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Congrats to Lady Mathers, who has two new poems published at Kinetic Magazine!
 Interim Webmaster Kate Robinson says she's "honored to have my name included on the masthead of issue 87 of the New Welsh Review as intern. 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.
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 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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