C. M. MAYO
Author of Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution, etc.


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A warm welcome to those of you who are new to this list and good wishes to all. Herewith news about workshops and several new podcasts, including some fascinating interviews with other writers and artists.

There's plenty in here for writers interested in exploring the possibilities on the digital frontier, Mexico and its great literary artists, the Orphic Journey and the wonders of the Sierra Gorda, and that world waiting for a dream, far-out and far West Texas. Oh, and the Afterlife, too. Read on.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

May 5, 2012, 10 am - 12 pm
PODCASTING FOR WRITERS
Writer's Center, Bethesda MD
Audio podcasts, on-line digital files, not only serve as an important promotional tool for writers, but they can be storytelling vehicles themselves, whether as stand-alone works or complements to text. This workshop provides an introduction and overview of podcasting for writers, from basic concepts to nuts-and-bolts tips. The goal is that by the end of the workshop, you will be able to go home and use your iPhone or digital recorder and computer to generate and then post a simple podcast on-line.
>>Listen to C.M. Mayo's podcasts here.
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May 5, 2012, 1 - 5 pm
HOW (AND HOW NOT) TO WRITE DIALOGUE
Writer's Center, Bethesda MD
One of the most powerfully vivid ways to show character, relationship, conflict, and/or mood is through the use of dialogue. For both beginning and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers, this workshop focuses on the use and misuse of dialogue, with a series of mini-lectures interspersed with brief exercises. The goal is by the end of the workshop, your dialogue will be of notably higher quality.
>>Read C.M. Mayo's writing, which has plenty of dialogue, here.
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June 23, 2012
CONFERENCE: PUBLISH NOW! FROM MANUSCRIPT TO BOOK AND EBOOK IN THE NEW WORLD OF PUBLISHING
The Writer's Center, Bethesda MD
10 am - 5 pm.
$85 members; $100 nonmembers
Lunch included and reception to follow.
C.M. Mayo's presentation: "The Manuscript is Finished
— (or is it?)— What's Next?".

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NEW PODCASTS IN THE "MARFA MONDAYS" SERIES
Exploring Marfa, Texas & Environs in 24 Podcasts
C.M. Mayo's Podcasting Project 2012-2013

NEW PODCASTS IN THE "CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WRITERS" SERIES
A Conversation with Michael K. Schuessler, author of the biographies of Guadalupe (Pita) Amor and Elena Poniatowska, and editor of Alma Reed's long-lost autobiography, Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico
Michael K. Schuessler on Mexico's incomparable poet Guadalupe (Pita) Amor; her neice, Mexico's acclaimed novelist and journalist Elena Poniatowska; the baroque literary prodigy Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; and the great friend of Mexico, the adventurous and passionate journalist Alma Reed, whose autobiography—a work vital to early 20th century Yucatecan history— Schuessler rescued from an abandoned closet. Recorded in Mexico City on March 8, 2012. *1 hour and 7 minutes.
A Conversation with Edward Swift, author of My Grandfather's Finger and The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint
Edward Swift is an artist and the author of the memoir My Grandfather's Finger, in addition to several acclaimed novels, most recently, The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint. Recorded in his studio in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the conversation ranges from the Orphic journey to Texas's Big Thicket, Marguerite Young, Proust, Greenwich Village, and the wonders of Mexico's little-known Sierra Gorda. Recorded on Feb 22, 2012. *1 hour and 15 minutes.

Listen to more conversations with other writers-- including Sara Mansfield Taber, Solveig Eggerz, and Rosemary Sullivan on the main page:


And check out this newfangled thing, the "social media press release"
(By Diane Saarinen of the Saima Agency in New York)

AND A NEW PODCAST OF MY TALK ABOUT A RECENT PUBLICATION, MY TRANSLATION - THE FIRST INTO ENGLISH - OF THE SECRET BOOK BY FRANCISCO I. MADERO
C.M. Mayo Discusses Francisco I. Madero's Secret Book of 1911, Spiritist Manual
Recorded at the PEN / Sol Literary Magazine Reading Series event of February 22, 2012 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. C.M. Mayo introduces and discusses her translation— the first into English— of Francisco I. Madero's secret book of 1911, Spiritist Manual.

Madero was the leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution and President of Mexico from 1911-1913.

(Note: this is an abbreviated version of the longer podcast, listed directly below, with fellow author Gerard Helferich, who read from his book, Stone of Kings.)
*26 1/2 minutes.

Note: In this talk I mention that I had not been able to find a copy of the original Spanish edition, Manual Espírita, anywhere on-line. Shortly after I posted this podcast I found this free PDF download available from a Mexican government website.

And speaking of podcasts, I'm writing an iBook,
Podcasting for Writers,
which will be published this summer.

 
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Thank you for your interest in my work and good wishes to you!

Kind regards,

C.M. Mayo

Through narrative we become more human. Truth is beauty. Exploration is infinite.