Dead Lizard's Dance
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Santa Fe Radio Cafe with Mary-Charlotte
To hear my interview with Mary-Charlotte, go to www.santaferadiocafe.org and click under October 22. I had fun with this interview at the Santa Fe Baking Company and you can get an idea of how much fun Dead Lizard's Dance is,-- that is if you are interested in witchery!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
"Voices and images of our long history"
Discovered on the editorial page of the Santa Fe New Mexican two days ago (October 19, 2009)--to my amazement--exciting things in the main column for the day--written by Bill Waters, the Editorial Page Editor for the New Mexican:
First, praise for many who are contributing to the City of Santa Fe's 400th anniversary celebration-members of KSFR Radio Bill Dupuy, Dan Gerrity, assisted by Jack Loeffler--also mentioned, Camille Flores, Ana Pacheco of La Herencia and Pamela Christie and her newest book, Dead Lizard's Dance!
I quote: "And in addition to the many academic works, Santa Fean Pamela Christie, whose novel The King's Lizard so nicely set a multicultural mystery in Santa Fe of 1782, has just published a sequel,--further adventures of the Ute-Spanish Fernando Aguilar. Christie lovingly, highly readably and in pretty credible detail portrays this far-off outpost of empire during the governorship of the dashing Juan Bautista de Anza . . . ."
and farther down: "(a) salute. . . Igualmente to Pamela Christie for daring to delve into historic shadows to create settings Santa Feans and visitors alike can re-explore."
Thank you Bill Waters for this nearly unprecedented plug for a novel in your column--But by now I know there are people here, and Bill is among them, who love, are almost transfixed by, Santa Fe's early times and who enjoy the chance this book gives them to Be Here Then.
Yes, you can get out of the 21st century--Letters, e-mails and calls coming in are letting me know that Dead Lizard's Dance grabs hold of the reader early on, and according to reports keeps some of them from going to bed until far into the night, prevents them from feeding their children on time, flings them onto a couch for six hour stretches of reading, makes them call in sick for work.
Second books are tricky, but this author is breathing again!
And as for the small qualifier "pretty" as used by Mr. Waters--he explained when I called to thank him for what he did for my book, that he had trouble with my thinking that aguardiente was sweet red wine. I can see how a pronoun in there might have let him think so, but as it says in the glossary at the back of the book, aguardiente is crude brandy--so Bill, justifiably, was putting a question out about my research into common forms of tipple in the 18th cnetury, via his words "pretty credible."
Now onward--announcements of some book fairs and readings in a minute. It's an exciting week, and I must add, it is snowing hard at the moment, taking some of the burnish off this golden fall.
Discovered on the editorial page of the Santa Fe New Mexican two days ago (October 19, 2009)--to my amazement--exciting things in the main column for the day--written by Bill Waters, the Editorial Page Editor for the New Mexican:
First, praise for many who are contributing to the City of Santa Fe's 400th anniversary celebration-members of KSFR Radio Bill Dupuy, Dan Gerrity, assisted by Jack Loeffler--also mentioned, Camille Flores, Ana Pacheco of La Herencia and Pamela Christie and her newest book, Dead Lizard's Dance!
I quote: "And in addition to the many academic works, Santa Fean Pamela Christie, whose novel The King's Lizard so nicely set a multicultural mystery in Santa Fe of 1782, has just published a sequel,--further adventures of the Ute-Spanish Fernando Aguilar. Christie lovingly, highly readably and in pretty credible detail portrays this far-off outpost of empire during the governorship of the dashing Juan Bautista de Anza . . . ."
and farther down: "(a) salute. . . Igualmente to Pamela Christie for daring to delve into historic shadows to create settings Santa Feans and visitors alike can re-explore."
Thank you Bill Waters for this nearly unprecedented plug for a novel in your column--But by now I know there are people here, and Bill is among them, who love, are almost transfixed by, Santa Fe's early times and who enjoy the chance this book gives them to Be Here Then.
Yes, you can get out of the 21st century--Letters, e-mails and calls coming in are letting me know that Dead Lizard's Dance grabs hold of the reader early on, and according to reports keeps some of them from going to bed until far into the night, prevents them from feeding their children on time, flings them onto a couch for six hour stretches of reading, makes them call in sick for work.
Second books are tricky, but this author is breathing again!
And as for the small qualifier "pretty" as used by Mr. Waters--he explained when I called to thank him for what he did for my book, that he had trouble with my thinking that aguardiente was sweet red wine. I can see how a pronoun in there might have let him think so, but as it says in the glossary at the back of the book, aguardiente is crude brandy--so Bill, justifiably, was putting a question out about my research into common forms of tipple in the 18th cnetury, via his words "pretty credible."
Now onward--announcements of some book fairs and readings in a minute. It's an exciting week, and I must add, it is snowing hard at the moment, taking some of the burnish off this golden fall.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Books are here! Golden sunshine pouring out of the cartons--We are gearing up for the launch party this Friday. October 2nd, 6 p.m. at Collected Works Bookstore, in the beautiful new store at 202 Galisteo Street.
After the launch party the books will be distributed to many retailers--and we got our first order from Amazon today, so in just a few days we will be up and happening there.
We are starting to roll . . .
After the launch party the books will be distributed to many retailers--and we got our first order from Amazon today, so in just a few days we will be up and happening there.
We are starting to roll . . .
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
9/8/09
Finally! A new book. Dead Lizard's Dance arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico in just one week.
Sequel to The King's Lizard, also a mad dash mystery set in 1782, when New Mexico was the farthest outpost of Spain.
Finally! A new book. Dead Lizard's Dance arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico in just one week.
Sequel to The King's Lizard, also a mad dash mystery set in 1782, when New Mexico was the farthest outpost of Spain.
There will be a LAUNCH PARTY for Dead Lizard's Dance on Friday, October 2nd at 6 pm at
Collected Works Bookstore, dowtown at 202 Galisteo Street. Everyone's invited!
Wondering who's a witch in your life? So's Nando, inadvertent half-breed sleuth. Weird murders are happening all over town, and it's Nando's job to get to the bottom of the carnage--quickly, before investigators for the King of Spain arrive to discredit the governor.
My books are always available from wilddogbooks@cnsp.com, at your local bookstore, and on Amazon.com. More soon as I get used to this weird new thing called a blog--hey, I'm the other generation.
Want to know what it's like to work on a book for seven years? There will be glimpses as we go. For now, imagine my thrill, thinking of the bright yellow books now being stacked in their cartons in Mattoon, Illinois at UGI Press--ready for shipping on the tenth.
Nando would snap his writing quill in half and throw it on the dirt floor of his casita, if he could see me actually blogging about him.
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