New Mexico Book CoOp

March Meeting
Our next meeting will be Friday, March 19 at 12 noon at the Golden Corral in Albuquerque (3401 NM HWY 528; just west of Coors Blvd. and Alameda). Our guest will be Rex Barron, designer of book covers and illustrator. Book covers are one of the first ways books are sold and have to be eye catching and visually express what is in the book. NM Book Co-op member Ruthe Francis will also participate. Her experience as a bookseller of many years demonstrated what book sold because of a good cover and what books did not sell because of a bad cover design.
Rex Barron has illustrated seven children’s books, authored two children’s books, illustrated for the Albuquerque Alibi, Albuquerque Monthly Magazine, and is currently a cartoonist for New Mexico Breeze electronic newspaper. He illustrated The Big Bug Ball and Eggbert among many others. He worked for Putnam & Sons; Harcourt, Brace, & Jovanovich; McGraw Hill; Mac Millan; Hanna - Barbera; and illustrated the Claritin Calendar for Schering - Plough.
Please join us for this informative program.
ABQ School Libraries Display
Display copies from the ABQ Public School Library event can be picked up at the Co-op lunch meeting on March 19 or by special arrangement (must be made before March 19). Books not picked up by March 19 will be donated to local literacy programs.
NM Library Association Info Bags
If you signed up to have your fliers at the NM Library Assn meeting in Ruidoso you must get your fliers to Sabra no later than the March 19 book coop meeting or MAIL TO: Sabra Steinsiek, 3523 Santa Teresa NW, Albuquerque NM 87120
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION. The information bags will be stuffed on March 19 after the regular Book Co-op lunch meeting.
Upcoming Calendar
March 19- Coop lunch - Book covers with Rex Barron and Ruthie Francis
April 7-9 - NM Library Assn meeting (must sign up by March 19)
April 23- Coop lunch - Ask Anything About Publishing -- Publishers Panel
May 28- Coop lunch - Author Tips for Success -- Author Panel
June 4-5 - 6th Annual Chama Book Fair
June 25- Coop lunch - (tenative) Twitter and Facebook
Stickers for Winners and Finalists
Stickers are available for anyone who is a winner or a finalist in the 2009 New Mexico Book Awards. You can order stickers (they come in rolls of 100 and cost $23 each which includes tax and shipping) on the website by CLICKING HERE.

2010 Book Awards Entries Underway!
The 2010 New Mexico Book Awards entry information and guidelines are available HERE -- The early deadline for entries is May1.

6th Annual Chama Book Fair
The 6th annual book fair in Chama will be on June 4 and 5 and will feature award-winning and best-selling author David Morrell. Sign-ups are going fast so don't delay. There are only about 30 slots available for the workshop and the book fair. CLICK HERE to get the registration form.

Voices of New Mexico Extended!
The entry deadline for the Voice of New Mexico anthology has been extended to March 30. Get your work published in this special Centennial project. CLICK HERE for information.
Book Store Manager Trainee
Follett Higher Education Group is looking for a Store Manager Trainee for the Albuquerque area. The raining session starts May 17, 2010. If you are interested contact Jessica Schranz at jschranz@fheg.follett.com for further information on the job opening or to submit your application go to https://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=518&ji=2430429&sn=1

New Mexico Book Award Winners

Winners, 2009 New Mexico Book Awards
The list of winners can be downloaded HERE.


