Look for her book, Torment (The Dragons of Tenghua, Book One), in paper or as an e-book, HERE or HERE.
Say hello to Mari Dietz, new member from Dodge City (District 7)! Mari teaches full-time, so writes when she has the spare time. She mainly writes fantasy, and just had a book release this week. "After a long writing dry spell," she says, "it is wonderful to finally publish again." Look for her book, Torment (The Dragons of Tenghua, Book One), in paper or as an e-book, HERE or HERE. Welcome to KAC, Mari! We're happy to have you.
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Frog Joy is a collection of free verse and micro poems that point to the beauty in everyday moments. Beth Gulley is making her own world without a fence. Sometimes readers join her as she stains her fingers on low hanging mulberries. Other times the readers chase her along the trail and try to escape the rising flood waters. Underneath it all, a chorus of frog calls, like fingers running along the edge of a comb, echo in the damp night. Beth Gulley is a Kansas City based poet. In addition to Frog Joy, (2024 Anamcara Press) she has published two chapbooks and three full-length collections of poetry: Since Corona Ruined Our Trip to the Library (Finishing Line Press), Little Fish: Tiny Meditations on Freedom (Flying Ketchup Press), Dragon Eggs (Spartan Press), The Sticky Note Alphabet (Alien Buddha Press), and Love of Ornamental Fish (Alien Buddha). She teaches English at Johnson County Community College. Beth serves on the Riverfront Reading Committee and the Writers Place board. She likes to volunteer, trail run, and drink coffee. More information can be found on her blog at https://timeeasesallthings.wordpress.com/. “Few brief, gem-like poetic meditations shine like Beth’s. Part diary entry, part koan or prayer, these new poems sparkle with wit and wisdom. I treasure them. You will too.”—Kevin Rabas, Past Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-2019), Improvise
Dive into “Frog Joy,” where Beth Gulley’s verses paint everyday magic. From mulberry-stained fingers to a heart-pounding escape from floods, hear the chorus of frog calls serenading life’s simple wonders. AVAILABLE NOW!Jacketed Hardcover, Paperback, EBook “Beth Gulley does it again with her latest collection, Frog Joy. Present is all of Gulley’s trademark wit, heart, and insight. She instantly grabs the reader in the first poem by comparing watching a televised fight to reading Basho. ... The book as a whole could be Beth Gulley’s most rounded and profound collection yet, and that is quite an accomplishment considering her impressive back catalog.”—James Benger, author of The Park “Beth Gulley takes readers on a journey that, on its face, seems to be a trip through the mundane. In reality, readers are transported through observations of daily life into a world that could be theirs. With beautifully relatable simplicity, Frog Joy reminds us that we all travel this life together, just on parallel paths.”—Curtis Becker, author of My Second Act and Greetings from Topeka. Jet Dreams Take Flight
Imagine the sleek Learjet streaking across the sky in this high-flying adventure! Picture yourself zooming through the clouds as young readers discover the trailblazing history of the world's fastest business jet. This book's about talented people who had big dreams and just knew they could make them real. Meet inventor Bill Lear and engineer Dr. Hans Studer. These visionary founders combined creativity and expertise to make the impossible possible. Their Learjet could rocket across the country in a mere 4 hours! Follow their journey from sketching jet wing designs to witnessing their innovative dream take flight. But it wasn't easy. Yet they never even thought about giving up! Nope, they kept on working, figuring things out step-by-step. Finally, their hard work paid off big time! They made the Learjet, the quickest business jet in the sky. It's so speedy and smooth, it changed the way people think about flying! Readers will take off on an exciting ride through decades of Learjet's boundary-pushing innovations. Learning about the daring pilots who pushed the limits will ignite their own willingness to soar. The Age of Learjet will inspire the next generation of innovators to dream big, believe in themselves, and let their bold ideas take wing!" Aviation experts Dr. Peter Hamel, former Director of the Institute of Flight Systems, and Gary Park, aerospace engineer for over 50 years, stand alone as the definitive Learjet historians. Their insider engineering experience paired with exhaustive research resulted in the comprehensive 456-page book "The Learjet History: Beginnings, Innovations, and Utilization." Dr. Hamel brings decades of leadership in aeronautics programs and research. Mr. Park provides an insider perspective from directly working on Learjet certification. For this adaptation, nobody provides more authority and passion for bringing Learjet's untold stories to young readers. So, why should you read this book? Because it shows that when you've got a dream and you stick with it, amazing things can happen! Ready to make your own dreams fly? Meet Abbi Lee of District 5! Abbi says: I'm in Wichita and I write for young readers. The first book in my debut middle grade series, Geocache Club: Ghost Town Treasure Hunt, will be released October 1, 2024 with Chicken Scratch Books. It's a contemporary adventure story about eleven-year-old Layton Clark. When his best friend moves away, Layton doesn’t know if he’ll ever have another adventure again. Then he meets Sherry who introduces him to the treasure-hunting world of geocaching. The thrill of adventure sends them hunting in an abandoned Kansas ghost town where they find deserted shacks, unmarked geocaches, an old diary, and more. Layton and Sherry must work together to unlock these mysterious geocaches, solve a century-old mystery, and convince Layton’s father not to move the family away. I'm also published in Kansas Country Living magazine and Spider magazine. Currently, I work as a copywriter for a local marketing agency. Prior to that I taught high school English and Social Studies. I also worked at a local museum as the Education Manager conducting tours, creating programs, and using stories to bring history to life. I'm happy to be a part of KAC and can't wait to make connections with fellow local authors. And we're glad to have you join us! Check out her website too: https://abbileebooks.wordpress.com/
Members Cathy Callen, Lawrence, and Julie A. Sellers, Atchison, had books selected this year as a "recommended title" by the Kansas National Education Association's Reading Circle Commission.
