How to Write and Illustrate Your Children's Book
Fee: $79, 4 classes
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
September 19 – October 10
Don't put it off for another day! Now is the time to learn the basics of how to write, illustrate and submit your children's book idea. Join in the fun of creating lively stories, poems, picture books and longer work for kids birth to 12. Learn about story formatting, manuscript submission, dealing with illustrations, handling copyright and many other details as you enter into the exciting world of children's literature. Aimed at first-time writers, with lots of support for beginning authors and illustrators, this class will give you the courage to write for children
Self Publishing Survival 101
Fee $79, 4 classes
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
October 17 – November 7
After the recent meltdown in New York publishing, more and more authors are looking into the pros and cons of self publishing. In this series, you'll learn whether it is realistic, economically viable, and within your capabilities to successfully produce and promote your title. We will look at options like Booksurge, iUniverse, Publish America, Author House, Trafford and other production resources including local printers and desktop production. Editing, book doctors, dealing with illustrations, copyright, ISBNS and other details are included in this comprehensive overview of the dangers and delights of being your own publisher.
Teach Your Child to Read - YOURSELF
Fee: $39, 1 class
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.
November 14
Reading is the most important skill your child will ever acquire. Learn how to teach it yourself in one session without expensive kits, television hyped materials, or pedagogical puffery. For parents of kids ages 2 to 12, this class gives you everything you need to get the job done.
Unplug Your Christmas Machine
Fee: $39, 1 class
Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.
November 21
If the thought of fending off the Christmas Gimmies makes you want to stick your head in the oven, come enjoy this class and learn lots of ways to decommercialize your holidays. Based on the ever-popular book by Jo Robinson and Jean Staeheli, this workshop will put the curl back in your elf-slippers and even a ho ho ho in your heart.
To register, please contact
Fort Lewis College
Continuing Education
315 Reed Library
Durango, CO 81301
(970) 247-7385
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
Showing posts with label Durango Colorado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Durango Colorado. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Great Independent Book Store
Check Out Maria's Book Shop 960 Main Avenue Durango Colorado. Or look at this web site. www.mariasbookshop.com
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Maria's Book Shop, Edward Abbey Celebration
Maria's is this really cool book store in Durango, Colorado. Many Write On Authors have come to KSJE's Attention through it.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Libby Cowles, Staff and Community Relations Manager
Maria’s Bookshop
libby@mariasbookshop.com
(970) 247-1438
ED ABBEY PARTY AT MARIA’S BOOKSHOP CELEBRATES WRITER’S LEGACY 20 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
DURANGO (Februray 23, 2009)— Calling all Four Corners Ed Abbey fans!
Maria’s Bookshop, at 960 Main Avenue in Durango, will host a celebration of Edward Abbey’s life and work on Monday, March 16th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, marking the 20th anniversary of his death. The evening will include raucous readings from Abbey’s work as well as discussion about the relevancy of his words and ideas to our modern Western lives today, featuring speakers Ken Wright, M. John Fayhee, Kate Niles, Art Goodtimes, Michael Rendon and B. Frank
When Edward Abbey died in 1989 at the age of sixty-two, the American West lost one of its most eloquent and passionate advocates. Through his novels, essays, letters and speeches, Abbey consistently voiced the belief that the West was in danger of being developed to death, and that the only solution lay in the preservation of wilderness. Abbey authored twenty-one books in his lifetime, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and Fool's Progress. His comic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang helped inspire a whole generation of environmental activism. A writer in the mold of Twain and Thoreau, Abbey was a larger-than-life figure as big as the West itself.
Durango-based writer Ken Wright, author of The Monkey Wrench Dad, will serve at master of ceremonies. Wright is a free-lance writer, college instructor, author, and father, although not necessarily in that order. He is also a contributing editor and columnist for Inside Outside Southwest magazine, where his writings take readers on philosophical and often humorous forays into the unique life and land of the Four Corners region. Ken's essays, book reviews, and news features have appeared in a variety of national and regional magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of two essay collections, A Wilder Life: Essays from Home and Why I'm Against it All.
Wright will be joined by M. John Fayhee, Kate Niles, Art Goodtimes, Michael Rendon and B. Frank.
M. John Fayhee is the author of seven books, including A Colorado Winter, Mexico’s Copper Canyon Country, Along the Colorado Trail and Up at Altitude. He was a contributing editor at Backpacker magazine for 12 years, and his work has appeared in many magazines, including the Islands, High Country News, Aspen Sojourner, Forbes-Life MountainTime, Adventure Travel, The Walking Magazine, Family Camping, Summit, Canoe, Outside, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Men’s Fitness, America West Airlines Magazine and Horizon Air. In 2000, Fayhee, along with two partners, resurrected the legendary Mountain Gazette, which, back in its previous incarnation in the 1970s, regularly published the work of Edward Abbey, including the first chapter of the book that came to be known as The Monkey Wrench Gang. Fayhee still works as an editor-at-large for Mountain Gazette. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico.
Fort Lewis College professor Kate Niles is the award-winning author of The Basket Maker and Geographies of the Heart and is a regular contributor to Inside Outside Southwest magazine. Her work has appeared in national publications including The Louisville Review, FishDrum, South Dakota Review, and others. She is the winner of the Colorado Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award (the state’s highest arts award) and lives outside Durango with her husband and son.
