NM Women Authors' Book Festival

LAMOTT KICKS OFF NM WOMEN AUTHORS' BOOK FESTIVAL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Santa Fe, N.M. -Critically acclaimed author Anne Lamott kicks of the New Mexico Women Authors' Festival Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 7 p.m. at the historic Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Lamott will present a one-hour talk about her newest book, "Imperfect Birds."

Lamott, often referred to as the "people's author," is an uncommon writer who traverses the worlds of spirituality and religion without alienating those uncomfortable with either, and she does so with humor, intelligence and grace. A political activist, progressive and author of several novels and works of non-fiction, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism, single motherhood and Christianity.

Lamott has explained: "I try to write the books I would love to come upon - that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh. When I'm reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine."

"Imperfect Birds," is a sequel to "Crooked Little Heart" and "Rosie." The book opens during the complicated moment in a family's life when a child is hovering between adolescence and adulthood. "Life with most teenagers," Lamott notes, "was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurt, but you had to tough it out."

"We are very pleased to be able to kick-off the New Mexico Women Authors' Festival with Anne Lamott," says John Stafford, founder of the festival and director of retail operations, Museum of New Mexico Foundation. "She'll be speaking about ‘Imperfect Birds,' which is a thoughtful novel about a family crisis, and in typical Lamott fashion, doesn't ignore the pain or exalt in despair. Lecture-goers will enjoy Lamott's ability to capture the conflicted feelings of many parents and difficult issues, often with comedic hyperbole. I encourage people to join us for this interesting lecture that benefits the Museum of New Mexico Foundation."

Lamott was born in San Francisco, and is a graduate of Drew School. Her father, Kenneth Lamott, was also a writer. His death was the focus of her first published novel "Hard Laughter." She has one son, Sam, who was born in 1989 and a grandson, Jax.

WHAT: Anne Lamott kicks off the New Mexico Women Authors' Festival with a one-hour talk about her newest book, "Imperfect Birds."
WHEN: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Lensic Theater, 211 West San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
TICKETS: $15, $20, $25, $30, (505) 988-1234 or online at http://www.ticketssantafe.org/

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival

Santa Fe, N.M. -The third annual New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival (NMWABF) benefiting the Museum of New Mexico Foundation opens to the public Saturday, October 2 and runs through Sunday, October 3, 2010, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the New Mexico History Museum. The festival celebrates the joy of reading and the creative power of New Mexico's women writers. The program expands this year with best-selling author Anne Lamott kicking off the festival with a ticketed event Tuesday, Sept. 28 at the historic Lensic Theatre in downtown Santa Fe.

More than 110 talented New Mexican female authors who have been juried into the festival will discuss their current work and craft in 30-minute segments Saturday and Sunday in six different venues throughout the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) campus. Authors will be grouped by Fiction, History/Biography, Poetry, Food/Cooking, Creative Arts, Spirit/Health, Children and Special Topics. They will be presented in three tents in the Palace Courtyard, the auditorium, the Meem Community Room and the Learning Center.

"New Mexico has a long history as a literary mecca," says John Stafford, founder of the festival and director of retail operations, Museum of New Mexico Foundation. "We built the festival with the hopes that we can offer something to everyone in terms of world-class lectures, talks, book signings and events for both the general public and authors. Friday, October 1, is an educational day for authors with seminars throughout the day on a variety of subjects. These events will be programmed and supported by the NMWABF Authors' Committee.

"We launched New Mexico Creates in 2002 with 319 artists in the program, and now work with more than 1,200 New Mexico artists," says Stafford. "Over the last five years the MNMF Shops have purchased over $5,500,000 of works directly from these authors, artists and artisans, helping build their livelihoods as well as contributing to the economy of New Mexico. Please join us for an enlightening literary week and support the Museum of New Mexico."

The New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival is organized and produced by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops, part of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, through the MNMF Shops initiative "New Mexico Creates." The mission of New Mexico Creates is to promote and strengthen creative entrepreneurs while offering visitors and New Mexico citizens the best of New Mexico and supporting the units of the Museum of New Mexico.

