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Hi, everyone. I’m Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, Ph.D., M.F.A. My husband and co-creator Ronnie Dukes and I were in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, recently where we received a brilliant Silver Medal for our sci-fi graphic novel “Daizee & the Dukes of Chuco: Chuco-Juárez World Rally.” You can get a copy directly from our website DUKEScomics.com. I wrote the story and Ronnie illustrated the sequential art. I go by Dr. E.C.-Dukes as my author name for my graphic novels. I use my full legal name when I publish academic scholarship. We received the International Latino Book Award – Award Winning Author recognition. Earlier this year in 2024, we were awarded the Outstanding Emerging BIPOC Creator Award presented by Latinx Pop Lab, Ad Astra Media, and UT English for Comics, Animation, Education, and Outreach. This year we were awarded a grant from the Doña Ana Arts Council and the Devasthali Family Foundation, which made it possible for us to teach a Comics Career Art Path to over 400 middle school students in Chaparral, New Mexico. We are also currently mentoring a fourteen-year-old who will be publishing his first comic book by the end of this year. DUKEScomics is honored and grateful to represent our geographical borderland region of Chaparral, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Elvira’s hometown. Ronnie is from Chicago, but has lived in New Mexico now for almost twenty years. This award is exciting for us, especially because this is our second graphic novel that we’ve produced. We met in 1996 working in theatre where I wrote, directed, and produced my play “Father’s Shadow / Sombra del Padre,” which won a National Playwriting Award and it was published by Dramatic Publishing. Ronnie was the artistic director of the staged play that we held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I then moved into filmmaking and Ronnie into painting when we moved to Harlem, New York City, where I earned my M.F.A. in film from Columbia University and where we eloped in 2006. We then went on a backpacking journey in Guatemala and Honduras and then ended up back in El Paso, Texas, where I earned my Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition. It was during this time that we started adapting my film “Ochoa” into the graphic novel “A.W.O.L.: Cruz Ochoa,” which premiered at El Paso Comic Con and the Japanese version premiered at Tokyo Comic Con within a year. We are currently working on two new titles, graphic novel one-shots, and look forward to bringing a new book into the world in 2025. Our graphic novels are in English, Spanish, Japanese, and German and we’ve exhibited our books at Tokyo Comic Con, Japan; The Leipzig Book Fair Manga Comic Con, Germany; and FIL Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. DUKEScomics’s major US shows include the American Library Association in Chicago and San Diego; Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2); BIPOC Pop; The Latinx Comic Arts Festival; Latino Comics Expo; Texas Latino Comic Con; Con-Front; and Chuco Con.
DUKEScomics is our LLC and is an international small press and studio based in southern New Mexico led by Dr. E.C.-Dukes, a Xicana author and native New Mexican, and her husband, illustrator and animator Ronnie Dukes, a Black Chicago native. Our motto is visualizing the future through comics. We specialize in graphic novels, Chicanafuturism, borderland culture, technology, and BIPOC characters. For more information, please visit our website: DUKEScomics dot com (DUKEScomics.com).
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Our "Meet the Authors" collaboration with Garcia Street Books will now take place nearly year-round, moving indoors when the weather is inhospitable. There will be tables in November and December; we’ll take a break in January; then the tables will resume in February.
The November 2 table has been filled from the waiting list, but we still have space on the December 7 table. So we're putting out a call for authors who would like to participate on that date. Authors are scheduled on a first come, first serve basis, and anyone who applies after we've filled the December table will go on the waiting list for February and later. Note that “Meet the Authors” is for authors new to Garcia Street Books. If you participated at an earlier date, or already have a book consigned to the store, you’re unfortunately not eligible. Email us at [email protected], put "Meet the Authors" in the subject line, and please include the following: 1. Titles of the book(s) you plan to show 2. A brief author biography (300 words, more or less) 3. An author photograph Thank you for your interest in "Meet the Authors"! Paula Lozar, NMBA Book Show Chair The NM Book Association is planning to attend the Tucson Festival of Books on March 15-16, 2025. The Festival draws over 100,000 attendees, so it’s a good opportunity to market your book directly to potential readers. There are also author talks, workshops, and exhibitors ranging from health providers to model train fans, so it’s a fun event to attend.
