APW Rim Country Chapter10/15/25 Carol Baxter using Kickstarter
RESCHEDULED: Connie Cockrell is inviting you to a Zoom meeting.
Topic: Carol Baxter on using Kickstarter to release her book, Oblee Olie Olee’s Roly Poly Rally Race.
Date: Oct 22, 2025
Time: 06:00 PM Arizona
Where: The chapel at Majestic Rim in Payson and on Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting. Members have been sent the link. It is also in the members section. Nonmembers should contact Connie Cockrell for the link.
Topic: Entice angel backers for your book via Kickstarter
I am in pre-launch for my first Kickstarter campaign to fund my children’s picture book, “Oblee Olie Olee’s Roly Poly Pally Race.” I had an amazing mentor and did tons of research along the way. I am eager to share the backend work that perhaps you can replicate to showcase and fund your NEW creative project.
Bio: Carol Baxter has long followed the characters in her head down the winding paths of imagination. It only took five and a half decades for her to open the door and share the first of many stories with readers. Baxter is a mom, a nana, a wife, a successful grant writer, and a memoirist. She has garnered awards as a features reporter and for art marketing. She is currently the president of Arizona Professional Writers. Baxter feels fortunate beyond measure to live in a mountain chalet filled with music, dragons, a black hole where her desk used to be, and her personal Ray of sunshine.
Websites: https://www.gardenbugbooks.com/
https://www.talesofalifetime.net/
Musings: https://medium.com/@rainofstars.carol
APW Typerider August 2025
Carol Osman Brown gave me a plaque that says, “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.” That was never truer than this past week when I tapped my keyboard into submission. My A, S, and E buttons are blanks. It is time for a reset. A trip to the White Mountains is calendared into my future. Will I see you there?
Carol Baxter, APW President
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APW Rim Country Chapter 6-18-25 with Karen Lateiner
Connie Cockrell is inviting you to a hybrid in-person and Zoom meeting of the Rim Country Chapter. Meetings are held at 1 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month via Zoom and in-person in the chapel at Majestic Rim.
Let’s show our support for our member Karen Schifman Lateiner and join her at the meeting on Wednesday. invite your friends who have questions about gender diversity. Karen has sensitive information as a mother.
Guest Presenter: Karen Shiffman Lateiner
Date: Wednesday, June 18
Time: 1 pm AZ
Where: The chapel at Majestic Rim in Payons and on Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84817400687
Meeting ID: 848 1740 0687
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kHieummIS
Topic: Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss takes you on Karen Shiffman Lateiner’s compelling and sensitive journey to understand the gender transition of her remarkable son, fully embrace the woman he becomes and, just two years later,
grapple with her child’s untimely death.
Join her on an unusual tour of a mother’s mind as she reflects on her own history in coping with her child’s transition and family’s loss. At a time when transgender issues were still hidden, she and her family educated themselves and their
communities, turning their grief to advocacy. More than a memoir, this story of change and loss is a tribute to her child’s legacy, and to the love and support of family and friends.
Bio:
Karen Shiffman Lateiner, M.Ed. Throughout her personal life and professional career as a developmental psychologist and mental health clinician, she has actively advocated for safe and nurturing school and home environments for all children, especially for those at-risk for marginalization and bullying. Karen served on the Affirmative Action Committee and LGBT Task Force of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, as well as the Phoenix Task Force on Bullying.
APW Typerider – June 2025
June 2025
Click here to see this month’s issue with the recap of the winners of At-large Communications Contest. our annual State Conference and to see coming events.
APW Typerider Newsletter – April 2025
I’ve heard the word “authentic” bandied about the past decade, and in being authentic advice on the amount to share on social media.
Practical advice: If selling a book or class, the 80/20 rule applies. That is 20 percent sales, 40 percent behind the scenes of the book or class, and 40 percent fan and potential fan engagement.
For me, March was filled with the anticipation of a first grandbaby and the loss of a family member.
