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PWP member Diane Line signed copies of her book, At Heaven's Doorway at Hastings in Prescott on December 19.
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Kate Robinson's upcoming middle grade nonfiction book was featured in Karen Despain's December 24 "On the Bookshelf" in the Prescott Daily Courier online and in print in the Christmas Day issue. Keep an eye out for Enslow Publishing's Spring catalog!
 Congrats to Joe Dibuduo on the Amazon paperback version of his book, A Penis Manologue, his response to reading Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues during a writing class at Yavapai College and seeing the stage production at Prescott College last spring. Joe has a great new blog with lots of fun facts about, well, you know. Manologues is also available in a Kindle format and a regular e-book format on Scribd.
Joe says he's hard at work on a memoir of his colorful life as well as his imaginative poetry and fiction.
 
Chris Hoy and Jeri Castronova are featured in the December 4 print version of The Daily Courier and in the December 4 online edition of "On the Bookshelf," a feature edited by Courier editor, journalist, and PWP Networking Chair Karen Despain.
 Judy Davis now has a website for her fascinating and colorful biography of her mother, Pagoda Dreamer (Langdon Street Press 2009). Judy says, "I have sold out of the first 100 books I ordered for local distribution, but I will have more at our January meeting. At that time, people can get signed copies without paying shipping. Yes, it's exciting!"
 
PWP Secretary and 2010 President-elect
Elaine Greensmith Jordan reports, "Just got the December issue of the American Journal of Nursing that has published my Reflections piece, 'Baring Witness.' (I called it 'Deathbed,' but they like their title better.) I'm most pleased, despite the editorial changes. The money is nice too."
 PWP Newsletter editor Susan Lanning just found out she won First Prize in the Fiction category in the Inland Empire California Writers Club Contest for 2009. "The Sight" has been selected by the judges as the best fiction entry this year!
Susan's story will be in the December issue of Fresh Ink, IECWC's monthly publication for members. Susan is also the author of three suspense and mystery novels.
2006-2009 PWP Webmaster Kate Robinson and five English department colleagues received an Aberystwyth International Excellence Scholarship in Literary Studies, Postmodern Fictions, and Creative Writing in October 2009. Students from Canada, the USA, India, Croatia, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Brunei and Panama were the proud recipients of this year’s international awards and scholarships which were shared by seven departments including Management and Business; Information Studies; Biological; Environmental and Rural Studies; Theatre, Film and TV Studies; International Politics; Welsh; and English and Creative Writing. 
Front row left to right is Maja from Croatia, Yklhas from Malaysia, Samantha Dillard from Phoenix, AZ. Top row from left to right - Kate Robinson from Chino Valley, AZ, Aaron from Ohio, Spencer from New York, and AU English Department MA Coordinator Jayne Archer. Photo 2009 courtesy Aberystwyth University. Kate will be posting photos of her adventure throughout the year in her photo albums on MySpace.
Kathryn Wilkens is in the publication limelight again! Her article "Keep a Wordbook" appears on page 56 of the November/December 2009 issue of Writers' Journal. Here's a link to the editor's message in which she summarizes some of Kathryn's useful advice.
 Congrats to Networking Chair Karen Despain for her "On the Bookshelf" feature in the Prescott Daily Courier. Recently she interviewed two PWP members about their books:
Susan McElheran and Doubt Not the Stars
Connie Johnson and Mr. Bunny's Secret Party If you'd like to be included in this feature, write a short paragraph similar to the ones above and send Karen digital photos of your book cover and yourself to kdespain@prescottaz.com. Put "On the Bookshelf" in the subject line of your email.
David Quinn's second historical novel, Leviathan’s Master – The Wreck of the World’s Largest Sailing Ship, an Editor's Choice book at iUniverse .com, is now available and like his first book, It May be Forever, is gaining some critical acclaim!
 
Mary Dahl and 2009 PWP President Nancy Nelson have essays published in a 2008 University of Texas anthology that was purchased for use in the California Assessment test for high school students. 1.5 million copies will be issued over the over the next eight years.
Gene Laramy and another of our new members, Vicky Young, have recently published on Inkless Magazine! Gene is our November featured writer and is also happy to report that his newest book, Facing Your Final, Finals: a Self-Help Book on Getting Your Affairs in Order is now at the publishers and will be out very shortly.