District 6 welcomes Rob! To introduce myself: I grew up in Dodge City, where my father's family has farmed and ranched since the 1920s. Before that, the family farmed near Ellinwood. My mother's people are originally from Maple Hill, on the eastern edge of the Flint Hills, and I have a lot of family in the Salina area, as well. I attended KU as an undergraduate, majoring in English, and Washington University in St. Louis, where I earned my MFA. I also have a PhD from SUNY-Buffalo and an MA from Exeter University in England. My books include a forthcoming debut novel, The Last Rancher, which will be published by Meadowlark Press this summer. I've also published two memoirs, Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City (Swallow Press, 2013) and Headlights on the Prairie: Essays on Home (U P Kansas, 2017); and a work of criticism, Hicks, Tribes, & Dirty Realists: American Fiction after Postmodernism (U Kentucky P, 2001, 2009). Both Dragging Wyatt Earp and Headlights on the Prairie were named Kansas Notable Books, and Headlights was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction Category.
I live in Indiana with my wife Alyssa Chase and a pair of ornery beagles. I teach creative writing at Indiana University in Indianapolis. Hazel Hart, member from Emporia, is running a free eBook promotion for Uprooted, the first book in the Hannah True series from March 17-March 20. Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFH6QVQ
Overcoming, the third book in the series, is up for preorder on Amazon and will go live on March 20. Overcoming: The Adventures of Hannah True, Book 3 Meet Larry Toerber, new member from District 5! I'm new to authoring books, with a focus on history, memoir, and nonfiction. In June of 2023, I published my first book: Exercise Tiger: The Silent D-Day “Link” of World War II. The book is a "never been told story" of how the Toerbers, an Iowa farm family in the 1940s, lost a member: son, brother, husband, and soldier, and how their families were influenced by their "Missing in Action" loss. The truths of an eerie nighttime practice before the D-Day invasion known as "Exercise Tiger" were never told to the affected families. The exercise went horribly wrong when seven German E-Boats savagely attacked the undefended American Forces aboard amphibious Landing Ship Tanks, killing my uncle Mearl and at least 749 troops. The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, decided to cloak the terrible event as a National Security issue, and make sure all the information on the episode was buried with the 749 bodies. There were more American soldiers killed during Exercise Tiger than on D-Day! To this day, over 80 years later, there is speculation that the government deliberately falsified information forwarded to the next of kin. My parents and grandparents went to their graves not knowing the true story. On April 14, 2010, two military historians researching the first Naval officer fatality of WW II contacted me and set my investigative energies on an 11-year mission to explore this very secret military event. These two historians who discovered the Toerber link suggested I write the "untold story" of this secret military event. I accepted the challenge and never looked back. A link to preview the book is here: https://issuu.com/mennonitepressinc./docs/toerber-exercise_tiger; more details are here: https://www.amazon.com/Exercise-Tiger-Silent-D-Day-World-ebook/dp/B0CK2Z5H69. During my Exercise Tiger journey, I was employed by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration, traveling throughout the continental United States conducting investigations into railroad accidents, incidents, and safety concerns. I and my beautiful bride Zelma raised our family and still reside in rural Harvey County near Newton, Kansas. Glad to have you join us, Larry!
