A great Booknanza today (despite the heat)! Check out some of the photos of authors at work showing the public how ideas and stories get created:
Awesomeness at the Booknanza!
Author: Mark Davis
Visit the LCW 2023 Booknanza!
Las Cruces Writers sign and sell their magnificent books twice per year at the Mesilla Valley Mall. Come check it out from noon to 3 PM near the Barnes & Noble. Here’s the poster:
LCW June Meeting
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm June 8th, 2023
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
- Call to order, welcome new members
- Membership and Financial Report
- Discuss the future meeting place for LCW
- Hear from members about their successes, accomplishments, new books, etc
- Update on Writing Contests
- Discuss electing new officers for the fiscal year beginning August 1
- Member Readings:
- Arnold
- Eva
- Gretchen
- Frank
A Legacy of Service
Las Cruces Writers recently learned of the death of Bob Worthington, our long-time member, contributor, and a former president of the organization. Bob’s obituary will be a testament to his service to his country as a veteran Army officer who served in harrowing combat and published at least three award-winning volumes about his military service.
Bob was a font of interesting stories. One evening while on the phone discussing an upcoming LCW meeting, Bob mentioned that he had met Marylin Monroe and I prodded him for the details. It seems that when he was a teenager in Connecticut he delivered groceries to Ms. Monroe when she lived there during her marriage to Arthur Miller. He said she would perch in cigarette pants and an oversized man’s collared shirt, just like her image from the era, while he put the groceries away in the kitchen, chatting with him about nothing in particular.
I asked Bob if his exposure to the arts community that swirled around Miller at the time influenced him in his interest in commercial art as an undergraduate, but he didn’t see the connection there, instead suggesting that his early work in the studio of a yet-to-be-famous Alexander Calder might have been more influential. But that path then transformed into his long military service that he has written so extensively about.
May he rest in peace with thanks for his service to all of us—even Marilyn Monroe’s groceries.…
LCW May Meeting
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm May 11th, 2023
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
- Call to order, welcome new members
- Discuss the July book signing. This will be the last day to sign up as a participant. Bring $30 (cash or check) to secure your table or table half.
- Discussion on plot development and/or round-robin discussion from the membership on helpful hints concerning writing, cover selection, interior design, blurbs, self-publishing etc.
LCW April Meeting
April warmth brings the inviting sense of creativity to the writer. Abundance, joy, and the lure of creativity buoy the spirit and compel the author to take to the pen and keyboard. And Las Cruces Writers meet!
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm April 13th, 2023
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early (well, mostly Rosemary this time!)
Agenda
We will get an update on our July book sale. We have a few spots left, so if your book is ready, join us.
Three readers will present their unpublished works for critique and discussion.
Fenton Kay will discuss his recent experiences as part of an educational fair.
The great President Emeritus George Pintar will provide a pep talk.
Bring your questions!…
The Making of an Army Psychologist
Check out Bob Worthington‘s new book, The Making of an Army Psychologist. Here’s the press release:
…THIRD BOOK OF VIETNAM TRILOGY PUBLISHED BY LAS CRUCES VETERAN
LAS CRUCES, NM— Las Cruces resident, writer, and Army veteran Dr. Bob Worthington has published the third book of a planned military trilogy titled “The Making of an Army Psychologist.” The book was released by McFarland Publishers on March 22, 2023, and is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and many other bookstores.
“This book is about my last decade in the Army,” said Worthington. “I needed money to complete graduate school and had already served one tour as a combat advisor so I returned to Vietnam as a combat advisor.” Worthington describes in this book being a graduate student earning both his master’s degree and doctorate in psychology. He depicts his clinical work with Vietnam vets, American POWs and research regarding PTSD. Also covered are his experiences as a sport psychologist with the U.S. Olympics and his work in the courtroom as a forensic psychologist.
“The Making of an Army Psychologist” is the last follow up to Worthington’s previous books, “Under Fire with the ARVN Infantry” and “Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat,” both of which were recognized with a national award for Excellence in Literature by the Military Writers Society of America. The author is now finishing the manuscript for his next book about his forty years as a pilot, aviation journalist and aviation psychologist.
Worthington is a multiple
LCW March Meeting
The restless Spring approaches and so does our March meeting.
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm March 9th, 2023
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early
Agenda
Welcome new members
Report on finances/membership
George Pintar will discuss writing query letters to publishers!
Member suggestions/contributions.…
Listen To Your Mother! (and Lisa Lucca)
If you are in The Big Apple on April 1st, check out Las Cruces Writers’ own Lisa Lucca at Theatre 71 for the Listen To Your Mother grassroots storytelling trip! Here’s the info:
La Llorona – Carol Montgomery Mystery #3
Check out Fenton Kay‘s newest book in his Carol Montgomery Mystery series. Now available on Amazon.
Here’s the synopsis:
…La Llorona Park is dedicated to the legend of the wailing woman. According to the legend, the apparition wanders along rivers, streams, and ponds, wailing, crying, and looking for her drowned children. A young woman is found dead in the Rio Grande in her white wedding dress at the edge of La Llorona Park. The dead woman’s fiancé had disappeared minutes before their wedding. Walkers and lovers in La Llorona Park at night are accosted by a wailing wraith wearing a white dress.
Carol Montgomery’s engineer-in-training, Roger McPherson, and Carol want to know why the old adobe beside the park has an antenna on the roof and is so clean inside. Is that connected somehow to the wraith? Detective Xochitl Sanchez is assigned to unravel the death of the young woman who died from an antidepressant overdose? Carol and Xochitl are brought together as each tries to decipher what is happening at La Llorona Park. Is there a connection between La Llorona, the wraith, and the dead women in the river? The women are unsuccessfully attacked by masked thugs, and Carol is shot at by a pair of hired killers.