. (Additional titles $20 each). We also need 60 copies of an 8.5"x11" flyer which will be bound into our special NMBA Mountains/Plains Booksellers Show Catalog. The page design is up to you, but please include book title(s), description, ordering address, and price. You may print on one or both sides of your page; an image of the cover and/or author will help! Send or deliver all materials to our office: New Mexico Book Association, c/o Recursos, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe 87505.

SEPTEMBER 2009 BOOK EVENTS IN NEW MEXICO
Attention! All Book Events calendar items now must be submitted by our super-easy website form. Go to www.nmbook.org and click on Calendar & Events Submission Form and follow the brief prompts. Fast and easy, it takes just a few clicks to have your events posted in both Libro and the monthly email NMBA Book Events calendar. We need to have submissions by the 15th of the preceding month.
Sept. 5: IWWG and Friends Luncheon, at Celebrations, 1632 St. Michael's Drive, Santa Fe, 11:30am-1:30pm, RSVP needed: (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com
Sept. 11: NMBA Networking "Brown Bag" Luncheon, at our new forum downstairs at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am–1:15pm. No charge, no reservations (donations to the juice & cookie fund welcome). Paula Lozar, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com, www.nmbook.org
Sept. 11: NMBA Board Meeting, NMBA Writers Forum, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 1:30pm. Jim Mafchir, (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net.
Sept. 14–Nov. 2: Women’s Fiction Class, with Sandra K. Toro. Two four-week classes, SouthWest Writers, Albuquerque, Mondays 7-9pm. www.southwestwriters.com.
Sept. 17: NMBA Happy Hour Round Table, free (cash bar), Santa Fe Bar and Grill, DeVargas Mall, Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, 5:30pm, Jim Mafchir, (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net
Sept. 18: N.M. Book Coop Luncheon, Golden Corral Buffet, near Coors and Alameda in Albuquerque, 11:30am. $7.49 plus tax and tip. (505) 344-9382, info@nmbookcoop.com .
Sept. 19: Reading Landscapes (at the Experimental Geography Conference), Albuquerque Museum, Elizabeth Becker (505) 243-7255.
Sept. 19: Step It Up with Page Lambert & The Writer Magazine: "What's Your Story's Perspective?", Page Lambert (Connecting People with Nature, and Writers with Words), $95. Mt. Vernon Country Club, Golden, C0, 8:30am-4pm, (303) 842-7360, page@pagelambert.com, www.pagelambert.com
Sept. 24–26: Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Denver International Airport. Lisa Knudsen or Kyle Larson, (800) 752-0249, www.mountainsplains.org NMBA books featured at the IBPA aisle! Thursday evening through 2pm Sunday, (505) 231-1755, richard@oceantree.com
Sept. 26: New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. John Stafford, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Sept. 30: SWW Quarterly Writing Contest Deadline! "Anything Goes Poetry." Cash prizes; entry fee just $10. www.southwestwriters.com.
Sept. 30: DEADLINE! Benjamin Franklin Awards first call for books published January to August 2009. Fifty categories, cash honor top prize. $80 fee per title per category for IBPA members ($180 if you're not a member). Teresa Fogarty (310) 372-2732, teresa@ibpa-online.org.
+ Author Events and Readings
Sept. 12: K. J. Fraser, A Journey, A Reckoning, and A Miracle, UNM Bookstore, Central and Cornell, Albuquerque, 2-4pm, (505) 277-5451, latyler@unm.edu, www.jrmstory.com
Sept. 13: Duende Poetry Series with Joanne Kyger and Donald Guarich (Lo and Behold), Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas, NM. cirrelda@laalameda press.com
Sept. 17: Nancy King, The Stones Speak, Santa Fe Main Library, Santa Fe, 7pm-8pm, (505) 986-1040, nanking1224@earthlink.net, www.nancykingstories.com
Sept. 22: Martha Egan, La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories, KSFR Radiocafé interview, 101.1 FM, 8am, (505) 466-1256, michaelhice@earthlink.net
Sept. 26: Martha Egan, La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories, at Women Authors Festival, Museum Hill, Milner Plaza, Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, 10am-5pm. Talk at 10:40am, (505) 466-1256, michaelhice@earthlink.net
Sept. 26: Melissa Leith Ash, The Gypsy In Spanish Red, Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe 2pm-3pm, (505) 986-0151, e-borins@yahoo.com, www.garciastreetbooks.com
Sept. 26: Nancy Bartlit, Silent Voices of World War II, at Women Authors Festival, Museum Hill, Milner Plaza, Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, 10am-5pm, talk at 12:20pm, (505) 466-1256, michaelhice@earthlink.net. www.NancyBartlit.com
+ On the Horizon
Oct. 1: DEADLINE! Permian Basin Poetry Contest. (432) 697-4205.
Oct. 2: DEADLINE: PubWest National Publishing Conference early bird discount: 20 percent off registration fee! executivedirector@pubwest.org, www.pubwest.org
Oct. 3: IWWG and Friends Luncheon, Celebrations, 1632 St. Michael's Drive, Santa Fe, 11:30am-1:30pm, RSVP: (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com
Oct. 3: Well Red Coyote/Sedona Book Festival, 3190 W. State Route 89A corner of Dry Creek Road), Sedona, AZ, 9am-5pm. Martha Egan, La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories, talks at 12:15pm, (505) 466-1256, michaelhice@earthlink.net, www.wellredcoyote.com/sedonabookfestival.html
Oct. 9: NMBA Monthly Networking Luncheon, Writers Forum, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am-1:15pm. Free for all members and friends (donations to cookie fund welcome), Paula Lozar, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
Oct. 15: "Book Reviews: The Inside Story," NMBA Professional Development Seminar, NMBA members only $15 ($20 non-members), NMBA Writers Forum at Recursos, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 6-8 pm, Paula Lozar, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com
Oct. 31: DEADLINE! Southwest Book & Production Awards for Excellence "early bird" discount deadline (only $40 per title for your first category, $20 additional category!). Enter your 2008-09 books now! Jim Mafchir, (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net, or visit www.nmbook.org for downloadable brochure.
Nov. 12–14: 2009 PubWest National Publishing Conference and Book Industry Trade Show, Doubletree Hotel, Reid Park, Tucson, AZ. "Pressing Forward" is the theme of this year's conference. Details: www.pubwest.org .
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com

Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!

And now out! Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and through your local book store.

New Mexico book Association

BOOK NETWORKING LUNCHEON IS FRIDAY - MORE NEWS!
>> NMBA's Monthly Gathering and Discussion on Aug. 14
Come to NMBA's "Brown Bag" Networking Luncheon this Friday 8/14 at the Writers Room (826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe) We'll start at 11:30 am. We provide cookies, juice, maybe tea. No charge and no reservations needed (but contribution to the juice and cookie fund is welcome). Talk about your publishing or writing project. Bring a friend! The NMBA Board meets at 12:45 pm this Friday, following the Networking Luncheon.
>> Save Immediately on Display at Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show
We discovered over the years that the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Trade Show (Sept. 24-26 in Denver) is the very best event for reaching bookstore owners directly. If you're serious about having your books in stores, this is the one. NMBA is in charge of the impressive IBPA Booth this year; we'll be a major presence there. Save with your earlybird commitment (just $60 for two titles!) by Saturday Aug. 15 (this Saturday!). Call (505) 231-1755 or email Richard@oceantree.com directly. Then send check for $60 and one or two copies of each title to: New Mexico Book Association, c/o Recursos, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe 87505. We will provide you with info on your free catalog page in reply.
>> Members: Renew now and deduct $2!
September 1 is NMBA's annual membership renewal month. But you can save $2 if you renew your membership now! Send your check ($60) to NMBA, c/o Barbara Beasley Murphy, NMBA Treasurer, 486 Circle Drive, Santa Fe NM 87501. (We won't have to send an invoice and you'll be in good standing to September 2010!) Add any news or info changes you'd like in an enclosed note.
>> Mark Your Calendars for...
Aug. 20: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour, Santa Fe Bar & Grill, 5:30pm ... Sept. 26: New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Museum Hill, Santa Fe, john@museumfoundation.org ... Oct. 9-11: "Write, Publish, Thrive in the Digital Age," Southwest Literary Center Writers' Conference, Santa Fe Complex, www.santafewritersconference.com ...

Visit www.nmbook.org for ongoing events and to send us your news!

Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com

Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!

And now out! Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and through your local book store.

Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show

Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show:

Must Reserve Your Space Now!




