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Member News & Publications
 PWP
has a record 105 members! June 2008 marked
our 20th birthday - we had a visit from PWP
Founder Joan Pickart at the June PWP
meeting. Joan wishes all Prescott Writers
the very best and is pleased by the
continuing evolution of the group!
Welcome to new members Juanita Alomar, Geri
Marr Burdman, Robert Carlile, Joan Foberg, Elizabeth Francovich, Gary Griffith, Cynthia
Hall, Keith Henson, Jay Hingst, Elizabeth Kaites, Kristen
Kauffman,
Sue Knaup,
Carol
Krawczak, Petra Lozano aka P.K. Parker, Herb
McCabe, Ford Minton, Ray Palmer, Daniel Schrager, Joel
Thomas,
Michele Van Haecke
and renewing 2008 members!
 Congratulations
to Jon Fulghum
on his success
in promoting his
book
Everything You
Need to Know
about Garage &
Yard Sales. 
An interview
with Jon appears
on page 68 of
the July issue
of Parents
Magazine.
[Wow!] And Jon
will be
interviewed on
KPPV radio on
July 8th and on
Channel 3 on
July 14th. Home
Design News,
Design 2 Share,
a
worldwide internet
home and
garden magazine
will soon
publish selected
pages from Everything
You Need to Know
about Garage &
Yard Sales
on their
Web site.
John and
his book wer
featured in the
May 2007 edition
of
YAVAPAI
Magazine
PWP member and ReaditNews
Editor Candace McNulty was interviewed by
host Elisabeth Ruffner on Community Access
Channel 13 about her early motivation toward
progressive causes and her writing and
editing work on June 29 & 30 "I Believe"
shows.
She also did a recent
ReadItNews book review
of Prescott survival guru Cody Lundin's
latest book,
When All Hell
Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When
Disaster Strikes.
PWP Programs VP Arlene Eisenbise has a poem,
ILLUSIONS
CLAD IN FUR, in
PWP member Lady Mathers "Poets Corner"
feature of the June
Monsoon Magazine.
The poem appears on page 19 of the
paper version
and page
22 of the pdf file. The magazine is
distributed around the Quad cities.
In
the first half of 2008, Terri New, writer
and producer of Incite Productions,
was hard at work on 60 second movie pitch
for
Voices of the Velvet
Revolution, a video produced
about the Velvet Revolution in
Czechoslovakia in 1989, in which she had
involvement.
In June, she reported that she is
collaborating
on the Voices of the Velvet Revolution
screenplay with two notable local writers,
playwright Michelle McFadden and Williamson
Valley author Bliss Knight, who just
finished Air Affair, manuscript about
her trials and tribulations as a female
pioneer in commercial aviation. New also
reports that
she has "a
distribution company and amazingly they are
in the neighborhood - The Theater Arts
title and California Golden Seas
Curriculum."
 Bill
Smith's article,
The Care and Cleaning of the Charcoal Grill is in the June 27th-July
11th issue of Coffee-Talk Light News, on page 6. In May,
Bill reported: "I’ve
had three more entries on www.lesliecharteris.com in
the features section, misuse of words subsection,
and another bit of political nit-picking."
To read Bill's latest musings, click on "features" and then "Misuse
of Words." Scroll down to the next to the last bulleted paragraph.
Earlier this year he
had another bit of verse - "Who is a
Poet" - published online at
Electric Scotland,
and a blurb about
the misuse of a word at lesliecharteris.com - note that
he was also canonized as Saint William Smith on the site!
 Connie
Johnson Kramer gave a Powerpoint
presentation of her book, Farm Kids: A
1950s Wisconsin Memoir, in late May at
the Prescott Valley Public Library.
Her
essay on updated holiday traditions appears
on page 12 of the February 2008 issue
of Natural Health, and her "Birding"
acrostic is in the January 2008 issue of
Prescott Audubon Society's newsletter
Wingtips.
PWP Secretary Elaine Jordan is on
another roll! In late June she announced
publication of an essay,
A Prayer for
Earl"
published in the 2008 Alligator
Juniper, Prescott College literary
magazine.
In early May, she was featured
in the Prescott Valley Tribune in an
article,
Separation Makes for a
Heartwarming Tale, by
reporter Sue Tone, based on the release of
Elaine's essay Brave Heart,
which came out on April 9 in
Cup of Comfort for
Single Mothers, just in time for
Mother's Day. Elaine
spoke at the PV L ibrary
on May 8 about the book and her essay. Not
only that, also in time for Mother's Day, a
California publisher released
The Mothering
Heights Manual for
Motherhood, an anthology that
includes Elaine's essay Comanche Child.
