Lisa Lenard-Cook
Spring 2009 Newsletter
Almost as soon as I’d sent out my March newsletter, I started getting requests for classes. Here are the latest additions. There’s contact info on each, but you can always check my website or email me for more information as well. Please feel free to forward, post, print, share, or otherwise disseminate.
May 23rd . 1 – 5 pm . Re-Vision Means Re-Seeing . Ojai CA
This workshop will be held in a private home in Ojai CA. I’m keeping it small, so please email momdogkate@aol.com now to find out how to reserve your place.
June 6th . UNM Young Writers’ Conference . Albuquerque NM
Info on the second annual UNM Young Writers’ Conference, which I’ll be leading off with a class on Fictional Seeds, can be found on the UNM Continuing Ed website: http://dce.unm.edu.
June 26th-28th . What’s Your Story? . Venice CA
With the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference on hiatus, sister faculty member & playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos & I decided to fill in a little of the gap with this weekend-long writing intensive, to be held a few yards from the ocean in Venice CA. The full story on this one can be found on Dale’s stunning new website, www.dalegriffithsstamos.com.
July 11th – August 1st . Dream It, Write It . Online
Authorlink’s new WritersEducation website is just about ready to roll, & I’ll be teaching this four-week course to help celebrate. Info: www.authorlink.com.
Book News
Far from being last year’s novels, both Dissonance and Coyote Morning continue to be selected by book groups around the country. If your book group reads one of my books & would like me to visit (either in person, if I’m in the neighborhood, or by phone or live chat, if I’m not), don’t hesitate to send me an email at my updated email address: lisalenardcook@gmail.com.
Haven’t yet read The Mind of Your Story? Readingnewmexico.com calls it “the book that should be on every writer’s bookshelf.” You can purchase it by clicking on the link on my homepage at www.lisalenardcook.com.
If you’ve not yet seen one of the AMI editions of my many Complete Idiot’s Guides in your supermarket checkout line, it’s likely you will soon. Each of these books offers just enough of a taste that readers are hurrying to buy the full-sized editions. Very clever marketing on Penguin’s part.
Never mind that my agent & I decided the time wasn’t right to take out the two novels I wrote last year: I’m just about finished with another. Stay tuned...
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Lisa Lenard-Cook
www.lisalenardcook.com
www.authorlink.com
The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction, NM Presswomen Communication Contest Honoree
Dissonance: A Novel, short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award
Coyote Morning: A Novel, NM Presswomen’s Zia Award Honoree
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Write On Four Corners Author Lisa Lenard Cook
LISA LENARD-COOK
MARCH 2009 NEWS
REDESIGNED WEBSITE
My daughter Kaitlin recommended I redesign my website, & while she’d likely meant I should hire a designer, I instead jumped in & taught myself web design. The result is my all-new webpage: www.lisalenardcook.com. Not only is it must faster to load & simple to navigate, I’ve added an exciting new feature: Every Friday (more or less), I’ll post new work on the page “Hot Off the MacBook.” The 1st installment is up now. Please check it out & let me know what you think of both the website & the feature.
“DREAM IT, WRITE IT” - ONLINE CLASS BEGINS MARCH 21ST
For four weeks, beginning March 21st, I’ll be teaching an online class through Authorlink. “Dream It, Write It” will show you how you can use your dreams for your writing. It’s exciting for me to have this opportunity to combine my expertise on dreams & creativity into one class. Please go to www.authorlink.com for more information.
THE MIND OF YOUR STORY PLACES IN NMPW COMMUNICATIONS CONTEST
The Mind of Your Story has won second place in the instructional/how-to book category of New Mexico Presswomen’s Communication Contest. Many thanks to NMPW, & to all of you who’ve written to tell me how the book has helped you.
MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATIONS
Need an editor, co-author, ghost, jump-start, or a plain, old-fashioned, deadline? Email me for information on the many ways I can help you with your floundering or dusty manuscript.
