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I will be hosting the Book Pavilion at the Green New Meida Life Expo. As an author, this is your chance to shine and create a huge following for your book project, book - associated business, speaking tours and more.
You can help yourself and the environment plus reduce your dependence on traditional marketing materials and the costs associated with them by exhibiting with us and getting a reusable package of new media promotion tools like a video, podcasts, exposure on national blogs, and radio (see more details below).
Green New Media & Life Expo featuring our Green Book Pavilion is coming to the Ontario Convention Center September 12 - 13 but we plan two other expos this fall. Learn more at www.greennewmedialifeexpo.com.
We will feature New Media On - line Technology including live bloggers, live Internet Radio interviews, streaming video programming, social media interactivity with Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter plus more in an effort to help you save money while generating sales and new clients.
For more information, pricing and to reserve your exhibit booth visit our Web site at www.greennewmedialifeexpo.com or contact Gerald Fisher at
702 - 467 - 9411 or by email at gefisher39@aol.com. If you tell Gerry that you are a subscriber of this newsletter, I will make every effort to interview you for your video myself rather than assign you to one of our other trained visual hosts.
Sharing with Writers subscriber and author Patricia Kokinos will be handling publiicity and if you can help spread the word, contact her at americanstory@sbcglobal.net. In charge of videos is Randy Detroit. To see a sample of his professional work go to www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com. The first video he did for me is at the top of the page.
And, of course, the Expo is produced by Rey Ybarra, host of BestSellingAuthorTV.com.
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Happy writing, editing, and - - of course - - promoting, Carolyn Howard - Johnson
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http://www.authorsden.com/carolynhowardjohnson
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
Friday, July 10, 2009
Write On Author Pati Nagle's signings
Pati will be on Write On 4 Corners on KSJE FM with her fantasy The Betrayal in late fall early winter, 2009. Watch this blog for her appearances
July 25, 1:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion & Signing: "Magic & Murder"
with Jane Lindskold, John Maddox Roberts, and Pari Noskin Taichert
Barnes & Noble, Coronado Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 18, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing: "The Secret Handshake"
Southwest Writers
New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 20, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing with Jane Lindskold
Bookworks, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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
July 25, 1:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion & Signing: "Magic & Murder"
with Jane Lindskold, John Maddox Roberts, and Pari Noskin Taichert
Barnes & Noble, Coronado Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 18, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing: "The Secret Handshake"
Southwest Writers
New Life Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 20, 7:00 p.m.
Talk & Signing with Jane Lindskold
Bookworks, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Write On Four Corners Schedule July, 2009
Write on 4 Corners, KSJE-FM 90.9
Connie Gotsch Program Driector/Interviewer
July 8: Marianne Aweagon Broyles The Red Window West End Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 10: Dr. David P Sklar, La Clinica, A Doctor’s Journey Across Borders University of New Mexico Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 15: Carol Walker Hoof Beats America’s Vanishing Wild Horses Painted Hills Publishing, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 17: Laura Gomez, Manifest DestiniesThe Making of the Mexican American Race New York University Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 29: Nancy Bartlett Silent Voices of World War II Sunstone Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 31: Melody Groves, Arizona War, La Frontera Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
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
Connie Gotsch Program Driector/Interviewer
July 8: Marianne Aweagon Broyles The Red Window West End Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 10: Dr. David P Sklar, La Clinica, A Doctor’s Journey Across Borders University of New Mexico Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 15: Carol Walker Hoof Beats America’s Vanishing Wild Horses Painted Hills Publishing, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 17: Laura Gomez, Manifest DestiniesThe Making of the Mexican American Race New York University Press. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 29: Nancy Bartlett Silent Voices of World War II Sunstone Press, "Write On 4 Corners," KSJE FM 90.9, www.ksje.com, 10:30am, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
July 31: Melody Groves, Arizona War, La Frontera Publishing. Write On 4 Corners, KSJE FM 90.9 www.ksje.com, 2:30pm, reading. 505-566 3377, gotschc@sanjuancollege.edu
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
New Mexico Book Association news
NMBA Networking Luncheon this Friday, July 10
NMBA Gatherings on July 10 and 16
OUR JULY NETWORKING LUNCHEON takes place this Friday, July 10 at the Writers Room in Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm. Brown Bag format (we’ll supply juice and cookies). The Writers Room is in the first building at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, off St. Francis Drive. It’s through the blue door and upstairs. Reservations are not needed and friends are welcome. Call (505) 231-1755 or 988-7214 if you need directions.
