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Page One Bookstore’s Self-Published and Local Author Fair will be held from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2. Authors are invited to take their books to promote independently and sell.
The networking opportunity occurs on the first Saturday of every month at 3 p.m. in Page’s One’s cafe. The event is free.
The bookstore is at 11018 Montgomery NE. Call 294-2026 for more information or visit www.page1book.com.
LOCAL POET FEATURED: Randy Floyd was accepted out of hundreds of submissions to be featured in a Steady Moon Press poetry anthology called “The Poet’s Word (Poems About Writing.)”
The anthology is being published this month and is available at www.steadymoonpress.com, at Amazon and other retailers for $10. Steady Moon Press is a new, green publishing company founded by poet and English teacher Amanda Clark.
AT BOOKWORKS: Nadia Seluga talks about her experiences under Soviet-dominated Eastern Poland in “Far from My Home, Never to Return: A Polish Child’s WWII Memoir.” Selgua chronicles the dire peril and adversity endured by a Polish family through the eyes of 8-year-old Nadia Bogdaniec, who witnesses the Soviets deporting Polish Jews to deadly labor camps.
She will appear at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW, at 3 p.m. Feb. 3.
At 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, Bookworks will hold “Get Ready for Mardi Gras with Story Time!” Children can make beads, read festive books and have a snack. For more information email kids@bkwrks.com.
Katherine Pomonis talks about her book “Uncovering the History of the Albuquerque Greek Community 1880-1952″ at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31 at Bookworks.
The book investigates why Greeks in the late 1800s crossed a sea, an ocean and a continent to start new lives in the United States. It also looks at how they arrived in a small, dusty town in the American Southwest.
NEW BOOK: Kathryn Ravenwood of Albuquerque is the author of a new book, “How to Create Sacred Water: A Guide to Rituals and Practices,” published by Inner Traditions * Bear & Co.
When Hurricane Floyd ravaged the North Carolina coast in 1999, Ravenwood, then living in Seattle, was called to help heal toxic waters left behind. Combining her longtime devotion to sacred altars with her newfound connection to crystal, she developed a process to make homeopathic elixirs to cleanse bodies of water. She shares her discovery in the book.
NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS: Entries are being accepted for the 2013 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Books by New Mexico and Arizona authors and publishers that were released between 2011 and 2013 are eligible. Deadline for entries is July 1. There are 49 categories this year. A new category has been added for bilingual children’s picture and activity books.
Entry information is at www.nmbookcoop.com/bookawards/ bookawards.html.
Please send information on book signings and other books and author events to Rene Kimball at rkimball@abqjournal.com. Information should be submitted two weeks before the Sunday it needs to appear.
