BOOK EVENTS CALENDAR FOR LPD PRESS & RIO GRANDE BOOKS

AUGUST 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR THE GENIZARO & THE ARTIST AT LAS GOLONDRINAS
There will be a book signing for "The Genizaro & the Artist" with Napoleon Garcia and Analinda Dunn at the New Mexico-Food, Art, and Adobe weekend at Las Golondrinas Living History Museum in Santa Fe, NM on Saturday, August 16 -- they will have a talk at 1pm in the Education Center next to the Store and a book signing following the talk on the portal outside the Store from 2-3pm.

Saturday, August 23, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR DON BULLIS AT GOLD STREET GALLERY
There will be a book signing for Don Bullis, author of Bloodville and the New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, Vol. I & II, at the Gold Street Gallery, 116 S. Gold St, Deming, NM 88030. Call 575-546-8200 for more information.

Saturday, August 23, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING AT ABIQUIU PUBLIC LIBRARY
There will be a book signing for "The Genizaro & The Artist" by Napoleon Garcia and Analinda Dunn at the Abiquiu Public Library, Abiquiu, NM, in conjunction with the Santa Rosa de Lima Fiesta. There will be a talk followed by the signing from 3-5pm.

Sunday, August 24, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR SAINTS OF THE PUEBLOS AT INDIAN MARKET
There will be a book signing for "Saints of the Pueblos" with Charlie Carrillo at Santa Fe Indian Market, in the book tent in the Plaza from 1-2pm.

Monday, August 25, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR OUR FAVORITE RECIPES COOKBOOK
There will be a book signing for "Our Favorite Recipes" with Lexi Petronis and many of the chefs in the book at the Albuquerque The Magazine Chef Knockout event at the Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, from 5-8pm.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 – RADIO INTERVIEW WITH DAVE DEWITT ON KSJE-FM RADIO (90.9, FARMINGTON, NM)
Dave DeWitt, author of Avenging Victorio; 10:30am

Friday, August 29, 2008 – RADIO INTERVIEW WITH DAVE DEWITT ON KSJE-FM RADIO (90.9, FARMINGTON, NM)
Dave DeWitt, author of Avenging Victorio; 2:30pm

Saturday, August 30, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR OUR FAVORITE RECIPES COOKBOOK AT BORDERS COTTONWOOD
There will be a book signing for "Our Favorite Recipes" with Lexi Petronis, Mia Maes, and Thelma Domenici at Borders at Cottonwood Corners, 10420 Coors Bypass NW, Albuquerque, from 3-4pm.

Saturday, August 30, 2008 -- BOOK STORE/BOOK FAIR AT GRAND OPENING OF FLYING STAR CAFE IN BERNALILLO
Flying Star Cafe has donated an empty store front next to the new Flying Star Cafe in Bernalillo, NM, for the grand opening of the new Flying Star Cafe. The event also coincides with the New Mexico Wine Festival in Bernalillo which will be across the street. Several dozen local authors will be in the store/fair selling and signing their books. The following will be having book signings:
12noon to 1pm --
Charlie Carrillo, author of Saints of the Pueblos, Novena to the Santo Nino de Atocha, and A Tapestry of Kinship;
Anne Lux, author of Historical New Mexico Churches

2pm to 3pm --
Sabra Steinsiek, author of Anne's Song, Red Velvet Shoes, Timing Is Everything, When That Time Comes, and "Til the End of Time;
David Corwell, author of Cloaked in Shadow;
Lela Belle Woffert, author of Deception and Desire and Wishes in the Wind;
Margaret Tessler, author of Black Widow White Lies and Life in the Slow Lane;
and Jerry Davis, author of Home on the Farm, Tales of the Road, and Leafing Through My Family Tree

4pm to 5pm --
Beverly Eschberger, author of The Elephants Visit London;
Lynn Ellen Doxon, author of Rainbows from Heaven;
Geoff Habinger, author of Dinosaur Learning Activity Book;
Laura Stamp, author of The Year of the Cat;
and Sue Houser, author of Hot Foot Teddy

Sunday, August 31, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR OUR FAVORITE RECIPES COOKBOOK AT BOOKWORKS
There will be a book signing for "Our Favorite Recipes" with Lexi Petronis, Willem Blom, executive chef at Flying Star Cafe, and Thelma Domenici at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd, Albuquerque, from 3-4pm.

