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 I’ve not communicated with many of you in the last two years while building our home and retreat center. It has truly been a labor of Love, one that I feel is palpable. We feel incredibly blessed to be able to live in such a magical, salk’a (wild, liberated) energy spot, and now we get to share it with you!
Below please find an invitation for our first Open House in January. (Having computer troubles, so I am not able to attach a nifty invitation.) I realize many of you are too far away to join us, we hope to have you in Spirit.
But I haven’t been sitting idle these many months! In addition to house building, my second book, The Art of Intent: Healing Yourself and Others, is almost finished. Then, in February and March, I will be attending a month-long Yoga Teacher Training at the Kripalu Institute. In addition to my own energetic work, this will allow me to offer yoga workshops here at the retreat center, and I anticipate teaching regular classes in Skull Valley and in Prescott.
We wish you a merry holiday time, and may you be with all the beings you hold dear.
With much love in our hearts,
Marilyn (Markham Petrich) and Al Petrich
PO Box 137
Skull Valley, AZ 86338
Author, Dearest Waiki: Love Letters To An Andean Mystic
amaru@wildblue.net
www.intiwasi.org
PWP members seem to have great knack for placing Chicken Soup essays - Kathryn Wilkens essay "I Shot the Sheriff" appears on page 182 of Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolutions, which goes on sale December 23. "Besides choosing a different title, the editors made only a few minor changes to my story," she says.
 Amber Polo's blog was recently featured as part of a Christmas themed Blog Tour with many of the The Wild Rose Press authors:
"Check out the link to my fruitcake recipe and read an excerpt from my new Christmas story, Christmas on Wherever Island.
If you are a blogger, take a look at how contests encouragereaders to visits to a different blog every day to guess the name of a Christmas carol."
May a magic Santa find you this holiday season,
Amber
 PWP Secretary Elaine Jordan has a nifty new website at www.elainejordan.com!
Latest winter publication successes are her essay "Burned" in the recently published Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women anthology, and the essay "Reunion" in Cahoots, the Canadian online magazine. She dashed off to a luncheon on Sunday, October 19 to accept a 'Commendation' award from the Society of Southwest Writers for her essay Leaving Neverland. Better yet, her essay A Blue Notebook won the first prize of $100 from Arizona Authors Association. It will be published in the Arizona Literary Magazine, along with "a very flattering photo" by PWP Treasurer Leota Hoover, and is to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize!
Recently I asked PWP Member Terri New what was up in her life: : "What am I up to! Trying to make money and survive this economy!!! I am building a couple of websites and doing some video work. A thought - I have done promotional video for authors in the past, such as Beverly Kirkhart of Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul, which she co-authored with Jack Canfield. Actually I have done several videos with her... including a video promo on her other book "The Healing Companion" highlighting her guest speaking abilities. Do you think any of our PWP membership need websites and video?" ~ T INCITE PRODUCTIONS Terri New - Multimedia Producer 928-771-2635 / 899-5929 cell 16475 N. Indian Ruins Rd. Prescott, AZ 86305 terri@inciteproductions.com  Recently Diane Line posted an AuthorHouse PR book review on the PWP book review pages for her new memoir, At Heaven's Doorway. Both hard-cover and soft-cover are now available from AuthorHouse after a long snafu with the dust cover and an incorrect page.
Diane has the good fortune to have her book featured on eFollett online bookstores - over 1200 colleges and universities in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada - as well as the usual postings by AuthorHouse, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and our local Hastings!
If you're intrigued by near-death experiences, contact with angels and loved ones after their departure from life, this is a must-read. With a chapter called "The Christmas Angel," At Heaven's Doorway makes a handy holiday gift!
Willma Gore says her Sedona writing workshops are on hold until January 2009 because she's recovering from the insertion of new bionic knees. Also, "nice news came in yesterday’s mail: My short story Cellmates is to be included in an anthology released by Skysong Press of Orilla, Ontario, Canada. It was so long ago I submitted the story, I’d forgotten that I had done so. The royal sum of one cent per word will be paid on publication! Every drop in the bucket helps!"
As 2008 becomes as thin as an old moon on a hazy autumn night, many PWP writers are reaping their writing rewards! Kathryn Wilkens' essay The caws let us know the harvest is ready was featured in the November 9 issue of the Christian Science Monitor! Another neat article by Kathryn about creative thinking and writing methods, Piecemeal, was posted in August 2008 on Ink Byte Magazine, a writing site with both practical and inspirational articles.
