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The NMW annual grant program is intended to support New Mexico authors in a variety of literary endeavors. The program features a competition for funding new works or works in progress by writers from all populations and geographic areas of New Mexico, including lesser-served communities.
Grants are awarded at the NMW Annual Dinner, where grantees are honored as special guests. The 2020 dinner will be held on April 9, 2020, at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe. Who Should Apply: All New Mexico writers are invited to apply for funding to support projects in one of any of the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, playwriting, and screenwriting. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2020. For more information, click here.
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 Nautilus Book Awards is accepting entries until February 7, 2020. Submit your entry before October 31, 2019, and get the Early Bird Fee of $170. After October 31, entry fees will increase by $10. Grand prize of $2,500.
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Visit http://nautilusbookawards.com/guidelinesforentering/ for entry instructions and a list of categories. At our Friday, October 11, board meeting we learned that Janet Brennan had stepped down as our vice-president. Current board member Sandi Wright, who continues to help us all with her membership and renewal initiatives, agreed to step up into the vice-president post. She is well-known for her successful Adventures of Santa Fe Sam prairie dog tales book for children. Sandi’s new position was warmly approved by all NMBA Board members present. Janet Brennan remains on the board and will be fulfilling the role of “Publicity and Young Arts.”
by Richard Polese Library buyers across New Mexico welcomed our presence at a long string of NMLA Annual Conferences. Last year was our best ever at the New Mexico Library Association’s yearly gathering. Our NMBA Library Showcase Catalog was well-received by the librarians, and more of you came to introduce and sell your books than ever. However, NMBA was left out of the loop this October. Here’s why: The NMLA was joined by the Mountains and Plains Library Association for a Joint Annual Conference at Old Town’s Hotel Albuquerque, opening the last day of this month. Last week we learned that no space was available for any nonprofit. We might have been able to purchase a standard vendor’s booth, but all of them were sold out weeks ago! All of us were surprised and quite disappointed by this late news. Your NMBA Board apologizes to all NMBA members who were looking forward to what we came to understand was a welcome presence at NMLA. We will stay tuned to their program leadership throughout the year, planning for much better Library Conference news for 2020.  Would you like to host a workshop that members could benefit from? Once a month, an NMBA member gets the opportunity to host a workshop in Santa Fe.
The workshops typically happen on Wednesday evenings from 6pm-8pm at La Montanita Co-op. They tend to include a presentation of some kind and include an interactive element like a Q&A session, lasting anywhere from 1-2 hours. If you are scheduled to host a workshop, you can give a brief 20-minute presentation at that month’s luncheon to get members interested in attending your workshop. Payment/Pricing: NMBA will give a 60/40 split, where the presenter will receive 60% of the revenue after expenses. The Co-op will charge around $25 to use the room for 2 hours. We typically charge members $15 to attend a workshop, and non-members $20. To submit your workshop for consideration, please email the following to admin@nmbook.org:
Michael Sutin, a noted New Mexico lawyer, died Sept. 7 of natural causes related to his battle with Alzheimer’s. He was 84. Michael was born in 1935 in Terre Haute, Ind., and moved in 1946 with his family to Albuquerque, where he later graduated from Highland High School. Throughout his teen years, he played baseball — he pitched right-handed, despite being a natural lefty — participated in thespian clubs, wrote poetry and worked as a sports stringer for the Albuquerque Journal. For a few years, he attended a prelaw program at University of Arizona, where he met his wife, Esther Sacherson. He then moved back to New Mexico to attend the University of New Mexico. He graduated from its law school in 1959. In 1986, Sutin and his wife moved to Santa Fe, where he worked for his father’s firm at its office here. He left the business in 2006 to pursue other interests, but he joined the Sommer Udall Law Firm two years later. Though Sutin dreamed of working at a remote lookout station for the U.S. Forest Service, those who knew him said he made remarkable impacts as a lawyer. Michael published three books of poetry — Voices from the Corner/Voces del Rincon; Naked Ladies on the Road; and Graven Images: Poems — and contributed to various literary organizations, including the New Mexico Book Association and Poetry Center of New Mexico, now known as New Mexico Literary Arts.
Sales at the Homegrown Authors’ table on Tuesdays at the Farmers Market have been very slow this summer. Most new authors from NMBA have not been able to cover the higher costs the Market charges us for a space. That discourages attendance, and we have had to rely on old timers, many of whom are also not meeting their costs. With several of them on vacation, the reduced attendance brought me to the decision to limit our space to only one table for the rest of the summer. Roberta Parry will join me at the table. This will allow us to keep our improved site alive until next year when, perhaps, the market will revive and we can expand again. I apologize to all the new authors who were looking forward to joining us and encourage them to watch for the reopening next spring.
 Former monk turned financial advisor, Doug Lynam, gave a fun presentation at September’s monthly luncheon. Doug introduced the topic of sustainable money management, where you can invest ethically to grow your wealth. Doug led the group through a PowerPoint presentation filled with illustrated cartoons that helped him tell his story, which involved his childhood in a rich family, the long-haired hippie days running away from materialism, time in the Marine Corps looking for selfless service, and his twenty years in the monastery under a vow of poverty where he began helping alleviate others’ financial burdens.  This all led to his current profession as a financial advisor. Doug’s book, From Monk to Money Manager, provides clear, step-by-step guidance on how to grow “a little bit wealthy.” His insights include how to vanquish debt, invest ethically to grow wealth, conquer your psychological money monsters, establish an emergency fund, create and stick to a good budget, start your own business, and share your wealth intelligently. You can contact Doug Lynam, Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist℠ and ESG Fiduciary™ at douglas@longviewasset.com or call 505-988-9555.
Robert James Sheldon, who was a bookseller and worked for a range of publishers, distributors, and book organizations in the West, died July 25. He was 73 and had had a long struggle with serious health problems.
He began his book career as manager of a Westwood bookstore in Los Angeles, then opened and operated the Raven Bookstore in Boulder, Colorado. Later, he became marketing director for Capra Press and also worked at North Point Press, John Muir Publications, Clark City Press, Johnson Books, and Pruett Publishing. He also worked for distributors Bookpeople in Berkeley, and Consortium in Minneapolis. He held several positions in the Rocky Mountain Book Publishers Association (now PubWest) and was director of literature programs for the Western States Arts Federation. He would want to be remembered as a lover of books and authors, opera, and the American West.  The Hoffer-honored books are from small, academic, and micro presses, including self-published offerings. (No unpublished manuscripts, please.) Throughout the centuries, writers such as Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf have taken the path of self-publishing rather than have their ideas forced into a corporate or sociopolitical mold. Today, small and academic presses struggle in this same environment. The Hoffer award will continue to be a platform for and the champion of the independent voice. Winners of the Hoffer are given prizes, honors, and worldwide media exposure, as well as being covered in the US Review of Books. Nominated books are judged by independent panels within eighteen all-inclusive categories. The annual Grand Prize winner is awarded a $2,500 cash prize. Each category is assigned a winner, runner-up, and multiple honorable mentions, with recognition given to the best academic, small, micro, and self-published presses. The Montaigne Medal is awarded to the most thought-provoking books, and the da Vinci Eye honors exceptional cover art. The First Horizon Award is given to the best first-time authors. Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award results are publicly announced in the spring, and every nominee is notified via the contact email on their registration form. For more information, visit http://www.hofferaward.com/
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