NMBA’s informal after-work Round Table Happy Hour is Thursday of next week, July 16. Our Happy Hours are at Santa Fe Bar & Grill in DeVargas Mall, 5:30 pm. The Round Table Happy Hours are understandably quite relaxed, with intelligent book chatter and witty camaraderie.
Enter Your Best-Looking Titles Now in NMBA’s Southwest Book Design & Production Awards
THAT GREAT BOOK you did as publisher, author or designer in 2008 or 2009 can be entered now in the Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellence, a new program announced by NMBA. Your entry form is in the mail to you now!
Categories include trade books, art and photography, scholarly/technical, guide and travel, lifestyle, poetry, children/young adult, graphic novels, and cover design. We need two copies of each title entered. Entry for NMBA members is just $30. (You’ll save another $5 by entering anytime before the Early Bird Deadline, Oct. 31.) When members submit a book in a second category it’s only $15 more. Send check, form and entries to: New Mexico Book Association, c/o Recursos, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe 87505.
The NMBA directors expect this competition will spotlight enhanced design and production quality in the books from our region. The emphasis is on excellence!
Post Events Electronically – it’s the Only Way!
NMBA’s NEW ELECTRONIC Book Events Form is truly accessible and easy to use. Go to our website,. www nmbook.org, and click on the Calendar & News Submission Form logo. In moments, your meeting, booksigning, seminar, show, contest, or workshop will be in NMBA’s hands, ready for posting. We’ve made it easier, and from now on you must submit your forthcoming book and literary events online.Things got out of hand with items coming to us in sundry formats. This simplification will make it simpler and faster for us all. If your event is important to you and others (and it is!), don’t rely on us condensing a press release or an email attachment. From now on, we’ll publish it only if it comes in via the NMBA website’s easy-click form!
Book Events Calendar Update:
Attention! Calendar items must be received by email only via the easy-to-use form at www.nmbook.org . Click on Calendar & News Events Submission Form and follow the brief prompts. Fast and simple, it’s also the only way your event will appear here. For NMBA’s email Book Events Calendar, please submit at least two weeks prior to the event!
July 10: NMBA Monthly Networking Luncheon, The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free! Bring your lunch; cookies, juice and thoughtful writing and publishing advice provided! Contact Paula, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
July 10: NMBA Board Meeting at the Writers’ Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 1:30pm.
July 10-12: Rick Reichman Weekend Screenwriting Workshop, Santa Fe Community College. Friday 7pm-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am-4:30pm. $105. Call 505-428-1270 or email rmreichman@earthlink.net
July 10-12: "Lavender in the Village" (bookselling event), Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. www.nmbookcoop.com
July 11: John Q. Olson Self-Publishing Workshop. SOMOS, Taos Visitors Center, Paseo del Pueblo Sur, 10am-2pm, $50 advance required.www.somostaos.org
July 11-14: American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago. ala@heiexpo.com
July 16: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour. Santa Fe Bar & Grill, DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe, 5:30pm. All literary people are invited to share news, info and gossip. Cash bar. Jim Mafchir, 505-988-7214.
July 18 and 25: Embracing Your Right Livelihood (Introductory class), Soul Resources, at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, free. 11am -1pm, 505-271-4612.
July 21: Herding Words: Organizing the Novel with Betsy James, SouthWest Literary Center, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 7-9 pm.
July 31: Natalie Goldberg and Friends, SOMOS, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm, 575-758-0081, somos@somostaos.org, www.somostaos.org.
Aug. 1: IWWG & Friends Luncheon Meeting, Mission Cafe, 239 E. De Vargas, Santa Fe, 11:30am, 505-473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
Aug. 15: DEADLINE! NMBA Book Events Calendar for September/October. Submit all items on the "Calendar and Events Submission Form" on the homepage at www.nmbook.org. (Yes, it’s new and simple—and it’s required!).
Aug. 15: SouthWest Writers Conference: The Novel–All Genres, CNM Workforce Training Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave N.E., Albuquerque, 8:30am to 5pm, $99 for SWW members if you register by July 15 ($149-$179 non-members). Details at www.southhwestwriters.com
Sept. 23-26: Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Denver International Airport. Lisa Knudsen or Kyle Larson, 800-752-0249, www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 26: New Mexico Woman Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. John Stafford, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Sample of Author Events and Readings:
July 3: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Robert Mirabal and Jason Yurcic, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm.
July 10: Lucien Niemeyer, Darfur, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Bookworks, Albuquerque.
July 11: Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money. Santa Fe Farmers Market, 9am.
July 11: Alisa Valdez Rodriguez, The Husband Habit, Santa Fe Baking Company, 504 W. Cordova Rd, Santa Fe, 11am-2pm. www.garciastreetbooks.com.