Nancy Owen Nelson is in the PWP limelight again: she has a nonfiction piece, The Arrow That Flies, about her son Owen, on the  Mom Writers' Literary Magazine site. The full piece is available by subscription, but Nancy says she is scanning it into a pdf file and will e-mail it upon request. View the opening of the essay at the link above or here. An anthology she has a poem in won a 2008 Willa Literary Award. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest is a significant new anthology of writings by women, celebrating their experiences in the landscapes of the Southwest. Published by the University of Texas Press in March 2007, this collection demonstrates and illuminates the rich diversity of  environments of the Southwest, as well as the extraordinary range of women's voices and women's experiences of the land. Nancy also had an op-ed letter published in the September 14 edition of the New York Times. She is also 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. See the PWP Events page for current program info.
 We haven't heard much lately from John J. Rust, a former PWP VP, not only because he's a sports director/announcer on 1490 AM who often works during PWP meetings on Wednesday nights, but because he's still in the throes of a creative explosion that started in 2007. He's continued to write fan fiction, posting it on FanFiction.net. He also has a fascinating updated bio and some sage writing advice on his intro page. While Rust works on many other short story and novel manuscripts since the publication of his first novel Epsilon a few years back, he's also generated quite a following on the fanfic site for his 46 stories. The crit group John sponsors at his place twice monthly especially enjoyed a Harry Potter fanfic story featuring the character Luna Lovegood and set at Fenway Stadium in the U.S. We think you'll love it too! Click here.
Rust (l), & David Morrell ~ Photo by Joe Dibuduo, © 2007
Herb McCabe, aka author A.A. Asking, published a novel in June 2008 titled You  At Risk: Depopulating a Planet on iUniverse! Herb reported in November that he "was just assigned a web site by Xlibris with my pen name. Site is simply: youatrisk.com." He says the book is available through many stores but there's a discount at Buy.com. Look for Herb in the August PWP Meet Yourself feature online - he has a fascinating bio. Herb and his wife Sandy's letters to one another while she lived in Denver and he lived in Tucson were co-published as Love Letters of Herb and Sandy McCabe by Concordia Publishing in St. Louis, MO and as Love Letters of A Priest with Pyramid Press, New York (both in 1973).
Poet Lady Mathers is also glowing in the PWP limelight again! On November 12 she was a guest on "Lenny's Place," a radio program hosted by Lenny Lambert (the woman who suggested Lady as the host of Poet's Corner, an award-winning program which had an 8- year run on Prescott's Public Access Channel). The topic of the show was writing and what there is to do in Prescott. Lady says she gave a "whopping plug for PWP." The show is an hour long and airs on Saturday & Sunday (Nov. 15 & 16) at 3:00pm on KJZA 89.5 FM.
Cheers to Bob Carlile of Sedona, a new PWP member (and a faithful member of one of Willma Gore's workshops), who won third place and some cash for his short story, Honest to Google in the 2008 Society of Southwestern Authors contest.
Two PWP poets were featured in the Poets Corner feature of the September and October issues of Monsoon Magazine, N. Arizona's Arts and Entertainment venue. Lady Mathers, the host of the former Poet's Corner program on the local cable network and a favorite PWP speaker, edits the monthly Poet's Corner feature in Monsoon Magazine. She showcased some of her poems in the September issue. Susan McElheran, owner of the Old Sage Bookshop and a member of The MAD Women Poets, a Prescott performance group who wow us with their work at PWP holiday parties, has a selection of poetry in the October edition.
 PWP President Jeri Castronova is not only an accomplished psychologist and writer - she has taken up painting and her work is featured in three Sedona locations:
Red Rock High School Tent Show with The Sedona Visual Artists Coalition Unbounded - October 30 - November 16 Tlaquepaque Arts & Crafts Village Opening Reception Friday October 31, 5-8 PM Refreshments, Silent Auction
Canyons Gallery @ Creekside Plaza
231 Hwy 178, Ste 9B, Sedona For more information, contact Jeri at jericast@commspeed.net or visit her book site at www.jericastronova.com.