Susan McElheran has some exhilarating news - "My science fiction novel has been reviewed by the Roddenberry site (yes, that is Roddenberry as in Star Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry). The reviewer also conducted an interview with me, which is there as well."
Doubt Not the Stars is available through Amazon.com, Wings ePress, AbeBooks.com, and through The Old Sage Bookshop in Prescott, Arizona.
In case you missed Gene Garrison's recent October internet interview about her Hube Yates biography titled FROM THUNDER TO BREAKFAST, click on the Authors Show Radio, then click on From Thunder To Breakfast in the player. It will be available for three months.
Playwright and videographer Terri New is also a singer, songwriter, and recording artist! She recently made a muscial appearance at Sharlot Hall Museum's Blue Rose Theatre, and has been getting airplay in London on SW Radio Africa for a song she wrote and recorded - “Zimbabwe Drums”.
"You Can Write" But Can You Speak Effectively About It?" is in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of Working Writer, an on-line and print newsletter out of Chicago area. "In a way, I have PWP to thank for this," explains freelancer Willma Gore. "I wrote the article following our recent presentation of published panelists, all good writers but only one used the microphone properly!"
PWP Membership Chair Marian Powell has a brand-new sci-fi story in the anthology It Was a Dark and Stormy Halloween (Whortleberry Press, 2009). Keep your eye out for the clever sequel to the story in a holiday anthology, Christmas in Outer Space.
ReadMe Publishing recently announced the winners of their What If? science fiction contest. Marian Powell (above) won third place, and John J. Rust seventh, and their stories "Danger Maybe?" and "The Last Soldier " will be included in an anthology scheduled for a late October release.
 On Sunday October 11, Elizabeth Kaites read from her new collection of personal essays, “A Common Thread: Stories of Our Oneness” at the PFAA Gallery. Among her lively and thoughtful explorations about the extraordinary events popping into ordinary daily life are her meeting with Mother Teresa and her experience as a default sex therapist! A Common Thread is available at iUniverse.
A big cheer to Marie Ming, who recently won an honorable mention in the Writers' of the Future Contest for her story "Ice Woman" ! The story features a genetically engineered Neanderthal woman chosen for the first interstellar space flight.
 Kathryn Wilkens says she's very excited to report that an essay, "Rooted in the Past", that she wrote about her now deceased fig tree is on the Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times, illustrated initially with a drawing of a woman sitting next to a fig tree in mourning attire.
On October 1, Amber Polo quipped, " . . . because Wordshaping has been so much fun,
today I launched a second blog . . ."
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Jeri recently completed a second and third manuscript with the same protagonist, all part of the Master of the Edge thriller series. Jeri is also the author of a non-fiction book and workbook, Paint the Sky and Dance. Jeri's book launch/workshop appeared at the Well Red Coyote Bookstore in Sedona on September 19. In addition to her books, jewelry specially created by a Sedona jeweler to match the ancient Egyptian Wish Formula in the book is also available and can be used as amulets to attract Long Life, Prosperity, and Good Health. Jeri also appeared on October 4 at the PFAA Gallery as part of the Prescott Fine Arts Association presentation of readings by area authors.
PWP secretary Elaine Jordan recently published an essay "A Procession of Birds" online at www.stonesthrowmagazine.com, a literary magazine based in Montana.
When it rains it pours - Elaine also won Honorable Mention in the Oregon Writers Colony Contest for her essay "Diana's Story" and Honorable Mention for "Presumed Innocent" in the Southwest Writers contest. In addition, the issue of Prescott College's literary magazine Alligator Juniper that won national honors contained Elaine's essay "A Prayer for Earl." Elaine says she feels like the proverbial bridesmaid - always a mention and never a prize winner!
She's also staying busy by facilitating the August and September networking meetings while Karen Despain fills in at her old editorial position at the Prescott Daily Courier, and has organized details for the PWP mentoring project for young writers. The anthology "Passages: Timeless Voyages of Spirit," in which her personal essay, "Will you Be A Priest?" appears, has been republished online in a Japanese version, alongside an English version!
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 Herb McCabe recently published his novella as an ebook on LULU. "Very interesting experience and a new approach for me. I'm using my pen name again: A. A. Asking."