A bioregionalist student of Dolores La Chapelle, Art Goodtimes writes from Cloud Acre on Wright’s Mesa, in the San Miguel Watershed cusp between the Colorado Plateau and the San Juan Mountains. When not serving as Colorado’s only Green county commissioner, he grows organic heirloom seed potatoes, hosts various Talking Gourds performance poetry events, takes his family on vacation to the annual Rainbow Gathering, runs the parade at the Telluride Mushroom Festival and serves as poet-in-residence, as he has for the past 27 years. Goodtimes is a former poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and Wild Earth.
Durango City Councilor Michael Rendon is the former director of The Environmental Center at Fort Lewis College, and a former Maria’s Bookshop bookseller. He currently serves as Executive Director of Sexual Assault Services Organization in Durango.
B. Frank wanders the dry country Abbey wandered, seeking truths and chances to rouse the sleeping rabble for one more try at retaking the empire. Currently listed as a 'senior correspondent' for Mountain Gazette, Frank also contributes regularly to the San Juan Almanac, an on-line blog started by Ken Wright
Other special guests will likely join the event. Audience members are invited to come with their favorite Abbey passages, memories and stories to share.
M. John Fayhee is available for interviews before the event. Contact him at mjfayhee@mountaingazette.com, (575) 538-1273 or (575) 534-4104.
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
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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Libby Cowles, Staff and Community Relations Manager
Maria’s Bookshop
libby@mariasbookshop.com
(970) 247-1438
ED ABBEY PARTY AT MARIA’S BOOKSHOP CELEBRATES WRITER’S LEGACY 20 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
DURANGO (Februray 23, 2009)— Calling all Four Corners Ed Abbey fans!
Maria’s Bookshop, at 960 Main Avenue in Durango, will host a celebration of Edward Abbey’s life and work on Monday, March 16th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, marking the 20th anniversary of his death. The evening will include raucous readings from Abbey’s work as well as discussion about the relevancy of his words and ideas to our modern Western lives today, featuring speakers Ken Wright, M. John Fayhee, Kate Niles, Art Goodtimes, Michael Rendon and B. Frank
When Edward Abbey died in 1989 at the age of sixty-two, the American West lost one of its most eloquent and passionate advocates. Through his novels, essays, letters and speeches, Abbey consistently voiced the belief that the West was in danger of being developed to death, and that the only solution lay in the preservation of wilderness. Abbey authored twenty-one books in his lifetime, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and Fool's Progress. His comic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang helped inspire a whole generation of environmental activism. A writer in the mold of Twain and Thoreau, Abbey was a larger-than-life figure as big as the West itself.
Durango-based writer Ken Wright, author of The Monkey Wrench Dad, will serve at master of ceremonies. Wright is a free-lance writer, college instructor, author, and father, although not necessarily in that order. He is also a contributing editor and columnist for Inside Outside Southwest magazine, where his writings take readers on philosophical and often humorous forays into the unique life and land of the Four Corners region. Ken's essays, book reviews, and news features have appeared in a variety of national and regional magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of two essay collections, A Wilder Life: Essays from Home and Why I'm Against it All.
Wright will be joined by M. John Fayhee, Kate Niles, Art Goodtimes, Michael Rendon and B. Frank.
M. John Fayhee is the author of seven books, including A Colorado Winter, Mexico’s Copper Canyon Country, Along the Colorado Trail and Up at Altitude. He was a contributing editor at Backpacker magazine for 12 years, and his work has appeared in many magazines, including the Islands, High Country News, Aspen Sojourner, Forbes-Life MountainTime, Adventure Travel, The Walking Magazine, Family Camping, Summit, Canoe, Outside, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Men’s Fitness, America West Airlines Magazine and Horizon Air. In 2000, Fayhee, along with two partners, resurrected the legendary Mountain Gazette, which, back in its previous incarnation in the 1970s, regularly published the work of Edward Abbey, including the first chapter of the book that came to be known as The Monkey Wrench Gang. Fayhee still works as an editor-at-large for Mountain Gazette. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico.
Fort Lewis College professor Kate Niles is the award-winning author of The Basket Maker and Geographies of the Heart and is a regular contributor to Inside Outside Southwest magazine. Her work has appeared in national publications including The Louisville Review, FishDrum, South Dakota Review, and others. She is the winner of the Colorado Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award (the state’s highest arts award) and lives outside Durango with her husband and son.
A bioregionalist student of Dolores La Chapelle, Art Goodtimes writes from Cloud Acre on Wright’s Mesa, in the San Miguel Watershed cusp between the Colorado Plateau and the San Juan Mountains. When not serving as Colorado’s only Green county commissioner, he grows organic heirloom seed potatoes, hosts various Talking Gourds performance poetry events, takes his family on vacation to the annual Rainbow Gathering, runs the parade at the Telluride Mushroom Festival and serves as poet-in-residence, as he has for the past 27 years. Goodtimes is a former poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and Wild Earth.
Durango City Councilor Michael Rendon is the former director of The Environmental Center at Fort Lewis College, and a former Maria’s Bookshop bookseller. He currently serves as Executive Director of Sexual Assault Services Organization in Durango.
B. Frank wanders the dry country Abbey wandered, seeking truths and chances to rouse the sleeping rabble for one more try at retaking the empire. Currently listed as a 'senior correspondent' for Mountain Gazette, Frank also contributes regularly to the San Juan Almanac, an on-line blog started by Ken Wright
Other special guests will likely join the event. Audience members are invited to come with their favorite Abbey passages, memories and stories to share.
M. John Fayhee is available for interviews before the event. Contact him at mjfayhee@mountaingazette.com, (575) 538-1273 or (575) 534-4104.
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
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
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
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