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Some of our members exhibited and sold their books at the Windsor Gardens Fair in November, 2023. Left to Right: Karen Rodrigues, Andrea Antico, Eleanor Binnings, Diane Chambers, and Linda Volin.
Added, Jan. 24
Congratulations to member Diane Chambers for winning the 2022-2023 Reviewer’s Choice Awards.
Added, Jan. 24
Congrats to Carol Ehrlich for her Poem of the Week, featured in the NPLAW website. The poem is titled The Back Nine. To find it, go to https://www.nlapw.org/category/featured-poem/
Added, Dec 2023
Karen D. Gonzales has a newly published Children’s Chapter book, “The Mystery of La Llorona and Mister Llorón” which won 2nd Place in the NLAPW Sandra Seaton Michel Middle School Story 2022 Biennial Competition in Letters and is now available on Amazon.
Added December, 2023
Two Book Signing Events
Excitement conquered the hearts of Denver’s Pen Women at recently held events to promote interest in the organization, highlighting individual writing accomplishments. Books were displayed, sold, and autographed at a March event in a local Barnes and Noble bookstore. Enthusiasm blossomed in April with members proudly reading sections of their work at a book launching in a neighborhood party room. Other local writers and interested readers were invited to attend and some enjoyed reading aloud from their own publications.
Member authors and books were: Juliana Adams – The Joy of Nursing, Reclaiming Our Nobility. Andrea Antico – Buster the Bully, and The Sugar Plum Tree (children’s literature). Eleanor Addy Binnings – Solo Tramp and Drama (illustrated book of poetry). Diane Lane Chambers – Fragile Minds: An Advocate’s Story.-Words in My Hands: A Teacher, A Deaf-Blind Man, An Unforgettable Journey. -Hearing the Stream: A Survivor’s Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer. Sydney Henningsen (L.S. Popovich) -The Arden – (post-apocalyptic sci-fi). – Undertones – (comedic fantasy noir). Sue Luxa – A Cabin in Cripple Creek, Denver Days and One Golden Summer (children’s books containing Denver history). Linda Reiss Volin – Genealogy for the Jewish Student. – The Writing Scene (inspirational writing ideas for Grades 3-8). Adrian Voss – Sky Blue (children’s picture book) and “The Small Apartment” (poetry).
Guest readers were: Monterey Buchanan – “Sympathy for Clumsy Girls” Solae Duran – a 7-year-old who presented her original story, performing with tiny figures. Sara Frances – author of Unplugged Voices and Fragments of Spirit. Vicki Rottman – One Step at a Time: Lessons for Living (inspired by her sculptures). The Coffee Break Book: Brief Diversions for Your Busy Day.
Added May, 2023
Book Signing April 2023
Book signing for several authors
Diane Chambers and Andrea Antico had a book signing Saturday, November 26th at the Tattered Cover, 2526 East Colfax, Diane is launching her new book, Fragile Minds: An Advocate’s Story. “It was a great opportunity” she said. You can find her books on Amazon or Bookshop.org
Andrea was also signing her book The Sugarplum Tree.
Added December, 2022
Fragile Minds: An Advocate’s Story
by Diane Lane Chambers
After a series of traumatic events, including breast cancer and a two-year battle with anxiety and depression, Diane Chambers, a professional sign language interpreter, searches for a deeper understanding of mental illness and those who suffer from it. Taking her interpreting work into the trenches of the psychiatric communities, she comes to a rude awakening. Our laws are allowing thousands of individuals with serious mental illness to go without treatment. Too often the results are tragic. This astounding revelation sets her on an unexpected crusade to make a difference.
In her memoir, Fragile Minds: An Advocate’s Story, Chambers shares her experience and knowledge of mental illness and our system of care, including its flaws and politics, hoping to awaken others to the fight for reform of our laws.
Author Diane Lane Chambers has enjoyed a career as a professional sign language interpreter for over 45 years. Her focus for the last 20 years has been interpreting in the medical and behavioral health arenas. Active in the National League of American Pen Women, she has served as the NLAPW Denver Branch vice president and several terms as president. In her free time she follows legislation and advocates for reform of our nation’s privacy laws and involuntary commitment statues to remove barriers to treatment for persons with serious mental illness.
Diane is the author of two other nonfiction books: Words in My Hands: A Teacher, A Deaf-Blind Man, An Unforgettable Journey and Hearing the Stream: A Survivor’s Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer. She is the producer and narrator of a DVD about Support Service Providers for persons with hearing and vision loss titled, SSPs: What Are They and Why Are They Necessary? She lives in Conifer, CO, with her husband.
Fragile Minds: An Advocate’s Story, ISBN 9780976096788, $17.99, 378 pages, released June 24, 2022, Available on Amazon in paperback or ebook. Or ask for it at your favorite bookstore.
Ellexa Press
Conifer, CO 80433
https://www.dianelanechambers.com/diane-lane-chambers-author.html
Andrea Antico will be reading from her book The Sugarplum Tree, Sunday, November 14, 3pm at Stanley Marketplace. Added November, 2021.
Sue Luxa will be reading from her books, A Cabin in Cripple Creek, Denver Days, and One Golden Summer. Sunday, November 14, 3pm at Aspen Grove. Added November, 2021.
The Arden, a sci-fi focused children’s book authored by L. S. Popovich will come out in April. The book is now up for sale.
Author Andrea Antico and illustrator Virginia Small were the First place winners in the 2020 CIPA EVVY awards for The Sugarplum Tree. The award was issued by the Colorado Independent Publisher’s Association in the children’s book category.