A big cheer for Carole Bolinski, publishing under the nom de plume CR Bolinski, who has two new poems in Lady Mathers' column, The Poet's Corner, on Monsoon Magazine! Carole is also the author of short stories and flash fiction, and she serves on the PWP Annual Writing Contest committee and does other miscellaneous duties to keep our gears running smoothly. Another big cheer for Membership VP Marian Powell, who also has two new poems published in Monsoon Magazine! Marian is also the author of four short stories in anthologies (one upcoming), book reviews, and some Days Past articles in the Prescott Daily Courier.
Congrats to writer and producer Terri New. Her Theater Arts video title, ALICE, "I Feel So Me Now!" Theater Arts Volume 1 was reviewed by The School Library Journal, a national publication, in August 2009.For more information on this title see http://www.inciteproductions.com/4.html
PWP Webmaster Kate Robinson was honored to be interviewed by romance writer Amber Polo on her Wordshaping blog on July 26. Amber has an impressive weekly interview schedule with a wide variety of writers!
Congratulations to Diane Line, author of At Heaven's Doorway: Mystical Golden Roses for Spiritual Growth, for her interview on July 6 with Sandy Moss on KQNA, and for her booksigning at Barnes and Noble on July 11. Recently Diane met another writer who said that At Heaven's Doorway "jumped off the shelf at her" at the Prescott Public library!
Good news from David Quinn: "IUniverse designated my new historical novella, Leviathan's Master, an Editor's Choice selection. This means it will receive an Editor's Choice Seal on the back cover and be placed in a preferred section of their on-line bookstore reserved for such works. Perhaps more importantly, it means that I can potentially qualify for the Rising Star and Star promotional programs. My book now goes into interior design!" Congrats to Kathryn Wilkens on her travel piece - In the Footsteps of Pharoahs in Egypt - and the gallery of her photos in the Los Angeles Times on June 4, 2009 - and for the journey itself. May she have many more pleasant journeys and exciting features!
To view more Egypt photos and other photo galleries by Kathryn, see Kat Wilkens Photo Gallery.
Double congrats to Joe Dibuduo on the June publication of Magic Mirror, his flash fiction story and poem on A Long Story Short.com. Joe says, “ Beside the story is the poem I wrote first, and then modeled the story on the poem.”
Joe is also taking PWP June speaker Jerry Simmons' advice to heart and utilizing the latest opportunities in publishing! On July 1 he posted a 21,500-word manuscript that includes narrative nonfiction and three short stories as an e-book download at Scribd.com and Smashwords.com. A Penis Manologue is Joe's response after reading and seeing the stage version of the smash hit Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler.
 Romance writer Amber Polo is interviewing some interesting folks on her blog Wordshaping, with a general theme of marketing and libraries ("because I love them) for authors - plus some fun interviews with paranormal writers. Her first two guests were:
Dana Lynn Smith, The Book Marketing Maven, talking about Selling Your Book to Libraries. Deborah Schneider, RWA 2009 Librarian of the Year - How to Approach Your Local Library to Pitch a Program.
Amber says, "Even with my years buying books for libraries, I was impressed with my first guest's ebook, which demystifies the library/author relationship."Join Amber over the coming weeks as she interviews some great writers! Here's more of her 2009 calendar:
June 15 Julie Wallace - Event Planning Made Simple
June 22 Skhye Moncrief - My Romance with Research Books
June 29 Kari Thomas - The Paranormal Romance & the Normal Writer
July 6 Ronni Hall, Fairy School Instructor - How the Paramornal Writer Can Get in Touch with Fairies
July 13 Dana Davis - The Author and Audio Promotion July 20 Betty Sullivan La Pierre - Book Video Tips
July 27 Kate Robinson, PWP Webmistress - Helping Other WritersAugust 3 & 10 Kris Neri - Mystery author, bookstore owner - Authors Behaving Badly
August 17 Amber Polo - Do I Write as an Excuse to Research?
August 24 Dana Lynn Smith - Social Networking
August 31 Carolyn Howard-Johnson - Frugal Book Promotion
September 16 Selena Robins - Freelance Editor
September 28 Amber Polo - Amber's Hangar Booksignin
October 5 Clover Autrey - Columnist Ghostwriter
October 12 Mark David Gerson - Guided Meditation for Writers
October 19 Bess McBride - Writing on the Road
October 26 Maggie Toussaint - Balancing Writing and Life
November 1 Val Pearson - Reviewer
November 8 Debbie Riley- Magnus - Publicist
November 15 Amber Polo - Stress Release for Writers
November 22 & 29 - Phyllis Zimbler Miller - Author Webpages
December 6 - Cecilia Yeary - Booksigning Party Coming - Yvonne Eve Walus, Connie Fisher, Ric Cisson. |
  Following up on Marvel Warren's new volume of poetry - he has some great new author photos and a temporary web site and blog at AuthorHouse. Marvel said he's working on coming up "with an easy to recall domain name that I like."