July 12: Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable, Bookworks, Albuquerque, 1pm.
July 12: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Bookworks, 3 pm.
July 16: Eve Brown-Waite, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria, Collected Works, 6pm.
July 16: EllynAnne Geisel, The Kitchen Linens Book, Bookworks, 7pm.
July 17: Craig Varjabedian, Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, NM History Museum, 6pm.
July 17: Dolores Sloan, The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal talks on "Honoring the Ancestors of Many New Mexicans," Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm.
July 19: Faye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman, Garcia Street Books, 3pm.
July 19: Rudolfo Anaya speaks about Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays, Bookworks, 3pm.
July 21: Bob and Gerald Hausman, Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward Curtis, Collected Works, Santa Fe.
July 23: Carmella Padilla, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
August 7: K. J. Fraser, A Journey, a Reckoning, and a Miracle, informal discussion & signing
Moby Dickens,Taos, 2-4pm. 575-758-3050, www.mobydickens.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
NMBA Gatherings on July 10 and 16
OUR JULY NETWORKING LUNCHEON takes place this Friday, July 10 at the Writers Room in Santa Fe, 11:30am to 1:15pm. Brown Bag format (we’ll supply juice and cookies). The Writers Room is in the first building at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, off St. Francis Drive. It’s through the blue door and upstairs. Reservations are not needed and friends are welcome. Call (505) 231-1755 or 988-7214 if you need directions.
NMBA’s informal after-work Round Table Happy Hour is Thursday of next week, July 16. Our Happy Hours are at Santa Fe Bar & Grill in DeVargas Mall, 5:30 pm. The Round Table Happy Hours are understandably quite relaxed, with intelligent book chatter and witty camaraderie.
Enter Your Best-Looking Titles Now in NMBA’s Southwest Book Design & Production Awards
THAT GREAT BOOK you did as publisher, author or designer in 2008 or 2009 can be entered now in the Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellence, a new program announced by NMBA. Your entry form is in the mail to you now!
Categories include trade books, art and photography, scholarly/technical, guide and travel, lifestyle, poetry, children/young adult, graphic novels, and cover design. We need two copies of each title entered. Entry for NMBA members is just $30. (You’ll save another $5 by entering anytime before the Early Bird Deadline, Oct. 31.) When members submit a book in a second category it’s only $15 more. Send check, form and entries to: New Mexico Book Association, c/o Recursos, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe 87505.
The NMBA directors expect this competition will spotlight enhanced design and production quality in the books from our region. The emphasis is on excellence!
Post Events Electronically – it’s the Only Way!
NMBA’s NEW ELECTRONIC Book Events Form is truly accessible and easy to use. Go to our website,. www nmbook.org, and click on the Calendar & News Submission Form logo. In moments, your meeting, booksigning, seminar, show, contest, or workshop will be in NMBA’s hands, ready for posting. We’ve made it easier, and from now on you must submit your forthcoming book and literary events online.Things got out of hand with items coming to us in sundry formats. This simplification will make it simpler and faster for us all. If your event is important to you and others (and it is!), don’t rely on us condensing a press release or an email attachment. From now on, we’ll publish it only if it comes in via the NMBA website’s easy-click form!
Book Events Calendar Update:
Attention! Calendar items must be received by email only via the easy-to-use form at www.nmbook.org . Click on Calendar & News Events Submission Form and follow the brief prompts. Fast and simple, it’s also the only way your event will appear here. For NMBA’s email Book Events Calendar, please submit at least two weeks prior to the event!
July 10: NMBA Monthly Networking Luncheon, The Writers Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 11:30am, free! Bring your lunch; cookies, juice and thoughtful writing and publishing advice provided! Contact Paula, (505) 473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
July 10: NMBA Board Meeting at the Writers’ Room, 826 Camino del Monte Rey, Santa Fe, 1:30pm.
July 10-12: Rick Reichman Weekend Screenwriting Workshop, Santa Fe Community College. Friday 7pm-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am-4:30pm. $105. Call 505-428-1270 or email rmreichman@earthlink.net
July 10-12: "Lavender in the Village" (bookselling event), Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. www.nmbookcoop.com
July 11: John Q. Olson Self-Publishing Workshop. SOMOS, Taos Visitors Center, Paseo del Pueblo Sur, 10am-2pm, $50 advance required.www.somostaos.org
July 11-14: American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago. ala@heiexpo.com
July 16: NMBA Round Table Happy Hour. Santa Fe Bar & Grill, DeVargas Mall, Santa Fe, 5:30pm. All literary people are invited to share news, info and gossip. Cash bar. Jim Mafchir, 505-988-7214.