I was deep in the mists (pun intended) of writing a novel that began with a death and a life, but reality struck hard. My heart grew heavier than the novel I wanted to share with my readers, about a crone that lives in a forest in a house built on the legbones of a dragon and the pair of children that adopt her. Eyes tired from tears, I stepped back from my to-do list. I sought solace in time with my daughter, placed my hands on her belly, and told her son, “I can’t wait to meet you!” I called and had a wonderful conversation with a friend who I wished lived so much nearer than Michigan. I found mirth binge-watching “Nobody Wants This” on Netflix. I’ve kneaded bread dough, walked in the woods, and moved the island table in my office back about three inches – ah, breathing room … joy rediscovered in my one wild and precious life.
Those last four words belong to a quote by poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019)
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
This month, I will hold a grandson in my arms, write grants, finish designing the pages of a cookbook, swim, write the crone and those foundlings into the next scene, and the next, and the next.
In May I will stare at the Grand Canyon, laugh and soak in the sun from the deck of a pontoon, and celebrate being a wordsmith with professional writers.
How about you? Care to celebrate your gift?
Wishing you health and joy,
Read the rest of the newsletter to find out what is happening in each chapter. And it’s not too late to sign up for our State Conference to be held May 17.
APW Rim Country Chapter hybrid meeting 2/19/25 with Brenda Whiteside
Connie Cockrell is inviting you to the APW Rim Country Chapter hybrid meeting 2/19/25 with Brenda Whiteside
Topic: Brenda Whiteside will speak on using Book Funnel, a platform that lets authors reach readers through giveaways and book bundles for marketing.
Date: Wednesday February 19, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM Arizona
Location: Majestic Rim Living Retirement Home in Payson. Meet in the chapel off of the mail lobby
or attend on Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89156371937?pwd=mWoxbVRXNSg1d8HZVHbjLDYDiISzYp.1
Meeting ID: 891 5637 1937
Passcode: 879712 You must have the passcode to join
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kux0yrWST
Bio:
Brenda Whiteside is the award-winning author of romantic suspense, cozy mystery, and romance. She writes children’s books with her granddaughter under the names of Brenda Sue and Sadi Belle. She’s a born and bred Arizona native who sets her fictional stories in imaginary, but recognizable, Arizona locations. She and her husband live in Central Arizona. They share their home with a rescue dog named Amigo. While FDW fishes, Brenda writes.
To receive special offers, news about her latest books, and to be eligible for quarterly and year-end gifts that only members of BNG receive, join Brenda’s Newsletter Group.
https://us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4804e039587723cfe02e83f2c&id=5e4b22a4ac
Brenda is a prolific writer. Two of her more recent titles:
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- Brenda Sue (aka Brenda Whiteside)
APW Typerider Newsletter – February 2025
Get ready for EMPOWERED COMMUNICATION!
Save 20% when you buy your ticket by February 28th!
The cost for members only is $40. There are two ways to pay:
through your bank using the Zelle app (arizonaprofessionalwriters@gmail.com) or
a paper check. Checks should be mailed to
APW, PO Box 1495, Payson AZ 85547.
I believe that through each other, we learn. Especially when we slow down and listen.
Carol Baxter, APW President
Email
Download the flyer for the State Conference here or click on the State Conference tab.
Roger Naylor
“Most years I put close to 20,000 miles on my truck without ever leaving Arizona. And I never run out of things to see and do. I didn’t move to Arizona sit indoors.”
~ Roger Naylor, Arizona Explorer of one hiking trail and one restaurant at a time.
Darlene Ziebell
“I’m not your typical business coach spinning feel-good clichés. I’m a no-nonsense, results-driven consultant who delivers the unfiltered truth about what it really takes to achieve extraordinary success.”
~ Darle Ziebell, entrepreneur, business strategist, and author of the 7-Figure Sales Audit course.
Michele Nelson
“I hope my presentation to APW will illuminate and inspire us to recognize that all of us have a brain, we need to learn to take care of it.”