 Richard Kimball's most recent book -
The Book of Quetzalcoatl -
has been selected for a listing on Amazon.com.
PWP President Nancy Owen Nelson is pleased to announce the publication of an essay, "The Long Good-bye," in Lalitamba 3, a collection of modern devotional literature edited by Swamini Sri Lalitambika Devi!
Belated congrats to all PWP members who participated as speakers, workshop leaders, and booksigners at PPL's Celebration of Books on May 16. Jon Fulghum, author of how-to and self-development books and materials, and Connie Johnson, author of a memoir and a children's book, led workshops. PWP President Nancy Owen Nelson and PWP Librarian Chris Hoy participated in the event planning with lead librarian Sharon Seymour, and there were also PWP speakers in the morning, including PWP Secretary Elaine Jordan.
“The Elk in the Attic” To Premiere As Musical in 2010  The author of “The Elk in the Attic,” Christopher Hoy, says if everything goes according to plan, the popular children’s book will be presented on the stage of the newly re-modeled Prescott Elks Opera House in Spring 2010 as a musical play.
“This will be a great opportunity for local children to display their acting, dancing and singing talents,” says Mr. Hoy, “while helping to raise money for the Elks Opera House Foundation.” A recent conversation with Foundation Board member Elisabeth Ruffner and Dawn Castaneda, City of Prescott Event Coordinator at the Opera House, about various ways to promote the book version of “The Elk in the Attic” (over 750 sold so far, with all net proceeds going to the Elks Opera House Foundation), led Mr. Hoy to the realization that the story could be inexpensively produced as a stage play. “We decided to take the old-fashioned barn-raising approach,” says Hoy, “in order to keep costs low. We’re going to gather together a bunch of motivated volunteers, amateur and professional, and just do this. No one will get paid, but everyone will share in the fun.” Mr. Hoy says he and several members of the Professional Writers of Prescott are working now on a script. “We should have the script completed by the end of this summer,” he says. “Meantime, we are looking for more people who want to help us create costumes, build and paint sets, score original music and assist with choreography.” Several local people gave freely of their time and talent to create the children’s book so it could be sold profitably to help support the Elks Opera House renovation. Christopher Hoy donated the manuscript; Walt Anderson created the illustrations; Bridget Reynolds contributed the book design; Leslie Hoy edited the story; and Elisabeth and Melissa Ruffner, owners of Primrose Press, published the book. Wendy Elgen, owner of Classic Prescott Printing, kept production costs exceptionally low. The story is about drought-weary forest animals that temporarily take up residence in a small town. Nine-year-old Tim Armstrong discovers a huge bull elk named Bill is living in the attic above his bedroom . . . and he’s not the only kid at his school with new animal friends. Once adults begin to notice the animal invasion, tension mounts and the adventure escalates. But just as events threaten to get out of hand, high-flying Eagle returns from a trip to the top of the world with important news about a change in the weather. “The story is a delight to read, with a moral so deep one is engaged long after the book is put down,” says Elisabeth Ruffner.  To read a sample chapter of “The Elk in the Attic,” visit the author’s web site at www.elkintheattic.com. The book is available in select stores in Prescott and can also be purchased in the lobby of the Elks Opera House. To order the book online, visit www.elksoperahouse.com.
If you are interested in volunteering to help with any phase of the musical play, please contact Chris Hoy at 445-4218 or cehoy@cableone.net.
Four successful Prescott authors - three PWP members and a PWP speaker - hosted a “Meet and Greet” booksigning at Hastings in Prescott on May 2, 2009:
Dorothy Cora Moore based her novel, The Atlanteans, on thirty years of research. Laced with prophecy and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, the book earned a rare 5-star review. The story about two best friends, a lawyer and a doctor from Harvard, begins as a fun yacht race and turns into an unexpected quest. See www.TheAtlanteans.com.