Children’s Picture Book — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co
Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Porter, Pamela — Yellow Moon, Apple Moon (Groundwood Books)

Children’s Activity Book (workbook/craft book/coloring book) —
sponsored by PageOne Books
Cash, Marie Romero — Santos, A Coloring Book (Sunstone Press)

Young Readers Book (to grade 3) — sponsored by Santa Fe Public
Library
Eschberger, Beverly — An Elephant Family Adventure: The Elephants Tour
England (Kinkajou Press)

Juvenile Book (grade school to junior high school) — sponsored by
Printer’s Press
Drucker, Malka — Portraits of Jewish American Heroes (Dutton Childrens Book)
Paulsen, Gary — Notes from the Dog (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House)

Young Adult Book (high school) — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo
Co Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Klages, Ellen — White Sands, Red Menace (Viking)

Anthology (individual or collection) — sponsored by Printer’s Press
Hunner, Jon — Senator Pete Domenici’s Legacy (Rio Grande Books)

Anthropology/Archaeology/Science — sponsored by Rio Rancho Public
Library
Fowler, Catherine and Don Fowler — The Great Basin (School for Advanced Research
Press)

Arts Book (includes art, music, or photography) — sponsored by Cygnet
Press
Manno, Lois — Visions Underground (Rio Grande Books)

Biography (includes memoirs and autobiographies) — sponsored by
Albuquerque The Magazine
Allen, John — Me and the Biospheres (Synergetic Press)

Business Book (includes career) — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Moonwalker, Tu & JoAnne O’Brien-Levin — Business Revolution through Ancestral
Wisdom (Outskirts Press)

Cookbook — sponsored by PageOne Books
Hillerman, Anne — Santa Fe Flavors (Gibbs Smith)

Crafts/Hobby/How-to Book— sponsored by Albuquerque The Magazine
Sanchez, Laura and Alex Sanchez — Adobe Houses for Today (Sunstone Press)

Gardening Book — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Bruce, Hank & Tomi Jill Folk — Windowsill Whimsy: Gardening & Horticultural
Therapy Projects for Small Spaces (Petals & Pages Press)

Gay/Lesbian (GLBT) Book — sponsored by NM Book Co-op
Tilchen, Maida — Land Beyond Maps (Savvy Press)

Health Book (includes wellness, nutrition, beauty) — sponsored by NM
Coalition for Literacy & WalMart at Zuni
Brasch, Jillian — The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to Be with the Dying (Andrews
McMeel Publishing)

History Book – New Mexico subject — sponsored by NM Humanities
Council
Andrews, Martha and Richard Melzer — The Whole Damned World (Rio Grande
Books)

Multi-cultural Subject (Hispanic, Native American, etc.) — sponsored by
NM Humanities Council
Bsumek, Erika Marie — Indian-Made (University Press of Kansas)
Chávez, Nicolasa — A Century of Masters (Rio Grande Books)

Nature/Environment Book — sponsored by LPD Press/Rio Grande Books
Clark, Paulle — Wolf Song: A Love Story (Dogear Publishing)

New Age Book — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Brill, Michael — Numerology for Healing (Destiny Books)

Poetry Book (individual or collection) — sponsored by Rio Grande
Books
Udall, Jay — The Welcome Table (University of New Mexico Press)

Political Book (includes social/current events) — sponsored by PEN New
Mexico
Beller, Ken and Heather Chase — Great Peacemakers (LTS Press)

Reference Book — sponsored by New Mexico State Library
Wheeler, DonnaLee — Who’s the You in the Mirror (Kin Folk Trails)

Religious Book— sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
McLaughlin, Judith — Sacred Feminine (Rio Grande Books)

Self-help Book (includes spirituality /inspirational) — sponsored by
ReadWest
Gerson, Mark David — The Voice of the Muse (LightLines Media)

Travel Book (includes guides) — sponsored by Albuquerque The
Magazine
Nye, Valerie and Kathy Barco — Breakfast New Mexico Style (Sunstone Press)

Nonfiction, Other — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Melzer, Richard — Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest (Arcadia)

Novel – adventure or drama — sponsored by ReadingNewMexico.com
Shaw, Joseph — To Honor the Dead (University of New Mexico Press)

Novel – historical fiction — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co
Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Fackler, Elizabeth — My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Sunstone Press)

Novel – mystery/suspense — sponsored by Word Harvest Writers
Conference
Pyeatt, Keith — Struck (Quest)

Novel - romance — sponsored by the Land of Enchantment Romance
Authors
Redmond, Shirley Raye — Rosemary’s Glove (Avalon Books)

