"GIT FER VEGAS, COWBOY!"

My new book, Cowboy Reunions of Las Vegas, New Mexico, has been on the shelves since December of 2012 and is getting a lot of attention. There've been book-signings, a presentation, and reviews. And now the ranching, artists and poets, and history care-takers have rallied and are planning a Cowboys' Reunion Centennial Celebration for August 2015.

So, everybody, get out your angora chaps, big hats, jeans, cameras, paints, and pens. . .and. . . "Git Fer Vegas!"

www.lvcowboyreunion.com

BUILDING BOOKS

Friday, June 8, 2012, 5:00pm, Tome on the Range Bookstore, 158 Bridge Streeet, Las Vegas, New Mexico: Three authors talk about writing--from inspiration to idea to book.

Liza Hyatt on poetry
Jane Hyatt on fiction
Edwina Romero on nonfiction

New Mexico Centennial Grant Author Talk

Tapetes de Lana Weaving Center

Mora, New Mexico

November 12, 2011

Photo Credit: Don Shaw



Breathing Space

The final Footlights activity of 2011 is completed. So now I have breathing space, writing time, and inspired panic. I'm not out of ideas, don't have "writer's block." I have so many ideas and projects that I don't know where to begin. So, consequently, I do not begin. Is this procratination?

RADIO TALK

On Tuesday, November 8th, 8:45 am, KFUN/KLVF Radio, Las Vegas, NM, I will appear on Sharon VanderMeer's Writers' Talk Show and discuss writing, researching, Footlights in the Foothills, and new works in progress.

FOOTLIGHTS UPDATE

Author Talk, November 12, 2011, Saturday, 1:30 pm, Tapetes de Lana Weaving Center, Mora, New Mexico, presented as part of a Visiting Scholar Lecture Series funded by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs Centennial Grant in support of the new book (in progress), Boomtown on the Western Frontier, and the Friends of the Las Vegas City Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection.

The talk will provide an overview of the plays, players, and venues of amateur theatricals in Las Vegas and Fort Union, NM, 1871-1899 with a focus on the Fort's performing companies and rivalries. Slide show of related historical photographs will be available.

"FOOTLIGHTS" NEWS

Saturday, August 20, 2011, 2 pm:  Presentation and Book Signing for Footlights in the Foothills at Tome on the Range, 158 Bridge Street, Las Vegas, NM, (505) 454-9944.