SANTA BARBARA WRITERS’ CONFERENCE ON HIATUS FOR 2009
Much to the disappointment of both faculty & students, the SBWC won’t be held this year. To fill the gap, I’m hoping to teach a few workshops &/or classes when I’m in California this spring & summer. If your ’ group or organization would be interested, please email me.
That’s it from sunny New Mexico. Keep the faith, & keep writing. ~Lisa
Lisa Lenard-Cook
www.lisalenardcook.com
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
MARCH 2009 NEWS
REDESIGNED WEBSITE
My daughter Kaitlin recommended I redesign my website, & while she’d likely meant I should hire a designer, I instead jumped in & taught myself web design. The result is my all-new webpage: www.lisalenardcook.com. Not only is it must faster to load & simple to navigate, I’ve added an exciting new feature: Every Friday (more or less), I’ll post new work on the page “Hot Off the MacBook.” The 1st installment is up now. Please check it out & let me know what you think of both the website & the feature.
“DREAM IT, WRITE IT” - ONLINE CLASS BEGINS MARCH 21ST
For four weeks, beginning March 21st, I’ll be teaching an online class through Authorlink. “Dream It, Write It” will show you how you can use your dreams for your writing. It’s exciting for me to have this opportunity to combine my expertise on dreams & creativity into one class. Please go to www.authorlink.com for more information.
THE MIND OF YOUR STORY PLACES IN NMPW COMMUNICATIONS CONTEST
The Mind of Your Story has won second place in the instructional/how-to book category of New Mexico Presswomen’s Communication Contest. Many thanks to NMPW, & to all of you who’ve written to tell me how the book has helped you.
MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATIONS
Need an editor, co-author, ghost, jump-start, or a plain, old-fashioned, deadline? Email me for information on the many ways I can help you with your floundering or dusty manuscript.
SANTA BARBARA WRITERS’ CONFERENCE ON HIATUS FOR 2009
Much to the disappointment of both faculty & students, the SBWC won’t be held this year. To fill the gap, I’m hoping to teach a few workshops &/or classes when I’m in California this spring & summer. If your ’ group or organization would be interested, please email me.
That’s it from sunny New Mexico. Keep the faith, & keep writing. ~Lisa
Lisa Lenard-Cook
www.lisalenardcook.com
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
Coming in 2009, Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Literary Salon in Pagosa Springs features award winning author Lisa Lenard-Cook
Lisa Lenard-Cook will be at Moonlight Books on Thursday, May 22, from 5-7 p.m. for an informal literary salon discussion about fiction writing. The award winning author of Dissonance and Coyote Morning is participating in the first Pagosa Springs Writer's Residency program. She is in residence in Pagosa from May 9-23, 2008 courtesy of www.PagosaRental.com and the Colorado Council on the Arts.
The Mind of Your Story: discover what drives your fiction is the new book by Lenard-Cook published by Writer’s Digest Books. In the three-part book, Lenard-Cook explains in detail her process. Part I is Seeds and their Nourishment—the creative obsessions that form fiction, Part II explores the Mind of Your Story—the pacing, time and working with writers that you love. Part III is the honest and difficult part called Start All Over Again.
“There are still days when it seems to me that writing must be magic, that all these things I’ve learned about it are little more than feints and mirrors. But because I value rewriting as much as writing—because I love to read my first drafts to learn what it is they hope to be—I’ve learned to pay attention to the ways the magic is made invisible,” she writes in her book.
Lenard-Cook’s first novel, Dissonance won the Jim Sagel prize for the novel while still in manuscript form. After publication by the University of New Mexico Press in 2003, the book was featured on NPR and chosen as a Today Show Summer Reading choice and was selected as book of the year by the Tucson-Pima County Public Library and the Cincinnati Public Library and was the reading selection for Durango-La Plata Reads. It was also short listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award. Her second novel, Coyote Morning, published by UNM Press in 2004 was a Southwest Book of the Year and was short-listed for the New Mexico Press Women’s Zia Award. Lenard-Cook is a faculty member at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference and the Narrative Art Center.
Lenard-Cook will do a mini-workshop on fiction writing, talk about her fiction and discuss writing with guest. Refreshments will be served.