Sunday, August 31, 2008 -- BOOK STORE/BOOK FAIR AT GRAND OPENING OF FLYING STAR CAFE IN BERNALILLO
Flying Star Cafe has donated an empty store front next to the new Flying Star Cafe in Bernalillo, NM, for the grand opening of the new Flying Star Cafe. The event also coincides with the New Mexico Wine Festival in Bernalillo which will be across the street. Several dozen local authors will be in the store/fair selling and signing their books. The following will be having book signings:

12noon to 1pm --
Dave DeWitt, author of Avenging Victorio, DaVinci's Kitchen, Cuisines of the Southwest, and Spicy Food Lovers Bible;
Don Bullis, author of New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, Volumes I & II, Bloodville, BullsEye, and 99 New Mexicans

2pm to 3pm --
Jim Hammond, author of Wines of Enchantment;
and Ana Baca, author of Mama Fela's Girls and Benito's Sopapillas

4pm to 5pm --
Harry Willson, author of Duke City Tales, Myth & Mortality;
and Zelda Gatuskin, author of The Time Dancer


SEPTEMBER, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008 -- BOOK STORE/BOOK FAIR AT GRAND OPENING OF FLYING STAR CAFE IN BERNALILLO
Flying Star Cafe has donated an empty store front next to the new Flying Star Cafe in Bernalillo, NM, for the grand opening of the new Flying Star Cafe. The event also coincides with the New Mexico Wine Festival in Bernalillo which will be across the street. Several dozen local authors will be in the store/fair selling and signing their books. The following will be having book signings:

12noon to 1pm --
Lexi Petronis, editor of Our Favorite Recipes;
Frank Murphy, author of The Spirit of Tea

3pm to 4pm --
Leslie Shipman, author of Sustaining Thought: Thirty Years of Cookery at the School of American Research;
Napoleon Garcia and Analinda Dunn, authors of The Genizaro & the Artist

Thursday-Saturday, September 17-19, 2008 -- MOUNTAINS & PLAINS CONVENTION
LPD Press will have a booth at the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Convention in Colorado Springs, CO.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 -- NM WOMEN AUTHORS' BOOK FESTIVAL
Barbe Awalt will be one of the 76 featured authors at the New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival in Santa Fe, NM. She will have a talk and a book signing at 2:40pm until 3:15pm.


OCTOBER 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR COOKING WITH LAVENDER AT TREASURE HOUSE
Barbe Awalt will be signing copies of the new book Cooking with Lavender at Treasure House, 2012 S Plaza NW, Old Town Albuquerque at 12noon to 2pm.

Friday, October 10, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR OUR FAVORITE RECIPES COOKBOOK AT TREASURE HOUSE
Lexi Petronis, editor-in-chief of Albuquerque The Magazine, Thelma Domenici, and several local chefs will be signing copies of the new book Our Favorite Recipes published by Rio Grande Books in collaboration with Albuquerque The Magazine at Treasure House, 2012 S Plaza NW, Old Town Albuquerque at 12noon to 2pm.

Saturday, October 11, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR NEW MEXICO BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AT TREASURE HOUSE
Don Bullis will be signing copies of the new book New Mexico A Biographical Dictionary Volume II (he will also have copies of Volume I) at Treasure House, 2012 S Plaza NW, Old Town Albuquerque at 12noon to 2pm.

Saturday, October 25, 2008 -- TALK AND SIGNING AT HOPKINS PD SYMPOSIUM
Jane Awalt, author of THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN, will be a speaker at the Johns Hopkins-NIH/NINDS Morris Udall Parkinson's Center Symposium 2008-Solutions to Cope, Reasons to Hope, BWI Marriott, 1743 W Nursery Rd, Baltimore, MD. Her presentation is at 1:15 pm.

NOVEMBER 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008 -- SIGNING FOR THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN AT BORDERS COTTONWOOD
Jane Awalt, author of THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN, will be signing copies of her book at Borders at Cottonwood Corners, 10420 Coors Bypass NW, Albuquerque, from 1-2pm.

DECEMBER 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR OUR FAVORITE RECIPES COOKBOOK AT HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER
Daniel Baca, executive chef at La Fonda del Bosque, will be signing copies of the new book Our Favorite Recipes published by Rio Grande Books in collaboration with Albuquerque The Magazine at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque from 10am to 3pm.


PAST EVENTS
JULY 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008 -- BOOK TALK AND SIGNING AT JOHNS HOPKINS PD SUPPORT GROUP
The Johns Hopkins PD Support Group at Greenspring Valley, 10753 Falls Rd, Lutherville, MD will host a talk and book signing with Jane Awalt, author of THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN, at their regular meeting from 10am to 12 noon.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 – BOOK SIGNING & TALK FOR JOHN TAYLOR, ABE PENA, & DON BULLIS
John Taylor, author of Dejad a los Ninos; Abe Pena, author of Memories of Cibola; and Don Bullis, author of New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary Vol I; Rio Rancho Public Library, Rio Rancho, NM at 6:30pm -- Check out the photos here.

Friday-Sunday, July 11-13, 2008 -- LAVENDER FESTIVAL
LPD Press will have a booth at the Lavender Festival in Los Ranchos, NM. There were book signings on Saturday and Sunday. Check of the photos here.
Saturday, July 12
9-10am - New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary Vol I & II by Don Bullis
10am-12noon - Avenging Victorio by Dave DeWitt
Sunday July 13
10am-12noon - Avenging Victorio by Dave DeWitt

Saturday, July 12, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING AT BOOKWORKS
There will be a book signing for "Cooking with Lavender" with Barbe Awalt at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd, Albuquerque, from 11am to 12noon.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING AT ABIQUIU FARM TOUR
There will be a book signing for "The Genizaro & the Artist" by Napoleon Garcia and Analinda Dunn at Abiquiu Farm Tour in Abiquiu, NM all day.