Science Fiction & Fantasy — sponsored by PageOne Books
Hickman, Kirt — Worlds Asunder (Quillrunner Publishing)

Fiction, Other — sponsored by NM Book Co-op
Montoya, Cheryl & Jerry — Three Dog Night (Rio Grande Books)

First Book (first book published by author) — sponsored by Southwest
Writers
Dix, Catherine Parra — Rosetta Stones (Central Ave Press)

People’s Choice
A Thief of Time — Tony Hillerman

Best New Mexico Book
Andrews, Martha and Richard Melzer — The Whole Damned World (Rio Grande
Books)

Best of Show Book
Brasch, Jillian — The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to Be with the Dying (Andrews
McMeel Publishing)
Manno, Lois — Visions Underground (Rio Grande Books)




2009 New Mexico Book Awards FINALISTS
Children’s Picture Book — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Hamilton, Kersten — Police Officers on Patrol (Viking)
Heide, Florence Parry and Jill McElmurry — The One and Only Marigold (Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House)
Mraz, David — Little Goose (Tricycle Press)
Nelson, Vaunda — Who Will I Be, Lord? (Random House)
Porter, Pamela — Yellow Moon, Apple Moon (Groundwood Books)
Redmond, Shirley Raye — Blind Tom: The Horse Who Helped Build the Great Railroad (Mountain Press Publishing)

Children’s Activity Book (workbook/craft book/coloring book) — sponsored by PageOne Books
Cash, Marie Romero — Santos, A Coloring Book (Sunstone Press)

Young Readers Book (to grade 3) — sponsored by Santa Fe Public Library
Eschberger, Beverly — An Elephant Family Adventure: The Elephants Tour England (Kinkajou Press)

Juvenile Book (grade school to junior high school) — sponsored by Printer’s Press
Drucker, Malka — Portraits of Jewish American Heroes (Dutton Childrens Book)
Gotsch, Connie — Belle’s Star (Artemesia Publishing)
Hayes, Joe — Dance, Nana, Dance (Cinco Punto Press)
Mayfield, Barbara — The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me (AZRO Press)
Paulsen, Gary — Notes from the Dog (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House)
Tacang, Brian — The Model President (HarperCollins)

Young Adult Book (high school) — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Beller, Ken and Heather Chase — Great Peacemakers (LTS Press)
Buckley, Kate — Choices (Book Publishers Network)
Dix, Catherine Parra — Rosetta Stones (Central Ave Press)
Klages, Ellen — White Sands, Red Menace (Viking)
Lassiter, Karl — Drifter (Avalon)

Anthology (individual or collection) — sponsored by Printer’s Press
diSuvero, Victor — We Came to Santa Fe (Pennywhistle Press)
Hunner, Jon — Senator Pete Domenici’s Legacy (Rio Grande Books)
Lacy, Ann & Anne Valley-Fox — Outlaws & Desperados (Sunstone Press)

Anthropology/Archaeology/Science — sponsored by Rio Rancho Public Library
Fowler, Catherine and Don Fowler — The Great Basin (School of American Research Press)
Kandasamy, W.B. Vasantha and Florentin Smarandache — n-Linear Algebra of Type II (ILQ)

Arts Book (includes art, music, or photography) — sponsored by Cygnet Press
Barrow, Thomas & Kristen Barendsen — Photography: New Mexico (Fresco Fine Arts)
Manno, Lois — Visions Underground (Rio Grande Books)
Owings, Natalie — The Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary (Sunstone Press)

Biography (includes memoirs and autobiographies) — sponsored by Albuquerque The Magazine
Allen, John — Me and the Biospheres (Synergetic Press)
Dunaway, David — How Can I Keep From Singing? (Villard)
Sager, Stan — ¡Viva Elfego! (Sunstone Press)
Stevens, Reed — Santa Fe Dreamhouse (iUniverse)

