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Our extraordinary PR Chair (and meeting greeter) Leslie Hoy did a recent online interview about PWP and how to start a writers group on the 'Opportunities' page of The View from Here, a print and online magazine in the UK!
 Richard W. Kimball reports, “The Prescott VA held a special presentation affair for local veteran artists. I was one of three veterans presented with a Gold Medal” in recognition of a special photograph called "Chaco Doorways in 3D," of doorways in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. “I will be travelling to La Crosse, Wisconsin in October, where I will show my artwork and take also part in planned workshops for all first place winners. My photo was picked from entries submitted by 72 VA facilities around the country.”
Feeling the urge to serve as well as write? Share your expertise and support the Prescott area writing community in 2011 with these PWP volunteer opportunities: VP Programs, Networking Chair, Newsletter Editor, and Webmaster. Raise your hand and contact PWP President Elaine Jordan at President@prescottwriters.com.
Moses Siregar III reports: "Big day for me. My first work of fiction, The Black God's War, a dramatic fantasy novella, is now available on Amazon and Smashwords!"
Kindle e-books can be read on any PC, Mac, iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or dog or cat. Smashwords also has Epub, PDF, RTF, Palm, Sony, Html etc.
 Laraine Herring, director of the creative writing program at  Yavapai College, is PWP memb er Amber Polo's guest on her Wordshaping blog on the week of of August 8. Laraine will talk about magical realism and her novel Ghost Swamp Blues.
Amber Polo
PWP President Elaine Jordan's long essay "Of God and Aprons" has been published in Lady Jane's Miscellany, a journal by the San Francisco Bay Press. It's a piece honoring the women she knew in a small church in Dewey. It may be available in the online edition after the print issue sells out.
New member Mike Rothmiller reports, "Movie mogul Jerry Bruckheimer and his wife Linda recently  purchased 100 copies of my book My Hero: Military Kids Write About Their Moms and Dads (St. Martin's Press, 2008) which they have donated to the Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA) to be distributed to troops serving worldwide. On a side note, the forward was written by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf with additional forwards by Presidents Carter, Clinton and George H.W. Bush. Royalties are being donated to the ASYMCA. Also, it was Dr. Laura Schlessinger's book of the week, highlighted in USA Today and numerous other publications. And, the United States Senate passed resolution Senate 565 mentioning the book. Mike also reports that late last year the rights to his book Old Dog's Guide for Pups: Advice and Rules for Human Training (St. Martin's Press, November 2000) were sold to China and the book is finally going to print in Asia. Mike says, "It's a humor book with the narrator being an old dog teaching puppies how to train humans. Needless to say, I was surprised when the Chinese licensed the book and I'm very curious to see what type of sales numbers it generates."
Diane Line says her memoir, At Heaven's Doorway: Mystical  Golden Roses for Spiritual Growth, a Spirituality / Inspirational category finalist in the 2010 International Book Awards, is now available as a Kindle e-book on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and will soon appear as an e-book .pdf on AuthorHouse. AHD is available locally in hardcover and paperback at the Prescott Barnes and Noble, at Prescott Hastings, and online at At Heaven's Doorway. Stay tuned for Diane's Prescott area readings this fall!
PWP Membership Chair Marian Powell and Carrie Malinowski both have stories - "Tanglefoot" and "Troll Is As Troll Does" - in the upcoming Free Range Fairy Tales Anthology by Whortleberry Press (2010). This is Carrie's first publication!
 "It's not poetry, or fiction or even a travelogue, but it is 17 pages of ink on paper in a hard cover book!"
H. Keith Henson: "Beamed Energy and the Economics of Space Based Solar Power" in Beamed Energy Propulsion: 6th International Symposium American Inst. of Physics, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0735407749.
PWP member Mary Bragg writes, "Today I received copies of Kaleidoscope Magazine with my poem "Rose" printed onto a page all its own! Their masthead says "Kaleidoscope, published since 1979, explores the experience of disability through literature and the fine arts..."
Catherine Miller Hahn reports, "The first 20 pages of my memoir, Curable Romantic, was judged among the top 20 of 34 entries for Memoir Book in the recent SouthWest Writers Contest, and one of my articles was judged in the top 20 of 42 entries for Memoir Articles in the same contest. 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each category will be announced August 1st.
PWP PR Chair Leslie Hoy's guest column, "Time to let public in on SRP agreement", appeared in the July 10 Prescott Daily Courier and in the July 9 online edition.