July 18 and 25: Embracing Your Right Livelihood (Introductory class), Soul Resources, at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, free. 11am -1pm, 505-271-4612.
July 21: Herding Words: Organizing the Novel with Betsy James, SouthWest Literary Center, New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank N.E., Albuquerque, 7-9 pm.
July 31: Natalie Goldberg and Friends, SOMOS, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm, 575-758-0081, somos@somostaos.org, www.somostaos.org.
Aug. 1: IWWG & Friends Luncheon Meeting, Mission Cafe, 239 E. De Vargas, Santa Fe, 11:30am, 505-473-3479, lozarpaula@cs.com.
Aug. 15: DEADLINE! NMBA Book Events Calendar for September/October. Submit all items on the "Calendar and Events Submission Form" on the homepage at www.nmbook.org. (Yes, it’s new and simple—and it’s required!).
Aug. 15: SouthWest Writers Conference: The Novel–All Genres, CNM Workforce Training Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave N.E., Albuquerque, 8:30am to 5pm, $99 for SWW members if you register by July 15 ($149-$179 non-members). Details at www.southhwestwriters.com
Sept. 23-26: Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Denver International Airport. Lisa Knudsen or Kyle Larson, 800-752-0249, www.mountainsplains.org
Sept. 26: New Mexico Woman Authors Book Festival, Milner Plaza (Museum Hill), Santa Fe. John Stafford, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, john@museumfoundation.org.
Sample of Author Events and Readings:
July 3: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Robert Mirabal and Jason Yurcic, Taos Art Plaza, 223 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, 7:30pm.
July 10: Lucien Niemeyer, Darfur, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
July 10: Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Bookworks, Albuquerque.
July 11: Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money. Santa Fe Farmers Market, 9am.
July 11: Alisa Valdez Rodriguez, The Husband Habit, Santa Fe Baking Company, 504 W. Cordova Rd, Santa Fe, 11am-2pm. www.garciastreetbooks.com.
July 12: Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable, Bookworks, Albuquerque, 1pm.
July 12: Patricia Greathouse, Mariachi, Bookworks, 3 pm.
July 16: Eve Brown-Waite, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria, Collected Works, 6pm.
July 16: EllynAnne Geisel, The Kitchen Linens Book, Bookworks, 7pm.
July 17: Craig Varjabedian, Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, NM History Museum, 6pm.
July 17: Dolores Sloan, The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal talks on "Honoring the Ancestors of Many New Mexicans," Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, 5-6pm.
July 19: Faye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman, Garcia Street Books, 3pm.
July 19: Rudolfo Anaya speaks about Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays, Bookworks, 3pm.
July 21: Bob and Gerald Hausman, Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward Curtis, Collected Works, Santa Fe.
July 23: Carmella Padilla, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Collected Works, Santa Fe, 6pm.
August 7: K. J. Fraser, A Journey, a Reckoning, and a Miracle, informal discussion & signing
Moby Dickens,Taos, 2-4pm. 575-758-3050, www.mobydickens.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, July 7, 2009
Word Harvest Doin's for Summer
We are delighted to host award-winning author and writing teacher Sandi Ault in a special workshop this summer. In "Six Degrees of Separation: From Creating Story Lines to Polishing Your Work - Important Skills A Writer Must Have," Sandi presents vital information writers need to stand out from the pack and succeed as published authors. Sandi will help you sharpen writing skills to develop a dynamic voice; create powerful images with your words; interweave and fine-tuning themes; set your story line and grab the reader; use polishing tools to distinguish your writing; and describe your work to make it easy to sell and market. Sign up now before the class fills! To learn more
If you want to know what it's like to study with Sandi, take a look at the guest blog by Pat Wood, one of Sandi's students at the 2008 Hillerman Conference.
Sandi's WILD INFERNO was a finalist at the recent Colorado Book Awards. The July issue of Women of Writing Magazine and the September issue of Cowboys & Indians both feature Ault. C&I also reviews WILD SORROW. (The same magazine will have an interview with Anne Hillerman about her newest book, Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes.)
Ellen Barone recently received the Travel Blissful Blog Award which she posted on her website. She notes, "By now, most businesses (yes, freelancers you ARE a business) realize that there are advantages to having a company website and blog. But, if you're like a lot of the people I meet, you may feel a bit confused, overwhelmed, puzzled and even frustrated by the world of new media and the Internet. You want to spend your time creating, not building a website or navigating Facebook, Twitter or Linked-In. Here's where I come in: I not only understand the new technology, I ENJOY it!"
