David L. Harrison, R. M. Tembreull, Sequoia Rudolph, Heidi Marshall, and Gary Lucero are just a few examples of the genre-diverse membership of SouthWest Writers (SWW). Their releases couldn’t fit in the 2024 interview schedule, but look for 2025 interviews or updates for some of these authors.
A list of interviewed SWW authors with 2024 releases is included at the end of this post.
Children’s writer David L. Harrison authored, coauthored, or edited four books in 2024. The Fluency Development Lesson, Closing the Reading Gap (Benchmark Education, June 2024) — a must-have for elementary literacy educators — is a ready-to-implement set of 28 fluency development units organized into five knowledge strands.
Introduce poetry to students in the classroom and beyond with 40 Poems for 40 Weeks: Integrating Meaningful Poetry and Word Ladders into Grades 3–5 Literacy (Routledge; 1st edition, December 2024), an anthology of hand-chosen poems written by well-known, beloved poets.
Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat (Charlesbridge, September 2024), a nonfiction poetry picture book collection for kids, invites young wildlife lovers to explore how and why animals eat what they do.
A Tree Is a Community (Books for a Better Earth) from Holiday House, October 2024. A tree is more than just a plant, but a whole ecosystem hiding in plain sight, on street corners and in backyards everywhere. Discover how one tree provides shelter, food, and clean air to a host of animals and insects.
Visit David on his website DavidLHarrison.com, his blog, and on Facebook. Look for his children’s books on all major retailers including Amazon.
Fractured State in the Blighted Earth (Atmosphere Press, September 2024) by R. M. Tembreull. Chaos, the Destroyer, has launched his most aggressive and expansive campaign yet. His objective: initiate the Great Cascade and bring about the Discordant on Earth. The eternal struggle between order and chaos is an inescapable condition of the universe. Caught in the middle is the delicate balance necessary for life to exist and prosper in our world. On Earth, the opposing sides in this timeless conflict are Earth Mother’s Natural Order and Chaos’s Force Corrupted.
You’ll find Raymund on his website TheBlightedEarth.com and Instagram. Look for his books on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
In Time Out (September 2024) by Sequoia Rudolph. Where does a 45-year old Special Ed teacher go when her marriage finally slips through the cracks? Into a self-imposed time out in Paradise, of course. Cynthia Ferguson quickly learns that Paradise is not what it’s chalked up to be. Navigating a challenging school system, an evil principal, rambunctious students, and their fiery parents, Ms. Ferguson finds herself being burned by the real heat of Hawai’i. Hilarious, poignant, and provocative, this is a tale about a woman who takes chances, starts over, and finds out that the world can be yours when you step boldly out of your comfort zone.
You’ll find Sequoia on Medium and Amazon.
The Town That Lost Its Colors (September 2024) by Heidi Marshall. Princess Imogen has never spent a night away from the safety of her castle but, with her father the King on other business, she has no choice but to journey to a remote village and do her best to help the people solve a serious problem. Where have the town’s colors gone? Could someone really have taken them, and how? A story written in the tradition of fine tales of courage and respect, with modern themes of inclusion, forgiveness, and kindness. Illustrated by Adrienne Kinsella.
Look for The Town That Lost Its Colors on Amazon.
In Letting Go: poems of life and death (October 2024 ) by Gary Lucero. This collection of poems explores the travails of life, the inevitability of death, and a fantasy realm where nothing is black and white. It’s poetry that deals with aging, disappointment, war, suicide, grief, loss, and death. Its first chapter focuses on life, the second on death, and the third, on a fantasy world filled with flawed characters who inhabit a realm where the gods aid the nobility and ignore the poor, while the realm of the dead threatens them all.
The paperback is a deluxe print version that includes illustrations for each of the poems in the book.
You’ll find Gary on GaryLuceroWriter.com, Facebook, Instagram, and his Amazon author page.
SWW Author Interviews: 2024 Releases
Tim Amsden
Love Letter to Ramah
Michael Backus
The Heart is Meat
Rachel Bate
Hatch Chile Willie
Irene Blea
Dragonfly
E. Joe Brown
A Cowboy’s Fortune (Kelly Can Saga Book 2)
Gency Brown
A Right Fine Life
Mary Lou Dobbs
Badass Old White Woman: How to Flip the Script on Aging
Lynn Ellen Doxon
The Moonlight Cavalry
Robert D. Kidera
Burn Scars
Kendra Loring
The Saga of Henri Standing Bear
William Murray
Worn Out Saddles and Boot Leather
Jeff Otis
Raptor Lands: The Story of the Harrowing Return of the Dinosaurs
Léonie Rosenstiel
Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swamp
KL Wagoner loves creating worlds of fantasy and science fiction. Her current work in progress is The Last Bonekeeper fantasy trilogy and short stories in the same universe. A member of SouthWest Writers since 2006, Kat has worked as the organization’s secretary, newsletter editor, website manager, and author interview coordinator. Kat is also a veteran, a martial art student, and a grandmother. Visit her at klwagoner.com.
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