The Intimacy of Spoons, my newest book of poetry, is now out—wahoo! It’s been sixteen years since Burning Heaven, my previous book of poetry, was published, so I’m thrilled to hold this new one in hand and share it with you. And the cover is gorgeous, thanks to Suzanne Stryk.
Here’s a description: The Intimacy of Spoons explores the many metaphors of the spoon: from love and marriage to the spoon of a grave that holds our bodies; from the darkness of loss and night, where “the Big Dipper is nothing but / the oldest spoon pointing us home”; to the darkness of lungs transformed into art. The poems cover a wide variety of topics—cultural, political, familial, and natural—and always, underlying these poems is the song of birds—with broken wings or clear voices, avian muses filling our forests now or long gone. Like the spoons we use every day, the poems of The Intimacy of Spoons return us to everyday stories and objects, common yet profound. Nickole Brown author of To Those Who Were Our First Gods says this and more about it: “…each poem a spoonful of medicine to administer healing to our broken world.” For more early reviews, as well as event details and other information, please visit www.jim-minick.com. To celebrate, I’ve lined up a slew of events. Come if you can—it’d be grand to connect. Events: (All events are free and open to the public unless stated otherwise.) --Feb 29, 6:00 PM Wytheville Lib. Wytheville Lib FOL. --March 6, 6:00 PM City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, NC. Joint reading with Darnell Arnoult and Bernard Clay. --Appalachian Studies Conference, March 7-9, at Western Carolina U. (Registration required). --March 14, 7:00, Blacksburg Books. --March 26, 2:00, Augusta University, Without Warning Reading/Lecture. --March 26, 7:00, The Book Tavern, Augusta, GA, The Intimacy of Spoons Reading. --April 4-6, Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference. I’ll be teaching 3 workshops. (Registration required). --April 7, 3:00. Abingdon, VA, Washington County Library Sunday with Friends. With Linda Parsons and others. --July 13, 2:00-4:00. Online. Poetry Society of Tennessee, Reading and Workshop. Annual membership of $25 to PST required. Join for this and many more benefits. --Sept 6-7. Carolina Mtns Lit Fest. --Oct. 26-27. Southern Festival of Books. Recent News and Media: --Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas, my most recent book of nonfiction came out in May 2023. Last fall, it won the Martin Kansas History Book Award from the Kansas Authors Club, a huge honor. --Without Warning also was reviewed favorably by Chapter 16. --The literary journal from East Tennessee, Appalachian Place, featured several poems from Spoons. --This fine magazine also published an interview about Without Warning. --Several other poems from The Intimacy of Spoons have been published online. These include: --The Beat Podcast featured a few of my poems along with “The Oven Bird,” a favorite Robert Frost poem. --“Why Birds?” – Salvation South --“Good Dirt” (and other poems) - Cutleaf --“Whale Light” - The Ekphrastic Review --“Jim and James Ponder Enough” and “Spangled” – Still: The Journal. --“To Spoon,” “Earth Diving,” “Ode to a Basket,” and “Hawk Says Finally”--New River Review And I’m super honored to have poems included in several anthologies: --The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vo. IX: Virginia from Texas A&M University Press. --Wanderings I and Virginia, both anthologies published this coming year by NatureCulture in support of land conservation. --Southern Voices: 50 Contemporary Poets from Lamar University Literary Press, again coming out later this year. More Miscellaneous News --Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, a literary magazine I help edit, is open for submissions. Our website is down, so for more info contact me at this email. --On June 21, Wytheville’s Chautauqua Creative Writing Day will feature the great writer, David Joy. It’ll be a fine time so come if you can. 10:00 AM at St. Paul UMC. Gratitude and Help: The Intimacy of Spoons has been in the making for 16 years, which also means that many people helped in its creation. A huge thanks to all. The acknowledgements section is rightfully long, and hopefully I didn’t miss anyone. There are still many ways you can help in the book’s success. Specifically: --If you’re on social media, spread the word and post about the book. Reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, and elsewhere make a difference. --If you’re a writer, podcaster, journalist, reviewer, radio/TV host, etc. interested in this book, let’s talk. --If you are part of a school, bookstore, library, museum, etc. and interested in hosting an event like a reading, conversation, slideshow, etc., again, let’s talk. --Same with book clubs. If you’re part of one, suggest this book. I’ve had terrific conversations via Zoom with book clubs all over the country. --Ask your local libraries (public and/or university) to order the book. Lastly, these email newsletters are very occasional, but even if they still clog up your inbox too much and you no longer want to receive them, I understand. If so, please respond by adding REMOVE to the subject line, without deleting the rest of the subject line. For all your kindness and help, thank you. The hepatica, one of the first signs of spring here in Virginia, are just leafing out in the woods—I wish you a life full of such beauty. All best, Jim Have you ever had technological difficulties? Longed for how simple life used to be? Or gotten marital advice from Grandma? Yes? Then you’ll enjoy these humorous stories by author Jeanette Carter