Leslie reports that "I'm also doing the CWAG News & Views e-newsletter. And I'm on the CWAG editing team, which is keeping me really busy, especially now that we have a monthly column in the Courier."
  PWP member Gene Laramy reports that his new book It's Never Too Early But It Can Be Too Late!has arrived and he has copies available. He held a book-signing event on May 23 at Trinity Presbyterian Church. Gene says his book was published by Mill City Press out of Minneapolis, and that they did a fine job and were wonderful to work with.
Three cheers for VP Programs Chair Arlene Eisenbise, whom you all know from our meetings. She just heard that her manuscript, The Keepers of Lubaantun, the second book of her Crystal Skull trilogy, was judged among the top 20 of the 49 entries in the recent SouthWest Writers Contest. Arlene's story for young adults is set among the ancient Mayans. Read more about Arlene's work on Amber Polo's 'Wordshaping' blog.
 PWP member Gene K. Garrison reports that her revised second edition of Javelina (Have-uh-WHAT?) is up and running. Gene says, "I sent an announcement of the book to TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. Carolyn Howard Johnson liked it so much that she wrote 'This is an adorable synopsis. Thank you! It will go up on July 10th.' "
Also on July 10, Gene will be signing books at Hastings in FLAGSTAFF. Gene's books are also available at the Hastings in Prescott: FROM THUNDER TO BREAKFAST, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT CAVE CREEK and WIDOWHOOD HAPPENS, as well as JAVELINA.
Joe Dibuduo, the author of A Penis Manologue, published a poem, "Grandpa's Retribution", and a flash story he created from the poem on A Long Story Short. He says, "I sent them both to make a choice, so I guess LSS liked them both!"
Welcome to new PWP members Amy Norton and Audrey Semprun, who joined at the June 24 meeting. PWP now has 102 members!
Audrey, a previous visitor at PWP meetings, has a blog,
The Rogue Rose, where she's posted info about her 1st Annual Rogue Bud Writing contest. She invites PWP members to check it out: http://joyfulnoizministries2.blogspot.com/.
Pat Frayne and her children's storybook, Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat, were featured in the June 23 Prescott Daily Courier and in the June 22 online edition. Pat is also the August 2010 PWP Featured Writer!
Poet Lady Mathers performed with PyroKlectic, the fire troupe that did the finale act for Tsunami On The Square on the 19th of June. Lady says, "I've been a member of PyroKlectic for about 2 years and began learning to spin POI about 3 years ago. If you would have told me then that I'd be doing this, I would have laughed at you. My response would have been: NEVER in a million years. Other people do THAT, but not ME!
"For those you you from PWP who who attended the performance, I hope you enjoyed the show and were pleasantly surprised. I'm told we rocked the house and I believe we did judging from the applause and shouts. We are most pleased that we were well received and presented a production our audience could appreciate. It was a magical night and the result of a lot of hard work and group effort. On behalf of PyroKlectic and all the folks on the board for Tsunami On The Square (Save The Wave), who worked so hard to bring you a grand show this year, thank you for supporting performing arts in Prescott. Thank you very much."
 PWP member Judith March Davis held a book reading and signing at Las Fuentes Retirement Resort on June 11. A former journalist in Michigan and New Jersey, Judy and her husband Ethan retired to Prescott 14 years ago.
Congrats to President Elaine Jordan, Judith March Davis, and Prescott College English / writing instructor Nancy Owen Nelson (l, r, c) PWP writers profiled in May by Karen Despain in her On the Bookshelf feature in the Prescott Daily Courier! Congrats and best wishes to Karen Despain as she resumes her old position of Managing Editor of the Prescott Daily Courier for the coming year! Judy also had a recent rev 
Survivor Chronicles recently published Vicky Young's moving photo and essay about kidney donorship, "From the Other Side". Vicky reports that she found out about Survivor Chronicles through the PWP Google listserv.
 Willma Gore reports, "Although I have been 'under the weather' the past ten days, nothing cheers the spirit or restores energy like a like a contest win: The report this morning from Gulf Coast Writers Assn 'Let’s Write' Contests notifies me that my short story “Peligro,” won 1st place in their recent contest. I believe I learned of this contest via our astute Webmaster, Kate, reporting news for us all. I have to go back to files to learn $$ amount earned. My poetry has found print in the last two issues of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Newsletter, “Bright Day” (spring poem) and a humorous one, “Date With Spouse,” (current issue.)Get well soon, Willma, and congrats! By the way, Willma will be the July speaker for PWP with a presentation about tips for speaking writers about connecting with their audience.