Congrats to the indefatigable Willma Gore, who just published a new feature: "My little article about finally finishing the final (?) edit of my 60,000 word novel, under the title “Final (?) Edit,” is in the Oct. 14 issue of Writing For Dollars, out today. The article was compiled as I realized that a novel written over a period of approximately 10 years sometimes collects some boo-boos that any agent, publisher or casual reader would find unacceptable in a “finished, polished” manuscript. Simple things like changing the color of the hero’s van in Chapter 29 when it was maroon in Chapter 2; misspelling the heroine’s name that starts out as “Anne” and becomes “Anna” in a late chapter. I spent hours on final corrections and printed the entire novel, 20 pages at a time, yesterday. Now I will sit with my feet up and re-read this “final” (238 Ms pages) before it goes to the agent. Who ever said writers are adequately—or even partially—paid for the hours they put in?"
In August, Willma published her feature Excavate Story Gems From Your Own Experiences in Writing for Dollars. The piece features anecdotes from her workshop members who, through the years, have triggered memories in each other—andme—that can be turned into articles or fiction that sells.The old question, “where do you your ideas?” has been answered many times over in my writing workshops." Willma recently received an e-mail from The Writer's Institute, Inc. saying that they would like to use her story Cellmates in an anthology they are publishing that will be a tool for teachers of creative writing at the college level. Cellmates was first published in the 2007 Writings from the River anthology at Montana State University.
Kerry Wilson has purchased a majority ownership interest in Read It Here Magazine, one of Prescott's alternative news venues, and will relaunch the site Sunday. She is looking for someone to do news reports on City Council meetings. This is also a media outlet for feature stories, news releases, etc. E-mail Kerry for more information using her name link above, or at the Read It Here website.
An autumn note from Amber Polo in Camp Verde: Amber Polo and Kari Thomas (who should join PWP!) signed copies of their latest books, Romancing Rebecca and Hunted Mate at Hastings from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday October 8th.
Amber Polo, Camp Verde author and winner of the 2008 Story Circle Life Writing Contest, “writes with magic and humor. Her first novel-length work, Romancing Rebecca (Wild Rose Press), a contemporary comic paranormal, pokes gentle fun at the woo-woo side of Sedona and the silly side of romance and romance writers.”
Rochelle Brenner in "Kudos" (Verde Valley & Sedona's Arts and Entertainment) calls Rebecca "a must-read novel ... The book is light, breezy, and Polo sets a fast pace that never lets up. And those steamy sex scenes? Too funny for words!"
In July, Amber "Just got word that I won a prize in the June 2008 Story Circle LifeWriting Contest. My story, Trick or Treat, is online at the Story Circle website, where it will be posted for some months. It will also appear in the September issue of the Story Circle Journal. And I get $75!
"Story Circle judges agreed that 'this is one of the strongest group of contest entries we have read in all the years this contest has been held.'
"And I won first place, so I am thrilled!"
Amber had a mid-July booksigning with other authors at the Pages bookstore in Cave Creek. Tamra Westberry's cover for Amber'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."
Congrats to Sue Knaup, the executive director of OneStreet, a Prescott bicycling advocacy organization. She had a Talk of the Town op-ed piece, Countering anti-bicyclist sentiments in the online Courier on Wednesday, September 24!
Three cheers to PWP Newsletter Editor  and Writing Contest Chair Susan Lanning on the recent publication of the third novel in her Ohio trilogy, DAY OF THE BEAST ! Her romantic suspense with a touch of sci-fi, THE DANESBORO LINE, and mystery thriller HARPER'S BLUFF are the first two books of the trilogy.  Susan is also an op-ed writer and had editorial letters published in the Arizona Republic and the Prescott Daily Courier in March 2008.
 Three BIG PWP cheers for author Diane Line, whose 14-year inspirational memoir project has finally manifest! At Heaven's Doorway: Mystical Golden Roses for Spiritual Growth, is available in softcover at Prescott Hastings and Barnes and Noble, and in softcover and hardcover from the publisher, AuthorHouse. In this powerful book, Diane and her daughter Valerie share their real-life stories that reveal how the ordinary becomes extraordinary, how love reaches beyond death, and how invisible beings influence lives.Diane had a successful booksigning at the Prescott Hastings on August 23 - she sold 8 books! - and had another at the Gateway Mall Barnes and Noble on September 6, as well as August appearances at local nursing homes - Diane is a retired geriatric recreational therapist. She also appeared at the 6th Annual World Arts Festival in Prescott Valley at the Civic Center on September 13 & 14. Diane has some spiffy PR on her high school alumni webpage, and she was scheduled for events in her former home state of Illinois in October, including one with many of the relatives and friends who appear in her memoir. Unfortunately she had an unforeseen health complications which prevented the trip, so do visit her site below and wish her well! Note the angel-shaped reflection in the picture above caused by camera flash on the bookcover at Diane's reading at Hastings! Visit Diane and view her calendar of events at her website, At Heaven's Doorway.
