Hello, Everyone!
Our first APW Central Chapter this year will launch next Wednesday! Our speaker is AnnElise Makin. To receive the zoom link to the meeting, please send a request to Fawzia at fawziamaitungwriter@gmail.com. Those of you who already replied (thank you!), I have put you on the list!

Fawzia Mae Tung
Arizona Professional Writers, Central Chapter Chair

Topic: Breathing Life into History — The story of the Texas Germans in the Civil War With AnnElise Makin
Date: April 8, 2026
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.AZ time
How: Zoom (link will be emailed the day before)

TOPIC: AnnElise Makin will chat with us about how her fascination with cowboys led her to Texas, and more recently, to her research into early German settlers there, leading her to a story that blew her mind. She will explain how she stitched together research, immersion, and interviews to create the characters who carry the drama forth, pioneers as well as Comanche, in her upcoming book Texas Justice for the Muskrat.

BIO: AnnElise Makin, a Munich native, started working in journalism in high school, and went on to become a US-German correspondent from her time at the University of Texas at Austin where she received two M.A. degrees. She has published so far three novels and three anthologies, and is working on a nonfiction book as well as a novel based on the German pioneers in the Texas Hill Country.

AnnElise also helps clients with publishing needs, having learned her bookmaking craft at Harcourt Brace College Publishers. She continues to contribute to German lifestyle magazines.