 
Agnes Franz had a letter to the editor posted in the April 9 Prescott Daily Courier online. Agnes is the author of Historic Prescott, and Smirk, Volumes 1 & 2. The PWP Agnes Franz Award goes to a talented writer at Yavapai College each May.
Congrats to Jeri Castronova, who signed her book Code of the King: A Deadly Search for Ancient Wisdom, Book 1 of her mystical thriller trilogy, at the Meet the Authors session at the Desert Dreams Writers Conference, April 16-18 at the Chaparral Suites in Scottsdale. "There were lots of people and it went well! " she reports. Jeri is also a fine artist and her work was displayed through May 30 in the Canyon Moon Theatre at Oak Creek Factory Outlets in the Village of Oak Creek.
Writer and natural physical therapist Nancy M. Turcich had a surprise mention about her memoir / guide, Finding My Way From Paralysis to a Rich, Full Life, and her skills as a massage therapist on the April 9, 2010 entry of the Musings from An Overwhelmed Mom blog in Chicago. She is featured in the Member's Corner - and also has an article in Energy, the newsletter of the American Polarity Therapy Association (pp. 16 & 22, Spring 2010). In May, Nancy shared her story of healing from paralysis in a Trauma and Healing workshop and reading at the Prescott Public Library. She's been producing a series of videos about Finding My Way, and posting them on You-Tube!
In June, Nancy read from her first book, One Of Eight: My Perspective on Our Brother's Suicide, followed by an open discussion about grief and suicide at the Prescott Valley Public Library on June 9th. Be sure to follow Nancy's blog articles and You-Tube articles, accessible from the book link to her website above.
PWP Webmaster Kate Robinson is pleased to announce that she entered her first postgrad portfolio story "The Respect of Stone" in the Summer Literary Seminars Contest and placed in the top 50 out of 1200 submissions! "I'm working on making my way to Kenya in December!" she says. See top winners and program details at http://www.sumlitsem.org/slscontest.html. Kate also completed her internship at the New Welsh Review, had her Spring 2010 children's book Lewis and Clark announced in Expressions Online, the SCBWI international newsletter, and assisted in the production of the 2010 Aberystwyth University MA program magazine, different WORLDS, which had a successful launch and student / contributor reading on May 27. She's currently racking her brain and writing her final fiction portfolio and dissertation based on dreamwork and dream literature. In early June, one of her children's stories, Li'l Bit, won 4th Runner-up in the Juvenile Fiction category of the 2010 Alabama Writers Conclave Writing Contest, and she received an acceptance from Raven Chronicles for a nonfiction piece titled "Crowing About Ravens" - so stay tuned!
Recently, PWP member Amber Polo interviewed fantasy writer and PWP VP Programs Arlene Eisenbise on her 'Wordshaping' blog. Learn how Arlene creatively 'channeled' her trilogy of novel manuscripts about the real-life crystal skulls in Atlantis, Maya culture, and Hopiland!
Amber Polo was recently interviewed on author Terry O'Dell's blog about her 5th sojourn at the Yoga as Muse Writing/Yoga Retreat workshop in Taos, New Mexico. Just after she arrived home, she "found out my novel Flying Free finaled in the best single title category in the Write Touch Contest of the Wisconsin RWA. (See me dancing!)"
VP Membership Marian Powell has a story in a brand-new anthology, Strange Mysteries 2, edited by Jean M. Goldstrom and published by Whortleberry Press.
Congrats to Diane Line, who is taking her book, At Heaven's Doorway, on the road to her home state! Her next booksigning is at the Doubletree Hotel at 12 p.m. on April 15, 2010 in Wood Dale, Illinois.
AHD available online at: www.atheavensdoorway.com
www.authorsden.com
www.amazon.com
Long-time PWP member Julie Woodman has moved to the Peridot. She's receiving visitors only on a formal pre-announcement basis. If you'd like to check in with her, email her at jgwoodman at hotmail.com. Julie is still keeping up her fabulous blog, Walking Prescott.
Check out Moses Siregar's new SciFiFantasyBooks YouTube channel with his March 24 PWP reading and his author interviews. Those of you who were at the meeting know that Moses also taped several other members who read. Former PWP president Nancy Nelson's husband Roger ran the camera for Moses.