The Georgetown
Review Spring 2008 issue
published Elaine's essay
Cartoons,
which won Honorable Mention in their
2007 writing contest! And earlier
this year Elaine won first place in
nonfiction for her essay Tulip
in the Inland Empire 2007 Writing
Contest.
 Freelancer
Kathleen Ewing is also keeping her pencils
sharp! Check out her useful new article,
The Brainstorm Book, in "Writing for
Dollars." See Kathleeen's
WD article database for links to previous
features.
Her excellent feature titled
How To Optimize Your Market Search is
in the June 10 issue of "Writing for Dollars".
To Catch a Copyright Thief
and
Rejection Recovery: An 8-Point Plan
are in
the June 8 and June 1 issues of "Funds for Writers Small Markets" newsletter
online, respectively.
Earlier this spring she published
two features,
Evergreen, The Color of Money and
7 Tips for Mining the Free Issue in
"Writing for Dollars."
Actually, TWO members of PWP have
feature articles in the June 10
issue of Writing for Dollars.
Willma Gore
also contributed a feature about
what you can write and sell while
waiting to "publish the great
American novel." See more about
Willma below.
It
seems PWP has also has two
first-place
winners in the Florida State Writing
Competition! Kathleen Ewing won
first place in the first chapter,
unpublished novel category of the
Florida State Writing
Competition. Kathleen reports, "This
is how they posted the announcement
on the writers-editors.com website:
NOVEL CHAPTER - UNPUBLISHED
1st PLACE - Kathleen Ewing,
Prescott Valley, AZ - Hang the
Moon -
"Heads above others. Lyrical without
going overboard."
Kathleen adds, "I guess now I'm
gonna have to finish the danged
thing
just to see how it turns out!"
And is if that isn't
exciting enough, PWP Secretary
Elaine
Jordan won First
Place (nonfiction) in the Florida
State Writing Competition with a
personal essay, Barbara's Gift.
Tamra Westberry's
cover for
Amber Polo's
Sedona-
based paranormal romance novel,
Romancing Rebecca (Wild
Rose Press), was posted on the
Author's
Lounge site for a May
book cover competition. Not a
winner, but a gorgeous
 cover
nonetheless!
A book launch party and book signing for
Romancing
Rebecca was held in March at the
Camp Verde Artisans
Gallery, and she presented
a
yoga/writing workshop in April at The
Well Red Coyote Bookstore
-
The
Joys of Writing about Sex: The Serious
Side of Bodice-Ripping.
 “Received
word yesterday that my short anecdote,
'Treasured
Footprints' is published in the June
27 Home Forum page of the C.S. Monitor,
and I learned today that the current
issue (Jul/Aug) of the on-line
publication,
Working
Writer carries my article,
'Anyone Can Be Published.' ”
Two
of Willma Gore's fine freelance features,
Help Where You Can Use It - Writer Workshops
and
While Waiting To Sell The Great American
Novel
recently appeared in May and June issues of
the weekly
Writing For Dollars.
An April issue
has the feature Manilla Indian, and
in a May issue,
a
re-print of her article, Curling Up To An
Interview.
See Willma's article
database
on the site.
Willma was out
and about in April with her latest
nonfiction book,
Long Distance
Grandparenting.
She's
safely home in Sedona after the
eight-appearance book tour in California.
"Sold all the books I took and had to order
more from the publisher while there," she
reports.
On
July 10, Willma "will have a brief spot
behind the microphone speaking about my
latest book, Long
Distance Grandparenting, to
the convention (they tell me 1000
attendees!)" of Pilot International, a
philanthropic
group that is more than 80 years old.
"The event will be held at the Phoenix
Marriott Hotel and Spa, and I will have
a special table from which I can sell my
books. How did I get this gig? It pays
to keep in touch with all the writers
you have known through the years."
Willma had several writing successes earlier
in 2008: her
story
Anniversary Surprise” won an
honorable mention in the 2007 WOW (Women On
Writing) contest;
the January/February issue of
Working Writer carries her article
Strangers, A Writers Greatest Resource.
(This was published last year in Writing For
Dollars); she received Honorable Mentions
for two stories entered in the Decatur, IL
Library contest: The New Hat Trick,
which she read at the last PWP member
readings and Cell Mates, also
published in the 2006 Writings From the
River (Montana State University) anthology.
In addition, Willma won an honorable mention
in a Women on Writing contest for an essay,
Lucky Move.
The
March/April issue of Working Writers carries
my article: The Editor Is Always (?)
Right, first published several years ago
in ByLine Magazine.
