Newsletter & Cyberflanerie (Way-Out Dreaming & Tidying Edition)

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Newsletter: Podcasts, Publications, Workshop, Plus Cyberflanerie (Extra-Eclectic Edition!)

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Newsletter: C.M. Mayo's Publications, Podcasts, and Workshops, Plus Cyberflanerie (Corona Virus-Free Edition!)

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Happy New Year! Newsletter & Cyberflanerie

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February 2016 Newsletter: Podcasts, San Miguel Writing Conference, Maximilian and Carlota & etc

I have just sent out my February newsletter via the bananatastic Mailchimp.com. (One of the many things I like about Mailchimp.com: When you hit the "send" button you get the chimpy "high five.") 

> You can read my news about both super crunchy and brief podcasts, events and workshops, and more, right here. 

> If you'd like to get the next emailed newsletter, which will probably go out in March or early April, you are most welcome to sign up right here. 

I send out my newsletter every other month-ish, very ish, and do aim to make them packed with clickable wonders. 

> As always, your comments are welcome. Write to me here.

Emailed Newsletters: 6 Yucky No Nos, 6 Dos, and 8 Newsletters I Relish Receiving

So How's the Book Doing? (And how many books have you sold? And what was your print run?)

Literary Travel Writing (From the Workshop)

Updates on my writing workshop schedule page

CLICK HERE.

November Newsletter and Best Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving

My monthly-ish (very "ish") newsletter with updates on my podcasts, videos, articles, book reviews, guest-blogs, interviews, events, workshops and much more— and yes, including the writing assistants, pictured left— just went out to subscribers via mailchimp.

I welcome you to read my November newsletter and, should you feel so moved, to sign up to receive the next newsletter (probably January-ish) here.

P.S. My thoughts on writers' newsletters (dos and yucky no nos).

> As always, I welcome your comments. Write to me here.

Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Writing Workshop

Cyberflanerie: But-I'm-Still-Recovering-from-the-Whole-Pluto-Thing Edition

Q & A with Karen Benke, 

Poet, Creativity and Fun Maven, Letter Writing Aficionada, 

and Author of "Write Back Soon!"

CLICK HERE.

Cyberflanerie: Reading, Writing, Podcasting Edition (and My Newsletter)

The Kindle edition of the anthology by Mikel Miller et al, Mexico: Sunlight and Shadows, which has been garnering scads of enthusiastic reviews, is free this Saturday August 29 and Sunday August 30. (This anthology includes an excerpt from my memoir of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, Miraculous Air.)

My mailchimp newsletter went out, fi-nal-ly. I try to get it out every other month-ish, but it's been a busy spring and summer, and to show for it, several new podcasts, articles and other news (my latest book won the National Indie Excellence Award for History!!!) 

May you enjoy the podcasts with rodeo barrel racer Lisa Ferndandes and historian Lonn Taylor. I certainly did... P.S. You are, of course, ever and always most welcome to subscribe.

What I'm reading (and relishing):

Graham Robb's The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

Thomas Hockey's How We See the Sky: A Naked-Eye Tour of Day & Night

Earl Swift's The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

What I'm working on:

Editing the Marfa Mondays podcast #19, "BBQ Pitmaster Israel Campos in Pecos" (Listen in to the other 18 Marfa Mondays podcasts here.)

For Literal, writing a review (rave-rave-rave!!!) of Sam Quinones' Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

What I call a "mini-clip," that is, a brief, edited video, of barrel racers and steer wrestlers at the Pecos Rodeo. (View my other mini-clips for the Far West Texas book here.)

May you have a splendid weekend.

Your comments are always welcome.

Cyberflanerie: Western Digs: Dispatches from the Ancient American West

Cyberflanerie: STUFF & Stuff & More Stuff Edition

Cyberflanerie: Others Did It So I Don't Have To Edition

April Newsletter

The writing assistants

My April newsletter has gone out via MailChimp with oodles of podcast transcripts, the best from this blog, my upcoming Literary Travel Writing workshop, and more.

> More newsletters with lots of yummy stuff in the archive.

> If you're not already a subscriber, I invite you to opt-in to get the next one here.

> Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

February Newsletter

My February newsletter went out via the fabubananalous MailChimp.com a little while ago with podcasts, events, workshops, and much more. 

> Read the whole enchilada, plus all other enchiladas of yore, here. 

If you don't already, I welcome you to subscribe (it's free, automatic opt-in / opt-out anytime). 
> Sign up here.

Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

November 2014 Newsletter

ULI QUETZAPUGTL

My November newsletter chock full of articles, podcasts, events, workshops, and more, has just gone out into the ethers of email via the ever-fabulously silly Mailchimp. (The best part is the chimpy high-five when you hit the send button.) 

Read the November 2014 newsletter >here<.

And you are very welcome to sign up for the next one right >here<.

In progress: three podcast interviews, all fascinating, Rose Mary Salum for Conversations with Other Writers, and Greg Williams and Paul Chaplo for Marfa Mondays. Look for them next month.

Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

Emailed Newsletters: 

6 Yucky No Nos, 6 Dos, and 6 + 2 Newsletters I Relish Receiving

Marfa Mondays # 8:

A Spell in Chinati Hot Springs

Captured: The Forgotten Men of Guam

30 Deadly-Effective Ways to Free Up Bits, 

Drips & Gimungously Vast Swaths of Time for Writing

Ceci n'est ce pas une Newsletter October 2014

Just sent out my October 2014 newsletter, chock full of book news, the best from the blogs, the news about the Texas Book Festival, and more. Read it here. 

My one day only workshop on Literary Travel Writing will be this Saturday October 11 at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD

The Writer's Center

10 am - 1 pm (one day only)
Literary Travel Writing WorkshopTake 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.

+ Register on-line

+ Visit my page FOR CREATIVE WRITERS for upcoming workshops and a rich array of resources for writers

+ Read more about my workshop

+ Recommended literary travel memoirs



Some of my work:

+ Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (travel memoir)

+ A Visit to Swan House (read article from Cenizo Journal on-line)

+ Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project #7: We Have Seen the Lights (listen to the podcast)

+ From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion (link to ebook)




Want to know when I'm giving another workshop or post a podcast or bring out a new book?  I welcome you to sign up for my newsletter. I'll be sending it out again sometime in November.

COMMENTS always welcome.

My July 2014 Newsletter Just Went Out

Whew, it only took me a year and half. But finally I'm officially announcing the new book, a batch of podcasts, another batch of book reviews, and a big event next week at Mexico City's Palacio Nacional (though that's for an older book, the novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire). 

>Read the whole enchilada here.

I love Mailchimp. Here's the message they sent me after I hit that "SEND" button:

P.S. I'd be delighted to add you to the roster for the next newsletter, which might or might not go out in another couple of months. You can opt in here, via Mailchimp, the leading no SPAM email service.

YOUR COMMENTS always welcome.

Cyberflanerie: Newsletter, Mechanical Turk, Rose Mary Salum, Zack Rogow, William Kiesel on Occult of Personality, Agustin Cadena

I just sent out my newsletter which I used to say goes out 4 - 6 times a year but now say goes out 3 - 5 times a year. Probably more in the 3 x yr range. I figure everyone has too much email so I try to make it something worth surfing around in. If you haven't already signed up, check it out here-- all the new books (my dad's plus 4 -- count 'em-- new ebooks), new podcasts of interviews with Southwest Book Award-winner Sergio Troncoso and with Mary Baxter, painter in the Big Bend, a reading (tomorrow!!) in San Miguel de Allende, and recommended links for writers, news of Ann McLaughlin's novel workshop at the Writer's Center, and Marie de la Fere's eyewitness memoir, My Recollections of Maximilian, a rare circa 1910 English language manuscript from (and with permission from) the Bancroft Library, introduced and published by Yours Truly-- a free ebook. Just go to the newsletter and click to download it.

The photo is from Pinto Canyon Rd, a lonely but gorgeous drive from Marfa (right behind Paul Graybeal's Moonlight Gemstones shop) down to the Rio Grande, where, should you feel so moved, you could chuck a baseball into Mexico.

