First of all, I wish everyone a thoughtful Martin Luther King birthday. We all truly need to think about the direction we are going with race relations. We can do so much when all of us work together with respect for all.

Pat Hodapp is at it again. The author of the Santa Fe Bucket List book and Director of the Santa Fe Library has lined up a number of speaking engagements this spring. Some are for members only, but the one on April 23, 2017, at 11am in Collected Works in Santa Fe is about the state of the Santa Fe Library with budget cuts all around. Pat will be happy to sign copies of her Bucket List book afterward. The talk is open to the public and is free to attend.

I have to be honest. The Santa Fe Bucket List book was our highest selling book in 2016. So that makes Pat a rockstar in our eyes.

The future of all libraries is a serious topic and all people should be aware of what budget cuts mean.

Barbe Awalt

We have made it with 100 entries. So appropriate in the middle of book signings and a busy weekend. See the sign at Bookworks?

Slim Randles will be at Boofy’s Best at noon Saturday. Boofy’s is located at PETroglyph Plaza - talk about great! If you go on Plaza del Norte west it dumps you at Golf Course and Boofy’s is to the left of Smith’s.

Slim will be signing Ol’ Jimmy Dollar for kids and his new Cowboy Bucket List book that just won an Winner in the NM & AZ Book Awards. He will have some other books there too.

I will be there with the Christmas Bucket List book that has Boofy’s windows in it. They are worth seeing!

We will be with Santa but ALSO, if you buy a book you get FREE a More Pet Friends book. Talk about cool! Come over and say HI!

Also Pat Hodapp is at the Santa Fe Women’s Club Holiday Event on Saturday. She is signing her Santa Fe Bucket List. We are so proud of the book because today we are making emergency refills to stores in Santa Fe. We are happy to do it! Get it at Collected Works, Garcia Street Books, op cit, Santa Fe Botanical Gardens Store, Museums of New Mexico store, Kimberly’s Hallmark, Marcy Street Cards, and more!

Barbe Awalt

Last night was the NM & AZ Book Awards Banquet and the Winners in the Book Awards were announced. I am very happy to say that all of the Bucket List Books entered received awards.

Cowboy Bucket List Book - Winner
Green Chile Cheeseburger List Books – Winner
Space Buff’s Bucket List Book – Winner
AND
Santa Fe Bucket Book List Book – 2 Winners – First Book & Small Book Cover

The books sell very well and are now Winners. What more could you ask for?

To mark the win – the four Bucket List Books are $10 (plus postage) Saturday and Sunday (this offer expires at midnight on Nov 20, 2016. Why $10? It is to mark the 10th Anniversary of the NM & AZ Book Awards. Don’t delay because this is a really good deal!

- Barbe Awalt

Pat Hodapp will be signing copies of her Santa Fe Bucket List book at Kim’s Hallmark – Santa Fe in College Plaza near Santa Fe Community College. If you haven’t met Pat you need to say hi! Also, go to Kim’s to get in the holiday spirit! It will be fun and festive – who could ask for more?

AND her Santa Fe Bucket List book is in the December New Mexico Magazine! Look for it - on newsstands now!


- Barbe Awalt

I know you are dying to get Bucket Books and here are some places that have them: Bookworks and Treasure House Books in Albuquerque. Page 1 has a few but they know where to get more titles. Collected Works in Santa Fe has the Santa Fe Bucket List. Kim’s Hallmark, Marcy Street Cards, and op cit have more titles. Other places in Santa Fe and Albuquerque may have some books because they order from another place. The Range Cafe store – Home at the Range has many titles and they know where to get more. The Little Store in Peralta – south of Albuquerque, carries many titles.

For some true made in New Mexico things go to the Balloon Museum Holiday fair next Sunday. Admission to the Museum is free ALL DAY! We will have all the Bucket List Books at our booth. And I bet we have special Fair prices on all our books. Do I hear shopping bells?

