APW Central Chapter Meeting 4-8-26 with AnnElise Makin
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.
APW Book Club - March 28 with Kathleen Kelly
Jimi’s story invites you to join him on a healing journey of hope and courage. The Cherokee tribe, as seen through his youthful eyes, celebrates the People's coexistence with creation in traditional ceremonies and vibrant rituals, sharing wisdom passed down from generation to generation. He brings to light the challenges of living with polio in the 1950s and takes you with him through the formative years after his mother died tragically. He is thrown into the white man’s world, where he spends the rest of his childhood in Ohio orphanages. From there, he will take you along the road of a musician, magician, Vietnam veteran, and one man’s inspirational search for meaning.
