APW Typerider November 2025
Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving!
I am delighted to be a part of a professional writing organization with members who are so giving of their time, knowledge, and talent. Thank you!
Once you renew your membership, we have two new potential opportunities for you to shine in 2026.
Reginald Manning is the artist behind APW’s logo when we were Arizona Press Women. He was an American artist and illustrator, best known for his editorial cartoons. The Arizona Republic hired Manning as a photographer and artist in 1926. “Hats” won him the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1951. (Thanks to Cheryl Kohout for his name.)
May your words flow,
Carol Baxter, APW President
P.S. The 2026 White Mountain Writers Conference date is July 31 (not the 3rd).
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Click on the link for the full President’s newsletter to read more including
- Opportunities to sell your books at 2 book festivals
- Registration opens for the Payson Book Festival
- 11/22 Book Club selection
- White Mountain chapter- open mic, contest, book festival and writers conference
- NFPW Communications Contest info
APW White Mountains Chapter meeting 10/28/25 with Beth Freely
Kathleen Osborne is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Monthly White Mountains Chapter of APW with Beth Freely
Date: Oct 28, 2025
Time: 06:00 PM Pacific & AZ Time
Join Zoom Meeting: The Zoom link has been sent to White Mountain Chapter members. Other APW members and guests who would like to attend should contact Katherine Osborne for the link. It is also published in the Members’ Only section.
Bio: Beth is a prolific romance author with a career spanning her entire life. She has written over fifteen novels and several novellas, using her skill to blend romance, history, and detailed storytelling. Experiences from living in Great Britain, and her current residence in New Mexico influence her work.
APW Typerider October 2025
Greetings!
Third quarter! How can that be? I feel exactly like the woman riding the typewriter in our logo. Better riding the typewriter than being sucked into my computer keyboard, eh? By the way, do you know who designed the logo? I do not.
You’ll see a few emails this month. The Board just met to plan exciting things just for you in 2026: the annual conference and potentially a new adventure in marketing. More on those things later this month or early next. VP Marie Fasano will be reaching out about membership dues.
Wishing you a marvelously spooky October,
Carol Baxter, APW President
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Click on the link to find out about what’s happening!
- Holiday Bazaar- get your book listed! #apwbookbazzar
- Upcoming chapter events including Carol’s talk on using Kickstarter to launch a book on October 15.
- APW Book Club selection Oct 25 – Southern Woman by Kathleen Parrish
- Dates for APW-sponsored Book Festivals in 2026 and other White Mountain events
- NFPW Communication Contest for works published in 2025
Typerider Special Edition 7-13-25
Let’s head to the Mountains!
Learn something, network with authors, and feed your hungry bookshelves.
Hello!
Is the heat dry enough for you? Looking for a getaway?
You know you want to come to Payson and support Arizona authors at the 10th Annual Payson Book Festival on July 19th, but a mere 3 weeks later, there is more joy available to grasp with your inky hands.
August 8th, I am headed to what I hope will be the cool pines of Show Low for the Take Your Writing to New Heights conference and White Mountain Festival of Books hosted by the White Mountain Chapter of APW.
Hope to see your smiling face at one or both events!
Carol Baxter, APW President
*** Send the code: CAROLSPECIAL in your registration paperwork
to get the $50 earlybird price. ***
All the classes will be in the Main Room, and at least three will be interactive with the audience. In addition to the speakers, the last event will be a panel of all the speakers. In every swag bag will be index cards where people can write questions for any of the speakers. You can put that question on a card, and the moderator will direct it to that specific teacher or the entire panel.
One of the keynote speakers, Bing Bruce, was on NewAZ, AP News, and BizNews.
APW Typerider July 2025
National Federation of Press Women
2025 Professional Communications Contest WINNERS
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- Jody Sharpe, At-Large -Arizona 2nd Place – Fiction for Adult Readers > 11B – Novellas for “The Dog Who Came For Christmas”
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- Chrisann Dawson, At-Large – Arizona 2nd Place – Fiction for Adult Readers > 11A – Novels for “Congo Ebola”
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- Carol Baxter, At-Large – Arizona 3rd Place – Public Relations Materials > 53 Catalog, Manual, or Handbook for “Day Tripping”
Congratulations to the winners!
Happy writing,
Carol Baxter, APW President
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CHAPTER NEWS
Rim Country
Central
BOOK CLUB CALL FOR AUTHORS
The APW book group was established to provide an opportunity for members to read, discuss, and post reviews of one another’s books. We generally meet via Zoom on the fourth Saturday of every month at 10 am, September through June. It’s a great way to support our journeys as authors and get to know each other.
Some people attend regularly, others not so much, or only a few times, and that’s okay. We are currently looking for APW members who would like to join our group, and potentially present their book for our reviews.
If interested, please contact Karen Shiffman Lateiner, or call 973-997-7204.
White Mountain
White Mountain Festival of Books
2025 NFPW Conference
Registration is now open for the 2025 NFPW Conference, hosted by Colorado Press Women Sept. 11–13 at the Denver Marriott West hotel in Golden, Colorado.
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.
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 Typerider Newsletter – December, 2024
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To see the newsletter and the coming events, click here.
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.
APW Typerider Newsletter – November, 2024
Arizona Professional Writers November, 2024 Typerider
Central has a speaker for their November 9 meeting you are invited!
The Holiday Bazaar is happening on the APW website from Black Friday through Christmas. Shout out to Jaimie Bruzenak for putting this online event together.
I am headed to the Author Nation Conference in Las Vegas this month. I was in a pre-event networking group and we played a game via Zoom called Bring Your Own Book. There are prompts and each person in the group has a minute or so to look up a line in a book (could be a book you wrote or not) to match the prompt. Whoever has the “best” answer wins the round. If you are interested and want to download the game cards, it’s available on Amazon.
Author Cory Doctorow has a blog I manage to read about once a month. A recent article caught my attention, Penguin Random House, AI, and writers’ rights. His language can be colorful, although not so much in this article, so be warned.
To read the rest of this issue with information on what’s happening, click here.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Carol
President’s message October 2024
Typerider Newsletter – APW – October 2024
One of our members, Bobbie Bennett writes the award-winning Beaver Valley Newsletter. The October issue highlights Beaver Valley Days.
I have a fond memory of going to a Beaver Valley Day Pancake Breakfast. Bing Brown (he and
Carol are sorely missed as APW members and human beings on the planet) was happily filling plates with pancakes and link sausages.
I don’t like my food to touch. Yeah, I am one of those people. Bing must have seen my face as the syrup he’d just ladled on my pancakes ran into my sausage and I quickly nudged my scrambled eggs to the side. He encouraged me to taste the sausage. “You’ll like it!”
You can guess how I almost always eat sausage now. (My eggs sit on a plate alone.)
I hope you make lots of fond memories this month!
If you have any writing-related announcements you would like included in an upcoming newsletter, please email them to me.
Carol Baxter, APW President
Read the rest of the newsletter including the date for the State Conference and chapter news by clicking this link
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