Dale Adams has come up with a Three-bagger
to kick off 2004. "My Grandmother's High
Speed Funeral" was published in the March
issue of Tombstone Times. "Memories of a
Little Kid" was accepted by the Cochise
County Historical Society for mid-year release.
And Dale's very personal true story, "You're
Going to Lose Your Son," about a precarious
father-son bond and a perilous flight in a small
airplane, appeared in the February issue of
America's Flyways Magazine. It is also a
narrative of a mother's insight and desperate
ultimatum. "This was such a personal
experience that I couldn't consider publishing
for many years, a full generation, in fact. Now,
my son exhibits a rapport with his own son
that I would have envied years ago. Bottom
line, I guess, is a happy ending."
Mike Alvarez's novel Kino's Gold (Publish
America) will hit bookstores in April or March,
depending on how fast the publisher gets stock
to the booksellers. Kino's Gold is a fast-paced
suspense novel about the search for a buried
Spanish treasure trove. The story, set in the
Southwest, is based on a legendary treasure
supposedly buried during the time of Father
Kino. Mike says, "I knew this story would
make a great suspense thriller and hope readers
feel the same as I do." Kino's Gold will be
available soon through all regular retail outlets
and from Publish America.
Lynnette Baughman's fourth mystery, Vegas
Centennial: an Olivia Wright Mystery, will be
published in May 2004 by Wings ePress in
ebook and trade paperback. Vegas Centennial,
sequel to Thin Disguise, is the story of how
one Las Vegas family's century of secrets leads
to murder on the eve of the gambling Mecca's
centennial celebration. Available at Wings
website www.wings-press.com. Lynnette's
new website is up, too Ü visit her at:
www.vegascentennial.net
Pearl Gladwyn Burk will be signing copies
of her historical novel,
Crossing Sand Creek
Sunday, April 18th at 2pm
Barnes & Noble (Foothills Mall)
Pearl tells of a Mennonite immigrant family's
struggle as they leave their Russian home for
Newton, Kansas in 1877, where the aura of
the Chisholm Trail days still lingers. In
response to questions about the people in this
story, Pearl will give a talk about them at her
signing and share her own experience.
Crossing Sand Creek can be purchased at
publishamerica.com, other online bookstores
and at Barnes & Noble at her signing.
Susan Cummins Miller was awarded a winter
residency during February, 2004, at the
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside,
California. Susan's newest Frankie
MacFarlane mystery, Detachment Fault (Texas
Tech UP), set in Tucson, Rocky Point, and the
Arizona/Mexico borderlands, arrives at
bookstores in late April. Death Assemblage,
the first in the series, is now out in trade
paperback from TTUP. Susan will be teaching,
participating in author-panels, giving readings,
and signing copies of her books at the
Sisters in Crime Booth
*Arizona Book Festival, Phoenix
April 3rd from 1 to 4pm
Other signings:
*Clues Unlimited Bookstore, Tucson
April 23rd at 5:30pm
*Readers Oasis Bookstore, Tucson
May 1st from 2 to 4pm
For more info check out Susan's website on:
http://hometown.aol.com/stmiller46/
myhomepage/index.html
LaVerne Harrell Clark's short story, "Once
Again on All Soul's," features in a new
anthology, Let's Hear It, edited by Prof. Sylvia
A. Grider and Dr. Lou H. Rodenberger and
recently released by Texas A & M University
Press. LaVerne's story is accompanied by an
in-depth biography and critical assessments of
her life and writings. The review of Clark's
literary history spans thirty-seven years from
her 1967 University of Chicago Folklore
Award through the 2003 second printing of
her novel, Keepers Of The Earth (Cinco
Puntos Press, 1998) winner of the 1998 Best
First Novel: Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award
from Western Writers of America.
Ken Iserson's second edition of his popular
book, Get Into Medical School! A Guide to
the Perplexed, appeared compliments of Galen
Press, Ltd Ü www.galenpress.com Ü on
April 1st. Truly everything anyone needs to
know, at $36.95, it is 512 pages in 8 1/2 x11"
format and contains 96 tables and charts
detailing all U.S. and Canadian M.D./D.O.
medical schools. Galen Press is offering SSA
members a 20% discount for orders before
May 1, 2004.
Contact Galen Press at:
ph: (520) 577-8363
email: sales@galenpress.com
Ed Kostro's Western novel, Gold River
Canyon, has recently been published by
Booklocker. A synopsis of the book, set in
Arizona in the late 1870s, can be found at
www.booklocker.com/books/1403.html.
Ed's recently published nonfiction animal
memoir, Curious Creatures Ü Wondrous
Waifs, My Life with Animals, has received rave
reviews. A recent recommendation from
Midwest Book Review is available at:
www.midwestbookreview.com/ibw/
jan_04.htm#pets
Fran Lenzo is thrilled to have been notified
by Coping with Cancer magazine that her
essay, "A New Life," and poem, "All of Me,"
have been accepted for publication in an
upcoming edition. Fran's article and poem will
be read by more than 1.5 million people in the
waiting rooms of America's private practice
oncologists and cancer treatment centers. Fran
says she's learning that if you keep sending in
submissions, eventually you are accepted and
don't have to place another rejection in the
They Know Not What They Know! file.
E. J. (Mac) McGill's short essay, "Old Bones"
can be read in the Spring issue of Flashquake,
online at:
www.flashquake.org/nonfiction/
oldbones.html
Based on a personal skiing injury that occurred
on Mount Lemmon, "Old Bones" asks the
question, "Is life without risk really a life?"
David Skramstad, promoting his mystery
novel, The Murder at Gates Pass
(PublishAmerica, 2004), was a featured guest
in February on The American Spirit, broadcast
live from the Access Tucson studio on the
Tucson Cox Channel 72/73/74. The American
Spirit is produced and hosted by Stuart Thomas
and airs from 6pm to 7pm Tuesdays and from
noon to 1pm on Saturdays. David is donating
all proceeds from the sale of his book, set in
Tucson, to Habitat for Humanity in Tucson.
Further Information:
Stuart Thomas, Producer, Access Tucson,
ph: 722-2837
website: http://access.tucson.org
Author Support at Publish America:
ph: (301) 631-0747
David A. Skramstad
email: davidavriel@earthlink.net
website: www.wordslinger.info
ph: (520) 327-3443
Bev Van Horn will be signing her book
Best Friends Are Like Suspenders:
They Hold You Up
When You Are Falling Down
on Saturday, April 3 at 2pm
Barnes & Noble (Foothills Mall)
Jim Woods' account of his world hunting
experiences, Honk If You Love Geese and
Other Hunting Stories, will be published by
PublishAmerica in 2004. Several of Jim's
stories making up the book have been
previously published as articles in national
outdoors magazines.
Mark members' signing
dates on your calendar,
and make a point
of lending them your
support!
Mike has been writing for over thirty years. His stories,
poems, and articles have appeared in the Arizona Daily Star
and Writer's Digest. His story, "The Human Element," was
included in the anthology, Computer Legends, Lies and Lore
(Ageless Press, 1994). Mike has published two Nick Madrid
mysteries, Deliver Us From Evil (iUniverse, 2003) and The
Last Place God Made (Xlibris, 2000), a young adult novel,
The Treasure of the Santa Ritas (Xlibris, 2001), and is eagerly
awaiting the imminent release of his newest mystery, Kino's
Gold (Publish America). Mike's enthusiasm for his craft energizes classes at
Pima Community College, where he's been teaching writing since 1990.