Cody Lundin, nationally renowned author of When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes and 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive, teaches outdoor survival skills, primitive living skills and urban preparedness. Lundin’s Aboriginal Living Skills School has been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, and he's made two presentations for PWP. See www.CodyLundin.com.
David M. Quinn is the award-winning author of It May Be Forever – An Irish Rebel on the American Frontier. The bittersweet tale is based upon the real-life biography of his great, great uncle Michael Quinn. Born in Ireland's Great Famine, Michael is struck by British injustice and discrimination, and joins rebels determined to free Ireland from its colonial rulers. However, defeat on the battlefield lands him on the untamed plains of the American West. See www.ItMayBeForever.com.
Diane Line, author of At Heaven's Doorway: Mystical Golden Roses for Spiritual Growth, shares a beautiful and heartwarming account of her many spiritual experiences with visions, guardian angels, and heavenly messages. At Heaven's Doorway follows the author through the deaths of her mother, father and baby grandson - a powerful and comforting book for all who have lost someone they love. See www.AtHeavensDoorway.com.
Susan McElheran's short story "Fenn, Brother of Francis" has been shortlisted for the 2009 Aeon Award, given annually by Albedo One, Ireland's Magazine of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. Susan is the proprietor of the lovely Old Sage Bookshop at St. Michael's in Prescott, and one of Prescott's Mad Women Poets.
Celebration of Words photo © 2009 by Gary Villani
Cool beans . . . er . . . birdies . . . poet Lady Mathers reports that she and "a friend of mine, Scott Godsil, were interviewed for a channel 12 news segment on Earth Day and three of pictures you see that are still pics shown are mine. The segments aired the following day on the 5pm channel 12 news. I've been photographing a mother great horned owl and her two babies for three weeks now. Watch Great Horned Owls on Whiskey Row for more info!
Lady wants PWP members and local poets who write poetry to submit works for the online Monsoon magazine. "I need a short one-paragraph bio and 1-2 poems not to exceed 450 words total. Send them to me at this email address instead of going through the Monsoon site."
Sedona poet Marvel J. Warren's new volume, A Day in the Death of Intolerance, was published recently by AuthorHouse and is available for purchase!
"After multi-rejections these last weeks," PWP Secretary Elaine Jordan's essay, 'Reflections,' has been published at Damselfly Press. "I'm pleased to have it there because it's a woman's press.(Damselflies must all be girls)." See April 12 entry.
Also, "Lo and Behold," a new version of Elaine's essay "Water into Wine" was also published (April 15) at Cascadia Publishing House in their Spring '09 issue of Dreamseeker.
Willma Gore says "the on-line writer organization Women On Writing surprised me with an honorable mention package for my recently-submitted essay-contest entry, "Forget Lavish Space, I Need Muse Space." The H/M award includes three books, a sturdy, purse-size carry case and incidental toiletries from Skirt Magazine, co-sponsor of the contest series. The nicest part of the "package" was a hand-written message from one of the editors: '. . . [theessay] is excellent in every way. Keep up the  wonderful writing. We adore it. Love, Angela & W.O.W.' Of course 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes were presented in $$$ but, I'll take any "prizes" offered! If that's not enough, Willma's article, "Writer Conferences, Clubs & Contests" appears in
the May/June issue of Working Writer. Her piece on the value of writer workshops (she now lead five) was in the March/April issue. Such distinguished writers as Patricia Fry and Moira Allen, frequently appear in these pages. While the PWP Webmaster was setting up this announcement, she stumbled on a mention of Willma by author Marilyn Meredith on April 25, 2009 on the "Mysterious People" blog - well, no, Willma's not the mystery - the blog is for mystery, suspense, thriller, and crime writers! Marilyn says, "Once I joined a critique group, about 30 years ago, I met a wonderful author named Willma Gore who helped me more with my writing than any other person . . . She taught me more than any writing class or conference I ever attended . . ."
PWP Treasurer Leota Hoover's essay Hunter appears in the poetry & non-fiction contest issue (Winter/Spring 2009) of So To Speak, A Feminist Journal of Language & Art published by George Mason University. She didn't win but felt honored to be one of the finalists.
Continuing the Poetry Month celebration, on Thursday, April 9, the Mad Women Poets appeared in the Founders Suite at the Prescott Public Library. Readers included Mary Carvell Bragg, Amy Mae Calhoun, Megan Buchanan Cherry, Catherine Euler, Dee Hamilton, and Susan McElheran.
