Box 185
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Contains 36 Results:
CHERYL CARRINGTON, UNM, SPOON MOUNTAIN, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
File includes 5 letters between me and Cheryl Carrington, the cover designer, and Maya Allen-Gallegos, the Production Manager, about the cover design. There is one copy of original scan of cover drawing I had done by Jack Leustig's studio to improve clarity of Rini Templeton drawing used on the cover. There are 10 color front-jacket designs by Cheryl. On three of them I taped alternate drawings by Rini to she how they'd look. Cheryl pulled the final design off of a Rini Templeton website. But...
Dates:
2012
COVER PERMISSION, SPOON MOUNTAIN, FRED, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 2
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9 cards and letters between me and Cori Field (and her mom, Lynne Brickley, Rini's sister), Rini Templeton's niece, about getting permission to use Rini's drawing on the cover of my novel. Also two Xerox copies of a Rini website called Riniart.com. And 8 letters between me and Fred Goff, the keeper of that website--Riniart.com. And 2 letters between me and Betita Martinez and her daughter, Tessa, former keepers of that website. Included are 2 letters between me and Maya Allen-Gallegos,...
Dates:
2012
COVER ART, SPOON MOUNTAIN, JACK LEUSTIG SCAN, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 3
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File has a print of a Jack Leustig Imaging Studio scan of Rini Templeton drawing for the cover of On Top of Spoon Mountain. A CD of the scan is included.
Dates:
2012
ELISE McHUGH, UNM PRESS, SPOON MOUNTAIN, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 4
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Elise did the copyedit of Spoon Mountain. File includes Elise's introductory letter to me, and my original, hand-written (in red ink) responses to her copyedit. 12 scribbled pages. Also a handful of my various rewrites of chapters 13 and 27. Added are 6 Xerox copies from various books backing up my weird claims to use of bizarre words in my ms.
Dates:
2012
AMANDA PIELL, UNM PRESS, SPOON MOUNTAIN, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 5
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Amanda is a Production Editor. 6 letters between us relating to final page proofs. 1 letter from Patricia Kanavy about returning all foul matter materials of Spoon Mountain to me from UNM Press.
Dates:
2012
KAT MacGILVRAY, SPOON MOUNTAIN PUBLICITY, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 6
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6 letters between Katherine and me. She's director of Marketing and Publicity. Included is a Marketing Questionaire filled out by me. Also a letter to Nadya Guerrero-Pezzano about Albuquerque Film Festival. And 38 pages of blurbs from all my different past books.
Dates:
2012
SPOON MOUNTAIN BOOKS TO PEOPLE, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
This folder has 5 envelopes with lists of people to whom I sent copies of the novel.
Dates:
2012
SPOON MOUNTAIN BOOK REVIEWS, 2012
File — Box: 185, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
File folder has 9 reviews of the novel and a few newspaper ads for book signings.
Dates:
2012
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST, ELISE McHUGH CORRESPONDENCE, 2014-2015
File — Box: 185, Folder: 9
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19 letters between Elise McHugh and me between July 2014 and October 2015. File includes two External Reader reports, from Stan Crawford and Bob Julyan. Also a copy of the publishing contract with my additions. There is Elise's editing letter and my comments in red pencil on the letter. And finally my response to the edit and copyedit.
Dates:
2014-2015
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC, ELISE McHUGH, CORRESPONDENCE, 2014-2016
File — Box: 185, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
19 letters of my correspondence with Elise that were returned with foul matter. Some letters correspond with materials above, others are different, including a couple from 2016 with last minute copies of author photo to be used.
Dates:
2014-2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC, BETH HADAS, JACKET COPY, 2015
File — Box: 185, Folder: 11
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4 letters between Beth and me with her jacket and catalogue copy for Big Arsenic, and a handful of pages of my corrections and rewrites of that copy. For a big file of letters (and cover art) between me and Lila Sanchez regarding the cover design, see my Manuscript Files for this book labeled The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest (U).
Dates:
2015
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC, COPYEDIT, MAYA ALLEN-GALLEGOS, 2016
File — Box: 185, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
5 letters between Maya and me in February and March 2016 concerning her copyedit of Big Arsenic, my responses and corrections. Includes UNM Press style sheets for copyedit, including Internet definitions for "meshugana" and "bubby, boobaloo, bubele." And sheets of uncommon words that I used in the book, proper spelling, etc. Really good copyedit. Published book has no typos or mispellings that I know of.
Dates:
2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC, PUBLICITY, KATHERINE WHITE, 2016
File — Box: 185, Folder: 13
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3 letters between me and UNM Press publicist and Marketing Director, Katherine White--February-August 2016-- relating to Big Arsenic. Includes a long letter from me with suggestions on people (and their addresses) who should get review and/or complimentary copies of the book.