Business Book (includes career) — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Durgin, David with Sherry Robinson — Entrepreneur to Investor the Hard Way (Sunstone Press)
Moonwalker, Tu & JoAnne O’Brien-Levin — Business Revolution through Ancestral Wisdom (Outskirts Press)

Cookbook — sponsored by PageOne Books
Hillerman, Anne — Santa Fe Flavors (Gibbs Smith)

Crafts/Hobby/How-to Book— sponsored by Albuquerque The Magazine
Davis, Jerry — Master of None (Montañas Press)
Sanchez, Laura and Alex Sanchez — Adobe Houses for Today (Sunstone Press)

Gardening Book — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Bruce, Hank & Tomi Jill Folk — Windowsill Whimsy: Gardening & Horticultural Therapy Projects for Small Spaces (Petals & Pages Press)
Giannangelo, Frank & Vicky — Growing with the Seasons (Sunstone Press)

Gay/Lesbian (GLBT) Book — sponsored by NM Book Co-op
Katt, AC — The Sarran Plague (Eternal Press)
Pyeatt, Keith — Struck (Quest)
Tilchen, Maida — Land Beyond Maps (Savvy Press)

Health Book (includes wellness, nutrition, beauty) — sponsored by NM Coalition for Literacy & WalMart at Zuni
Brasch, Jillian — The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to Be with the Dying (Andrew McMeel Publishing)
Calhoun, Yael, Matthew Calhoun and Nicole Hamory — Yoga for Kids to Teens (Sunstone Press)

History Book – New Mexico subject — sponsored by NM Humanities Council
Andrews, Martha and Richard Melzer — The Whole Damned World (Rio Grande Books)
Burke, Flannery — From Greenwich Village to Taos (University Press of Kansas)
Kessell, John — Pueblos, Spaniards and the Kingdom of New Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press)
Martin, Craig & Heather McClenahan — Of Logs and Stone (All Seasons Publishing)
Torrez, Robert — Myth of the Hanging Tree (University of New Mexico Press)

Multi-cultural Subject (Hispanic, Native American, etc.) — sponsored by NM Humanities Council
Bsumek, Erika Marie — Indian-Made (University Press of Kansas)
Chávez, Nicolasa — A Century of Masters (Rio Grande Books)
diSuvero, Victor — We Came to Santa Fe (Pennywhistle Press)
Kessell, John — Pueblos, Spaniards and the Kingdom of New Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press)
Medina-Sandoval, Isabelle —Guardians of Hidden Traditions (Gaon Books)

Nature/Environment Book — sponsored by LPD Press/Rio Grande Books
Clark, Paulle — Wolf Song: A Love Story (Dogear Publishing)
Lipman, Jane — The Rapture of Tulips (Pudding House Publications)
Lopez, Clarissa — Fisher-Chick (Clarissa Lopez)

New Age Book — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Brill, Michael — Numerology for Healing (Destiny Books)
Lightwater, Rheanni — Reiki Chakra Keys (Soul Resources)

Poetry Book (individual or collection) — sponsored by Rio Grande Books
Lipman, Jane — The Rapture of Tulips (Pudding House Publications)
Norris, Noreen — Caught Heart (Sunstone Press)
Udall, Jay — The Welcome Table (University of New Mexico Press)
Yurcic, Jason — Odes to Anger (West End Press)

Political Book (includes social/current events) — sponsored by PEN New Mexico
Beller, Ken and Heather Chase — Great Peacemakers (LTS Press)
Bullis, Don — New Mexico & Politicians of the Past (Rio Grande Books)
Smarandache, Florentin — Global Totalitarianism & the Working Animals (ILQ)

Reference Book — sponsored by New Mexico State Library
Beverly, Edward — Chasing the Sun (Sunstone Press)
Bullis, Don — The Old West Trivia Book (Rio Grande Books)
Kandasamy, W.B. Vasantha and Florentin Smarandache — Special Classes of Set Codes and Their Applications (ILQ)
Smarandache, Florentin — Experimental Paradoxist Linguistics (ILQ)
Wheeler, DonnaLee — Who’s the You in the Mirror (Kin Folk Trails)