If you go:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
5-7 p.m.
Moonlight Books
434 Pagosa Street
Pagosa Springs, CO 81147
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
The Mind of Your Story: discover what drives your fiction is the new book by Lenard-Cook published by Writer’s Digest Books. In the three-part book, Lenard-Cook explains in detail her process. Part I is Seeds and their Nourishment—the creative obsessions that form fiction, Part II explores the Mind of Your Story—the pacing, time and working with writers that you love. Part III is the honest and difficult part called Start All Over Again.
“There are still days when it seems to me that writing must be magic, that all these things I’ve learned about it are little more than feints and mirrors. But because I value rewriting as much as writing—because I love to read my first drafts to learn what it is they hope to be—I’ve learned to pay attention to the ways the magic is made invisible,” she writes in her book.
Lenard-Cook’s first novel, Dissonance won the Jim Sagel prize for the novel while still in manuscript form. After publication by the University of New Mexico Press in 2003, the book was featured on NPR and chosen as a Today Show Summer Reading choice and was selected as book of the year by the Tucson-Pima County Public Library and the Cincinnati Public Library and was the reading selection for Durango-La Plata Reads. It was also short listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award. Her second novel, Coyote Morning, published by UNM Press in 2004 was a Southwest Book of the Year and was short-listed for the New Mexico Press Women’s Zia Award. Lenard-Cook is a faculty member at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference and the Narrative Art Center.
Lenard-Cook will do a mini-workshop on fiction writing, talk about her fiction and discuss writing with guest. Refreshments will be served.
If you go:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
5-7 p.m.
Moonlight Books
434 Pagosa Street
Pagosa Springs, CO 81147
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
Lisa Lenard-Cook at Maria's Bookshop in Durango
Lisa Lenard-Cook
Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:30 p.m.
Location: Maria's Bookshop
Former Durango resident Lisa Lenard-Cook returns to share her new book on the craft of writing.
The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $19.99
Published: Writers Digest Books, 2008
A great story has a way of seducing you, of pulling you in and taking you along for the ride, like it has a mind of its own. The Mind of Your Story takes writers beyond the basics and guides them through the foundations and the nuances of story creation, allowing them to create fiction that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go.
Coyote Morning(Trade Paperback)
by Lisa Lenard-Cook
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $15.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2004
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Anyone who lives in the twenty-first-century West will recognize Lenard-Cook's sharp-eyed portrait of the edgy space between farms and suburbs, old timers and newcomers. But her witty send-up of the environmental issues that vex refugees from city life serves as a powerful and serious means of examining the ways human beings cope with life's mysteries and its inevitable dangers. The complex relations between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters that make up the daily lives of Lenard-Cook's characters will make readers reflect on their own lives and relationship to wildness.
Dissonance(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $21.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2003
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
""Dissonance . . . is bold in its scale, placing us at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. . . . Few contemporary novels challenge the reader's conscience as "Dissonance does. . . ."--Kevin McIlvoy, author of "Hyssop
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
Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:30 p.m.
Location: Maria's Bookshop
Former Durango resident Lisa Lenard-Cook returns to share her new book on the craft of writing.
The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $19.99
Published: Writers Digest Books, 2008
A great story has a way of seducing you, of pulling you in and taking you along for the ride, like it has a mind of its own. The Mind of Your Story takes writers beyond the basics and guides them through the foundations and the nuances of story creation, allowing them to create fiction that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go.
Coyote Morning(Trade Paperback)
by Lisa Lenard-Cook
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $15.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2004
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Anyone who lives in the twenty-first-century West will recognize Lenard-Cook's sharp-eyed portrait of the edgy space between farms and suburbs, old timers and newcomers. But her witty send-up of the environmental issues that vex refugees from city life serves as a powerful and serious means of examining the ways human beings cope with life's mysteries and its inevitable dangers. The complex relations between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters that make up the daily lives of Lenard-Cook's characters will make readers reflect on their own lives and relationship to wildness.
