Well, summer has finally come to New Mexico. I love the hot weather, so I’m in hog heaven. I’ve been busy since my post in April. Mostly I’m meeting more characters. I’ve joined an arts and crafts organization. A month after joining, I sold $90.00 worth of books. Don’t sneeze at craft fairs as an alternative way of selling, folks.

Anyway, all these women are zany. They have different movements, personalities, body builds, voice qualities, and attitudes, which yes will one day turn ip in a book.

I also put my author information on my professional email signature and picked up a sale.

If that wasn’t enough I had a good day in the darkroom Sunday and picked up a $250.00 prize for a photo in a show in Las Vegas, New Mexico. (Don’t get excited. I ain’t ready for Las Vegas Nevada yet). I did enter a show in Carson City, Nevada, does that count? Am waiting to see if I got in. Stay tuned.

I will be developing radio programs for the Museum of New Mexico’s 100th anniversary. My radio show is going, and I found a person who likes my web book reviews. Drop by and see it. I do mostly southwest-oriented books, but any author can put reviews up on this site, for their books, so come on DLSIJ gals, if you have a particularly good one, send it to thenewbookreview.blogspot.com Or at least go and check out the couple I’ve reviewed.

No trips this year. I am putting down laminate wood flooring. There’s a trip tied up in that, b ut if it means less dust, that’s fine. Everybody who has it says it’s wonderful. Stay tuned.

Some of my b ooks have turned up in Albuquerque b ook stores, it seems. I’ll have to see where the book buyers found out about them and do more of whatever atracted them.
See you later.

Connie Gotsch
Author A Mouth Full of Shell and Snap Me a Future available on DLSIJ Press.com

Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Connie Gotsch
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