Ellen will talk about how to use the web to jumpstart new sources of revenue or parlay your interests into creative new platforms during her Santa Fe workshop on Internet marketing on August 7. Space is still available in this interactive class, co-sponsored by Santa Fe Community College.The workshop is intended for writers, photographers, artists, entrepreneurs, and any one curious about websites, internet marketing and other on-line promotional tools.
WORDHARVEST Faculty on the Move
Craig Johnson, past winner of the Tony Hillerman Short Story Contest, received the 2009 Spur Award for best western novel for Another Man's Moccasins The Spur, given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, is among the oldest and most prestigious awards in American literature. Past winners include Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances With Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalkers. Johnson's newest, The Dark Horse, was released this spring.
David Morrell celebrates the 25th anniversary of his classic trilogy, The Brotherhood of the Rose this year. Ballantine is re-releasing all three novels as trade paperbacks with new afterwords by Morrell explaining how the books evolved. David's newest book, The Shimmer, is set for release in July by Vanguard Press.
Michael McGarrity reports steady progress on his new book, a historical novel tentatively titled Hard County, a prequel to the Kerney novels. Set in the territorial period of New Mexico, the book weaves crimes and misdeeds into the plot. On August 5, McGarrity will be speak at the Full Moon event at White Sands National Monument, east of Alamogordo, and on August 15 at the SouthWest Writers Conference in Albuquerque. He's also generously agreed to help with the launch of Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn Nov. 5 at the University of New Mexico and Nov. 8 in Santa Fe.
Steve Havill, faculty member at the Tony Hillerman Conference in 2007 and 2008, has a new book out, The Fourth Time Is Murder. This is his 15th novel set in fictional Posadas County, New Mexico. Booklist called it, "a satisfying, intelligent mystery."
Pari Noskin Taichert was in Washington, D.C. at Malice Domestic where she served on the humor panel and the social issues panel.
Susan Slater's newest book 0 to 60, which she calls an autobiographical novel, has a July 15 publication date from Bascom Hill Publishing Group. As part of the book launch, Susan has generously offered free critiques to other writers of fiction based on their own lives. Deadline for submissions is September 30th.The winner receives the Novel in a Weekend course with mystery writer Connie Shelton. For more visit Susan's website
NEWS FROM OUR STUDENTS.
Bob Haas has released Carbolic Smoke Ball Presents: Zombies Ate My Headlines. He produces a website (http://carbolicsmoke.com/), a weekly page in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and a radio spot--- in addition to having a full time job.
Sally Severino has published Becoming Fire, a Freudian Psychoanalysist's Spiritual Journey and Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living (with co-author Nancy K. Morrison).
Stephen Grogan's book, Vegas Die, was selected by The Independent Publisher Book Awards as the 2009 Silver Medal Winner for Best Regional Fiction (West & Mountain category). Known as "IPPY Awards," winners were announced at the 13th Annual Awards Ceremony in New York City during Book Expo.
Jennifer Kitchell's new book, Girl with Skirt of Stars, is due for release in August.Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn will be released Oct. 27, 2009 by HarperCollins and celebrated at an event at the University of New Mexico on November 5 and in Santa Fe Sunday, Nov. 8. If you'd like an invitation to these inaugural happenings, a benefit for the Hillerman-(Michael) McGarrity Scholarship for Creative Writing in Albuquerque and for the Public Libraries in Santa Fe, just send an email. The book, written by Anne Hillerman with photos by Don Strel, uses Tony's descriptions of Indian country scenery from the Chee/Leaphorn books, Don's pictures and Anne's memories of her father and non-fiction commentary.
Anne also published Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes this spring with GibbsSmith Publisher. The book is available in many book stores and through the publisher. She'll be signing Saturday, July 11, at 10 a.m. at the Lavender Festival in Los Ranchos (just northwest of Albuquerque) and again on July 26 at 1 p.m. in Santa Fe at the Spanish Market.
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
If you want to know what it's like to study with Sandi, take a look at the guest blog by Pat Wood, one of Sandi's students at the 2008 Hillerman Conference.
Sandi's WILD INFERNO was a finalist at the recent Colorado Book Awards. The July issue of Women of Writing Magazine and the September issue of Cowboys & Indians both feature Ault. C&I also reviews WILD SORROW. (The same magazine will have an interview with Anne Hillerman about her newest book, Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes.)
