celebrating New Mexico’s Centennial
edited by Ruthe Francis, Barbe Awalt, and Paul Rhetts
234 pages
$17.95/PB (978-1-890689-67-4)
Thirty-four authors from all over New Mexico, explore what it means to be in New Mexico—the traditions, history, quirks, landscape, and people. New Mexico artists also illustrate the book. The essays are on all subjects and give the reader a wide range of ideas and topics. This is the first book published by the New Mexico Book Co-op to showcase New Mexico’s long history with book publishing, just in time for New Mexico’s Centennial celebrations in 2012.
edited by Paul Rhetts and Barbe Awalt
142 pages 20 color photos
$15.95/PB (978-1-936744-17-6)
1st PLACE, SHORT STORIES COLLECTION: 2014 New Mexico Press Women Book Awards HONORABLE MENTION, NONFICTION GENERAL BOOK: 2014 New Mexico Press Women Book Awards
Winner, Cover Design, Small Format Book, "Voices of New Mexico, Too" edited by Paul Rhetts & Barbe Awalt New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, 2013
New Mexico Voices, Too is the second book in the series to honor New Mexico and to give writers the chance to express themselves. This book is mostly about New Mexicans but things can also be human in nature like the Sandia mountains. Poetry, historical essays, and essays about mentors, family and friends are all part of the mix. These essays and poems — by seventeen New Mexico authors — are on all subjects and give the reader a wide range of ideas and topics. This is a project of the New Mexico Book Co-op, a collaborative organization designed to help its 1,400 members join together in their love for the printed word. The New Mexico Book Co-op has novelists, poets, history writers, children’s writers, comic book writers, bloggers, consultants, booksellers, readers, and others who strive to share their knowledge about the book in this changing world. Collectively, Co-op members want to showcase New Mexico’s long history with book publishing. Books still make a difference and these essays and poems show how important people can be in the lives of New Mexicans. They say writers write because they are compelled to do so. While it is possible my writing is motivated by such a compulsion, I write mostly because there is so much to write about; so much about New Mexico’s history that still needs to be told; so many voices from the past that cry out to be heard. “I too lived here and contributed to what we are today,” they seem to say; and I hear the voices and write so they might not be forgotten.—Robert J. Tórrez, New Mexico State Historian (1987-2000) and contributor to Voices of New Mexico (2011)
More Voices
of New Mexico
196 pages; 6 x 9 pb (29 photos) ISBN 978-1-936744-29-9 $17.95
2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
Finalist, Cover Design (6x9), More Voices of New Mexico, cover design by Paul Rhetts
This third edition in the Voices series features 30 different writers and poets talking about all subjects in New Mexico and beyond. More Voices also has new photos, art, and historic photos.
The anthology of voices has humor, sadness, informational stories, and all kinds of poetry. The stories are vignettes – short glimpses – into life and history. An easy read before bed or commuting.
More Voices of New Mexico is a project of the New Mexico Book Co-op, New Mexico’s largest book organization with over 1500 members. The book sells for $17.95 and is available in all local bookstores, nmbookcoop.com, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.com.
Contributors
Judit Alvernsz-Nagy
Steve Ausherman
Dan Bender
Derek Minno Bloom
Joanne S. Bodin
Joseph Bottone
Karin Bradberry
Shirl Brainard
Nicolas Cabrera
Sharleen Daugherty
Ruth Friesen
Elizabeth Ann Galligan
Thelma A. Giomi
Loretta Hall
Marlene Hawkes
Pat Hodapp
Kate Kuligowski
David Kyea
Dianne R.Layden
Deanna Dickinson McCall
John McWilliams
Susan Cummins Miller
Phyllis Morgan
Steve Murtough
Judy Nickell
Kate O’Neill
Gregory Opstad
Rae Marie Taylor
Jim Tritten
S.A. Young