who observes life with wit and an eye for irony. She originally wrote these vignettes as Facebook posts, to the delight of her family and friends. Now wanting to leave a more permanent legacy of stories, Jeanette has collected them into this book for your enjoyment, too. These humorous sketches will get you chuckling with recognition of many foibles of human nature and life situations. Note from Jeanette: It just came out a couple of weeks ago! It can be ordered from Amazon and read from the Kindle app. I hope you like it! It is a compilation of humorous stories about my family, funny experiences I have had, and my silly musings on life. Jeanette L. Carter. If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form. Josie Posey and her posse of Mahjong Mavens are at it again, in this cozy mystery where the retired big city crime reporter turned small town crime solver uncovers another murder in picturesque English Village. When the clockmaker’s daughter returns home for a visit, reporter Josie Posey is assigned the task of interviewing the talented watch designer. That very afternoon the young woman falls from a ladder while inventorying antique clocks. At first, Josie is certain the fall was an accident. Everyone loved Ella McGregor Benjamin. But Ella’s deathbed statement is a mysterious riddle that can’t be ignored. With her Old English Sheepdog Moe by her side, and an ever-growing list of suspects, Josie scrambles to identify the killer before anyone else gets hurt. The local police chief wants Josie to help solve the puzzle, but stay out of his murder case. The editor of The Village Gazette wants an in-depth story for the next edition. And somebody wants Josie to stop asking questions. Deadlines loom. In this fast-paced rollercoaster ride of a mystery, the clock is ticking as Josie vows to find the killer before time runs out. A Note from the Author I’m thrilled to announce that book two in my Josie Posey Mystery Series, CLOCKED OUT, releases February 6, from Level Best Books. You’ll find this cozy mystery under my pen name, Anna St. John, online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers. Or, you can check with your local library or request it from your favorite independent bookstore. CLOCKED OUT will be available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook versions. As a new author, I’m working to build my Facebook page and newsletter list, so I invite Kansas authors to join me there. I would be honored to follow you in return. Facebook: @cozyauthor Website: www.anna-stjohn.com If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form. Order from IngramSpark or bluecedarpress.com February 1 Reginald D Jarrell, Finding Myron: an adopted son’s search for his birth father A Black man adopted by extended family and raised in a loving home is haunted by questions about the birth father that no one will tell him about. A haunting memoir about the power of DNA connection and the persistent need to know your roots. Jarrell’s story will be helpful for adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, as well as youth groups and classes in congregations and social studies classes. Retail Price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-16-1 (paper) & 978-1-958728-17-8 (ebook) LCCN: 2023949737 March 1 G. C. Eick, Where is Ana Amara? [an international thriller] When a Syrian journalist disappears from the London home she shares with her British partner while investigating the treatment of asylum seekers by Britain’s Ultra Party, her partner seeks help from four renegade Members of Parliament and the community of Syrian immigrants. Their search for Ana leads them to an international adoption network, Britain’s retired chemical weapons facility, and a runaway Saudi princess and provokes an international scandal. Retail price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-18-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-19-2 (ebook) LCCN: 2024930300 March 15 Aida Dziho-Sator, For Me, the War Begins in an Elevator (poems) Aida Dziho-Sator was a child when the Bosnian War began in 1992. She has since become an internationally traveled professor of English Literature who somehow manages to also write exquisite poetry while teaching, applying for travel grants, and raising two children. Her poems are about relationships, memory, being a woman, and internal and external wars. They are truthful, powerful, and even funny. Retail Price: $15.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-21-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-20-8 (ebook) LCCN: 2024930887 April 30 The Death Project: An Anthology for the Living 36 authors from different ethnicities and religions reflect in prose and poetry on losing loved ones and finding a way forward. Includes information on how different religions handle death and how people have coped with deaths from war, from police violence, suicide, murder, AIDS, dementia, illness. Perspectives include a mortician, a New Age spiritualist, a police officer, and women and men from around the world. New edition with added material. A book for congregations, funeral homes, and all those living with loss. Profits from will go to international health care workers. Retail price: $15.99 ISBNs 978-1-958728-22-2 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming June 1 Paul Lamb, Parent Imperfect (a novel) Pressed by Kelly, newly married Curt and Kelly agree to adopt a child. But Kelly struggles with depression and memories of his family’s abusive rejection of him because he is gay and Curt is uncertain if he can love their unusual son. With the help of Curt’s parents, they work at it, sustained by