Congratulations to PWP member and ReaditNews Contributing Editor Candace McNulty on her lead article on ReadItNews, Prescott's alternative online news venue. Candace's very informative piece is entitled Mr. McCain? Back home, "no earmarks" can sound kinda like "broken promises.”
Candace was interviewed by host Elisabeth Ruffner on Community Access Channel 13 about her early motivation toward supporting progressive causes and her writing and editing work on the June 29 & 30 2008 "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.
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." Julie, along with new PWP member Carol May (see below) is a PWP featured writer for October 2008!
Brand new PWP member Carol May, author of WORKING WITH ANGELS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, signed books and sold CDs, books, and Angel Readings September 13 - 14, 2008 at the RAW SPIRIT FESTIVAL in Sedona, AZ.
A big cheer to Joe Dibuduo on the occasion of his FIRST publication on Long Story Short -"Same Sex Marriage," a flash fiction piece! Joe is one of our PWP website photographers, a retired painter, and student at Yavapai College who just started writing about a year and a half ago.
Congratulations to Geri Marr Burdman, PhD, who just published an inspirational  book, Search for Significance: Finding Meaning in Times of Change, Challenge and Chaos (Bellevue Publishing 2008, her own imprint.) The forward is by Sam Horn, a successful business consultant, training workshop leader, and an emcee at the Maui Writers Conference. "If you find yourself feeling depressed, alone, or afraid," he says, "this book will serves as your companion. It will introduce you to other people who have survived challenging times. People who have gone on to lead meaningful lives full of joy and contribution, so you start believing again that you can too." Geri is a health counseling and gerontology specialist and an international health consultant. For purchase forms or more information about her work, see her website Gerowise International at www.gerowise.com.
 Let's give a big hand to Connie Johnson Kramer for the publication of a brand-new picture book, Mr. Bunny's Secret Party! (Clothesline Press, 2008.) For more information or to purchase a book contact Connie at her Clothesline Press e-mail. Connie was also a winner in the Arizona State Poetry Society members' May contest, in the theme category Milestones! Her poem Titles appears in the summer 2008 issue of Sandcutters, the ASPS journal. She 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.
 And another great note from Marlene Baird, author of four award-winning novels, including the recent Claire Walker:
"I had a phone call this evening from Lorian Hemingway -- yes, his granddaughter. My story, Negotiations, took 3rd place in her annual short story competition! She said wonderful things about my piece and added that any of the top three could have come in first. This is a very prestigious competition, so I was beyond excited. Lorian offered to help me in any way that she can to make contacts in the business, etc. I had goose-bumps. There were 1,114 entries from all over the world."
 Freelancer Kathleen Ewing is also keeping her pencils sharp! She's not only taken on a brand-new job in August for which she has to train for a week in Tucson, she also "met with an editor last week who wants me to do two or three features a month for her mag, Trail Blazer (for horse people.) I'm expecting my first assignment this week."
Check out her useful new article Prepare to Evacuate Your Office in the latest edition of Writing for DOLLARS - Kathleen offers an excellent, orderly and easy-to-folIow checklist for evacuating your home in case of fire, with an emphasis on safeguarding your writing. , Another writer- practical article, The Brainstorm Book, appeared a in July issue of "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." "ONCE AGAIN Kathleen Ewing and I have two feature articles in the July 8 issue of Writing For Dollars," Willma Gore reports. Kathleen's had excellent advice about keeping track of your wandering - and planned - manuscripts. Mine is called Planning, Executing & Surviving a Book Tour.
Kudos to Kastara Parasava Ms.D, PhD, who reports she's "going international" with her updated website, Awakening Awareness!
