Author: Mark Davis

Join Us In September!

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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 September 14th, 2023
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.

Agenda

Call to order: Welcome new members
Membership and FinancialReport/Dues
Discuss Dues
Hear from members about their successes
Main Program: How to Write a Mystery by Fenton Kay
Discuss ancillary meeting about publishing your book…

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LCW August Meeting

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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 August 10th, 2023
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.

Agenda

Call to order, welcome new members

Membership and FinancialReport/Dues

Discuss future meetings.

Hear from members about their successes

Member Readings:

  • Gretchen
  • Frank
  • Fenton
  • Mike
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Let’s Meet in July!

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It’s hot and Las Cruces Writers just had one blazing BookNanza! Now it’s time to do some practical stuff with the July 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 July 13th, 2023
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.

Agenda

  • Call to order, welcome new members
  • Finance report. ANNUAL DUES MUST BE PAID by August 10th ($25)
  • Discuss the July book signing (Thanks go to Jim, Rosemary, and Karen).
  • Member accomplishments.
  • Dessert Exposure LCWG expectations.
  • Program (Discussion) All Things Books.
    • Covers
    • Interior design/formatting
    • Genre
    • Publishing
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LCW June Meeting

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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
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A Legacy of Service

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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.…

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LCW May Meeting

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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.
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LCW April Meeting

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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!…

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The Making of an Army Psychologist

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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

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