Check out LCW’s own Charmayne Samuelson signing books at COAS Books via the Las Cruces Bulletin. Her event is 10AM-Noon on Saturday, August 20th (perfect intersection with Downtown Farmer’s Market!) She has several new books including a collaborative effort with her great, great nephews.…
Please join LCW’s Karen Ray for the next LCW writer’s seminar. Here’s the scoop:
Have you ever thought about sharing your story? Do family and friends tell you, “You should write a book!”? I believe each person’s unique history deserves to be remembered and shared with others. My goal as a personal historian, memoir coach, writer, and editor is to help preserve those life stories. When faced with a whole lifetime of memories the task can seem daunting. However, capturing one’s life stories can be an enjoyable, easily accessible project when broken down into easy steps and given some inspiration for how to start.
Come join us in an interactive workshop on writing your story. My goal is to empower you with the tools to begin writing or recording your own unique memories and experiences. This can be an immensely rewarding writing project. Ask yourself, if not now, when?
Date: August 27
Time: 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Place: Good Sam’s, Building E (first floor West lounge), 3045 Buena Vida Circle.
I’ll share some simple tools and ideas for recording your memories and drawing out your story. This will be an interactive one hour seminar, followed by a half hour question and answer session, during which I’ll provide handouts with take away information. Even if you’re an experienced writer you might learn something new, and gain a different perspective, while having a bit of fun on a Saturday afternoon.…
Las Cruces Writers meeting agenda for August 11th, 2022
Good Samaritan Village Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle, 1:30-3:30 PM
Review draft book signing policy and vote on it.
Review book signing event selection criteria and vote on it.
Members will read and critique George Pintar’s ”Chile Charlie and the Duck Racing Experience” in a semi-structured fashion using forms that are available here. …
Six hearty souls ventured out in the heat to participate in the branding workshop presented by George Pintar
The participants requested answers to three questions
Using the Socratic teaching methodology, mind mapping, and attendee participation the three questions were answered. Below is the summarization that culminated in the two-hour informative and fun-filled event.
Thanks to member (and former winner!) Efrem Carrasco for reminding us that Desert Exposure magazine is holding a short works (prose and poetry) contest. Deadline is August 15th, so get writing!
Check out President Emeritus George Pintar’s new audiobook of his recent novelette, Navajo Tainted Beliefs. You can get it at Audible and Amazon. Here’s a synopsis:
Navajo Tainted Beliefs is a fictional novelette exploring the similarities and differences between the Bible and the Navajo stories regarding the creation of the earth and humankind.
Chile Charlie and Dolly Sweet Thompson interview two Navajo shamans to obtain the facts and oral stories regarding these concepts. The setting is at the headquarters of the Navajo Nation—Tohatchi. These side-by-side comparisons are well-documented and have excellent narration that is easy to understand. You will laugh, cry, and wonder why as you listen and digest these similarities.…
Las Cruces Writers membership meeting agenda
Thursday 14 July 2022 at Good Sam 1:30 to 3:30
Membership elections today!!!!!!!!!
Call to order by acting chair Bob Worthington
Treasurer report by Bob Worthington Appx $300 cash in the bank.
Education report by Bob Worthington
Membership/social media/next writing seminar report by Mark Davis
Elections: Bob Worthington
Nomination committee slate:
Pres. David Osterhout
VP no candidate
Sec. Rosemary Matos
Treas. Rosemary Matos
Bd member Mark Davis
Bd member Bob Worthington
Old business
New LCW brochure Mark Davis
Membership survey results Mark Davis
Membership directory Mark Davis
Book signing at Mall
New Business???
Breakout session
Mark Davis critique of writer’s work
A member will read a short (3 to 5 minutes max) segment of his/her writing and then the members will comment on how they perceive the writing. Mark will be the session leader and explain how this will work. We invite members to bring 2 to 3 pages of their work to read and have critiqued.
Several members have asked for this to be done. For this to work we need some members to bring to this session some of their written work.
Meeting adjourned…
Please join George Pintar, President Emeritus of Las Cruces Writers, for his upcoming seminar on branding your writing business. The seminar is Saturday, July 23rd from 2-4 PM at Good Samaritan Village, Building E (first floor West lounge), 3045 Buena Vida Circle.
Topics to be covered:
Takeaways:
What to Bring:
This workshop has been designed for writers who want to go beyond just writing and also write as a business or to sell books. There is a difference.…
Meet, greet, and read writers from Las Cruces Writers at the Thomas Branigan Library in September as part of the Friends of Thomas Branigan Library and local bookshop, Moonbow’s Book Nook (sssshhh, owned by LCW member Alice Davenport). Here’s the announcement in the Las Cruces Bulletin.
Among the LCW members participating are:
And don’t forget that many of these same authors will be at Mesilla Valley Mall tomorrow, July 9th for Midsummer Book Dreams!…
Dreaming of coolin’ off in the lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer? Join the Las Cruces Writers in the Mesilla Valley Mall and chill out at our book signing! Ten authors in the upcoming Las Cruces Writers July 9th, MIDSUMMER BOOK DREAMS book signing and sale will offer over 50 titles in various genres includ-ing fiction, non-fiction, children’s, memoirs, and coffee-table photography books.
From 12 – 3 p.m. at Mesilla Valley Mall, meet Susan Elaine Pfeiffer, Fenton Kay, Rosemary Matos, Judy Cicero, Mark William Davis, Bob Worthington, David Osterhout, Elaine S. LeVine, George Pintar, and Charmayne Samuelson.
Romance novels and memoirs are always two popular genres of books offered by the group, and two of the authors at the signing will be Susan Elaine Pfeiffer and David Osterhout.
Susan Pfeiffer will be signing her time-travel romance, The Dusty Attic – Where The Future Meets The Past. Susan worked as the Administrative Assistant at the Las Cruces International Airport for over 21 years before retiring in 2015. Her writing passion blossomed around 2012 and it hasn’t stopped yet. She is cur-rently writing her fourth book, a sequel to The Dusty Attic. She is a true romantic at heart and loves white-water rafting, bird watching, and living her own romantic adventure with her husband of almost 50 years. Look for her on Facebook.
Author David Osterhout, an army intelligence officer who was stationed …