Kastara is the author of The Reality of You, books I, II, & III of The Master of Balance, The Star Child's Guide Book, and the unpublished Gateway of Tomorrow.
 Congratulations to Joan Elliot Pickart, award-winning author of more than 100 romance titles! Soon To Be Brides, co-authored with writer Barbara McCauley, was released in June 2008.
Joan spoke briefly at the June networking meeting about PWP's humble origins, and introduced her lovely youngest daughter, Autumn. She's also a member of the national Romance Writers of America (RWA), the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter of Romance Writers of America , and a charter member and co-president of the Northern Arizona RWA. Her other recent publications are: as well as A Wedding in Willow Valley, published in 2006 by Silhouette. She has written some of her romances under the pen name Robin Elliot.
 Richard W. Kimball, aka "Old Man Coyote," won a first place award for a short story submitted to the Whipple Voices Writing Festival held in June at the VA hospital. "Actually," he says, "I'm sharing the first place award with another guy, but who cares? The award came with a little $$$ too. The festival is sponsored by the DAV Auxiliary Unit 16."Kimball is the author of THE BOOK OF QUETZALCOATL: MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE FEATHERED SERPENT, COYOTE ZEN and ENGLISH CAPTIVES IN MEXICO.
Terri New, writer and multimedia producer of Incite Productions, made a video "Mugabe's Zimbabwe" for "a neat Australian guy who has the www.helpsaveZimbabwe.org site. He is originally from Zimbabwe - his dad was a doctor and started an orphanage there . . . Hopefully others . . . will pass this link on and respond by going to Mark's site . . . the world needs to know what is going on in Zimbabwe and take action." In the first half of 2008, Terri 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, a 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."  Willma Gore's July 10 presentation at Pilot International, a philanthropic group more than 80 years old, before an audience of 1,100. The appearance netted her sales of 50 copies of her books, and a possible invitation to speak at next year's convention in San Diego! "How did I get this gig? It pays to keep in touch with all the writers you have known through the years."
Willma reports, “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. The March/April issue of Working Writers carries one of Willma's feature articles: The Editor Is Always (?) Right, first published several years ago in ByLine Magazine. Willma had several other 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. Click here to read Willma's blog
 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 were featured in the May 2007 edition of YAVAPAI Magazine.
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.
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!
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 Library 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.
It seems PWP has also has two first-place winners in the 2008 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 2008 Florida State Writing Competition with a personal essay, Barbara's Gift.
 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.
 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
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 2007 issue of Monsoon Magazine. Access the Monsoon archives here.
Just before New Year's 2008, PWP Webmaster Kate Robinson received another small cash award and a certificate in the Arizona State Poetry Society's (ASPS) members' December 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.In July, Kate discovered that her feature Crafting Publishable Poetry, which she wrote and published in 2002 on the Absolute Write Web site is now listed and linked to from a poetry website, resources4poets. "Though I tossed this little article out for no payment," Kate said, "it's gratifying that it's had a long and fruitful life." September brought back an oldie but a goody - Preservation Foundation editor Richard Loller reposted Kate's 2005 feature, Natural Soul, on the PF home page. Kate says she's reinspired to revisit and continue the series of nature essays she'd  planned and left on hold . . . currently she's working on one about ravens - stay tuned! A poem/prayer about losing a pet and another about the joy of pooch ownership appears in June Cotner's latest anthology, Dog Blessings: Poems, Prose and Prayers Celebrating Our Relationship with Dogs (New World Library, October 2008). In October, one of her short stories, The Upstairs Room, was published by the award-winning Elastic Press in Subtle Edens, a British anthology of slipstream sci-fi edited by Allen Ashley. Unfortunately she couldn't attend the gala book launch - a pub party complete with a challenge to attendees to create art to match each story in the anthology. Shortly after, on the historic presidential election night, Off-key, her musical romance, was posted on Jerry Jazz Musician. It won the nineteenth New Fiction Award, and Kate is the only writer so far who has won this award twice. Then in late November, she found a certificate in the mail from the Arizona State Poetry Society - she won an honorable mention in the 2008 Annual ASPS Poetry Contest in the "Stirring the Pot" category for her poem "I've Got So Much Things to Say Right Now," a title quoted from a Bob Marley tune. Cheers - a prosperous and creative Holiday season to all!
ANNOUNCEMENT ARCHIVES Announcement Archive 2007
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