Dissonance(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $21.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2003
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
""Dissonance . . . is bold in its scale, placing us at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. . . . Few contemporary novels challenge the reader's conscience as "Dissonance does. . . ."--Kevin McIlvoy, author of "Hyssop
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
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Lisa Lenard Cook Signs Book at Maria''s Book Store in Durango
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Libby Cowles
Staff and Community Relations Manager
Maria's Bookshop
libby@mariasbookshop.com
(970) 247-1438
book signing with lisa lenard-cook, author of The mind of your story,
at maria's bookshop
DURANGO (May 1, 2008)- Maria's Bookshop at 960 Main Avenue in Durango will host a signing on Tuesday, May 13th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm for former Durango resident Lisa Lenard-Cook, who has just published The Mind of Your Story:
Discover what Drives Your Fiction.
The Mind of Your Story takes writers beyond the basics and guides them through the foundations and the nuances of story creation, allowing them to create fiction that grabs the reader and doesn't let go.
Lenard-Cook's first novel, Dissonance, won the Jim Sagel Prize for the Novel while in manuscript. After its publication by the University of New Mexico Press in 2003, it was selected as a book of the year by such diverse libraries as the Tucson-Pima County Public Library and the Cincinnati Public Library. In 2004, the book was both a NPR Performance Today Summer Reading Choice and the countywide reading selection for Durango-La Plata Reads, and in 2005 it was short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award. Lisa's second novel, Coyote Morning, was published by UNM Press in 2004, was selected a Southwest Book of the Year, and was recently short-listed for the New Mexico Press Women's Zia Award.
Lenard-Cook has just finished her next novel, begun over twenty years ago.
Her monthly column at www.authorlink.com, The Art of Fiction, has been called "a refreshing approach to the art of fiction writing." She also reviews books for the independent Weekly Alibi in Albuquerque, and has had short stories published in a number of journals, most recently The Southwest Review . She is a faculty member at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and Narrative Art Center , and, in addition to being a popular conference and workshop speaker, she teaches fiction writing in private classes, works as a freelance writer and editor, and takes particular joy in mentoring both beginning and more experienced fiction writers.
Lisa Lenard-Cook holds a B.A. with departmental honors from SUNY Buffalo and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Vermont College. She was a member of the English department faculty at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado throughout the 1990s
For more information about the event, call (970) 247-1438 or visit www.mariasbookshop.com
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Staff and Community Relations Manager
Maria's Bookshop
libby@mariasbookshop.com
(970) 247-1438
book signing with lisa lenard-cook, author of The mind of your story,
at maria's bookshop
DURANGO (May 1, 2008)- Maria's Bookshop at 960 Main Avenue in Durango will host a signing on Tuesday, May 13th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm for former Durango resident Lisa Lenard-Cook, who has just published The Mind of Your Story:
Discover what Drives Your Fiction.
The Mind of Your Story takes writers beyond the basics and guides them through the foundations and the nuances of story creation, allowing them to create fiction that grabs the reader and doesn't let go.
Lenard-Cook's first novel, Dissonance, won the Jim Sagel Prize for the Novel while in manuscript. After its publication by the University of New Mexico Press in 2003, it was selected as a book of the year by such diverse libraries as the Tucson-Pima County Public Library and the Cincinnati Public Library. In 2004, the book was both a NPR Performance Today Summer Reading Choice and the countywide reading selection for Durango-La Plata Reads, and in 2005 it was short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award. Lisa's second novel, Coyote Morning, was published by UNM Press in 2004, was selected a Southwest Book of the Year, and was recently short-listed for the New Mexico Press Women's Zia Award.
Lenard-Cook has just finished her next novel, begun over twenty years ago.
Her monthly column at www.authorlink.com, The Art of Fiction, has been called "a refreshing approach to the art of fiction writing." She also reviews books for the independent Weekly
Lisa Lenard-Cook holds a B.A. with departmental honors from SUNY Buffalo and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Vermont College. She was a member of the English department faculty at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado throughout the 1990s
For more information about the event, call (970) 247-1438 or visit www.mariasbookshop.com
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
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