Bucket Lists

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!

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An Ad to Let Los Ranchos Folks Know About Our Books!

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The new issue of Village Vision magazine came out Saturday for folks in the Village of Los Ranchos to learn about our Bucket List books. We are in the Village and have always been proud of our books. Unfortunately, the Village hasn’t quite figured out that they have an award-winning publisher in the Village limits, even though we tell them. Actually, there are at least two award-winning publishers in the North Valley. Fresco Fine Arts is right on the edge the Village but…..

To make it even more interesting Fresco and Rio Grande Books had the two Best Books in the NM & AZ Book Awards – Best Adult Book, Pure Quill and Best Children’s Book, How Crocka Dog Came to Be. Our hats off to Susan McGarry, Barbara Van Cleve, and Ross Van Dusen.

They are not Bucket List books but we are proud of them just the same. It is too bad the Los Ranchos Village isn’t proud of them too! Think of the things the Village could do with them!

- Barbe Awalt

Get Into The Spirit!

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This Sunday, all day, the Balloon Museum in Albuquerque has free admission because you can also see the holiday fair! Local crafters, authors, publishers, and gift makers will have their fares! We will be there with our books including all the Bucket List Books at a special price. This is a great chance to bring the kids – FREE ADMISSION!! They can look at balloons and you can shop and you can all get in the spirit of the holidays!

- Barbe Awalt

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Congrats!

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Which books wanted?






Congrats to Slim Randles, Loretta Hall, Pat Hodapp, and me ! We are all Finalists in the NM & AZ Book Awards. The Winners will be announced November 18 at Tanoan in Albuquerque. We are keeping our toes crossed. I can say without exception these are a good group of authors – me not so much.

Slim is madly working on his Fly Fishing Bucket List book. Pat has about a million ideas for another – she loved the process so much. I have a Crab Bucket List book coming our next year. Loretta is working on a kid’s book.

For a FLASH SALE DAY – any of the Bucket Books List books are $11@ (plus shipping) for one week – until Wednesday October 19, 2016! Get a jump on gift buying for the holidays!


- Barbe Awalt

DEALS! DEALS! DEALS!

DEALS! DEALS! DEALS!

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For blog readers a bunch of deals!
The celebrate Balloon Fiesta October 1 – The Hot Air Balloon Bucket Book $12@







To start your holiday shopping early;
The New Mexico Collection of Bucket List Books!
New Mexico, Santa Fe, Green Chile, & Balloon Bucket List Books – SIGNED $48






Or
All eight of the Bucket List Books, SIGNED for $96 !!!
New Mexico, Balloon, Cowboy, Space Buff’s, Santa Fe, Green Chile, Kicking the Bucket, Christmas.






All deals available until October 31, 2016.
Buy for you or for gifts OR BOTH!!!

- Barbe Awalt


Putting Together Gifts of Buckets

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We have had great success packaging the Bucket List Books in gift packs for shows. We have each of the signed books in a pack that reflects what the book is about: chile, necklace, charms, a cowboy scarf and badge, Star Wars cards, and much more. The whole idea is to put together a little something to make the Bucket List Books special. Good for gifts!

But, you can do it too! Start with a bucket, of all sizes, at a place like Hobby Lobby. I know they have buckets because I buy my buckets there to display at stores. You can put the Bucket List Book in the bucket with candy, seeds, cowboy stuff, postcards, a gift from Santa Fe or New Mexico, Balloon Fiesta stuff, all kinds of space things, or New Mexican incense – piñon of course!

For the new books, you can be as creative. Make a bucket of Day-of-the Dead things for Kicking The Bucket List. For the Christmas Bucket List you can go crazy. Ornaments for the tree, earrings for the holidays, foods, candies, tinsel, and even coal – ho ho ho! Put everything in a stocking to be festive.

It shows with a simple book you can put together an elegant gift. A gift to please and surprise anyone. And you can do this with any book – not just with Bucket List Books! Have fun!


— Barbe Awalt


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Future Bucket List Books

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Everyone wants to do a Bucket List Book with us. But we are trying to be careful and do books that haven’t been done to death. These are a few that are powering ahead that we are excited about.

The Ultimate Fly-Fishing Bucket List book by Slim Randles is a love of Slim’s. He wrote our Cowboy Bucket List book and the Fly-Fishing is scheduled to come out in the spring.

Slim knows fishing. Slim fishes. And the Bucket List book is a glimpse into all 50 states and what they have to offer the world of fly-fishing. In true Slim style it is facts about fishing but his signature stories.
A great book for Father’s Day.

The Ultimate Chile Bucket List book by Ana Baca gives her personal insight into the world of chile. Granted this will probably be a best selling book on travel into the South American country of Chile – no lie. But this book is about all the things that have made chile (our New Mexico spelling – not C_H_I_L_I!) as popular and big business.

Ana comes from the Baca family of Bueno Foods. They know chile! Ana has been around chile all her life and has seen chile from all over the world. This is just not New Mexico chile! This Bucket List book will be ready, hopefully, by the Fiery Foods Show in March.

The Ultimate Crab Bucket List book celebrates crabs all over the world. In New Mexico people may say – What? – Crabs? But in Maryland they are a big deal. It is fun to eat what you write about!

See these Bucket List Books next year.


— Barbe Awalt

Special Deal--Save 32%

If you are starting to think about your holiday list get SEVEN SIGNED Bucket List books for $77!!!!!
Each book is regularly $15.95@ (all seven would be almost $112 — a savings of 32%) so this is a really good deal.
We can only do this deal until August 31, 2016 but there will be more – just not this one!

You get:
The New Mexico Bucket List
The Hot Air Balloon Bucket List
The Cowboy Bucket List
The Space Buff’s Bucket List
The Santa Fe Bucket List
The Green Chile Cheeseburger Bucket List
The Christmas Bucket List

All books are signed and that gives you a good start on your Christmas list!

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Bucket Book series launched

This is my new blog on Bucket Lists. The reason for it is simple. We have a new series of Bucket List Books and they are wildly popular because people of all ages are giving themselves Bucket Lists to achieve.

Our philosophy at Rio Grande Books is we did not want to do the same, generic, everyone has them, Bucket List Book. So, we started with a New Mexico Bucket List, followed by the Hot Air Balloon Bucket List for Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. Slim Randles, one of the world’s great cowboys, wrote the Cowboy Bucket List for the cowboy in each of us. Loretta Hall is our space expert with two Best of Show books on space. She wrote the Space Buff’s Bucket List for all of you spacey folks. Pat Hodapp, the Director of the Santa Fe Library, was no better person to have write the Santa Fe Bucket List. Tourists and residents LOVE it. Next, was the Green Chile Cheeseburger Bucket List with many of the places you need to eat a green chile cheeseburger in New Mexico. The Kick The Bucket List is coming out momentarily from Gail Rubin, the Doyenne of Death, and the Christmas Bucket List for holiday gifts. Of course, any of them would make good gifts.

This blog will explore items from each Bucket List Book, speaking and signing engagements for all the authors, special deals, guest blog by our authors, and new books. We want to hear from you!

We all have bucket lists whether we write them down or not. Don’t you want a bucket list before you die?

— Barbe Awalt

It all started with . . .

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My name is Barbe Awalt. I had a dream. In the dream it said do Bucket List books. Each book had to have 100 items, a picture for each item, a website when we can for each item, a charity for each book, Near Misses of things suggested, a blank Bucket List for YOU, inexpensive, and short.

So, I started writing the Basic New Mexico Bucket List book. It is “Basic” because we used that book to work out the kinks. The writing was easy. Getting all the pictures was difficult.

So a series was born.

— Barbe Awalt