Jeri Castronova presented a workshop entitled "Hidden History of Egyptian Mythology" at the Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe on March 28. Based on her book Code of the King: A Deadly Search for Ancient Wisdom, the workshop almost didn't make it.
Seems the World Wrestling Tour was in Phoenix that week and the workshop was originally scheduled for Saturday, the only day one of the wrestlers could do his book signing. So the Egyptian workshop had to be moved to accommodate the wrestler/writer.
"Now I can say I've been 'bumped' by The Hitman, Bret Hart!"
For more information about Jeri and Code of the King, see www.jericastronova.com
See the book trailer video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-EPcwd7jLo
Read Code of the King excerpts at Jeri's blog.
New PWP member Toni Denis is one of eight international writers accepted for the Bialystok Art Factory Writer's Residency Program in September 2010 in Poland. Toni says she "found out about the program from PWP's email [PWP Google Group listserv - which can also be read online], so I am grateful for being a member and becoming aware of it that way. I have good friends who live in Bialystok and I created a character in my children's novel who is from there, so it will be extremely beneficial for my work to spend time there." Read more about Toni and her work on her blog, Dove and Snake.
 PWP members are just doing the do! Catherine Miller Hahn, Elaine Jordan (our prez), Agnes Franz, and Mary Bragg all placed in the Hassayampa Writer's Club contest. Learn more about the group at http://www.hassayampawriters.org/index.html.
Cathy won First Place for her essay "Voicemale" and Elaine won Third Place for her essay "Still Life." Agnes placed third in humor with her bit "Who Understands Humor?" and Mary Bragg won third place in poetry.
All the winners' works appear in the Club's The Hidden River Cache, 2010. Agnes says, "It's a charming little book... We're PUBLISHED!"
Catherine Miller Hahn
Susan Vespoli had a reading at the March 24 event, "Poetry at the Puppet Theater", billed as "an evening of poetry and variations on literary themes with featured readers and the unexpected" at The Great Arizona Puppet Theater in Phoenix!
PWP President Elaine Jordan recently received a springtime check for First Place and publication in the new literary journal Bacopa, published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville, Florida.
Nancy was among the PWP members who read at the open mic on March 24!
 Heads up! Author David Quinn writes, "Some of our members may not know what a good promotional resource exists at prescottenews.com. Here is a link to the interview they did with me recently at my B&N booksigning."
Congrats are also in order for the transition of David's second novel, Leviathan's Master, into the second round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award!
 PWP Newsletter Editor and author Susan Lanning is dipping a toe into local theatre limelight - she's running lights for her husband, director Bruce Lanning, in his production of Gypsy at the Prescott Fine Arts Theatre. Gypsy is a wonderful musical about the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous stripper, and her mother Rose. Ethel Merman made the musical a hit on Broadway and Rosalind Russell did the same in the movie with the show-stopping song "Everything's Coming Up Roses."
The show opened March 11th and runs through March 27th. Call the theatre for tickets at 445-3286.
Congrats, Susan! Break a leg!
Amber Polo is posting interviews of fantasy writers on her blog, including PWP Webmaster Kate Robinson on March 12 and PWP VP Programs Arlene Eisenbise on April 4. See the full schedule on her blog, Wordshaping.
Congrats to Lady Mathers, who has two new poems published at Kinetic Magazine!
 Webmaster Kate Robinson says she's "honored to have my name included as intern on the masthead of issue 87 of the New Welsh Review. It's been great fun to assist with the nuts and bolts operation of this remarkable literary journal." For more information about New Welsh Review, see www.newwelshreview.com.
Willma Gore reports that "The March/April issue of the on-line and print Working Writer has my latest submission, "Lost In Cyberspace," appropriate at this time as I'm just getting into learning how to use my new-to-me Mac. Everybody says 'Youčll love it.' I'm still waiting for the dawn of thatday! Maggie Frisch, editor, will send this newsletter to you if you want the email version only."
 
New member David Sherwood Cross has a new novel, Serpents and Scallywags and will be signing at Prescott Hastings on Saturday, March 6. Check out a free teaser at his site,
WRITECROSS Publishing.
Congrats to PWP President Elaine Jordan on the February 17 publication of her delightful essay, "What I Really Know About Long Walks: The Upside of Looking Down" in the AARP bulletin online!