Dates:
2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC, COVER ART PERMISSION, 2015-2016
File — Box: 185, Folder: 14
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5 letters between myself and Ed Haggerty, brother of Dennis Haggerty whose fish drawings I wanted on the cover of Big Arsenic. Ed and his wife Betty were happy to give me permission. File includes a couple of obituaries of Dennis that I took off the Internet.
Dates:
2015-2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC, LILA SANCHEZ, JANUARY-JUNE 2016
File — Box: 185, Folder: 15
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File inclues 11 of my original letters to Lila about the cover for Big Arsenic. It also includes original Xeroxes of my letter envelopes from Dennis Haggerty on which he painted the fish later used on the novel's cover. Included are samples of the almost completed jacket, front and back. And a copy of permissions letter signed by Ed Haggerty allowing me to use Dennis's drawings.
Dates:
JANUARY-JUNE 2016
NOVEL REPRINTS, UNM PRESS, ELISE McHUGH, 2013
File — Box: 185, Folder: 16
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UNM Press decided to reprint my novels American Blood, Conjugal Bliss, and An Elegy for September. This file has 5 letters between me and Elise McHugh, and a couple of copies of each contract for each book, one set of contracts with my corrections.
Dates:
2013
NOVEL REPRINTS, UNM PRESS, JAMES AYERS, 2013-2014
File — Box: 185, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
4 letters between me and James Ayers regarding page proofs of Conjugal Bliss, Elegy for September, and American Blood. Includes final jackets for American Blood and Elegy for September. And my design suggestions to just use bullets or small asterisks for space breaks at bottom of page.
Dates:
2013-2014
NOVEL REPRINTS, UNM PRESS, LISA AND MAYA, SEPT. 2013
File — Box: 185, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
5 letters between me and Maya Allen-Gallegos and Lisa Tremaine about choices for the covers of American Blood and Elegy for September. Includes Xeroxes of final cover art, and some of my cover suggestions.
Dates:
SEPT. 2013
NOVEL REPRINTS, UNM PRESS, COVER SUGGESTIONS, 2013
File — Box: 185, Folder: 19
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These are Xeroxes I made suggesting 9 different images for the cover of American Blood and Elegy for September.
Dates:
2013
NOVEL REPRINTS, UNM PRESS, CONJUGAL BLISS, 2014
File — Box: 185, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
8 letters between me and UNM Press designer, Lila Sanchez, and also with Marketing Director, Katherine White. There are also many designs that Lila sent to me, and my reply designs to her. In the end she chose one of my tic,tac,toe designs (using skulls!) based on one of her tic,tac, toe suggestions.
Dates:
2014
NOVEL REPRINTS, UNM PRESS, BETH HADAS, 2013-2014
File — Box: 185, Folder: 21
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8 letters between Beth Hadas and me regarding jacket and catalogue copy for Elegy for September, American Blood, and Conjugal Bliss. Includes my handwritten copies for drafts of the American Blood riff.
Dates:
2013-2014
MISCELLANY TO UNM PRESS, 2011-2017
File — Box: 185, Folder: 22
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1.) Critique of Nancy Wood book, The Soledad Crucifixion, in a letter to Beth Hadas on December 3, 2011. 2.) Blurb for the book, Reining in the Rio Grande, by Em Hall, Mary Black, and Fred Phillips, sent to Beth Hadas on January 3, 2011. 3.) My letters in 2016 to Elise McHugh, as an "external reader," critiquing David Muench and Ruth Rudner's photo/essay Sandia: the Sacred One. I critiqued it a couple of times, and eventually I blurbed the book, which turned out quite lovely. 4.) A half dozen...
Dates:
2011-2017
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (E), 2014
File — Box: 185, Folder: 23-24
Scope and Contents
This file contains five edited versions of the 78 page July 20, 2009 copy of the story. I was cutting the story down so it could be a speech I would give on September 18, 2012, in Santa Fe at a benefit for a Taos environmental group, Amigos Bravos. 1.) is the July 20, 2009 version with Post-Its for the start of the edit. 2.) is an August 2012 version of the story, 42 pages long. 3.) is a September 1 version 36 pages long. 4.) is a September 2 version 35 pages long. 5.) is the final version of...
Dates:
2014
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (F), 2014
File — Box: 185, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
May 15, 2014. This is my rewrite of the December 15, 2008 draft of the novel, expanding it. Jarsenic.8. It's clean, 133 pages. My original submission to UNM Press. Color photos introduce each chapter.
Dates:
2014
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (F1), May 2014
File — Box: 185, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
Many hand corrections of about 50 random pages done in May 2014. Includes 16 color photographs that I intended as chapter headings. Also 3 black and white photos I intended as Part headings, I, II, III.
Dates:
May 2014