Kathleen Ewing published an April article in Writing for DOLLARS! called "Do You Google Yourself?" I periodically Google myself in the conventional way, but Kathleen's feature tipped me to get Google alerts in my name and for writers, there are many good reasons why! Thanks, girl!
Don Dahlin had a book signing on Saturday March 28 at Hastings Books, Music and Video in Prescott and signed both of his books: A Practical Handbook for Unlimited Spiritual Ability: Optimum Self-Government and The Conspiracy, Fraud, Quackery and Death of Psychiatry: Plus Big Pharma and FDA Scams You Should Know About!. Every attendee had a chance to win a free book.
Willma Gore sent PWP a neat update about a "recycled" or republished fiction piece, which we'll relate to you this summer when the story comes out in an anthology after having been published in a Montana university literary mag. At a PWP member networking recently, we were discussing how to re-publish your work - always a good idea to keep recognition and sometimes dollars flowing by keeping your rights to a work, whether fiction or nonfiction. Willma says, "My above little history needs to be known by others as one of the 'never give up' recommendations."
The March 14 Home Forum page of the Christian Science Monitor carries Willma's essay about how "our kids put on a puppet show in the back of our RV for the amusement of followers as we traveled along the highway. The piece is titled Highway Entertainment. When the check arrives, I'll be $75 richer. Good pay for 200 words!"
An extensive bio about our indomitable Willma and her life-long "writing addiction" now appears in the Phoenix Writers Club website.
 Kastara Parasava is looking and sounding great on her YouTube video featuring her STAR*CHILD'S GUIDEBOOK: Introducing the Universal Language by her Awakening Awareness Publications.
For more information see her website, Awakening Awareness.
Our Kathryn Wilkens is also the president of the Inland Empire chapter of the California Writers Club. She has an essay, "Endings: Heightened Prose for Depths of Meaning" in the March issue of the club's journal. To read it, go to http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/iecwc/freshink.html. Click on the magazine cover to open the pdf. Kathryn's essay is on p. 3 of the pdf.You'll also enjoy her photography at Kat Wilkens Photo Gallery!
Terri New, writer and multimedia producer for Incite Productions, was recently nominated for the 2009 Governor's Arts Awards, in the individual category for her Theater Arts title, ALICE: I Feel So Me Now. "They had a lovely reception in Phoenix for the Governor's Arts Awards nominees. The house where the reception was held was in itself an art gallery, plus wonderful food and wine, nice!"
The28th Annual Governor's Arts Awards will be conferred on April 14th at the Arizona Biltmore Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom in Phoenix.
Susan McElheran's science fiction novel, DOUBT NOT THE STARS, has just been published by Wings Press! 
She is sharing a booksigning with renown science fiction authors ALAN DEAN FOSTER and JAMES C. GLASS at The Old Sage Bookshop in The Hotel St. Michael Walkway, 110 S. Montezuma, Prescott. on Saturday, March 7 from 1 to 4pm. Call 928-776-1136 for more information. DOUBT NOT THE STARS is available from The Old Sage Bookshop or from the publisher as a trade paperback (ISBN 978-1-59705-655-7) or an e-book (ISBN 978-1-59705-386-0).
Cheers to Herb McCabe, who was interviewed and taped for an appearance on the WebTV Authors Show - the pen name for his novel, You at Risk, is author A.A. Asking. His interview appears on March 8 and will be posted on the Author Show homepage as a video podcast during the week of March 8. For more information about the show, see http://www.phoenixwebtv.com/, then click on The Authors Sho w. SHOW SCHEDULE
Feb 8 - Barbara Bellman - Flirting After Fifty
Feb 15 - Julie Farha - Exploring Your Potential - Who Am I and What Am I Doing Here?
Feb 22 - Jerry Simmons - What Writers Need to Know About Publishing
Mar 1 - Julie Ann Wambach - Battles Between Somebodies and Nobodies
Mar 8 - A. A. Asking - You At Risk
Kathleen Ewing scores again with another excellent article, "Organizing: Not Everyone's Cup of Tea" - on the value of disorganization - in the last week of February's issue of Writing For Dollars. The piece, by the way, was one of the nonfiction runners-up in the PWP First Annual Writing Contest. Kathleen's favorite writing and publishing mentor, Patricia Fry, also has an article in the same issue of WD.