Ellen Barone recently received the Travel Blissful Blog Award which she posted on her website. She notes, "By now, most businesses (yes, freelancers you ARE a business) realize that there are advantages to having a company website and blog. But, if you're like a lot of the people I meet, you may feel a bit confused, overwhelmed, puzzled and even frustrated by the world of new media and the Internet. You want to spend your time creating, not building a website or navigating Facebook, Twitter or Linked-In. Here's where I come in: I not only understand the new technology, I ENJOY it!"
Ellen will talk about how to use the web to jumpstart new sources of revenue or parlay your interests into creative new platforms during her Santa Fe workshop on Internet marketing on August 7. Space is still available in this interactive class, co-sponsored by Santa Fe Community College.The workshop is intended for writers, photographers, artists, entrepreneurs, and any one curious about websites, internet marketing and other on-line promotional tools.
WORDHARVEST Faculty on the Move
Craig Johnson, past winner of the Tony Hillerman Short Story Contest, received the 2009 Spur Award for best western novel for Another Man's Moccasins The Spur, given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, is among the oldest and most prestigious awards in American literature. Past winners include Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances With Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalkers. Johnson's newest, The Dark Horse, was released this spring.
David Morrell celebrates the 25th anniversary of his classic trilogy, The Brotherhood of the Rose this year. Ballantine is re-releasing all three novels as trade paperbacks with new afterwords by Morrell explaining how the books evolved. David's newest book, The Shimmer, is set for release in July by Vanguard Press.
Michael McGarrity reports steady progress on his new book, a historical novel tentatively titled Hard County, a prequel to the Kerney novels. Set in the territorial period of New Mexico, the book weaves crimes and misdeeds into the plot. On August 5, McGarrity will be speak at the Full Moon event at White Sands National Monument, east of Alamogordo, and on August 15 at the SouthWest Writers Conference in Albuquerque. He's also generously agreed to help with the launch of Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn Nov. 5 at the University of New Mexico and Nov. 8 in Santa Fe.
Steve Havill, faculty member at the Tony Hillerman Conference in 2007 and 2008, has a new book out, The Fourth Time Is Murder. This is his 15th novel set in fictional Posadas County, New Mexico. Booklist called it, "a satisfying, intelligent mystery."
Pari Noskin Taichert was in Washington, D.C. at Malice Domestic where she served on the humor panel and the social issues panel.
Susan Slater's newest book 0 to 60, which she calls an autobiographical novel, has a July 15 publication date from Bascom Hill Publishing Group. As part of the book launch, Susan has generously offered free critiques to other writers of fiction based on their own lives. Deadline for submissions is September 30th.The winner receives the Novel in a Weekend course with mystery writer Connie Shelton. For more visit Susan's website
NEWS FROM OUR STUDENTS.
Bob Haas has released Carbolic Smoke Ball Presents: Zombies Ate My Headlines. He produces a website (http://carbolicsmoke.com/), a weekly page in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and a radio spot--- in addition to having a full time job.
Sally Severino has published Becoming Fire, a Freudian Psychoanalysist's Spiritual Journey and Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living (with co-author Nancy K. Morrison).
Stephen Grogan's book, Vegas Die, was selected by The Independent Publisher Book Awards as the 2009 Silver Medal Winner for Best Regional Fiction (West & Mountain category). Known as "IPPY Awards," winners were announced at the 13th Annual Awards Ceremony in New York City during Book Expo.
Jennifer Kitchell's new book, Girl with Skirt of Stars, is due for release in August.Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn will be released Oct. 27, 2009 by HarperCollins and celebrated at an event at the University of New Mexico on November 5 and in Santa Fe Sunday, Nov. 8. If you'd like an invitation to these inaugural happenings, a benefit for the Hillerman-(Michael) McGarrity Scholarship for Creative Writing in Albuquerque and for the Public Libraries in Santa Fe, just send an email. The book, written by Anne Hillerman with photos by Don Strel, uses Tony's descriptions of Indian country scenery from the Chee/Leaphorn books, Don's pictures and Anne's memories of her father and non-fiction commentary.
Anne also published Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes this spring with GibbsSmith Publisher. The book is available in many book stores and through the publisher. She'll be signing Saturday, July 11, at 10 a.m. at the Lavender Festival in Los Ranchos (just northwest of Albuquerque) and again on July 26 at 1 p.m. in Santa Fe at the Spanish Market.
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
Barbara Mayfield and Mrs. Iptweet go to Philadelphia
Barbara Mayfield, author/illustrator of The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, at the Chestnut Hill Book Festival in Philadelphia
Mayfield to conduct Mrs. Iptweet Playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking at O'Doodles Toy Store and the TreeHouse Play Cafe
Santa Fe, NM.------Author/illustrator/performer Barbara Mayfield will read excerpts from her first children's novel, The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, as part of the first annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival to be held July 10 -12.
