Donations

I’ve been doing this blog thing for a couple of years now and I can’t remember if I’ve covered this topic or not, so bear with me if some of this is a repeat. There’s a new part of the story that I’ll get to after the background. Readers of my books might be able to tell that I grew up in southern New Mexico. How can they tell? Because four of my first five published books are set there. It’s a great place to use as a backdrop for a story and becomes another character in the book because of the area’s variety. My hometown, Alamogordo, sits in the desert at the base of a mountain range. New Mexico State University has a branch perched on the side of one of the foothills rising from the city, and this instance of the college system has a writing center, which is named in honor of my grandmother, Mary Virginia Brown. She taught at the school for many years and played such a vital role that the powers that be put her name on the building. What does this have to do with me, other than I had an awesome grandmother who passed down her love of reading and writing to her grandchildren? My parents are headed that way this weekend and my dad has been in contact with the school. My sister has written two non-fiction books and I’ve published five (so far), and Dad asked the library there if they’d be interested in receiving donated copies of our books for the library. They are. So, Dad is taking the donations and will give them to the librarian. I think having books in the library written by her grandchildren would make her happy. I hope that more than a couple of patrons at the NMSU-A library discover the books and enjoy them. That would make me happy.