"Unmasked, Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty," made the Taos Daily News in advance of a September reading there. "Unmasked" co-editors Marcia Meier and Kathleen Barry, along with anthology contributors Lisa Rizzo, Renata Golden (a Santa Fe resident), Santa Fe poet Barbara Rockman, and San Diego poet Tania Pryputniewicz read selections from the book and discussed sex, intimacy, dating and more at the Society of the Muse of the Southwest. The group spoke and read t

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We had sad news this month. Our dear friend and Weeping Willow Books author Dick Jorgensen passed away on May 20. He would have been 93 in July, and he was so looking forward to a big birthday celebration. We published two of Dick’s memoirs—O Tomodachi (Friend) and Yuko, Friendship Between Nations—and were at work on his third, American Sensei (Teacher). You can learn more about Dick's work at his website dickjorgensenauthor.com. He also was close to finishing a fourth book,

Unmasked: Women Write about Sex and Intimacy After Fifty has been awarded a bronze “IPPY” medal as a part of the 22nd Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards. These Awards recognize the year’s best independently published books. Unmasked won the bronze medal in the Anthology category: GOLD: Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust, edited by Myrna Goldenberg (The Azrieli Foundation) SILVER: Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When t

A number of people have asked how Weeping Willow Books got its name. I grew up in Michigan, and have very fond memories of the weeping willow trees that grew bountifully in my hometown. Something about the wispery leaves and graceful, sorrowful branches seemed to speak to me. When I began writing as a teenager, these lovely trees began to show up in my writing—a protective tree whose roots made a home for bunnies in one of my children’s stories, a refuge outside the window of

Dick Jorgensen’s 2015 memoir, O Tomodachi, Friend, is about his two years of teaching at the University of Hiroshima from 1954-56, when he was a young graduate student. In October, Dick, now 92, and his daughter, Susan Dickinson, traveled to Japan and were able to meet with four of his former English students, who are now in their early 80s. The Santa Barbara News-Press’ Dave Mason wrote a fabulous story called "Time Travel" about the journey and his reunion with them (publis

Rabbi Arthur Gross Schaefer's book signing and reading at Chaucer's Bookstore for his latest mystery, The Rabbi Wore a Fedora, drew a crowd of almost 60 people. This second installment of the Rabbi Daniels Mysteries finds Rabbi Daniels heading off to Germany with a group of Evangelical students. When he is implicated in the murder of local woman, things get dicey. This novel, as with his first, The Rabbi Wore Moccasins, blends historical and spiritual themes into twisted plot