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WRC Creative Writing Salon
— Thursday, November 5th & 19th, 6:00 — 7:30
pm
Held on the first and third Thursday of
each month, The Well Red Coyote Creative Writing Salon
is for all those writing or wanting to write creatively –
prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, songwriting, and
all other written forms. Moderated by award-winning author and
poet, Gary Every, each meeting
will emphasize different aspects of the craft of creative writing,
including writing exercises and group discussion.
The Well Red Coyote Creative Writing Salon is meant to provide
a safe place for writers to share their work with other writers.
What united them all is a passion for written and spoken word.
All writers, at all level, are welcome. Listeners are are also
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Soul Destiny
Talk: You and your soul. Where are you in relationship with
that?
Talk, Exercises, Psychic Insights and Guided Meditation
Friday, November 6, 7 pm: Joseph
S. Bortniak, Arizona author of STANDING
IN TRUTH, will present a workshop that will help to demonstrate
the differences that may be present between our human experience
and our soul's destiny. Based on his book, STANDING
IN TRUTH: A JOURNEY OF SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT WHILE HAVING
A HUMAN EXPERIENCE. Joseph will offer exercises, psychic
insights, and will lead the group in a closing meditation, all
followed by time for Q&A and book signing.
Joseph describes himself as a Psychic Enlightenment Consultant
He helps provide an environment for self reflection and self
inquiry so that you can have a better understanding of yourself,
your life, your career, your friends, your family, and your
intimate partnerships with regard to your physical, emotional,
mental, and spiritual bodies and your feminine and masculine
attributes.
Internationally known, he has appeared on many television shows
and radio programs including, Strange Universe, The Sedona Channel,
Phoenix TV 3, Phoenix TV 10, The Jan D'Atri Show and radio stations
in Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, North Dakota, New York, Phoenix,
and Boston. Also, newspapers including The Arizona Republic
and The Phoenix New Times.Currently you can find him monthly
on AM Arizona LIVE and on Red FM in Ireland talking about spiritual
enlightenment and taking calls.
His gifts include being psychic, clairvoyant, clairaudient,
a conscious channel, a medium, and a dream interpreter; as well
as past life connections. |
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Writing Workshop
& Writing Exercise: How to Make History Come Alive
Saturday, November 7, 2 pm: When
writing historical fiction, it requires more than just knowing
dates and places. The minutiae, the smells, sounds, feel of
the era must come alive for you or they won’t come alive
for your readers. Join award-nominated author, Jeri
Westerson, author of VEIL OF LIES
and the forthcoming SERPENT IN THE THORNS,
and explore the tactile approach of learning about an era that
she uses to write her own explosively successful novels. Jeri
will show you how to delve into your own psyches by doing a
little hands-on writing based on observation.
Noir and hard-boiled fiction seem to be in Jeri Westerson’s
blood. She was born and bred on the mean streets of Los Angeles,
inhaling smog and enduring earthquakes. She took all that gritty
edginess and plunked it into the Middle Ages, creating the newest
hard-boiled detective, Crispin Guest; disgraced knight turned
PI, solving crimes on the mean streets of fourteenth century
London in her debut Medieval Noir, VEIL OF LIES. Jeri's debut
novel was recently nominated for a Macavity Award for historical
mystery and a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel.
The Boston Globe called her detective, “A medieval Sam
Spade, a tough guy who operates according to his own moral compass
and observes with detached humor...this book is pure fun.”
Booklist said, “...this authentically detailed medieval
mystery has an intriguingly dark edge.” Library Journal
gave it a starred review: “...Westerson's mystery debut
is a brilliant tale of survival in a hostile environment, where
anything can lead to death...Highly recommended.” Historical
Novel Society Review made it an Editor’s Choice title:
“...To say Veil of Lies is a remarkable novel doesn’t
do the book justice. Just when the plot seems set on a fixed
course, the author deftly arranges another neat surprise and
keeps the pages turning... |
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New Age Talk:
Unfinished Evolution – A New Age Call to Arms
Friday, November 20, 7 pm: With
the worst economy since the Great Depression, constant global
conflicts, planetary warming and continued worldwide poverty,
it’s clear that a new direction is needed. Novelist and
screenwriter, Teena Booth, and
the author of UNFINISHED EVOLUTION,
will discuss the importance of reviving the New Age in an effort
to save the world during this time of anxiety over economic
recession, global conflicts, and environmental damage. Teena
will encourage attendees to participate in “circle”
so that others can speak as well. We will also have a table
set up where people can write their own New Age mantra on posterboard.
