If you are a Sonoma County writer with a book or chapbook newly published, let’s help you celebrate! Just send your announcement to tehret99@comcast.net. Be sure to include information on how your readers can find out more about you and your work or order a copy. You’re announcement will run for three Updates.
New and Noted Publications by Sonoma County Writers
Pat Nolan’s newest publication is Intellectual Pretensions, from editions de jabob, is a beautifully bound, hand-made collection of prose poems. You can see Pat Nolan at the Guerneville Poetry Walk on October 3.
PANGAIA CD RELEASE
Spanish visionary poet Joaquin Lopez de San Roman presents the release of their fist Pangaia CD “Earth veins”, an integration of Shamanic poetry & Indigenous instruments.
www.myspace.com/pangaiaartensemble
New from Iota Press
Iota printed a new chapbook by the elusive & allusive poet, Erst Weill.
It’s called ‘Could Be Verse” and… it could be…. ordered on line at: http://www.iotapress.com/books/index.html . Paypal or credit card….$10
Don’t wait to order…the three scandals swirling around this book will make it a collector’s item. First of all, rumors fly that Mr Weill did not actually LIVE the poems in the book. He did not, for example, “…crimp a jutty cornwolf in a swedenbitter cold.”
Secondly, one of his acolytes in the ancient Non-Sequiturian Order appeared on Oprah and accused him of NOT being truly off-the-wall – yelling at one point: “One thought has led to another! A disgrace!”
Lastly, Mr Weill has authorized us to say that there is no truth to the other rumor : that he is under investigation for using the outlawed versifying software: META4.0 … We quote: “Anyway, they’re all using it now; all the big names are juicing… quiet as it’s kept.” But it is just possible that there will always be an asterisk next to the name of Erst Weill.
Eugene Ruggles’s Collected Works, a posthumous collection of his poems, is in production and readying for publication. Go to www.eugeneruggles.com
to see cover mock–up.
Stefanie Freele’s Motel
The innovative new publisher “Bannock Street Books” presents the artbook/chapbook MOTEL: a short story by Sonoma County author Stefanie Freele paired with color photography contributed by Sarah Black.
MOTEL will soon be available on the Bannock Street Books Website. http://www.bannockstreetbooks.com/
In the meantime, signed copies of MOTEL are available from the author:
$7 and $2 ship.
Paypal: Babingas@aol.com
Check:
Stefanie Freele
1083 Vine St. #352
Healdsburg, Ca 95448
www.stefaniefreele.com
Redwood Writers Vintage Voices Anthology Released
Contact: Linda Loveland Reid
president@redwoodwriters.org
707-484-4153
Redwood Writers, the Sonoma County branch of the California Writers Club, has published its fourth anthology, Vintage Voices: Cent’Ani: May You Live 100 Years, (ISBN: 978-0-9816848-2-6). Pre-publication orders may be placed here:
http://www.redwoodwriters.org/vv4orders.pdf.
Release Celebration
Redwood Writers will celebrate the release of Vintage Voices with a reading and book signing on September 26th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at North Light Books and Café, 550 E. Cotati Ave., Cotati. Linda Reid, president of Redwood Writers will host this event. Food and wine will be available for purchase as well as copies of the anthology. Authors will be on hand to sign your copy. There is no charge to attend.
About Redwood Writers:
Redwood Writers is one of 17 branches of the California Writers Club, the nation’s oldest professional club for writers, founded in 1909. Redwood’s motto is “writers helping writers.” Early members included Jack London, George Sterling, John Muir, Joaquin Miller and the first California poet laureate, Ina Coolbrith. The Club has more than 1,200 members statewide.
Jeanne Miller’s On the Brink of Nora
On the Brink of Nora, was chosen by Redwood Writers for a joint publication project with Unlimited Publishing.
Set in the Northern California Wine Country, On the Brink is a true coming of age story. When Nora embarks on a radical journey of self-discovery, her family is called upon to evolve as individuals, and in concert with one another.
jcmillerwriter.com
http://www.unlimitedpublishing.com/miller/
Linda Loveland Reid’s novel, Touch of Magenta,
will be available on May 9 at local bookstores and on Amazon.com. For more information go to www.lindalovelandreid.com
Touch of Magenta explores, through the lives to two women, the right we all have to know our personal history; that all secrets be revealed, all lies untold.