Amber Polo reports that she has launched her "Why I Write Fantasy" series of interviews with authors on her Wordshaping blog. The first interview is with Dana Davis! All the authors so far, except Kelley, are from AZ. Kate Robinson is PWP Webmaster and Arlene Eisenbise is PWP V.P. Programs. If you write fantasy of any type, Amber would like to interview you, too. You can contact her at amber@amberpolo.com.
Here's the current schedule:- February 26 - Dana Davis, speculative fiction author and ghost buster
- March 6 - Mary Corrales, erotic romance author, who writes fantasy to explore wish fulfillment
- March 12 - Kate Robinson, writing in mystical Wales
- March 21 - Kari Thomas, paranormal romance author, writing shifter fantasy because she’s insane (her words)
- March 28 - Kelley Heckart, historical fantasy author, writes of Dark Age Scotland to escape complex modern world
- April 4 - Arlene Eisenbise, writer whose spirit guide told her to write about Atlantis, the Maya, and the Hopi
- Coming soon: Skhye Moncrief, Rowena Cherry, Jane Toombs
PWP has been in the news lately - see the Prescott Daily Courier and page 5 of Pop Rocket!
 On Friday, February 19th, guest playwright Christopher Hoy presented The Elk in the Attic, an adaptation of his children's book of the same name, at Tomorrow’s Theatre Tonight, a celebration of Prescott’s cultural heritage that takes place at Wild Iris Coffee House. Proceeds from sales of Hoy's book benefit the restoration of the historic Elks Opera House in Prescott, and the Spotlight Children's Theatre will stage the premiere production of the play in the fall of 2010. The audience was the first to experience the public reading of the new play and offer suggestions for script improvements. Among the readers were several PWP members: President Elaine Jordan read the part of Grandmother Owl, Treasurer Leota Hoover read Coyote, playwright Chris Hoy filled in with some minor roles, and PR Chair Leslie Hoy read stage directions and some other minor roles. Other readers included Mikel Bell as Dad and Eagle, Ashley Fine as Tim and her daughter Sedona as Hawk, Bonnie Manko as Mom, and Clint Slay as Bill the Elk.
Moses Siregar announces that "I've put the first four chapters of my novel up on Authonomy.com, where it's currently the #1 ranked (most backed) manuscript on their weekly chart (i.e. over the last week (February 12). It's also received eighty comments from readers since I joined the site a week ago.
"If you'd like to read some of it, you can view it here: http://authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=16942
"You can also click the link on the top-right to "back my book" if you'd like to vote for it to reach the editor's desk. At the end of each month, the top five works on Authonomy.com are read by an editor at HarperCollins. Thanks very much for reading this!" Check out Moses' great cover for his fantasy!
Kathryn Wilkens has a new story about moving to SoCal from the Midwest online at Rose City Sisters blog. Kathryn says, "Rose City Sisters is not a paying site, but it was fun to write something about Pasadena and include links to other websites (once I figured out how to do it in Word - not hard.")
Marlene Baird and Willma Gore and their publications are featured in Karen Despain's" On the Bookshelf" column on page 2C of the Friday, February 12 Prescott Daily Courier. Congrats, ladies!
Marlene is the author of four novels and several short stories and Willma is the author of numerous features, essays, short stories, and several nonfiction books.
Congrats to Kathleen Ewing - she received recent kudos from editor Becky about a short story she entered in the Moonlight Mesa Associates 2009 "Cowboy Up" Short Story Contest - "Kathleen Ewing's story last year was DYNAMITE! I loved it" - when Becky sent this year's announcement to PWP about the 2010 contest for Western genre writers.
www.moonlightmesaassociates.com
www.moonlightmesa.blogspot.com
 Gene K. Garrison was on AZTV's AM Arizona at 10 A.M. on Friday, February 19!
And on Saturday, March 6, from 1 to 3 P.M., she will be signing books at Hastings. Gene will have all of her books there — FROM THUNDER TO BREAKFAST, WIDOWHOOD HAPPENS, JAVELINA! Have-u-WHAT? and THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT CAVE CREEK (It's The People). And do take a look at Gene and Bert Garrison's artwork at their new web site, Art by Garrison!
Susan Vespoli's poem "He Lusts After Librarians" was published in OVS Magazine and then nominated by the magazine for a Pushcart Prize! To read the poem, scroll down and click on the title of the poem. In addition, Susan' has another poem "Goodbye" published online at Naturally Speaking. Congratulations, Susan, and welcome to PWP!
