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• March 9th, 9-noon:  The Chaffee County Writers Exchange (CCWE) offers the March WE Write session in Buena Vista, CO at the Sangre de Cristo Community Room. WE Write group writing sessions are always free and open to the public. This March session will be lead by Don Owens. Remember to bring paper and a writing instrument!
• March 15th . . . The Ides . . . My last Waterwight book will drop into Kindles and be available for purchase in paperback! I'll host two book signing parties in Leadville shortly thereafter, and will post details in my Ides of March newsletter! Kindle owners: please pre-order NOW to give me a "visibility boost"! Here's the link: Waterwight Breathe: Book III of the Waterwight Series
• March 21st from 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.: at the Center for the Arts in Evergreen, Co, MOONWRITE: Moon of Wild Possibilities! An exciting, uplifting workshop with instructor Judyth Hill. Find out more info about this Spring Equinox/Full Moon experience and register HERE!

• Engel Jones hosts the podcast 12MINUTECONVOS with Engel Jones and has a unique workbook designed for discovering Y.O.U.R. own personal brand. He interviewed me recently and I'll post the link when it's available! I hope he might come visit me in Leadville someday (he's from Trinidad and Tobago)!
• Becky Jewell is not only a talented artist, she's also a thoughtful blogger. Follow her work and check out this AWESOME Sneak Peek of the work she's doing on creating a graphic novel based on my short story "Crow Magnum"!
• Kathleen Kaska released the latest novel in her Kate Caraway Mystery Series--A Two Horse Town--December 29! After reading it, I interviewed her and can't wait to get the first book in her award-winning Sydney Lockhart mystery series set in the 1950s! Check out our visit on YouTube here: Kathleen Kaska
• Howard Levine's novel Last Gasp also had me flipping pages to see how this political thriller would unfold. His opening pages reminded me of Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code! I interviewed him last week--you can get to know him better on our YouTube visit here: Howard Levine interview.
• Carol Bellhouse continues to create unique poetry set to film, and her latest is truly delightful. Watch this short video and let her know what you think: Dragons Fly at Dawn!
• Saralyn Richard's latest novel Murder in the One Percent  "pulls back the curtain on the privileged and powerful rich" and has earned rave reviews since its publication. I look forward to reading it and interviewing Saralyn when I've done so! 
• Think about joining CIPA, a wonderful organization with resources to help writers and authors at every stage of their professional development. Do you have a book you believe is award-worthy? Submit it to the CIPA EVVY Awards now through May 18th to be considered for these prestigious awards!

• Reading now: James Wood's How Fiction Works. I'm going to have to give this one a "Meh." Almost finished with it, but it's been a bit of slog. It started out okay, and there was a tidbit I immediately put to use while editing Waterwight Breathe, but Wood presumes readers have read all of the many works he's culled for examples to critique. I'm finding it stuffy.
• Have read: John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America. Love, love, love this book. It has 964 great reviews on Amazon. I'll let you come up with a reason for why you shouldn't read it! I don't think I have to tell you what a master wordsmith Steinbeck is, but I don't want to start sounding like James Wood right now! You're going to love his poodle.