the cabin in the Ozarks that has for generations been a lodestone for all of the men in Curt’s family. Can they be a family? Can the cabin’s magic include two outsiders, Kelly and their son Clarkson? A moving story of loving and making family in the Twenty-First Century. The sequel to One-Match Fire (2022). Retail price: $19.99 ISBNs 978-1-958728-24-6 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming June 15 The Love Book: Collected Shorts on Love Selected poetry, short stories, and memoirs about different kinds of love and loving for your favorite persons. These pieces were selected by judges from a contest held by Blue Cedar Press in 2024. Retail Price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-26-0 (paper) & 978-1-958728-27-7 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming The recording of the January program is now available for viewing by members at this link. (Member sign-on required.) This video will be available until replaced by the February program recording. We had a lovely program to kick off 2024 featuring three award-winning authors. K.L. Barron, Laura Lee Washburn, and D.L. Winter shared thoughts on their writing processes, entering contests, and advice they would give to authors just beginning the process of publishing. On Writing Groups: "Knowing that I had to show up with something new every two weeks guaranteed at least one thing, and often I would write it that morning." -Laura Lee Washburn Author of The Book of Stolen Images Support a Kansas Author! Read a book. Buy a book. Recommend your local library buy the book. Leave a review for the books you love! A stunning betrayal forces a young woman to flee a relationship and forge a new life in one of the most brutal landscapes on earth. Gradually adapting to her new surroundings, she becomes aware of the impending dissolution of an entire culture. A diverse cast of displaced Westerners, local nomads, and djinn converge as everyone scrambles to survive and everything comes undone. Winner of the 2023 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award in Fiction. K.L. Barron is a writer of place: poetry and prose. Her prize-winning fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction has been published in New Letters, The Bennington Review, Little Balkans Review, terrain.org, ChickenBones (Library of Congress), among others, and in several anthologies. She earned an MFA from Bennington in 2005 and taught writing and literature at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas for nearly 20 years. She lives and writes in the Flint Hills. Her debut novel Thirst came out in November 2022 from Sea Crow Press. In a fantastical neo-classical sense, The Book of Stolen Images speaks novelly toward culture, politics, and collective humanity. This poetry collection recognizes personal yet relatable ordinary and existential experiences, particularly in a timely contextual fashion regarding modern social issues--what makes us feel alive, imperfect, concerned, and inspired to do better. Unique imagery and diction flavor each poem and set this collection apart from other offspring of fairy tales and social commentaries. Winner of the 2023 Nelson Poetry Book Award. Laura Lee Washburn is the Director of Creative Writing at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, and the author of This Good Warm Place: 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition (March Street), Watching the Contortionists (Palanquin Chapbook Prize), and The Book of Stolen Images (Meadowlark Press, 2023). Harbor Review’s chapbook prize is named in her honor, and she’s the president of Small Harbor Publishing’s Board of Directors. Her degrees are from Old Dominion University, where she interned for the Associated Writing Programs Newsletter, and Arizona State University. Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, she has also lived and worked in Arizona and in Missouri. From her home in Pittsburg, Kansas, she edits The Coop: A Poetry Cooperative. Armed with his trusty birch wand and protective shield, young apprentice wizard Alistur Grimaldi believes he can wield his powers with the same determination and results as his beloved mentor, his Great-grandfather Balthazar. His amusement quickly turns to anguish when his inexperience triggers a chain of disastrous events, putting him-and others-in dire circumstances. Mere hours after the most important event in his fourteen years, Alistur must find the courage to face the catastrophic proof of his foolish actions and make things right . . . if he can. From the coast of the Azlyn Sea to the depths of the Crystal Caverns-befriending magical and mystical creatures along his way-Alistur must learn the journey to becoming a wise and responsible wizard will not be walked alone. Winner of the 2023 "It Looks Like a Million" Design Award. D.L. Winter was raised in Kansas and spent her adult life in Northern California. Many years ago, on her first trip abroad, inspired by the nostalgic allure of legends, lore, and architectural wonders of the Mediterranean region, the concept for Alistur’s story was born. However, crafting the fable would have to wait. Plotting adventures in the fictitious Kingdom of Fleurbania would be among the creative projects of her retirement. After a corporate career, D.L. now resides in her home state of Kansas once again, telling tales and enjoying life with family members. Thaddeus Dugan’s debut collection explores the evolution of the soul. These poems reflect the rigorous self-examination it takes to reinvent yourself. Through love, grief, and loss, he does this, while never losing sight of his collective humanness.