Book sales and authors' book signings will take place in the lobby of New Mexico History Museum. Music, food and special presentations include the Palace Print Shop, Santa Fe's Book Arts Group and the Fray Angelico Library, creating a fun and educational event expected to draw over 3,000 people. The festival is generously supported by the Marineau Family Foundation and more than 60 volunteers who devote many hours of their time to make the event a success.

WHAT: New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival
WHERE: New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501

WHEN: Friday, October 1, Author Workshops.
Saturday and Sunday, October 2 and 3, open to the public.
COST: Free.


Saturday, October 2, 2010
Poetry-Meem	Spirit and Health - Tent 1	History & Biography-Tent 2	Fiction -Tent 3	Children's-Learning Ctr	Special Topics-NMHM Auditorium
	Michelle Rozbitsky	Nancy Benson		Marcy Heller		11:00AM
Catherine Strisik			Irene Blea		Valerie Nye/Kathy Barco The Joy of Co-Authoring	11:10AM
	Ruth Drayer	Kathryn Flynn		Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Renee Gregorio			Hana Samek Norton		Susan Topp Weber - Christmas on the Pueblos	11:45AM
	Jillian Brasch	Barbe Awalt		Carla Aragon		12:15PM
Valerie Martinez			Penny Rudolph		Trish Porter - U.S. Olympian on Rekindle Your Dream - Energize Your Life	12:20PM
	Phaedra Greenwood	Lois Rudnick		Neecy Twinem		12:40PM
Sallie Bingham			Martha Egan		to be announced	12:55PM
	open	Sally Denton		Sue Houser/Jill Lane		1:10PM
Joan Logghe			Judith Ryan Hendricks		to be announced	1:30PM
	Sally K. Severino	Shelby Tisdale		Jennifer Cervantes		1:45PM
Michelle Holland			Jo-Ann Mapson		Open (Librarians)	2:05PM
	Meta Chaya Hirschl	Virginia Scharff		Barbara Mayfield		2:15PM
Elizabeth Raby			Melody Groves		to be annouced	2:40PM
	Open	Carolyn Meyer		Connie Gotsch
Susan Gardner			Jonna-Lynn Mandlebaum		Jan Zimmerman - Marketing Your Writing and Art Online	3:15PM
	Marianne Powers	Lesley Poling-Kempes		Judith Newton		3:30PM
Veronica Golos			Lucretia Tippit		to be announced	3:50PM
						4:15PM
						4:30PM
Festival Closes						5:00PM
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Poetry-Meem	Spirit and Health Tent 1	History & Biography-Tent 2	Fiction -Tent 3	Creative Arts - Learning Center	Special Topics-NMHM Auditorium
	Elaine Pinkerton	Karen Kershen		Victoria Rabinowe		11:00AM
Carol Moldaw			Linda Jacobs		Malka Drucker - Telling the Truth to Children: Adventures of a Children's Book Writer.	11:10AM
	Marcia Starck	Patricia Fogelman Lange		Nancy King		11:20AM
Marilyn Stablien			Hadley Finch		Lisa Lenard Cook/ Lynn C. Miller ABQ Writers Co-op Presents!	11:30AM
	Judith McLaughlin	Melissa Powell / C Jill Grady		Karen McKinnon		11:45AM
Barbara Rockman			Pamela Christie		Open (Booksellers)	12:20PM
	Pat Shapiro	Lois Ellen Frank		Carol Olmstead		12:30PM
Helene Silverblatt / Dora Calott Wang			Jane Lindskold		to be annouced	12:55PM
	Mirabai Starr	Martha Shipman Andrews		Sherri Silverman		1:20PM
Anne Valley-Fox			Meg Mullins		Christine Barber - Why is Santa Fe So Scary	1:30PM
	Christina Florence	Annie Lux		Marcia Keegan		1:45PM
Linda Wilbur-Whittenberg			Pari Noskin Taichert		Anne Hillerman - On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn - the Story of Tony Hillerman's Landscape	2:05PM
	Clayton Coburn	Phyllis S. Morgan		Dilys Evans		2:30PM
Zelda Leah Gatuskin			Mary E. Neighbour		Deborah Madison - Finding Great Fruit to Serve as the Last Course of the Meal	2:40PM
	Natalie Reid	Maragaret Moore Booker		Nicolasa M Chavez		3:00PM
Lori Romero			Judith Van Geison		Barbara Beasley Murphy - Fridas' Kitchen	3:15PM
	Jean Eva	Jacqueline Dunnington		Charleen Touchette		3:30PM
Elizabeth Fackler			Dodici Azpadu		Sharon Louise Crayton - Traveling the Kitchens of the World and Learning Mindfulness Along the Way	3:50PM
						4:15PM
Festival Closes						5:00PM