Amber Polo, our intrepid novelist, blogger, and pilot is at it again! Check out her blogs for writers and pilot authors for a new wave of 2010 interviews. For February she presents:
Laurie Schnebly Campbell talks about using the enneagram to make your characters believable and adds an anecdote about her great-grandmother Sedona Schnebly (the woman who gave Sedona, AZ its name.)
Jill Rutan Hoffman grew up surrounded by aviation history. She's an author of two books about aviation and donates the profits to help introduce young people to aviation.(If you haven't read Amber's two-part interview with Jeff Davis and his Yoga as Muse teachings it's not too late.) Wordshaping http://amberpolo.blogspot.com/
Richard Kimball reports, "I'm giving an OLLI class at Yavapai College on self-publishing. My class is not very big (only 10 students), but everyone seems to be very interested in easy ways they can put their writings into a more permanent format. I'm teaching everything from simple loose-leaf folders to do-it-yourself publishing with ClickBook to print-on-demand. It's fun!
 Willma Willis Gore, one of PWP's distinguished senior members, received copies in early February of Voices, an anthology subtitled “How 76 authors found publishing success.” It contains her short story “Cellmates.” The anthology is published by Writers Institute, Inc. (Connecticut), publisher of marketing guides for both adult and children’s magazines and books. Her photo, along with eight of the other 76 authors, is on the cover. Her short story was originally published in the Montana State University annual of 2007 where the editors of Voices found it and sought permission from Willma to use it. The book is designed for use by college-level creative writing teachers.
And that's not all! Willma's humorous essay “Feline Fortitude” appeared in the 2009 Chicken Soup For the Soul Anthology What I Learned From The Cat. Willma's work will also appear in two other anthologies, not yet published. Willma was also profiled by Lu Stitt (“At Random”) in Sedona Red Rock News for the December 3, 2009 issue.
Long-time PWP member Alice Greenwood Greiner brought her new book The Flight of the Sparrow: An Italian Emigrant in Mormon Utah to the Janaury PWP meeting (both the public and PWP members report that it was a great meeting.) Alice's book is available at the xLibris bookstore, and you can read Chapter One at her xLibris sale page.
Alice is undoubtedly PWP's senior member at age 90!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Three big cheers to Programs VP Arlene Eisenbise, who just published a short story inspired by the experience of a friend called Mississippi Myth, which appears on WritingRaw.com.
Judy Davis's brand new book, Pagoda Dreamer, has attracted international attention "because a collection of my father's photographs was exhibited all November in Hangzhou, China. A picture of my parents on their honeymoon there, in 1925, was blown up into a 10 ft. poster outside the museum! I learned about this from the archivist at the Freer and Sackler Archives (part of the Smithsonian) in Washington, DC, which holds my fathers collected papers. He said, 'I know that your father, Benjamin March, died young. What happened to your mother, Dorothy Rowe, after his death?' So I was able to tell him that I had just published a biography of her whole life!! He has since informed me that the Chinese are translating my father's travel journals and may well want to translate my book!"
Kathryn Wilkens' essay, "Sea of Blue Ink," appears in the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks, edited by Diana Raab and published by the University of South Carolina Press: "Designed for writers of all genres and all levels of experience, Writers and Their Notebooks celebrates the notebook as a vital tool in a writer's personal and literary life." It's available on Amazon and in bookstores on January 31, 2010.
Nancy Turcich, who has two books with Bez Publications - One of Eight and Finding My Way, has a new inspirational blog that combines her talents in writing and natural physical therapy! See http://nmtblog.naturalmassagetherapy.com/
 Jane Ryan alerted PWP that Kristen Kauffman is teaching a class in February that's listed in the Yavapai College Community Education catalogue:
Unleash the Writer Within - Unleash your inner writer through discussion, exercises and examples. Topics include journal writing, memoirs, poetry, short stories, novels, publishing, query letters, agents and publishers. Feb. 8th through 24th, Mon. and Wed., 10:00- 12:00 am. You can find more info here. Jane says she has signed up for the class.
Kate Robinson reports "Good news - high marks on my recent story portfolio and critical commentary, an incredible 'work taster' student experience the second week of January at the National Library of Wales AND, I've begun a Spring term internship with the New Welsh Review, Wales premiere literary mag.
But, I'll miss the January PWP meeting - wah!"
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