~ Michele Nelson, Payson Roundup Newspaper Reporter, Strength Beyond Struggle Podcast host, and NAMI Ending the Silence Program Specialist
Barbara Lacy
In addition to our three fine speakers, we will honor brilliant Southwest artist, author, former APW President, and staunch advocate of NFPW, Barbara Bayless Lacy. Her artwork is featured at the event venue.
Buy your ticket to the APW Conference and mark your calendar for May 17th!
I don’t want you to miss out!
- view Barbara’s stunning art
- glimpse Arizona through Roger Naylor’s eyes
- learn about publishing in a niche market
- find out from Darlene what you didn’t know you didn’t know about writing as a business
- discover tips to help your writing business thrive
- allow Michele to inspire you to begin a podcast seek podcast guest opportunities for yourself
- explore fresh ideas
- play a game
- win a prize
- buy a raffle ticket for a chance at a mystery box
- grab your s.w.a.g. bag
- delight in a new friend
- hug a friend you have not seen for a while
SWAG opportunity for APW Members!
Mail 60 of your bookmark, or promotional item to me by April 30 and
I’ll include it in the goodies for attendees.
(Carol Baxter, PO Box 1384, Pine AZ 85544)
NFPW Annual Contest
Book Final Deadline, February 5, 2025 (noon in your time zone)
Due to the extended time it takes to judge book categories, all book entries must be entered by this date.
Final Deadline Everything Else, February 19, 2025 (noon in your time zone)
All remaining entries must be entered by this date.
If you have yet to renew your membership,
please do so today!
It is $30 for the Arizona-only membership.
To see the rest of the newsletter, go here. Scroll down for Chapter News and Notable News
Time to renew your membership!
If you have renewed, Thank you. If not yet …
Now is the time to renew your membership for Arizona Professional Writers. If you join or renew now, your membership is good through December 2025!
The Board is grateful for your continued support.
The application is at the Join tab with directions on by check or by Zelle at ArizonaProfessionalwriters.
Please let me or any member of the APW board know if there is anything we can do to improve your experience with our organization. You can reach me at mafasano1@gmail.com.
Membership in APW shows you are making an investment in yourself and your career, and we are committed to providing you with valuable professional development through the following benefits:
APW Central meets via zoom every other month on the second Saturday at 10:00AM; APW Rim Country meets every month now via zoom and in person on the third Wednesday at 1:00 PM; the APW White Mountain meets once a month the fourth Tuesday at 6:PM on zoom; the APW Book Group meets on zoom the last Saturday of every month at 10:00AM.
You have many opportunities to enhance your writing and publishing knowledge.
More APW Benefits:
1. Meet and exchange ideas with local authors.
2. One or two virtual meetings a month with a local speaker on a writing or publishing topic.
3. Present your book to members and get exposure and reviews with the APW Book Group.
4. Ability to use APW Zoom for your book presentations or other writing-related meetings.
5. Enter the At-large contest for the National Federation of Press Women. First place winners go on to the national level. Many categories for these prestigious awards.
6. Post on our Facebook page more than once about your book. Share your new publications, wins and writing events.
7. Post your events on the APW website.
8. Keep up on local book writing events and contests in Arizona
9. Yearly APW conference
10. Payson Book Festival and Show Low Book Festival
Hope to see you at the meetings.
Sincerely,
Marie
Marie A Fasano, APW Membership Chair
APW Rim Country Chapter Christmas Luncheon
Rim Country Chapter of APW
Our December meeting will be a Christmas Luncheon.
Date: Wednesday, December 18
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Where: Crosswinds Restaurant, 800 W Airport Rd B, Payson, AZ 85541
Join us in-person for chat and festive fellowship. All members of APW are invited.
APW Typerider Newsletter – December, 2024
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NOTE: If you join NFPW you also pay an extra $15 for your APW membership. If you join APW as a state-only, the dues are $30/year.
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