Party time at the El Paso Writers' League!

There are big doin's at the El Paso Writers' League tomorrow. Every year we have a writing contest for members, and for the last three years we've published an anthology of the winning entries. So tomorrow the 8th we're having a big whoop-de-doo Launch Party with the winners reading their entries from the book. Yesterday I ordered a sheet cake from Sam's--they call it a photo cake--with the likeness of the cover on it. It makes me a little nervous, though, since the bakery lady said they'd never actually done one before. I'll swing by Sam's and pick it up on my way to the meeting in El Paso.

Here is the cover of this year's Border Tapestry, designed by member Maritza Jáuregui:

In addition to bringing the cake (please God, don't let me drop it), I'm bringing the 100 copies of Border Tapestry for distribution to members at the meeting. I've been editor and co-editor for the first three issues and am turning over the whole project to Sulta Bonner next year. Such fun!

Literary magazine for the El Paso Writers' League

My friend and colleague Sulta Bonner and I just completed a slick publication for the El Paso Writers' League entitled Border Tapestry. It contains first-prize-winning entries in the EPWL's 2008 writing contest, an annual event held for members. We did all the editing and layout, and then we paid a local printer who gave us technical advice and printed up a couple hundred copies for us.

Sulta knows El Paso far better than I do, so she showed me around town and advised me what photos to take. The result is the collage that appears on the cover.