New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival Schedule

Friday, October 1, 2010
Educational Presentations for Authors

Learning Center:

11 a.m.            Pari Noskin Taichert    Publishing options for already published writers
12 p.m.            Martha Egan    Writing for the Multicultural Audience
1 p.m.              Barbe Awalt and Sabra Brown Steinsiek          NM Centennial For Writers- Resources, Opportunities
2 p.m.              Susan Gardner Multilingual experiences, writing, reading and living a multilingual life; Poetry in the Here and Now; the influence of Buddhist philosophy on perceptions of reality
3 p.m.              Lisa Lenard Cook& Lynn C. Miller     Knock ‘Em Dead at the Mike (Performance Pointers for Writers)
4 p.m.             Valerie Martinez          The Necessity of Poetry, Today and Everyday
5 p.m             Sallie Bingham            Teaching Poetry to Students Who Hate Poetry
6 p.m.              Elizabeth Raby            A workshop offering techniques for writing poetry that apply equally to adults and children

Meem Room

11 a.m.            Penny Rudolph            How to write a super query letter and/or how to break all the rules and land an agent and publisher
12 p.m             Nancy King     How stories have saved and shaped lives; how they help us explain and make sense of events in lives
1 p.m.              Victoria Rabinowe       The Creative Genius of the Night Mind
2 p.m.              Pamela Christie            Wives, Wantons and Witches? More than the above! A discussion on creating full-character women in historical fiction, particularly given the limited information available in texts.
3 p.m.              Jennifer Cervantes       Childrens' Stories that Cross Borders
4 p.m.              Linda Jacobs                The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Dealing with rejection from editors and agents from NY to Hollywood
5 p.m.              Virginia Scharff           How seeing women in history makes history look different

New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival Authors
Interviews Available with the following authors:
Author                                   Pavilion

