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Dear Subscribers,
A warm welcome to all and
especially to those of you who are new to this list. September's
newsletter announces a newliterary travel writing workshop,
a couple of new link-rich on-line articles for writers, the best from the blog (ye olde Madam Mayo), and podcasts galore-- Marfa, Marfa & more about
Marfa, plus Q & A with some other, very innovative literary
podcasters.
Literary Travel
Writing Workshop
September 8, 2012 The Writer's Center 4508
Walsh St (just off Wisconsin Ave)
Bethesda MD (Near Washington DC)
1 - 5 pm (one day only) Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects. (Read more about
this workshop on my blog.)
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Podcasts
I've been all
about podcasting this summer-- and there are such a multitude
of fabulous podcasts out there (hunt & ye shall find) that,
well, I wanna get out the pompoms and do some cheering. I use
my iPad to listen to podcasts while working in the kitchen, driving,
an, when doing any relatively mindless task (sometimes, I admit...
that even includes email). Some favorite podcasters, with whom
I recently posted some Q & A about their podcasting, include:
Some
of these interviews will appear as sidebars in my forthcoming
iBookstore edition interactive ebook, Podcasting
for Writers & Other Creative Entrepreneurs.That
was forthcoming this summer... oh well! Look for it later this
fall.
>>I'll announce it along with several other
new iBookstore interactive multimedia ebook editions from Dancing Chiva in the
next newsletter.
Meanwhile, I've
also been working on the podcasts apropos of
my book-in-progress-- as yet untitled-- on the greater Big
Bend region of far West Texas. Since so few people have heard
of Fort Davis, Alpine, Marathon, Valentine, Terlingua, Lajitas,
or Presidio, I decided to call the podcast series "Marfa
Mondays."
#7 We Have Seen the Lights
July 16, 2012: C.M. Mayo recounts
her own experiences with the eerie and as yet unexplained phenomenon
of the Marfa Lights, discusses some of the literature and recent
research, and interviews others.
#6 Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones
June 18, 2012: C.M. Mayo interviews Paul Graybeal, owner of Marfa's
magnet for rock hounds.
#5 Cynthia McAlister: The Buzz on the
Bees
May 21, 2012: C.M. Mayo interviews
an expert on the curious native bees and vital pollinators of
the Northern Chiahuahua Desert.
(So where's the
August "Marfa Monday" podcast? Oops, wacky summer...
I'm a little behind. I'll be back in Marfa later this fall, digital
recorder in hand. Stay tuned.)
They are all free on-line;
listen in anytime from the Marfa Mondays website,
on
or
subscribe for free on (which gets the RSS feed of up to the previous 15 podcasts
from podomatic)
So you've heard
of Marfa? Now that Vanity Fair's June issue covers the
place, I feel rather as if I'm in the caboose of the hipster
fashion train now... (Ayyy, yeah, I did see that Beoncé
felt inspired to do some jumping jacks in front of Prada Marfa.)
Anyway, if you're still wondering where the buffalo Marfa is,
check out my video.
An hour's trek south
of Marfa, down along the Rio Grande, the landscape changes. Recently,
I visited La Junta, where the Rio Grande meets the Rio Conchos,
and took some brief videos so you can get a sense of how gorgeous
and dreamscape-like this country is:
Rio
Grande Near Presidio (Goats Appear)
A
Few Things Seen from Sproul Ranch
(Near Fort Davis)
Previous Conversations with Other Writers include: Michael K., Schuessler,
biographer of Elena Poniatowska and Pita Amor Edward Swift, novelist
and memorist, author of My Grandfather's Finger; Sara
Mansfield Taber,travel writer and memorist, author of Born
Under an Assumed Name; and Solveig
Eggerz, fairytale expert and author of Seal Woman,
a novel of post WWII Iceland inspired by a true story.
P.S.
If you haven't already, click on the cover to download "C.M.
Mayo on Creative Writing: The Best from the Blog," a
50+ page cornucopia of the tips from my writing workshops. It
is a fully formatted PDF which you can read on any computer and
also open in iBooks. [This
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Thank you for
your interest in my work and good wishes to you!
. C. M. MAYO
. LITERARY JOURNALIST
& NOVELIST . 
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#7 We Have Seen the Lights
Rio
Grande Near Presidio (Goats Appear)
P.S.
If you haven't already, click on the cover to download "C.M.
Mayo on Creative Writing: The Best from the Blog," a
50+ page cornucopia of the tips from my writing workshops. It
is a fully formatted PDF which you can read on any computer and
also open in iBooks. [This
download is for subscribers only. Subscribers receive the
passwords for free e-books in the next newsletter e-mail.
To sign up for the newsletter, which is free, 