Sunday, July 27, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNINGS AT SPANISH MARKET
LPD Press/Rio Grande Books will have four signings at Spanish Market this year on Sunday, July 27 -- Check out the photos here:
10:00 am - Saints of the Pueblos and The Novena to the Santo Nino de Atocha with Charlie Carrillo
10:00 am - The Genizaro & the Artist by Napoleon Garcia and Analinda Dunn
10:30 am - Tradicion & Heritage (History of Pena Blanca) by Virginia Ortiz
11:00 am - New Mexico in 1801 by Rick Hendricks


JUNE 2008
Saturday-Sunday, June 28-29, 2008 -- GSHA CONFERENCE
LPD Press will have a booth at the Geneaology Society of Hispanic America in Taos, NM. The event runs from 8:30am to 4:30pm. both days.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING AT OAK CREST VILLAGE SHOP
Jane Awalt, author THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN, will have a book signing at the grand re-opening of the Oak Crest Village Shop on Wednesday, June 25 at 10am. The Shop is located at 8810 Walther Blvd, Parkville, MD.

Friday-Sunday, June 13-15, 2008 -- LOS LUNAS SUMMERFEST
LPD Press will have a booth at the Los Lunas Summerfest in Los Lunas, NM. Check out our photos.

Saturday, June 7, 2008 -- CHAMA BOOK FAIR
LPD Press will have a booth at the Chama Book Fair in Chama, NM. The event runs from 10am to 3pm. Check out our photos here.

Sunday, June 1, 2008 -- BOOK FAIR AT SANDOVAL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LPD Press will have a booth at the Sandoval County Historical Society event in Bernalillo, NM.


MAY 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008 -- TALK AND SIGNING AT EL PRESIDIO DE SANTA BARBARA
Charlie Carrillo, author of Saints of the Pueblos and the subject of Charlie Carrillo: Tradition & Soul, will give a lecture followed by a book signing at el Presidio de Santa Barbara Chapel at 7:30pm. The title of his presentation is "Struck by Lightning: Saints and Santeros in the Art of the Southwest." The chapel is located at 123 E. Can Perdido Street in Santa Barbara, CA. 805.965-0093 for more information.

Monday, May 19, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING OF THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN
Jane Kriete Awalt, author of The Stranger Comes at Sundown, will have a book signing at the Ateaze Senior Center from 6:30pm to 8pm, 7401 Holabird Ave., Dundalk, Maryland

Saturday, May 17, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN
Jane Kriete Awalt, author of The Stranger Comes at Sundown, will have a talk and book signing at 12noon to 2pm at Greetings & Readings Bookstore, Hunt Valley Towne Center, 118AA Shawan Rd, Hunt Valley, Maryland. Check out our photos.

Friday, May 16, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING OF THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN
Jane Kriete Awalt, author of The Stranger Comes at Sundown, will have a book signing at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins University from 12noon to 2pm, 3330 St. Paul St, Baltimore, Maryland Check out our photos.

Thursday, May 15, 2008 -- BOOK RELEASE OF THE STRANGER COMES AT SUNDOWN
Jane Kriete Awalt, author of The Stranger Comes at Sundown, will have a talk and book signing at 1pm at Oak Crest Parkinson's Support Group (Town Center Classroom), 8820 Walther Blvd, Parkville, Maryland. Check out our photos.

Saturday, May 10, 2008 -- ELDORADO BOOK FAIR
LPD Press will have a booth at the Eldorado Book Fair in Eldorado, NM. The event runs from 10am to 3pm.

Friday-Sunday, May 2-4, 2008 -- LA FIESTA DE COLORES in GRANTS
LPD Press will have a booth at the La Fiesta de Colores in Grants, NM. The event runs from 6 to 9pm. on Friday, 10am to 5pm on Saturday, and 10am to 1pm on Sunday.


APRIL 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008 – BOOK SIGNING FOR MEMORIES OF CIBOLA & DEJAD A LOS NINOS
Abe Pena, author of Memories of Cibola, and John Taylor, author of Dejad a los Ninos, will have a book signing at Borders Uptown, Albuquerque, NM at 2pm

Saturday, April 12, 2008 – BOOK SIGNING FOR MEMORIES OF CIBOLA
Abe Pena, author of Memories of Cibola, will have a book signing at Borders Zafarano, Santa Fe, NM at 2pm

Thursday-Friday, April 10-11, 2008 -- NM LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
LPD Press had a booth at the New Mexico Library Association meeting in Las Cruces, NM. Check out our photos.

Saturday, April 5, 2008 – BOOK SIGNING FOR NEW MEXICO A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
Don Bullis, author of New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, will have a book signing at Borders Cottonwood, Albuquerque, NM at 2pm