The story is set in Sonora’s California gold country, Chinatown, Italy, Singapore, and England.
Donna Emerson’s Body Rhymes from Finishing Line Press
I am happy to announce to my friends and acquaintances that my poetry collection from Finishing Line Press, Body Rhymes, comes out this spring. Since this is a limited edition collection, you may order now to reserve a copy. The press run will be determined by the number of orders made before April 10.The book, with a color photograph of mine on the cover, will be mailed to you by the end of May.
“Donna Emerson’s poems—each a small, complete world—reveal their tenderness in detail. The poet William Carlos Williams once said ‘Perception is the first act of imagination,’ and with her photographer’s eye, Emerson invites the reader to see, as if for the first time, what is extraordinary even in the most familiar. But as a poet, she also listens, deeply and intently, to her subject, whether it is a landscape, a memory, or one of the unforgettable souls she has counseled, struggling to reconcile themselves with mortality. And it is with a listening heart that the reader feels with her a wonder at the courage she has witnessed, and inspiration at the truth she captures.”
Terry Ehret, author of Lucky Break
“A lilting voice from a new poet. A new daughter is not all that Donna Emerson gave birth to in her 50s. Her poems are loaded with rich imagery and memory.”
Susan Swartz, author of The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50
Books can be pre-ordered through the website at www.finishinglinepress.com. Click on “New Releases and Forthcoming Titles,” scrolling down alphabetically.
Sagittarius Agitprop by Matthew Gavin Frank
Franks collection of poems is available from Black Lawrence Press at:
http://www.blacklawrence.com/frank.html
To see and hear Frank reading from his book, check out this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdOR3_jrx88
Pierette Mimi Poinsett
Rose-Anne Clermont has written an article about my challenges in the Women’s International Perspective e-zine. The photographer who is uncredited is Michi Adams of Rohnert Park Petaluma. Below is the link:
http://thewip.net/contributors/2009/02/living_one_day_at_a_time_in_th.html
Over the last three years, I have been writing creative non-fiction and poetry. Going into “the family business”:) A memoir cookbook is in the works.
Pierrette Mimi Poinsett MD
http://www.snapdiva.blogspot.com
aka the Yayayarndiva on http://www.ravelry.com
Bill Vartnaw ‘s new book, Suburbs of my Childhood, came out on January15th. Bill says, “This is a book of mostly early poems, lots of seventies, a few eighties and a couple of nineties about my mother, 74 pages.” For more information or to order the book, contact Bill at taureanhorn@hotmail.com. Taurean Horn Press’ address is P.O. Box 641097, San Francisco, CA 94164-1097.
Jeane Slone has just published She Flew Bombers From the Factories to the Bases. People can order it from my web site at www.jeaneslone.com.
Jean Heglund writes, “She Flew Bombers is a fascinating account of one woman’s love of flying and her involvement with the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II. Anyone interested in Aviation History, Women’s History, or the World War II “war effort” will appreciate Jeane Slone’s careful research, as well as her ability to bring this little-know aspect of the US history to life so vividly.”
Margaret Caminsky-Shapiro has just published an anthology entitled Hair Pieces, containing the poetry and prose of 51 of her writing students. Hair Pieces is available for purchase at Copperfields and also at harlmarg@sonic.net. For information about Margaret’s Writing Practice workshops, scroll down to the section “Current and Upcoming Workshops.”
Ann Wilkes’s Awesome Layratt
Ann Wilkes’ first book, Awesome Lavratt (2009) is a tongue-in-cheek space opera with mind control, passion and adventure. Her stories have appeared in online zines and anthologies. She lives in California’s wine country with her husband, Patrick and their youngest son. She’s working on two novels while still cranking out the short funny stories that characterize her writing style. Visit her website, http://www.annwilkes.com, for a full bio, her blog and links to online stories.
