C. M. MAYO Author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, etc.

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October 11, 2012 Toluca, Estados de Mexico, Mexico Colloquium on the Art of Biography El Colegio Mexiquense (in Spanish) Coloquio "El arte de la biografía" Entre la imaginación histórica y la ficción literaria El Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca "El sujeto como idea y los límites de la no ficción: El caso de la historia real en la novela El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano" C.M. MAYO September 8, 2012 Bethesda MD (Near Washington DC) The Writer's Center 1 - 5 pm Literary Travel Writing 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. >>Click here for more info and to register on-line now >>If the website shopping cart isn't working, no worries, call the Writer's Center at 301-654-8664 Visit my Workshop Page for more workshops and a rich array of resources for writers July 16, 2012 Marfa, Texas Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: the first Monday of every month through 2013. June 23, 2012 Bethesda MD (Near Washington DC) "Publish Now! From Manuscript to Book and ebook in the New World of Publishing" at The Writer's Center, 10 am - 5 pm. $85 members; $100 nonmembers Lunch included and reception to follow. C.M. Mayo's presentation: "The Manuscript is Ready— (Or Is It?)— What's Next?". Visit my Workshop Page for more workshops and a rich array of resources for writers June 18, 2012 Marfa, Texas Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: the first Monday of every month through 2013. May 21, 2012 Marfa, Texas Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: the first Monday of every month through 2013. May 5, 2012, Bethesda MD Podcasting (Audio) for Writers Writer's Center One day only. 10 am - 12 pm 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. >>REGISTER ON-LINE. Visit my Workshop Page for more workshops and a rich array of resources for writers May 5, 2012, Bethesda MD How (and How Not to) Write Dialogue Writer's Center One day only. 1 pm- 5 pm 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. >>REGISTER ON-LINE. Visit my Workshop Page for more workshops and a rich array of resources for writers April 16, 2012 Marfa, Texas March 19, 2012 Marfa, Texas February 22 San Miguel de Allende San Miguel International PEN and Sol Writers' Aloud Series: 4 - 5 pm Café Santa Ana, Biblioteca Pública, Insurgentes 24 C.M. Mayo, author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and translator of Francisco I. Madero's Manual Espírita, 1911. C.M. Mayo will read from and discuss her introduction to and first English translation of Mexican Revolutionary leader and President Francisco I. Madero's 1911 Spiritist Manual. and Gerard Helferich, author of Stone of Kings and Humboldt's Cosmos $70 pesos (includes $35 pesos of cafe refreshments; the other 35 pesos benefits the SOL/ PEN Scholarship Fund.) February 20 and 21, 2012 San Miguel de Allende San Miguel Writing Intensive C.M. Mayo's "Techniques of Fiction" Directly following the San Miguel Writers Conference Monday and Tuesday, February 20 and 21, 2012 >Click here for more information and to register on-line >>See a profile on the San Miguel Writers Conference website. Visit my Workshop Page for more workshops and a rich array of resources for writers February 20, 2012 Marfa, Texas Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: the first Monday of every month through 2013. This month: an interview with Charles Angell about expeditions in the Big bend. January 16, 2012 Marfa, Texas Launch of the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: the first Monday of every month through 2013.