Religious Book— sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Drucker, Malka — Women and Judaism (Praeger)
Drucker, Malka — Portraits of Jewish American Heroes (Dutton Childrens Book)
McLaughlin, Judith — Sacred Feminine (Rio Grande Books)
Thompson, Jim — The Physics of Genesis (Pleasant Word)

Self-help Book (includes spirituality /inspirational) — sponsored by ReadWest
Brasch, Jillian — The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to Be with the Dying (Andrew McMeel Publishing)
Gerson, Mark David — The Voice of the Muse (LightLines Media)
Thompson, Jim — The St. Nicholas Solution (iUniverse)
Vorhand, Susan — The Mosaic Within (Gaon Books)

Travel Book (includes guides) — sponsored by Albuquerque The Magazine
Lopez, Clarissa — Fisher-Chick (Clarissa Lopez)
Nye, Valerie and Kathy Barco — Breakfast New Mexico Style (Sunstone Press)

Nonfiction, Other — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Baxter, John — Cowboy Park (Texas Tech University Press)
Melzer, Richard — Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest (Arcadia)
Reichman, Rick — 20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay (Central Ave Press)
Schweidel, David & Robert Boswell — What Men Call Treasure (Cinco Punto Press)
Stevens, Reed — Santa Fe Dreamhouse (iUniverse)

Novel – adventure or drama — sponsored by ReadingNewMexico.com
Martinez, Mario — Converso (Gaon Books)
Maynard, Lee — The Pale Light of Sunset (Vandalia Press)
Miller, Jonathan — La Bajada Lawyer (Cool Titles)
Shaw, Joseph — To Honor the Dead (University of New Mexico Press)

Novel – historical fiction — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Davis, Will — Six Points of Death (Outskirts Press)
Fackler, Elizabeth — My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Sunstone Press)
Groves, Melody — Border Ambush (La Frontera Publishing)
Jones, Jim — Rustler’s Moon (PublishAmerica)
Klages, Ellen — White Sands, Red Menace (Viking)
Tilchen, Maida — Land Beyond Maps (Savvy Press)

Novel – mystery/suspense — sponsored by Word Harvest Writers Conference
Fackler, Elizabeth — My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Sunstone Press)
Hightower, Gloria — The Shadow Mountain Murders (Chaparral Center)
Pyeatt, Keith — Struck (Quest)
Shaw, Joseph — To Honor the Dead (University of New Mexico Press)

Novel - romance — sponsored by the Land of Enchantment Romance Authors
Katt, AC — The Sarran Plague (Eternal Press)
Redmond, Shirley Raye — Rosemary’s Glove (Avalon Books)

Science Fiction & Fantasy — sponsored by PageOne Books
Hickman, Kirt — Worlds Asunder (Quillrunner Publishing)
Katt, AC — The Sarran Plague (Eternal Press)
Wheeler, DonnaLee — Kalleni Beyond (Kinfolk Trails)

Fiction, Other — sponsored by NM Book Co-op
Cash, Marie Romero — Lowrider Blues (Sunstone Press)
Fraser, KJ — A Journey, A Reckoning, and A Miracle (O-Books)
King, Nancy — The Stones Speak (Atelier Books)
Montoya, Cheryl & Jerry — Three Dog Night (Rio Grande Books)

First Book (first book published by author) — sponsored by Southwest Writers
Dix, Catherine Parra — Rosetta Stones (Central Ave Press)
Jones, Jim — Rustler’s Moon (PublishAmerica)
Lehman, Theodore — Herr Krupp’s Berthawerk (Gaon Books)
Lipman, Jane — The Rapture of Tulips (Pudding House Publications)
Pyeatt, Keith — Struck (Quest)
Shaw, Joseph — To Honor the Dead (University of New Mexico Press)
Walker, Karen — Following the Whispers (Bascom Hill Publishing Group)

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.