Dugan resides in Topeka, Kansas, and is a junior at Washburn University studying English/Writing. He has two cats, one named Araya and the other Eliot, who supervise all his writing endeavors. In his spare time he likes to read, write, and observe all the conditions of the human experience. Thaddeus joined Kansas Authors Club in 2023. Mardel J. Esping is half of the family membership Mark & Mardel Esping. This year she finished a project she started when she was employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mardel taught weaving at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, a high school for Navajo students.
Techniques for Navajo Weaving started as a way to continue instruction when one of her students was not able to attend school. Mardel put heavy emphasis on step by step visual examples for a student to use. This also made a difference in the classroom as Navajos are more at ease with visual prompts rather than written explanation. Mardel started the weaving classes at Fort Wingate, after being hired to teach European art forms. She considered the program to be a success when one of the student’s mother’s commented that Mardel taught weaving like a weaver not like a teacher. The weaving classes were expanded to include using natural dyes and carding and spinning. Techniques of Navajo Weaving includes a list of natural dye plants and hints on spinning. Techniques of Navajo Weaving has 81 illustrations and a bibliography of over 100 publications. Traditional weaves are drawn as patterns to follow. Mardel included seven illustrations of her contemporary wall hangings, which use Navajo techniques. Mardel generously enclosed her recipe for Navajo Fry Bread, which originally came from one of the women attending the rug auction held monthly at Crownpoint, N.M. Techniques of Navajo Weaving retails for $26.00 + $4.50 shipping and can be ordered by mailing a check to 8811 West 66th Terrace, Merriam, KS 66202. Ann Vigola Anderson, D2, shipped and hand-delivered nearly 300 of her Limited Edition, signed and numbered, hard cover copies of The Adventures of Bottle Calf (Meadowlark Press, 2023) this week.
She continues to take orders and expects the next shipment of books to take place early in January 2024. About the Book: Author Ann Vigola Anderson takes us back in time to her grandparents’ farm where Bottle Calf was born during an early spring blizzard. With illustrations by the talented Sara Long, this gorgeous book will be your go-to for holiday gift giving and beyond. Grab a copy to reminisce or to share the stories and gorgeous art with your kids and grandkids. You are going to love Bottle Calf! Jillian Forsberg of Wichita signed a publishing contract with Minnesota-based publisher History Through Fiction for her debut novel, The Rhino Keeper. Set in 18th century Europe, the dual timeline story is based on the true history of Douwemout van der Meer and Clara, the only rhino in Europe. Publication is fall of 2024. Congratulations, Jillian!
Member Mark Scheel has reviewed member Tom Mach's book on Goodreads. Unearthing the True Cross, a novel by Tom Mach While landscaping on the Mount of Olives, Dante Leon encounters a Bedouin man who insists that he discovered, while exploring a Qumran cave, a map showing where Jesus was really crucified. To prove him wrong, he digs in that spot and finds five pieces of petrified wood as well as a scroll written by Jospeh of Arimathea. A deaf and mute lost orphan girl encounters Dante, who cures her with prayer and one of the artifacts. A blind boy is similarly cured. Dante and his family run tests on these artifacts and conclude they have found the True Cross. Terrorists are out to kill Dante's daughter as well as the pope who is about to announce to the world that these wooden pieces, when put together, form the crossbeam of Christ If you have a review of a member book that you would like to share, send us the review or send us a link to it online. We love to help members share their good news!
Join Al Ortolani on Sunday, December 3 at 2:00 p.m. in the Pittsburg Public Library’s Meeting Room!
Al Ortolani nailed small town Kansas life in this thoughtful, well-crafted teenage odyssey. It had me eager to see what would happen next . . . right up to the evocative ending. Indeed, I was so captivated by protagonist, Danny Prego, and his hard-scrabble life that I was left yearning for a sequel. —J.T. Knoll, The Morning Sun (Pittsburg, Kansas) Author Stacy Thowe, from District One, is releasing her new novel Soap Opera Digest. It is currently available for preorder on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The novel is scheduled for release on December 15, 2023, just in time for Christmas!
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