Your best opportunity to show your titles to independent bookstore owners from throughout the region is unquestionably the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show.
Mountains & Plains Booksellers Show
It’s one of the most active in the country and takes place this September 19-20 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Colorado Springs. But space filling fast and we need to hear from you now if you’re going to have a chance to be in the show and catalog. Space is very limited!

NMBA has invited the New Mexico Book Coop to join us there. Our joint booth will be bannered "New Mexico Authors and Publishers Showcase." Here’s how you get in:

First, email me now ( richard@oceantree.com ) to tell NMBA you want to be in the show. Next, send in your participation fee: It’s just $60 for a single book. And $20 for each additional title shown. Your check to NMBA, PO Box 1285, Santa Fe 87504, secures your reservation. The fee includes your 8.5"x11" page in the catalog.

By August 22 we need to have two copies of your book and a PDF of your page for the special New Mexico Authors and Publishers Catalog that we’re planning just for this show. (We can also scan from your printed page if necessary).

Yes, there will be opportunity for author appearances -- we encourage them!

Contact Richard Polese (505) 231-1755, or Jim Mafchir, (505) 988-7214 if you have any further questions. Last year’s MPIBA was a strong success, with much bookseller interest in New Mexico’s literary offerings!



A Few News Bits!


>> First NMBA Publishers and Authors Round Table Happy Hour! Thursday, August 14 at 5:30pm at Santa Fe Bar and Grill in DeVargas Mall will be the debut of this new NMBA offering for our members. The NMBA board created this as an informal social gathering of literary spirits (pardon the pun!). Come, relax, and imbibe if you’d like, enjoy the company and the conversation!

>> Next Networking Luncheon is Friday, August 8 from 11:30am to 1:15pm at the Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey in Santa Fe. We’ll explore dealing with holiday season sales or continue our discussion how to set up your own publishing imprint. Juice and cookies provided, but please bring your own lunch--and bring a friend. It’s free. (Need directions? Call 505.231-1755.)

>> NMBA Welcomes Linda Whittenberg to our growing membership of book professionals. Linda is a published poet who lives in Santa Fe.

>> Translation Grant: Lumen Books has received a $22,000 grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture to support the translation into English of two works: Juan Goytisolo's Campos de Nijár, translated by Peter Bush, and Álvaro Pombo's Contra Natura, translated by Ronald Christ.


Calendar Update!

July 21-25: "Writing Women’s Lives," Southwest Literary Center writers conference, Hotel St. Francis, Santa Fe, $575 for all five days. (505) 982-9301, litcenter@recursos.org.

July 24: Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche, booksigning at Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm. (505) 986-0151. Visit www.garciastreetbooks.com for more in-store events!

Aug. 8: NMBA Networking Luncheon: "Preparing for Holiday Selling," The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free. (505) 231-1755.

Aug. 9: Lisa Dale Norton: Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (St. Martin's Press), workshop and booksigning, Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, 3-4 p.m., free! Information: (505) 986-0151, www:garciastreetbooks.com or www:lisadalenorton.com

Aug. 9: Frank Murphy: The Spirit of Tea, booksigning at Tattered Cover, Denver, 2pm. (505) 982-0874 for details.

Aug. 22: DEADLINE! Books and PDF file for our New Mexico Authors & Publishers Showcase at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show. We need a PDF of your page for the catalog and two copies of each title by this date! Contact Jim Mafchir, westernedge@santa-fe.net, (505) 988-7214.

Sept. 9: Dan Poynter Professional Development Workshop: "Guerrilla Marketing for Small Presses and Self-Published Authors," sponsored by NMBA & SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, $25 for NMBA and SWW members, $35 non-members. Contact Rob Spiegel in Albuquerque (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Jim Mafchir in Santa Fe (505) 988-7214, westernedge@santa-fe.net.

Sept. 19-20: Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Colorado Springs. www.mountainsplains.org

Sept. 27: First New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. Contact John Stafford at Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.

Oct. 18: Penny Sansevieri Professional Workshop: "Red Hot Internet Marketing for Authors & Publishers," sponsored by NMBA and SouthWest Writers, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 9am–4:30pm. NMBA and SWW members $79 (includes Penny's book, Red Hot Internet Publicity, and lunch!). Reserve your spot now! Rob Spiegel (505) 275-2556, robspiegel@comcast.net or Karen Villanueva (505) 764-8323, authorcare@aol.com



Visit www.nmbook.org for continuing news and events!

Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com

Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!

Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net