You can contact Kathleen through her page at the Nothing Binding site.
Three cheers to Dorothy Cora Moore! In late February, she was interviewed a second time by Coast to Coast in conjunction with a recent news report about a rectangle of criss-crossed lines the size of Wales that lies under the Atlantic Ocean, 620 miles west of the African coast near the Canary Islands. Dot is the author of The Atlanteans, a novel including extensive research about the fabled lost island continent. For more information about our author and her book, see www.theatlanteans.com.
Our intrepid author Amber Polo blogged in late February (20) about her paranormal romance, Romancing Rebecca, on Skhye's Ramblings blog . . . and . . . the novel won a rousing 3rd place in the Most Humorous Category in the Anne Bonney Readers' Choice Award Contest (Ancient City Romance Authors, St. Augustine, FL.Amber says, "Booksellers judged the final round! And all the other books were by multi-pubbed authors from 'big' publishers." "Romance with a touch of magic & a pinch of humor"
Romancing Rebecca - (The Wild Rose Press)
Congrats to PWP Networking Chair Karen DeSpain for her timely piece in the online Daily Courier about the aging Juvenile Center and juvenile services in Prescott!
Amber Polo is back on a roll! Her paranormal romance Romancing Rebecca is a finalist in the "Anne Bonney Readers' Choice Award Contest" (Ancient City Romance Authors, St. Augustine, FL) - Most Humorous Category! Amber reports, "Winners will be announced in late February - in time for my birthday! Booksellers will judge the final round! In past years each category had only have 3 finalists. First Place winners in each category will be included on a poster of Anne-Bonney Readers’ Choice Award winners placed in independent bookstores around the country. This is what ACRA says about Anne Bonney, history's most infamous woman pirate. Some call her a feminist who chose piracy as way of rebelling against a male-dominated world; others portray her as a tomboy who never grew up. Whatever her motives, in deed and daring, Anne Bonney, was a plunderer, cutthroat, sailor, ransomer, raider, and general menace to maritime commerce in the Caribbean. In short, most pirates probably would have considered her an asset to their trade. That is the reason we've named our contest after her. We're looking for the best books the industry has to offer, books that stand out, books that are an asset to our trade." For more info about Amber's publications, see www.amberpolo.com & www.amberpolo.blogspot.com/
 We're proud that Dot Moore is in the news again: "I had a live two-hour interview with George Noory of Coast to Coast on Friday, January 23, 2009. The broadcast is now available on a Streamlink pod for the next three months at http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2009/01/23.html " Here's some PR about the show:
Atlantis, Dr. Karagulla & Shapeshifters Appearing in the first half of the show, author Dorothy Cora Moore discussed her novel, The Atlanteans, and shared her extensive research on Atlantis. Moore said many of the ideas presented in her book were inspired by the work of famed psychic Edgar Cayce, who prophesied about the existence of the fabled lost continent.
According to Moore, Atlantis was a real island continent, roughly the size of the United States, located in the center of the Atlantic Ocean. It was an advanced civilization ruled by 'metaphysical white magicians' who came to our planet from another star system in our Milky Way Galaxy, she added.
Moore believes a catastrophic event occurred about 25,000 year ago that destroyed Atlantis and caused the Earth to wobble. Moore also spoke about George's late aunt, Dr. Shafica Karagulla, a noted psychiatrist who became fascinated with brain states and higher sense perception.
Books The Atlanteans
PWP Secretary Elaine Jordan has won an Honorable Mention for creative nonfiction from the American PEN women of California! Elaine says, "The best part is that I'll go to San Francisco to read from my essay, 'Presumed Innocent,' in March at the San Francisco public library event to honor the prize winners."
Not only that, the new edition of Bayou Magazine contains Elaine Jordan's essay "The Sound of Music in Arizona," a winner in their 2008 Nonfiction Bonanza.
 S edona writer Willma Gore is building up steam - she had a piece about the 1930s Depression days, Recollection: A Dairy's Charity Rewarded, published in the January 12 Christian Science Monitor! Willma says, " No pay, but they did give me a credit line for my book. Can’t have everything, I guess. To read more about Willma's publications and writing workshops, see Writing for Fun and Profit.