We know from past experience that authors who appear in person have better sales, so we’d like to gauge our members’ interest in volunteering in our booth at the show. Would you like to join us in Tucson? (We unfortunately can’t offer any financial support, but consult your tax professional – your travel and lodging may be deductible as business expenses.) If you’re interested in volunteering in Tucson, email us at [email protected] by October 31. This isn’t a commitment, but it will help us plan for the event. Registration for our booth will open in January, and we’ll ask volunteers to sign up then. Thank you, Paula Lozar, NMBA Book Show Chair From The Authors Guild:
These best practices cover AI issues authors may encounter in the writing and publishing process. This includes best practices around using AI tools to assist writing, what disclosures are needed to publishers and readers if AI is used, and more. We encourage authors to review and adopt these suggested best practices around AI where relevant. NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESSA, a novel by Mary L. Grow, has received a Gold Award in the category of Literary Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2024. The award recognizes excellence in independent publishing and honors the voices of authors worldwide. Mary has accepted this award in celebration of the writers, publishers, and people of Odesa, Ukraine. See more at: www.marylgrow.com Shirley Melis and Anna Sochocky were recently interviewed on KSFR by Carly Newfeld for her show, The Last Word. Shirley and Anna talked about NMBA's history, the upcoming Summer Gala and more. Listen to the interview below:
https://www.ksfr.org/show/the-last-word-show/2024-08-15/08-15-2024-with-anna-sochocky-and-shirley-melis Hi! I’m Khadijah and my debut, Contemporary young adult novel, Fatima Tate Takes The Cake, was released in June 2023 by Holiday House. The main character, Fatima, is a seventeen-year-old high school senior who wants to become a pastry chef after graduation. When Fatima’s parents arrange a marriage to her secret crush, her dream is threatened. She must develop then summon enough inner strength to fight for her future, without losing everything in the process. This coming-of-age story addresses familiar themes: navigating parental as well as community expectations and taking the chance to go after your dreams. It also contains the underlying theme of dealing with the privilege of wealth. The baking competition within this story will feed your sweet tooth in the best way—without a single calorie. Since FATIMA TATE is set in Albuquerque, it’s extra special to me that it’s received first place in the 2024 National Federation of Press Women’s Communications contest for Young Adult fiction. The inclusion of my debut novel in the national contest was a result of it winning the NM Press Women’s contest in its genre. Thank you to all the judges and readers who have positively supported my story. I hope its continued success encourages others, especially NM teens, to tell their own stories. Khadijah VanBrakle, author The Santa Fe Reporter readers pick The Way of the Bear as the best book by Anne Hillerman!8/22/2024 From the Santa Fe Reporter: I am thrilled that The Santa Fe Reporter readers picked The Way of the Bear as the best book by a Santa Fe author. I love that book, too! Santa Fe has long been a nurturing place for writers, and has become even more so in the decades in which I’ve lived here. The creative writing programs at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the classes in poetry, fiction and more at Santa Fe Community College, the encouragement and support high school writers receive at the New Mexico School for the Arts, the stimulation provided by the Santa Fe International Literary Festival and the camaraderie offered by NMWriters.org and the long-established New Mexico Book Association—what a wealth of acknowledgement that stories matter! On top of that, our wonderful bookstores and public libraries give writers and readers more encouragement. I am enormously grateful to have my book acknowledged and even happier to be part of such a supportive and generous community. Anne Hillerman Santa Fe At the 2024 Western Writers of America Convention in June, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Don Willerton's latest book, Death In The Tallgrass, A Young Man's Journey Through The American Frontier, received the SPUR award for the Best Western Historical Fiction Novel for 2024. Craig Johnson, with his 19th installment of his Walt Longmire mysteries, The Longmire Defense, received the Best Contemporary Fiction Novel, while Dayton Duncan won the Best Western Documentary Script for Ken Burn's The American Buffalo. Western Writers of America Inc. (WWA) was founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and to recognize the best in Western writing with the prestigious Spur Award and the Western Writers Hall of Fame. Like the Western landscape itself, WWA and the books, songs, and stories produced by its members have evolved immensely. WWA boasts historians, nonfiction authors, young adult, romance writers, songwriters, poets, and screenwriters for film and television. Their work in every medium is set in the ever-changing American West. Today there are more than 700 members nationwide and around the world, including C.J. Box, Anne Hillerman, Craig Johnson, Tom Clavin, Nancy Plain, Mark Hall-Patton, Thomas Cobb, Candy Moulton, Kat Martin, Kirk Ellis, Lucia St. Clair Robson, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Loren D. Estleman, Johnny D. Boggs, Paul Andrew Hutton, and Kathleen O’Neal Gear. |
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