Category: Members
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 11th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Discussion: Future Book Signings/Payment
- Discussion: Time and Date of Meeting, reminder
- Discussion: Officer introduction for 2024/2025 and Annual Dues
- Discussion: Book Promotions: TikTok, Book Bloggers, etc
- Adjournment
Talking About Memoirs and Memories: Karen Ray at Thomas Branigan Library
Please join Karen Ray in the Roadrunner Room at Thomas Branigan Memorial Library (I used to go to the one on the downtown mall as a child…maybe I’ll write about that) at 1:30 on Tuesday, July 16th to learn more about memoir writing. Here’s the official flyer:
The Great Summer Book Signing!
The summer book signing is coming soon. Check out your favorite Las Cruces Writers and buy their great literary achievements at:
Mesilla Valley Mall near Barnes & Noble
Saturday, July 20th from 12 noon to 3 PM.
The following writers will be serving up written buffets:
- Joyce Phillips
- Mike DeMers
- Karen Ray
- George Pintar
- Rosemary Matos
- Judith Cicero
- David Osterhout
- Fenton Kay
- Susan Pfieffer
- Jim Humphreys
Come join the crew and I promise they won’t hedge-hog the limelight!…
And the Prize Goes to…Charmayne Samuelson!
And just as Charmayne’s new collection of poetry goes to press she wins two prizes for the related biography of Spencer MacCallum! Drumroll, please……..
Independent Press Award, 2024 Distinguished Favorites, Biography: General
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, FINALIST: AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY
You can check out her complete canon at Wood Duck Publishers. Of course, the wood duck is the most colorful North American waterfowl, noted for iridescent plumage and perching. Almost a prize in itself.…
Charmayne Samuelson Goes Bilingual in Poetry of the Clay
Check out Charmayne Samuelson’s book signing event for Poetry of the Clay. The event will be held in Mata Ortiz, Mexico. In her words:
…INVITATION!
I am thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of my new bilingual book, MATA ORTIZ POETRY OF THE CLAY, POESIA DEL BARRO, featuring the lives and pottery of 24 Contemporary Mata Ortiz Potters! 140 full-color photographs! 30 Original Poems written by me about the ‘visceral’ experience of beholding this stunning pottery! We are hosting a big ‘Mata Ortiz village event’ on Friday evening Oct. 4 at 5 pm in Mata Ortiz. 24 potters and I will sign your books for a true Collector’s Edition! The stunning cover of the book features amazing pottery by Hector Gallegos!
Meet these outstanding potters at the event: Laura Bugarini, Hector Gallegos, Paula Gallegos, Hector Gallegos III, Tati Ortiz, Lila Silveira, Jose Silveira, Jera Tena, Pilo Mora, Tavo Silveira, Miriham Gallegos, Adhilenne Figueroa, Miguel Lopez, Carlos Lopez, Estafania Lopez Figueroa, Ivonne Olivas, Lencho Sanchez, Betty Quezada, Oralia Lopez, Jorge Quintana, Eduardo Quintana, Ramiro Veloz Casas, Silvia Veloz Guillen, Valerie Veloz Guillen. Join us for wine and food at this true once-in-a-lifetime event!
Swoon in June at the 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 13th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Discussion: Future Book Signings/Payment
- Discussion: Time and Date of Meeting
- Discussion: Nominations of Officers for 2024/2025 and Annual Dues
- Discussion: Book Promotions: TikTok, Book Bloggers, etc
- Readings: Linda
- Adjournment
Let’s Meet in the Sovereignty of May
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 9th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
Call to order, welcome new members and discuss accomplishments
Membership and Financial
General Discussion: How I publish my books and other helpful hints.
Ode, Composed on a May Morning
While from the purpling east departs
The star that led the dawn,
Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts,
For May is on the lawn.
A quickening hope, a freshening glee,
Foreran the expected Power,
Whose first-drawn breath, from bush and tree,
Shakes off that pearly shower.
All Nature welcomes Her whose sway
Tempers the year’s extremes;
Who scattereth lustres o’er noon-day,
Like morning’s dewy gleams;
While mellow warble, sprightly trill,
The tremulous heart excite;
And hums the balmy air to still
The balance of delight.
Time was, blest Power! when youth and maids
At peep of dawn would rise,
And wander forth, in forest glades
Thy birth to solemnize.
Though mute the song—to grace the rite
Untouched the hawthorn bough,
Thy Spirit triumphs o’er the slight;
Man changes, but not Thou!
Thy feathered Lieges bill and wings
In love’s disport employ;
Warmed by thy influence, creeping things
Awake to silent joy:
Queen art thou still for each gay plant
Where the slim wild deer roves;
And served …
Meet in April, in April!
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 11th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
Call to order, welcome new members and discuss accomplishments
George will have a few minutes at the beginning of the meeting.
Then, Dr Jim, Fenton, Linda and Gretchen will read for us.
And, to see if you are paying attention, and because Dorothy Parker always invokes a devious little smirk:
A Well-Worn Story
In April, in April,
My one love came along,
And I ran the slope of my high hill
To follow a thread of song.
His eyes were hard as porphyry
With looking on cruel lands;
His voice went slipping over me
Like terrible silver hands.
Together we trod the secret lane
And walked the muttering town.
I wore my heart like a wet, red stain
On the breast of a velvet gown.
In April, in April,
My love went whistling by,
And I stumbled here to my high hill
Along the way of a lie.
Now what should I do in this place
But sit and count the chimes,
And splash cold water on my face
And spoil a page with rhymes?
Dorothy Parker…
Fenton Kay: Of Rats and Drones!
Check out Fenton Kay’s newest O’Flaithearta Biological Consultants Mystery, available at Amazon. Here’s the gist:
Stephans kangaroo rats (SKR) are Federally protected. They are found in the same areas as unprotected Pacific kangaroo rats (PKR). A developer wants to build on a property that contains prime SKR habitat. The developer has filed a Federal lawsuit claiming that the kangaroo rats the Feds say are SKR are really only PKR – SKR don’t exist. Sean O’Flaithearta is contracted by the Metropolitan Water District (MET) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to prove that SKR and PKR are separate species and occupy different habitats found on the property. The developer is financed by a Mexican drug cartel. The developer hires a local illegal animal dealer and trapper to remove all of the kangaroo rats from his property and to scuttle the O’Flaitherta study. The trapper’s partner dies while pirating rats from the study site. The County Sheriff’s Department takes an interest in the study. Local environmental activists are attacked by unknown thugs. Unknown to the USFWS and the O’Flaithearta team, who are plotting to bust the rat trapper and the developer, the DEA, and the FBI are watching the developer and the cartel. Someone is watching the two women members of the O’Flaithearta team who are posing as researchers in need of kangaroo rats. The developer is nearly killed by the cartel. Other thugs try to intimidate the O’Flaithearta team. The rat trapper is shot while being arrested. All …