 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
 Cheers to our trusty PWP Treasurer Leota McCown Hoover for the first publication announcement of 2009! "Just got my copy of 2009 Byline Calendar in the mail last week and good to their word, I am among the writers featured. Called Barnes and Noble and they don’t have them in stock (they did last year) but if interested, calendars can be purchased at www.bylinescalendar.com. Here’s wishing for lots of acceptance letters and good health for all of us in 2009."
Freelancer Kathleen Ewing came blazing to the finish line in a very close second for early 2009 publication. Not only does Kathleen have a new article titled Income Loss Prevention in the Writing for DOLLARS! newsletter, she also has a feature on evacuating your horse stable she forgot to tell us about in the Nov/Dec issue of TrailBLAZER. Another feature on funding your trail project appears in the Jan issue and "I just picked up my assignment for Feb!" Note - Kathleen's archive of Writing for DOLLARS! articles can be viewed at the end of the new article - and the others are  also posted on an author database. Her publishing credits include articles in American Falconry and Hobby Farms. She placed in both the fiction and nonfiction categories of the 2008 PWP Writing Contest. And just in case that's not enough, Kathleen was also praised by author and publishing maven Patricia Fry in the January 3, 2009 post of her blog, "The Words We Write." Patricia was one of PWP's 2008 speakers: "One of my most loyal blog readers is Kathleen Ewing of Prescott, Arizona. Kathleen is, among other things, a working freelance writer and I'm seeing her articles sprinkled all over the Internet these days. Here's one you might want to ... (read more)!
While recruiting writers for our PWP Meet Yourself feature, I found that Juanita Hassenstab-Alomar recently published a YA novel, Spirit Jar (Trafford, April 2008). Spirit Jar is available online at Amazon - see a synopsis of the story there, too. It's also available from the publisher, Trafford UK. And at Target! See also Trafford's PR and a reader comment on Juanita's PWP Book Review page .
Kathryn Wilkens was also in a first of the year photo finish with two publications - the posting of an essay, "Writing with Dazzle and Pizzazz" online at Inkbyte, and an essay and recipe, "Cowboy Comfort Food" in the January 14 Home Forum pages of the Christian Science Monitor! Originally published in ByLine Magazine, PWP PR Chair says, "I heartily recommend it ["Writing with Dazzle and Pizzazz"] - better than just an ordinary recommendation - to writers in all genres." Many of you probably don't know that Kathryn Wilkens is the president of the Inland Empire California Writers Club. Thought you would enjoy looking at her club's newsletter and reading her President's Message, which is very  appropriate for the start of the New Year.Go to http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/iecwc/freshink.html and click on the cover to get inside. Kathryn's message is the first article. PS - She's also a wonderful photographer - Click the picture to view her online photo album!
Kat Wilkens Photo Gallery
Western freelance writer Rita Thompson-Tinsley is a contributing featured writer in the January/February issue of I.M. Cowgirl - International Magazine of Cowgirls with her article on Annie Oakley - "HIGH CALIBER America's Hottest Little Sure Shot." The magazine is available by subscription or in popular bookstores nationwide and throughout 11 countries.
Herb McCabe reports he was interviewed on January 8 for the WebTV Authors Show and will let us know when the show airs. He's the author of a novel, You At Risk: Depopulating a Planet by A.A. Asking, available from iUniverse.
PWP, NORAZ, PAPA, and M.A.D. Women Poets member Mary Carvell Bragg and Dan Seaman of NORAZ & PAPA poets (the Prescott Area Poets Association) were featured readers at Grayleaf Galleria's poetry reading on Friday, January 9. The series is scheduled on the first three Fridays of the month, with an open mic following the features.
Carl Hitchens wishes all a Happy New Year and reports that he's "been changing over my entire website. Phasing out the old web pages."
 More members than we thought possible braved rain, snow, and wind to attend the 2008 Holiday party, a potluck at the lovely Prescott Community Center. The top three winners of the 6-word story contest (and there were some clever ones, too, that didn't make the top three) were:
1st place - Ethan Davis - “Will you? Yes! When? Not now!” 2nd place - Leota Hoover - “Morning sickness. Papa’s shotgun. Married bliss.” 3rd place by Arlene Eisenbise - “Plan and plot. Another Potter, not.”
The winners received a plate of Mary Ann Kozel’s cookies and a book donated by Kris Neri from her Well Red Coyote bookstore. Thank you, Mary Ann and Kris!
Ethan, Leota, and Arlene
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