Valerie Martinez                 Poetry
Christina Florence               Spirit and Health
Lesley Poling -Kempes
Elizabeth Raby                   Poetry
Karen McKinnon                 Creative Arts
Linda Whittenberg              Poetry
Sallie Bingham                   Poetry
Margaret Moore Booker        History/Biography
Lori Romero                       Poetry
Joan Logghe                       Poetry
Kate Buckley                       Children's or Fiction
Marcia Keegan                    Creative Arts
Lois Rudnick                       History and Biography
Nancy King                          Creative Arts
Jan Marquart
Hope Kiah
Barbe Awalt                         History/Biography
Phyllis S. Morgan                  History/Biography
Patricia Fogelman Lange        History/Biography
Jonna-Lynn K. Mandelbaum    Fiction
Carol Moldaw                        Poetry
Jill Lane                               Children's
Valerie Storey                       Children's, Creative Arts
Barbara Robidoux                 Fiction
Hadley Finch
Madeleine Herrmann              Fiction
Melody Groves                       Fiction, History
Carol M. Olmstead                 Creative Arts
Judith Van Gieson                  Fiction and Special Topics
Meg Mullins                          Fiction
Jane Lindskold                      Fiction
Penny Rudolph                      Fiction
Susan Gardner                     Poetry
Hana Samek Norton              Fiction
Bertie Stroup Marah               Biography
Sunamita Lim                       Special Topics
Jeanne Simonoff                   History and Biography
Martha Shipman Andrews        History
Nancy C. Benson                    History and Biography
Dodici Azpadu                       Fiction
Clayton Coburn                      Spirit and Health
Sue Houser                           Children's
Michele Heeney                     Poetry
Pat Shapiro                           Spirit and Health
Susan Topp Weber                History and Biography
Pamela Christie                    Fiction
Sally Denton
Lois Ruby                             Children's
Michele Ama Wehali              Spirit and Health
Jo-Ann Mapson                      Fiction-Sunday
Elizabeth Fackler                    Poetry
Meta Chaya Hirschl                 Spirit and Health
Lucy Gair Rosen                     Special Topics
Margaret Tessler                    Fiction
Judith Newton                        Children's
Karen Kerschen                      History and Biography
Connie Gotsch                       Children's
Jennifer Cervantes                 Children's
Nicolasa M. Chávez                History
Ruth Abrams Drayer               History and Biography
Charleen Touchette               Creativity and her memoir
Sabra Brown Steinsiek
Lisa Lenard Cook& Lynn C. Miller Special Topics, Fiction, Creative Arts
Gay Block                             Special Topics, Photography
Janet Eigner                          Poetry
Shelby J. Tisdale, Ph.D.          History and Biography
Janie Oakes                          Poetry
Linda Jacobs                         Fiction
Melissa S. Powell & C. Jill Grady      Art or History and Biography
Jane Lipman                        Poetry
Gloria Dyc                             Fiction
Natalie Reid                          Spirit and Health
Jillian Brasch                         Spirit and Health or Creative Arts
Dilys Evans
Neecy Twinem                     Children's
Phaedra Greenwood             Spirit and Health or Creative Arts
Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw      Children's
Anne Valley-Fox                   Poetry
Elaine Pinkerton                  Spirit, Health and Family
Jacqueline Dunnington          History
Susan McDuffie                     Fiction
Lois Ellen Frank                     History and Biography,Food and Cooking or Creative Arts
Nancy R. Bartlit                     History and Biography
Marilyn Stablein                   Poetry
Veronica Golos                     Poetry
Catherine Strisik                  Poetry
Annie Lux                             History and Biography
Mary Mortensen Diecker          History and Biography
Pari Noskin Taichert               Fiction or Special Topics
Martha Egan                         Fiction
Marianne Powers                  Spirit and Health
Helene Silverblatt                Poetry
Sherri Silverman                 Creative Arts or Special Topix
Mirabai Starr                        Spirit and Health or Poetry
Kathy Barco
Cindy Bellinger                    Spirit and Health
Virginia Scharff                   History and Biography
Dora Calott Wang               Special Topix
Renee Gregorio                    Special Topix
Adalucia Quan                     Children's or Special Topix
Mary E. Neighbour              Fiction or History
Zelda Leah Gatuskin          Poetry
Lucretia Tippit                     Publishing on Demand-Special Topix
Barbara Rockman              Poetry
Carolyn Meyer                     History and Biography
Carla Aragón                        Children's
Judith McLaughlin              History/Biography or Spirit/Health
Katherine Wells                    History/Biography
Barbara Mayfield                               Children's
Trish Porter                           Special Topix
Edith Tarbescu                     Children's
Valerie Nye                           Special Topix
Jan Zimmeramn                 Special Topix
Jessica Mills                          Children's
Sharon Louise Crayton      Cooking
Inez Ross                              History and Biography
Judith Ryan Hendricks       Fiction
Marcia Starck                      History and Biography
Victoria Rabinowe              Creative Arts
Cynthia West                       Poetry
Malka Drucker                     History, Biography
Jean Eva Thumm-BochenskiSpirit and Health
Elsie Karr Kreischer             Childrens
Sally K. Severino                 Spirit and Health
Michelle Holland                 Poetry
Marcy Heller                        Childrens
Cary G. Osborne                  Fiction

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