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Check out news and updates about Oregon Writers Colony members.
David Oates to Teach at University of Montana
David Oates has been asked to be the ”Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer,” an endowed position in the Env. Studies program at Univ of Montana. He will be teaching one class of graduate students there in Missoula for Feb-Mar-April. David says, “This is an honor and a marvellous opportunity to interact with a small group of talented younger writers and poets, the next generation of nature advocates, explorers, restorers.”
New History: Flight of the Bumble Bee
Now a new corporate history by Irene Martin and Roger Tetlow, Flight of the Bumble Bee: The Columbia River Packers Association and a Century in the Pursuit of Fish, has just been released.
Born in Astoria in 1899, the Bumble Bee Seafoods eventually became a national and international success story, employing thousands of workers and fishermen at ports in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and elsewhere.
Published by the Chinook Observer Publishing Company, the book contains hundreds of historical photographs of the company’s fishing boats, workers and packing plants, as well as company labels and other illustrations.
Roger Tetlow and Irene Martin, are both well known for their historical research and fisheries publications, including Legacy and Testament, the story of Columbia River Gillnetters, and The Beach of Heaven, a History of Wahkiakum County by Irene Martin and originally published by WSU Press, and Barbey, The Story of a Pioneer Columbia River Salmon Packer, by Roger Tetlow. The Flight of the Bumble Bee is the only book available about a company known from Alaska to California and beyond.
Available by mail from the Chinook Observer, P.O. Box 427, Long Beach, WA. 98631, @ $22.95, plus $5 each shipping/handling. $1.79 each sales tax for Washington residents
Two New Mysteries from Carolyn Rose
Carolyn Rose, mystery writer, has new books available. Her mystery An Uncertain Refuge was released in May and is now selling 1,000 Kindle copies a month.
A second title by Carolyn Rose, A Place of Forgetting, was just released on September 30.
Carolyn’s website is www.deadlyduomysteries.com
RaeAnn Proost Releases Stories
ReeAnn Proost has released a collaboration of stories titled, Just a Heartbeat Away: Reconciled to the Loss of our Children.
Fourteen parents celebrate the lives of their children, share their loss and unfathomable grief, provide unique insights, and offer up glimmers of inspiration and hope. To bare the heart is a painful and daunting task. The stories are fraught with memories, calamitous sadness, and hope. Here is advice and understanding, along with peace and comfort, for the mothers and fathers who sadly must follow in our footsteps. We work through our grief to find a new normal, and we know we are not alone.
The book contains a forward and afterward by Chaplain Joy LePage Smith, MA, and is available by emailing
heartbeat@bendbroadband.com, from Book Locker, or from your favorite bookstore.
Robyn Parnell’s Short Stories
Robyn Parnell’s story “Here is What” is published in the current issue of Bellevue Literary Review, 10th Anniversary Issue, v. 11 No. 2, Fall 2011, and her story “Modus Operandi” appears in Wild Violet’s “Passion” issue, v. X #1, Fall 2011.
Patricia Steele’s New Book
Patricia Steele, an OWC member living in Virginia, has published Mooning Over A Drug Card on Kindle. It can be purchased for $2.99. She has a blog at www.patriciasteele.blogspot.com . The blog helped her meet many of the Spanish members of her Silvan family. She just returned from interviewing 12 of them.
Joyce Lindsey O’Keefe in Kaleidoscope
The work of Joyce Lindsey O’Keefe was featured in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts. Her nonfiction articles have appeared in Pizza Today, Apartment Age, Reunion’s Magazine and Hearing Loss.
Robert Rubinstein’s Children’s Book Published
Robert Rubinstein has published Zishe the Strong Man, a beautifully illustrated children’s book. He has published Curtains Up! – Theater Games and Story Telling, and Hints for Teaching success in Middle School. He has many stories in anthologies and his tales have also been recorded. His website is www.robert-rubinstein.com.
Jill Kelly on Speaking Tour
Jill Kelly has been on a national speaking tour for her memoir, Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman. The memoir was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Next stop: Naples, Florida, in October. Jill is currently finishing up her second novel, a romance turned murder mystery. Visit her author page at www.jillkellyauthor.com.
Donelle Knudsen’s Memoir Available
Donelle Knudsen’s memoir, Through the Tunnel of Love, a Mother’s and Daughter’s Journey with Anorexia, has been published by Etcetera Press. In this compelling book you’ll read touching details of an international adoption, learn possible causes of anorexia, steps for intervention, how anorexia affects the entire family, and what difference faith, fathers, friends and unconditional love make. Through the Tunnel of Love is also ideal for use in a small study group setting. To order your copy visit: www.amazon.com or contact the author at dknudsen49{at}gmail.com .
Linda Kuhlmann Interview, Article & Book-Signing
Oregon author Linda Kuhlmann was recently interviewed by Stirling Editing about her novel The Red Boots, her work in the schools and her forays into script work. See the interview at her website: www.lindakuhlmann.com. Her article “Using Oregon in Mysteries” has been published online on Bad Spelling: Marva Dasef’s Books, Reviews, Interviews, and News: http://mgddasef.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-crime-wednesday-location-location.html. Linda also signed copies of her novel Koenig’s Wonder, with other local authors, on Sept. 25 at the grand opening of the new Oregon Book and Games store in Grants Pass.
Linda Kuhlmann’s Latest
Linda Kuhlmann’s latest book is now available!
In the midst of a manhunt for a serial killer in Dublin, Shannon O’Toole, a young sculptor, is forced to confront her past.
Surrounded by the seamy side of gallery life, she is drawn to her estranged father in Oregon and finds that crime and violence have followed her. Unknowingly, she has attracted the Dublin serial killer and is at risk for herself and those around her.
Orthodox Writers at the House
Jan Bear says some nice things about her week at the Colonyhouse with Orthodox Writers.
Article by Elizabeth Lyon in The Writer
Elizabeth Lyon has an article in the July issue of “The Writer” titled, “When are you finished? 9 steps to the final revision.” Elizabeth is the author of “Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore.”
Robyn Parnell’s Short Stories Published
Robyn Parnell’s short story “Writer’s Guidelines” was published in the current issue of The First Line, (Summer 2011), and her story “Here is What” has been accepted for publication by Bellevue Literary Review.