Wow, so much talent in our organization! And it looks like WWW nearly "cleaned up" in the Colorado Book Awards. Congratulations to all!
New Releases
Anne Schroeder Cholama Moon (Oak Tree Press)
A young girl grows to
womanhood guided by a Salinan (Mission) Indian woman and a crippled cowhand as
Anglo pioneers struggle to establish ranches in 1860's California earthquake
country amid banditos, cultural differences and their own internal strife.
Amy Hale Auker's short story
"Quatro in the Late Afternoon" appears in Rough Country, an anthology
of western stories.
Amy Hale Auker also has two poems, "Lightening Up" and "See You at the Barn" in the National Cowboy Anthology Celebrating 30 Years of Wrangling Words.
Diane Thomas The Buffalo Messenger
In 1910, two Dakota girls get sick and run away from boarding
school to find the buffalo messenger--a red cricket medallion that points
toward miracles and healing. Running away causes a chain of events that
culminate in a deadly encounter between the tribe and local whites. The book
was inspired by the author’s family history and actual events.
Stein's eclectic
anthology of contemporary and historical short fiction reveals that sanctuary
can often be found with those closest to us and sometimes, even with strangers.
Includes her 2011 LAURA Short Fiction Award winning story, "Sulfur
Springs." Also available at
Barnes & Noble
Alethea Williams,
Walls for the Wind:
When Kit Calhoun leaves New York City with a train car full
of foundlings from the Immigrant Children’s Home, she has no clue she might end
up as adoptive mother to four of them in rip-roaring Cheyenne, Wyoming.The
first time handsome Patrick Kelley spies Kit in Julesburg, Colorado Territory,
he wants her. But danger lurks, and they’re all forced to leave behind
everything they knew to try and forge new lives in the raw American West. Also on Kindle and Nook
Susan Wittig Albert’s Death
Come Quickly (China Bayles #22, Berkley Prime Crime) When China’s and
Ruby’s friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days
later, China begins to suspect that her friend’s death was not a random
assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the
fifteen-year-old murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of
the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed
Christine Morris targeted Karen?
Awards
Kayann Short, A
Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography by
Kayann Short was a finalist for the 2013 May Sarton Memoir Award. The Women's
Memoir Award is named for May Sarton, distinguished American memoirist, poet,
and novelist and is offered annually by the Story Circle Network, an
international nonprofit association of women life-writers.
Andrea Jones, Between Urban and Wild, a collection of essays about life at the wildland-urban
interface in Colorado, has been shortlisted in the Adult Nonfiction category of
the Reading the West Award sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent
Booksellers Association. The award is designed to promote books whose subject
matter is set in the Association’s 12-state region.
Colorado Authors League Awards
Page Lambert’s short story "The Widow of Loreto" (published in
Huffington Post's Featured Fifty) is an award finalist in the Colorado Authors' League
2013 literary competition.
Susan J. Tweit’s blog “Choose Happiness. Love all Life” is a finalist for the Colorado Authors League Awards for a series of essays about building a life after her
husband Richard’s death.
