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Ralph Estes will sign his book “The Autobiography of Billy the Kid: As Told to Ralph Estes,” at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16 at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Coronado Shopping Center. The book tells the story of Billy the Kid from The Kid’s own perspective.
AT BOOKWORKS: Lisa Lenard-Cook and Lynn C. Miller will launch their book “Find Your Own Story, Write Your Own Memoir” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12. The event will include a mini workshop on memoir writing.
Mary Johnson talks about her memoir, “An Unquenchable Thirst,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14. It recalls her time as a nun in Mother Teresa’s order. The bookstore is at 4022 Rio Grande NW.
NEW BOOK: Roger Blake of Jemez Springs has published “Ramjet, My Secret Life with PTSD.” It is an autobiography written with an emphasis on how the crippling affliction of post-traumatic stress syndrome affects his life after his service in the Navy in Vietnam.
AUTHOR EVENTS: Albuquerque author Jane Mahoney will have an upcoming book signing for her new book, “Albuquerque’s Huning Castle Neighborhoods,” published by Arcadia Publishing. It details the history of German immigrant Franz Huning’s 700-acre estate in the Albuquerque Country Club area.
Mahoney will sign books at an open house from 3-5 p.m. today at the Albuquerque Country Club, 601 Laguna SW. Free.
AT PAGE ONE BOOKSTORE: A poetry open mic night will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12 featuring poet Richard Oyama. Open mic nights are hosted by Kenneth P. Gurney and the diverse local poets of New Mexico. Thirty minutes of open mic will be followed by a poetry reading by Oyama. Sign up for the open mic begins at 6:45 p.m.
On Saturday, March 16 Albuquerque authors Judith Van Gieson, Robert Kresge and Stephen Scott will discuss and sign their books at 2:30 p.m.
Van Gieson will talk about some of her Claire Reynier mysteries reissued by her own ABQ Press. Kresge will sign and talk about “Death’s Icy Hand.” Mysterious deaths follow Russian Grand Duke Alexis on his goodwill tour of America. And Scott will sign “Septimus.” It follows young Septimus, who runs away from home, where he has just heard his brother was shot down in World War II.
IN SANTA FE: Author Robert Julyan will read from and sign his new book “Sweeney” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 12 at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse. This is the first novel from Julyan, author of numerous New Mexico-related books.
At 6 p.m. Thursday, March 14, Collected Works will host Stuart Horwitz, who will read from and sign his new book “Blueprint Your Bestseller: Organize and Revise Any Manuscript with the Book Architecture Method.”
And at 6 p.m. Friday, March 15 Mary Johnson will read from and sign her book, “An Unquenchable Thirst,” about her time as a nun in Mother Teresa’s order.
Collected Works is at 202 Galisteo St. For more information call Padraic O’Neill at 505-988-4226.
Please send information about book signings and other author events to Rene Kimball at rkimball@abqjournal.com. Materials should be received two weeks before the Sunday the information will be published.