UNFINISHED EVOLUTION, by Phoenix
author Teena Booth, is a call to the scattered “spiritual
but not religious” community to literally save the world
by joining together under a common New Age identity. The book
explores the rise and fall of the New Age movement in popular
culture, examines what spiritual progressives lost when the
movement receded, and asks them to consider what they might
gain personally and collectively by reviving the movement. Covering
all aspects of the movement—from its spirituality and
philosophy to its arts and politics—the book encourages
solitary spiritual seekers to reach out to each other and create
a revitalized New Age community with the power to help us all
grow in our unfinished spiritual evolution.
Teena is the author of the young adult novel, FALLING
FROM FIRE, and TV movies for Lifetime and Hallmark networks.
She also is the creator of NEW
AGE PRIDE. |
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Writing Workshop:
Plotting
Saturday, November 21, 2 pm: Do
you come up with great novel concepts, only to have trouble
moving from premise to plot? Can you break that premise out
into logical story events and keep the story moving? Pete
Goodman, author of SMOKING FROG
LIVES!, will discuss these and other plotting challenges,
including the different kinds of plots, how a story rolls out,
as well as the concept of sequence and the role it has in moving
a story forward and the relationship between plot and character.
SMOKING FROG LIVES!: The scene
is Yaxnax, a minor Mayan city, abandoned for over a thousand
years. At dawn on the summer solstice, a man dressed as Smoking
Frog, a great war chief from the pre-classic period, decapitates
a bound captive in a Maya ritual slaying. And so begins Smoking
Frog Lives! Nick Michaels, a private investigator, is trying
to change professions, but his old life refuses to go quietly.
His career in archeology will have to wait while he chases the
elusive Smoking Frog, a man willing to kill in his purduit of
archeological fame.Complete with murder, pyramids and a frosty
but beautiful female archeologist, Smoking Frog Lives! is an
exciting mystery/adventure novel set in an enchanting and ancient
Maya city.
Bestselling author William Kent Krueger writes: "Indiana
Jones step aside. There’s a new top dog on the scene,
and his name is Nick Michaels. With Smoking Frog Lives!, Pete
Goodman delivers a joyride of a novel. This is a fine debut
that’s chockfull of wonderful and exotic information,
teaming with action, and delivers a great sense of place. Read
it!"
A former journalist and theater arts university professor, Pete
Goodman is a the Mystery Writers of America and the Maya
Research Program. He is also a former student of WRC co-owner
and writing instructor, Kris Neri. |
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Parenting Talk:
How to be a Zen Mama: 13 Ways To Stop Worrying, Let Go, And
Be Closer to Your Kids
Wednesday, November 25, 1-3 pm:
Parenting can be the cause of so many emotions like worry, anger
and disappointment. These emotions are habit forming and put
a wedge in your relationship with your children. Betsy
McKee Henry, author of HOW TO BE
A ZEN MAMA and daughter of Sedona residents Barbi and
Ted McKee, will share with parents the ways she’s discovered
that helped her to become closer to her kids.
HOW TO BE A ZEN MAMA gives you helpful hints about how
to stop worrying and let go; and by letting go, you become closer
to your kids. Also enjoyable are the Zen stories and quotes
in each chapter. Study with the Zen Mama Master and learn to
let go!
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New Sedona Cookbook
Debut with Goodies!
Note: This event is being held from noon to 3 pm, not our usual
Saturday time
Saturday, November 28, 12-3 pm:
Jeff Smedstad,
owner and chef of The Elote Café,
will debut his new THE ELOTE CAFÉ
COOKBOOK with us, and Jeff will bring goodies to share,
so you can sample the foods which are featured in the cookbook.
Elote Cafe serves the cuisine of Mexico culled from his 15 years
of travels through Mexico. Spicy, salty, crunchy, creamy, fresh,
and liberally garnished, THE ELOTE CAFÉ
COOKBOOK is loaded with dishes from the Elote Cafe menu
plus lots more of Chef Jeff Smedstad’s favorites.
Chef Jeff Smedstad started his cooking career on a small island
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean cooking 3 squares for 30
men while in the Coast Guard. In 1990 he attended and graduated
from the Scottsdale Culinary Institute and began cooking for
Hilton hotels. He realized his dream of opening his own restaurant
and started Los Sombreros Mexican restaurant in Scottsdale Arizona
in 1994. In 2006 he sold his interest in Los Sombreros. When
an opportunity came up to buy a restaurant in Sedona, Jeff knew
it was time to open Elote Cafe.
His style focuses sustainable, local, healthy, organic and GMO
free products to showcase his passion for food as well as responsible
cooking. The cuisine of both Los Sombreros and Elote Cafe have
been featured in the New York Times, Sunset Magazine, Arizona
Highways, Food and Wine Magazine, the Arizona Republic, and
the Toronto Star as well as numerous television spots on CBS,
ABC, NBC, KTVK and AZTV.
Step into the Elote kitchen with us! Elote Cafe won the TOP
25 Restaurants in Arizona Award by Arizona Highways in April
2009! If you love Elote Cafe, now you can make these fabulous
dishes in your home. |
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