As part of her readings, she'll be conducting free playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking, in the style of Aunt Belle and Prudence Fish Hornby, two of the stars in The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me.
"Mrs. Iptweet", a novel for children ages 8 and up, won a New Mexico Discovery Award in 2006. Heroine Prudence Fish Hornby, age nine-and-a-half, and her new neighbor, the quirky artist and Parade Specialist Mrs. Iptweet tap the power of the ground, study the magic and power of names and, against all odds, pull together the first annual Midsummer's Day Mythical Creatures Parade on boring old Durham Street.
Mayfield will be also be performing as Roving Puppeteer with her marionette, Beauty the Pink Flamingo, during the festival before and after her reading/signing times.
Mayfield was born and raised in Philadelphia. She lived for 15 in the West Mt. Airy section of the city on Durham Street, the setting for The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me. She studied at the Tyler School of Art and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She now lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works as a writer, a S.A.G. actor, an artist and as a puppeteer for Teatro Duende at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Chestnut Hill Book Festival Free and open to the public.
Mayfield's reading, signing and playshops:
7/11 Saturday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
O'Doodles Toy Store
8335 Germantown Ave,
Chestnut Hill, PA 19118
215-247-7405
www.odoodles.com
7/12 Sunday 11-1 p.m.
The Treehouse Play Cafe
8524 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19118
215 247-3637
www.treehouseplaycafe.com/main.php
info@TreehousePlayCafe.com
The Chestnut Hill Book Festival is hosting 60 authors in all genres.
www.yelp.com/events/philadelphia-chestnut-hill-book-festival
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, A Story of Life, Quirkiness and a Parade
Written and Illustrated by Barbara Mayfield
Published by Azro Press (www.azropress.com) Spring 2009
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
Mayfield to conduct Mrs. Iptweet Playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking at O'Doodles Toy Store and the TreeHouse Play Cafe
Santa Fe, NM.------Author/illustrator/performer Barbara Mayfield will read excerpts from her first children's novel, The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, as part of the first annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival to be held July 10 -12.
As part of her readings, she'll be conducting free playshops in Mail Art and MapMaking, in the style of Aunt Belle and Prudence Fish Hornby, two of the stars in The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me.
"Mrs. Iptweet", a novel for children ages 8 and up, won a New Mexico Discovery Award in 2006. Heroine Prudence Fish Hornby, age nine-and-a-half, and her new neighbor, the quirky artist and Parade Specialist Mrs. Iptweet tap the power of the ground, study the magic and power of names and, against all odds, pull together the first annual Midsummer's Day Mythical Creatures Parade on boring old Durham Street.
Mayfield will be also be performing as Roving Puppeteer with her marionette, Beauty the Pink Flamingo, during the festival before and after her reading/signing times.
Mayfield was born and raised in Philadelphia. She lived for 15 in the West Mt. Airy section of the city on Durham Street, the setting for The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me. She studied at the Tyler School of Art and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She now lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works as a writer, a S.A.G. actor, an artist and as a puppeteer for Teatro Duende at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Chestnut Hill Book Festival Free and open to the public.
Mayfield's reading, signing and playshops:
7/11 Saturday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
O'Doodles Toy Store
8335 Germantown Ave,
Chestnut Hill, PA 19118
215-247-7405
www.odoodles.com
7/12 Sunday 11-1 p.m.
The Treehouse Play Cafe
8524 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19118
215 247-3637
www.treehouseplaycafe.com/main.php
info@TreehousePlayCafe.com
The Chestnut Hill Book Festival is hosting 60 authors in all genres.
www.yelp.com/events/philadelphia-chestnut-hill-book-festival
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, A Story of Life, Quirkiness and a Parade
Written and Illustrated by Barbara Mayfield
Published by Azro Press (www.azropress.com) Spring 2009
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
Monday, July 6, 2009
Old West Trivia Book Unveiled
July 5, 2009
NEW & COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION RELEASED!
OLD WEST TRIVIA BOOK
by Don Bullis
228 pages 32 photographs; 6x9
ISBN 978-1-890689-61-2 ($17.95) (Trade paper)
The glamour and fascination of the Old West is brought to life in a new way in this interesting collection of facts and figures. Historic photographs tell stories of their own as the faces of such Old West characters as Geronimo, General Custer and the Unsinkable Molly Brown enliven the text. This book covers the who, what, where, and how in the often violent settling of the land west of the Mississippi. The scope and history of the Old West is highlighted in a way that is both factual and entertaining in this unique presentation that will appeal to anyone interested in the Old West and the people and places that made it happen. Author Don Bullis has spent his life covering the people and places of New Mexico as a small-town newspaper editor and as a deputy sheriff and town marshal. He has traveled extensively throughout the Western United States to gather the facts, figures, and photos that make up this collection.
