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The Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America presents guest speaker Kalen Landow, a marketing/publicity director.

PROGRAM: As the book publishing landscape changes quickly and radically, the topic of promotion is a minefield now more than ever before. What is encompassed in book promotion? Who is responsible for it? What are the tips and tricks for authors who have publishers? What about those authors who are going it alone?

What role does social media play? How do we promote books in an increasingly crowded marketplace and a noisy media environment? Come with your questions and ideas and be prepared to leave with tools to strengthen your book-promotion efforts.

Kalen Landow, a 21-year veteran of the book publishing industry, heads marketing and PR for Taylor Trade Publishing, the trade imprints of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

She's held positions with Chelsea Green Publishing, Ingram Book Company, Tattered Cover Bookstore, and a variety of other publishers (both freelance and in-house). She also has served as the executive director of Publishers Association of the West. She is a lifelong Coloradan, a social media addict, and an avid reader (mostly fiction). For the second year in a row, she is on track to read 100 books this year. Her autobiography (not yet started) will be titled, "The Accidental Publicist," and she will name names. You can find her on Twitter at @kalenski.

RSVPs ARE MANDATORY. The reservation deadline is Monday, September 6. RSVP to Becky Martinez: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 303-522-1073

No-shows and anyone not cancelling their reservation 72 hours in advance will be expected to pay since RMMWA will be billed for their reservation.

Design to Print Denver Media Group presents "Google Apps - Electronic Collaboration with Anytime, Anywhere Access" at the DPC. 5:30-6 p.m., registration and networking; 6-7:30 p.m., program.

Topics include the background of Google apps and its rise to cloud computing leadership; the six major components of Google apps; Google apps as a centralizing and enabling force for collaboration; and website development within the framework of Google apps.

Speaker Tom Smith, who has worked with network-based software applications and communications for 30 years.

Free to members of the Design to Print Denver Media Group. $15 for non-members. Reservations required; you can RSVP with payment by calling 303-771-1578 or by emailing Jennifer Janness at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by Sept. 10.

GUEST BARTENDER is STEVE WEIL, president of the famed Rockmount Ranch Wear store at 1626 Wazee Street in downtown Denver. His tips will benefit Denver Hospice.

The Denver Book Club will hold its monthly meetup event at the DPC. The cost is just $3.00. The nonfiction book selection is "Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon-Survival of Bodily Death," by Raymond Moody. To RSVP for this event, go to:
http://www.meetup.com/denverbookclub/calendar/14138332/

Adapted from an Amazon.com Review: In Life After Life, Raymond Moody investigates more than 100 case studies of people who experienced "clinical death" and were subsequently revived. First published in 1975, this classic exploration of life after death started a revolution in popular attitudes about the afterlife and established Dr. Moody as the world's leading authority in the field of near-death experiences. "Life after Life" forever changed the way we understand both death and life, selling millions of copies to a world hungry for a greater understanding of this mysterious phenomenon.

The extraordinary stories presented here provide evidence that there is life after physical death, as Moody recounts the testimonies of those who have been to the "other side" and back -- all bearing striking similarities of an overwhelming positive nature. These moving and inspiring accounts give us a glimpse of the peace and unconditional love that await us all.

RSVP to this Meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/denverbookclub/calendar/14138332/

The 15th Annual HALL OF FAME DINNER. This year's inductees are Neil Westergaard (to be introduced by Carl Miller), Mike McPhee (John Ensslin, introducer), Cynthia Hesssin (Brian Weber, introducer), and posthumously, Bill Daniels (Linda Childears, introducer), William Byers and Greg Pearson, who was a beloved journalism professor at Metropolitan State College (to be his introduced by his daughter Maria).

MANDATORY RESERVATIONS by noon Wednesday, Sept. 22, at http://www.blacktie-colorado.com/calendar/event-detail.cfm?id=20475 (or just go to www.blacktie-colorado.com and click on Sept. 24).

Colorado Press Women and Four Corners Free Press offer a one-day workshop titled "Border Crossers" at the Free Press office at 10 W. Main, Suite 106, in Cortez. The workshop is open to all journalists, writers and guests. Denver Press Club members are welcome.

Panels:
(A) "Public Media Crossing," with Sharon Clahchischilliage, diplomat for the Navajo Nation in Washington, D.C., and recent candidate for the Navajo Nation; Tina Deschenie, former editor of Tribal College Journal; Sara Begay Hopkins, general manager of KGHR Radio in Tuba City, Ariz.; Ann Bond, San Juan National Forest public affairs officer; and Christy Ferrato, author of the epic poem "Erasure Treaty." They will discuss overcoming gender prejudice, developing trust with the public as a public relations professional and the influence of reporters on news content.

(B) "Mother Nature Knows No Boundaries," with Jim Mimaga, CU fellowship recipient studying the impact of uranium mining on the Southwest; Marshall Johnson, co-founder, To' Nizhoni Ani (Beautiful Water Speaks), a project examining the diversion of water away from Black Mesa to supply water to Arizona's cities; Grace McNeley, professor at Dine College, Tsaile, Ariz.; and Cindy Yurth, Tseyi (Canyon de Chelly), Bureau reporter for Navajo Times. They will discuss environmental, investigative and social justice reporting.

Also, Sonja Horoshko, journalist and former artist-in-residence, will conduct a writers' workshop at Hovenweep National Monument, at Aspen Guard Station. Doug Pace, manager of operations for Farmers Telephone Company Museum, will lead a session on "How to Tell a Story" in the museum's Zen garden.

Cost: $25 for CPW and $30 for nonmembers. Lodging and meals are extra. To register, send a check payable to CPW by Sept. 12, to Teresa Ford, CPW treasurer, 26. S. Mt. Vernon Club Road, Golden, CO 80401. Questions: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Info: www.coloradopresswomen.org.

GUEST CHEF is KIRK MONTGOMERY of 9News, KUSA TV. More info to come.

The Denver Book Club will hold its monthly meetup event at the DPC. The cost is just $3.00. The October fiction selection is "The City & The City," by China Mieville.

Adapted from Amazon.com review: The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective's voice that's wonderfully appropriate for this story of seen and unseen. His detective is Inspector Tyador Borlu, a cop in Beszel whose investigation of the murder of a young foreign woman takes him back and forth across the highly policed border to Ul Qoma to uncover a crime that threatens the delicate balance between the cities and, perhaps more so, Borlu's own dissolving sense of identity. In his tale of two cities, Mieville creates a world both fantastic and unsettlingly familiar, whose mysteries don't end with the solution of a murder.