Cyberflanerie du jour:

An article on the Mechanical Turk (an oldie but goodie from Salon.com)
The future is looking mighty strange...

Rose Mary Salum does the Next Big Thing Round Robin
A Mexican writer, translator and editor of Literal Magazine, one of the finest bilingual literary journals ever

New over on the blogroll (look right) Zack Rogow's excellent "Advice for Writers"

Occult of Personality interview with William Kiesel of Ouroboros Press
The book as talisman and much more. And another, with more on talismanic publishing and the Library Angel

I am intrigued by what Kiesel is doing with Ouroboros Press. I sense that publishing is diverging, sharply, into 2 streams: artisanal publishing (what he does, but I would include some ebooks in this category) and mass market ebooks. And I think we're going to see a galloping development in both over the next few years. On that note, Agustin Cadena, one of my favorite and most prolific Mexican writers-- and my translator-- has just published his new novel, Maljuna Knabino, as a Kindle. This, seriously, is a big deal on the Mexican publishing scene. And I find that interesting because I live in Mexico, I write about Mexico and I translate Mexican writers-- but it's also interesting because Mexico is a leading emerging market. As goes Mexico, so goes the emerging world-- Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and so on.... Right now its digital marketplace is underdeveloped. Most Mexicans still get their books at Sanborns (a nationwide chain that might be described as a cross between Denny's and Walgreen's). Translation: huge potential. And the ebook market is going to develop-- I mean to say Mexican readers will start using iPads and Kindle and Kindle apps--- why just look at all the urban and suburban Mexican (mostly) middle class kids from Tijuana to Merida. They're all texting each other and facebooking with the ease of breathing itself. And I do believe every Mexican congress critter maintains a Twitter account. Watch the audience when (even) the President speaks to any urban business audience under the age of 60-- they're all looking at their laps. So when people say (and alas many Mexicans insist) that Mexican readers won't adapt to ebooks, I say, hooey. More about all this in the next post.

Comments? Please feel free to email me.

September Newsletter

Just sent out the third newsletter for the year about my upcoming literary travel writing workshop, new articles for writers, podcasts galore, the best from the blog, and more.

If you're a subscriber, you got the password to download the free ebook, C.M. Mayo on Creative Writing, the Best from the Blog. More free ebooks for subscribers will be offered soon.

To receive the next newsletter, which will probably go out in mid November, and will include news about several new iBookstore interactive multimedia ebooks and more Marfa Mondays podcasts and Conversations with Other Writers podcasts and who-knows-what, sign up right here.

Visit the newsletter archive here.
Read my take on writers' newsletters here.

May 2012 Newsletter, News on Publish Now and Marfa Mondays Podcasts

The May 2012 newsletter just went out last week. There's plenty in here for writers interested in exploring the possibilities on the digital frontier, Mexico and its great literary artists, the Orphic Journey and the wonders of the Sierra Gorda, and that world waiting for a dream, far-out & far West Texas. Oh, and the Afterlife, too. More succinctly: It features news about the June 23 "Publish Now!" conference at the Writer's Center (in Bethesda MD, near Washington DC), the latest Marfa Mondays podcasts, and Conversations with Other Writers. Read on.

I send subscribers the newsletter as an email via mailchimp.com (a great service, by the way, I highly recommend it) that includes the link and passwords for a free ebook with tips on writing. So sign up, whydoncha. I'd be delighted to see you on the list. I send it out a few times a year, and you can unsubscribe or re-subscribe automatically anytime (that's mail chimp.com for you).

First Newsletter Out via MailChimp

Mailchimp seems to be a very popular e-mail newsletter service, and I can see why. It's playful, easy to use, and inexpensive, in fact, free up to a very large number of emails. I just wrangled my way around it and sent out my first-- July 2011-- newsletter, covering news about my books, forthcoming works, podcasts, videos, articles, events, and writing workshops. I also included a free 50+ page e-book of tips for creative writers.


>>To view the July 2011 newsletter, click here.

>>To get that free e-book, sign up for my newsletter. Next one goes out in September.

P.S. I'm aiming to adhere to my own idea of best practices in sending newsletters. Read more about that here.

More anon.