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Signings/Presentations
Friday, June 19, 2009 -- 5:30-7:30pm, Western Writers of America Booksigning, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (book signing)
Saturday, July 11, 2009 -- 10am, Hispanic Geneaology Research Center, Albuquerque, NM (talk & signing)
Sunday, July 12, 2009 -- 12noon, Lavender in the Village Festival, Los Ranchos, NM (book signing)
Sunday, July 26, 2009 -- 12noon New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM (book signing)
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
The Old West Trivia Book was reviewed in the July 5 issue of the Albuquerque Journal.
"Old West trivia book revels in minutiae about the good, the bad and the ugly of life on the frontier. Bullis' book covers hundreds of ... famous and infamous individuals from the Old West in chapters on soldiers, Indians, cowboys, cattlemen, politicians, and literature. There's a newly added chapter on "Movie and Television of the Old West." -- Albuquerque Journal, July 5, 2009
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Other Reviews
Newspaper editor and deputy sheriff Don Bullis presents The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book, a great source for trivia games or simple browsing. Presented in a question-and-answer format, with questions grouped in chapters by subject, the trivia ranges in topic from lawmen and outlaws, to Indians of the West and their chiefs, to wagon trains, boomtowns, women of the Old West, literature and art of the Old West, moves of the West, and much more. Now packed with even more fascinating facts than the first edition, The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book is highly recommended to Western trivia buffs. "Q: What was Geronimo's real name? A: Three different sources give it three different spellings: Gokhlayeh, Goyathlay and Goyalka. One source says it translates as 'the yawner'." – MidWest Book Reviews, June 2009
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
NEW & COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION RELEASED!
OLD WEST TRIVIA BOOK
by Don Bullis
228 pages 32 photographs; 6x9
ISBN 978-1-890689-61-2 ($17.95) (Trade paper)
The glamour and fascination of the Old West is brought to life in a new way in this interesting collection of facts and figures. Historic photographs tell stories of their own as the faces of such Old West characters as Geronimo, General Custer and the Unsinkable Molly Brown enliven the text. This book covers the who, what, where, and how in the often violent settling of the land west of the Mississippi. The scope and history of the Old West is highlighted in a way that is both factual and entertaining in this unique presentation that will appeal to anyone interested in the Old West and the people and places that made it happen. Author Don Bullis has spent his life covering the people and places of New Mexico as a small-town newspaper editor and as a deputy sheriff and town marshal. He has traveled extensively throughout the Western United States to gather the facts, figures, and photos that make up this collection.
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Signings/Presentations
Friday, June 19, 2009 -- 5:30-7:30pm, Western Writers of America Booksigning, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (book signing)
Saturday, July 11, 2009 -- 10am, Hispanic Geneaology Research Center, Albuquerque, NM (talk & signing)
Sunday, July 12, 2009 -- 12noon, Lavender in the Village Festival, Los Ranchos, NM (book signing)
Sunday, July 26, 2009 -- 12noon New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM (book signing)
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
The Old West Trivia Book was reviewed in the July 5 issue of the Albuquerque Journal.
"Old West trivia book revels in minutiae about the good, the bad and the ugly of life on the frontier. Bullis' book covers hundreds of ... famous and infamous individuals from the Old West in chapters on soldiers, Indians, cowboys, cattlemen, politicians, and literature. There's a newly added chapter on "Movie and Television of the Old West." -- Albuquerque Journal, July 5, 2009
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK HERE!
Other Reviews
Newspaper editor and deputy sheriff Don Bullis presents The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book, a great source for trivia games or simple browsing. Presented in a question-and-answer format, with questions grouped in chapters by subject, the trivia ranges in topic from lawmen and outlaws, to Indians of the West and their chiefs, to wagon trains, boomtowns, women of the Old West, literature and art of the Old West, moves of the West, and much more. Now packed with even more fascinating facts than the first edition, The New & Completely Revised Old West Trivia Book is highly recommended to Western trivia buffs. "Q: What was Geronimo's real name? A: Three different sources give it three different spellings: Gokhlayeh, Goyathlay and Goyalka. One source says it translates as 'the yawner'." – MidWest Book Reviews, June 2009
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
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