Our own award-winning author, Bob Worthington, highly recommends the Nonfiction Authors Association for aspiring and published authors who want to learn more, network, and polish their craft. The association offers podcasts, interviews with thought leaders, email newsletters, conferences (during the best of times), and much more. BASIC membership is even free!
’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Only the writer was stirring, with keyboard and mouse;
The plots were developed and outlined with care,
In the hopes that inspiration would soon be there;
The characters were diagrammed and what was said,
Had morphed into dialog that prattled along in his head;
And the imagery for the story and all that artistic crap,
Rumbled in his brain before his long winter’s nap,
When down on the page there arose a great natter,
His typing and corrections tried to calm the strange matter.
From his fertile mind the ideas did flash,
But the scenes he created always would clash.
A poem of Christmas, of hope, and snow,
Or a play about New Year’s stolen by a crow?
A miniature world constructed of spore,
Or a space-fairing mouse determined to explore?
The imagery flew in scenes so vivid and wild,
He sipped at a scotch to calm his inner child.
Then came the verbiage in novelistic verisimilitude,
And then waves of editing to calm the cacophonous and rude.
The work expanded and he started to pace,
As the night deepened cold, he saw traces of grace.
He typed and he sipped and he walked and he sang,
His phone was silenced and never once rang.
By dawn he was finished and looked at his work,
Then logged onto TikTok where he perfected his twerk.
A poem about writing on a long Christmas night,…
Just off our epic book signing adventure, LCW writer Bob Worthington is in the Las Cruces Bulletin with the release of his new book, Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat. You can pick up a copy from his website, www.BobWorthingtonWriter.com.
Susan Finlay has released her 15th novel, Gold and Gunslingers: A Tangled Roots II Historical Mystery. You can learn more about it on her website, Susan Finlay Writes.
Las Cruces Writers is ramping up our internet presence and are now on Twitter at @LCWritersGroup. Everything posted to the website will get pushed to Twitter as well. Enjoy the tweets!…
SECOND 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 second book of a planned Vietnam trilogy titled “Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat.” The book was released by McFarland Publishers on October 29, 2021, and is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and many other bookstores.
“This book is about my second tour of duty in Vietnam,” said Worthington. “I needed money to complete graduate school and had already served as a combat advisor. I went back to make my education happen.” However, Worthington describes the second tour as some of the fiercest fighting of the war and tells of his experiences training South Vietnamese commandos to conduct raids in the swamps south of Saigon.
“Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat” is the follow up to Worthington’s previous book, “Under Fire with the ARVN Infantry,” which was awarded a national award for Excellence in Literature by the Military Writers Society of America. The author plans to follow up this book with the conclusion of his trilogy, “The Making of an Army Psychologist,” in late 2022.
Worthington is a multiple award-winning writer with over 2,500 publications having featured his work. He is a member of the Las Cruces Writers Group and has another anthology of military tales titled “Untold Stories” available on Amazon.
As a retired U.S. Army officer with 15 years in the infantry and a decade as an Army clinical …
Check out local public radio affiliate, KRWG radio, as Emily Guerra interviews LCW’s Charmayne Samuelson on Puentes a la Comunidad (Bridges to the Community). The Holiday BookNanza features prominently.
Please join new member Lisa Lucca at COAS Books on the Downtown Mall for a book signing this Saturday, November 20th, 2021 from 10 AM to 12 PM. Lisa’s book, Ashes to Ink: A Memoir, is about a complex family and its secrets. In addition, Lisa interviewed our own Charmayne Samuelson for her radio show. Here are the coordinates to listen in on the broadcast:
Friday – Nov 26 – 10am MST
101.5 FM KTAL – Live True with Lisa Lucca