Read Willma's blog
 Gene
Garrison
had a book signing in Cave Creek, Arizona on May 3 with Hugh Downs, the
celebrity television host, who also gave a fund-raiser talk to benefit the Cave
Creek
Museum on May 5. Downs talked about horseback riding with rancher and
storyteller Hube Yates back in the 1970s. Gene is the author of From Thunder
to Breakfast, a book about Yates, originally a Northland Press publication
with a foreword by Downs, now in its third printing with Xlibris.
Gene has a recent essay titled
Gender-Confusing Names at
www.amazon.com/shorts.
 Prescott
College English instructor Nancy Owen Nelson
is Associate Producer of the local access
Channel 13 program "I Believe", which airs
on Sunday evenings at 5:30 p.m. and Monday
afternoons at 3 p.m. Some programs
feature PWP members, such as the
interview on April 27 & 28 with Sue Knaup,
Director of
One Street.
"I Believe" can be viewed at
www.prescottlivetv.com/ via
webstream. Be sure to click on "Access 13"
channel. The program runs about 60 seconds
behind the live program. See the
PWP Events
page for current program info.
 MAD
WOMEN POETS came out in full force on April
10, 2008 at the Prescott Public Library.
Readers were
PWP member Mary Bragg, Megan
Buchanan, Catherine Euler, Dee Hamilton,
Susan Lang,
PWP member
Susan McElheran, and Barbara
Sassone.
Congrats
to Rita Tinsley, who has an article
featured in April's
Bridle & Bit
(an AZ publication) with a teaser on the
front cover. The article is:
POLICE STORY: FROM BARNYARD TO
CITY BEAT
and "entails the story of a family horse
from Texas that is recruited by the
Tempe Mounted Police Unit to become one
of its mounts. The horse soon becomes
renamed to memorialize a beloved fallen
officer."
 Brand
new
PWP member
Kristen Kauffman
recently published her first novel,
Just
Pretend,
with PublishAmerica.
Not only is she doing some nifty readings
and signings
around the Prescott area this spring,
the Prescott Daily Courier also featured her
in an article on April 2!
At the May meeting, Kristen confided that
she has just finished her second novel, a
five-month endeavor.
Photo©2008
by Joe Dibuduo
Julie
Woodman reported on March 4 in her blog,
Walking Prescott,
"that Linkage:
Alone on a Limb,
down in Georgia, has included my post
For the Birds
on the March edition of the Carnival of
Outdoor Education."
Congrats to
Susan Lanning,
who had editorial letters published in the Arizona Republic and the Prescott
Daily Courier in March!
Susan is the author
of two published novels -
THE
DANESBORO LINE, a
romantic suspense with a touch of sci-fi, and mystery thriller
HARPER'S BLUFF.
Mad Woman Poet Susan McElheran opened THE
OLD SAGE BOOKSHOP in early February in the
walkway at Hotel St. Michael on the
corner of Gurley and Montezuma in Prescott.
The store offers fascinating used books for
the collector and the seeker!
Photo ©2008 by
Joe Dibuduo
 Cheers
to Don Dahlin on the publication of his
new book, The Conspiracy,
Fraud, Quackery and Death of Psychiatry,
available at
Authorhouse.
Don is also the author of A
Practical Handbook For Unlimited
Spiritual Ability: Optimum
Self-Government (AuthorHouse, 2005).
Don is a retired chiropractor as
well as a writer.
Congrats to Judge Peter S. Smith
(Ret.), whose latest book from
Jada Press -
The No BS
Handbook for Successful
Investing - made
its debut in October 2007. Jade
Press says "As
an award-winning novelist,
Smith’s writing skill makes
The No BS Handbook more
lively and readable than any
other books on investing. "
Lady Mathers' lovely poem "Dear
Papa" appears
in Lady's
"Poet's Corner"
column on page 19 of the December issue of
Monsoon Magazine. Access the December issue
and back issues at
http://www.sparrowpress.com/Monsoon/archives.html
Just before New Year's, PWP Webmaster
Kate Robinson received another small
cash award and a certificate in the
Arizona State Poetry Society's (ASPS)
December members' contest
for a poem in the theme category
(stained glass), titled "Second
Coming of Love."
It appears in the Winter 2008 Edition of
Sandcutters, the ASPS journal.
One of her short stories,
The
Upstairs Room,
is slated for November 2008 publication
by the
award winning Elastic Press
in
Subtle Edens,
a
British anthology of slipstream sci-fi
edited by the award-winning writer Allen
Ashley.
Cheers
-
a prosperous and creative year to all!
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