David F. Menicucci to talk about how successfully research, write, publish and market a book at Main Library

AT THE MAIN LIBRARY

David F. Menicucci will provide insights on how to successfully research, write, publish and market a book at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Main Library’s Genealogy Center, 501 Copper Ave. NW.

Menicucci is the Albuquerque author of “Two Centuries to Freedom: The True Story of One Family’s Two-Century Migration from Lucca, Italy, to New Mexico and Other American States.”

Menicucci said in a press release that he will also talk about bringing writing projects to fruition.

“Essentially, I will explain how to write a family history book,” he stated.

The event is free and open to the public.

AT BOOKWORKS

Enrique Lamadrid of Albuquerque will talk about his new book “Hearts in Motion, Hearts in Place: The Quest for Querencias on Turtle Island and Abya Yala” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. Illustrations are by Jim Vogel, a northern New Mexico resident.

Casa Urraca Press recently published the book. Zach Hively, its publisher, said in an email, it “feels a bit like looking at a friend’s collection of feathers and rocks from their years of hiking. … (Lamadrid) has picked up information from compadres and textbooks, and he just keeps getting more and more curious about what the birds have to say about this idea of home.”

In the subtitle, Turtle Island is Indigenous peoples’ reference to North America and Abya Yala is a phrase in the language of the Guna people of Panama-Colombia that means America. And querencias is Spanish for homelands or places where one feels safe.

Lamadrid is a historian, essayist and poet and is professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, historian Mark Lee Gardner will talk about his new book “Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and a Reckoning in Tombstone.” A press release said that Earp and Holliday gained immortality because of a 30-second shootout near a livery stable called O.K. Corral. But what isn’t told is that three years earlier, Holliday saved the life of Earp when he was an assistant city marshal and surrounded by armed, belligerent cowboys.

“Brothers of the Gun,” the press release stated, is the first dual biography of the famed gunfighters and their storied friendship.

Gardner is a recipient of the Frank Waters Award for Literary Excellence.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

Michelle Gurule will be in conversation with Georgiann Davis about Gurule’s memoir “Thank You, John” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9.

The memoir is described as “a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud tragicomedy of errors based on her time as an unexperienced sugar baby in 2010s Denver.”

The bookstore is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

The Santa Fe bookstore will host two author events this week.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, Zeyn Joukhadar will read from and discuss her book “Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Writers of Color.” A central theme of the book is queer futurism.

Joukhadar is artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute.

At 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, Reynolds Holding will be in conversation with Judge Martha Vásquez about Holding’s book “Better Judgment: How Three Judges are Bringing Justice Back to the Courts.” Vásquez is one of the three judges the subtitle refers to and is a senior U.S. District Court judge.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

AT GERONIMO’S BOOKS

Chee Brossy and David Mutschlecner will read from their new poetry collections at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15 at the bookstore, which is located at 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D, in Santa Fe.

IN TAOS

Kate Christenson will read from her recent novel “The Sacred and the Divine” at 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9 at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive in Taos.

David F. Menicucci to talk about how successfully research, write, publish and market a book at Main Library