Start shopping early before the crowds and when you finish early you can enjoy December. There is nothing better than sipping hot chocolate and looking out the window at the falling snow! Here is an idea – have the Christmas Bucket List book to read at Thanksgiving or the Kicking the Bucket List to encourage family to prepare. Get stories with the stuffing!


- Barbe Awalt

I just watched the news and there were so many doom and gloom predictions for Tuesday and beyond. So use this weekend to get ready.

Shop for books for you and gifts. That way if you have to hold–up, you can READ – what a novel idea! If you read you can also tune out the election. 8 out of 10 people say they are now repulsed by the election. I am too – I have had enough!

We are optimistic and have a number of events planned for next weekend. Pat Hodapp will be meeting and greeting and signing the Santa Fe Bucket List book next Friday at Kim’s Hallmark in Santa Fe. Pat and Barbe are at Op Cit in Santa Fe, on Saturday at De Vargas Mall at 1pm. You also see all of our books – Bucket List books and all – all day at the Balloon Museum Holiday Fair in Albuquerque on Sunday, November13. There is free admission all day! What a deal! Get into the spirit!

The election will be behind us. Now get in the spirit next weekend!



- Barbe Awalt

We were thrilled to be invited to the ceremony for Ollie Reed Jr. & Rod Taylor, who received the Max Evans Rounders Award from The New Mexico Department of Agriculture and the New Mexico Governor’s Mansion in Santa Fe ear;her this week. Slim Randles, author of the Cowboy Bucket List book and previous Rounder winner was there along with Don Bullis who was also a Rounder winner. Of course Max and Pat Evans were there. We are friends of Ollie’s and he was truly touched to have received the award. Ollie is a good-old-boy!

One of the guests was Pat Hodapp, the author of the Santa Fe Bucket List book. She will be speaking today at Women Write the West Conference in Santa Fe. Pat will also be presenting at the New Mexico Library Association Conference in Albuquerque, November 3 & 4. She is busy!

- Barbe Awalt

This is the time of year when you love the outdoors. I am not saying camp but I am saying enjoy the trees turning colors and notice how the foliage is getting ready for winter. Enjoy Santa Fe and that is a good place to see a wide view of fall colors.

When you are up on Museum Hill, do stop by the Museum Hill Café for one of the best lunches I have had in a while. It is a very good place to read your Santa Fe Bucket List book! Just saying.


- Barbe Awalt

Pat Hodapp killed them at the Santa Fe Women’s Club. What a surprise! She knows so much about Santa Fe and is so personable. We were happy to have a special for the Club – a discount for the women who bought a book and $2 for each title bought for the Santa Fe Library. The Women’s Club (now 125 years young) started the Library as their project so they have a place in their hearts for the Library.

The word is, they are having a holiday event December 10 and besides visiting some great homes they are going to have refreshments and booths at the Club. Nice! Festive! And they want us back!

If you get a chance, see the Club building off Old Pecos Trail. It is a keeper and we almost lost it a few years back. It has so much history. Also their Flea Market is coming up in October – don’t miss it!

- Barbe Awalt

- Barbe Awalt

Pat Hodapp, the author of the Santa Fe Bucket List book, is the Director of the Santa Fe Library. She knows stuff. She knows stuff about Santa Fe. AND she knows stuff about books. She is also a newbie at book publishing but you would never know that by the way she tackles book promotion and her sales. She is a pro!

We say constantly, to promote a book you have to do radio, TV, magazines, newspapers, and the internet. Pat has done all of it. She has had booksignings. She knows everyone! The other thing that helps us track the Santa Fe Bucket List book’s success is sales on Amazon. It is the perfect book for tourists or residents who will have a visitor.

The reason so many people love the Santa Fe Bucket List book is because it is Pat’s personal loves of Santa Fe. There are stories, personal pictures, tips, and places that you want to go see.

The Ultimate Santa Fe Bucket List book came out in June and already it is one of the books that has made a name for itself. When you stop in the Main Santa Fe Library, downtown, ask if Pat is there and say hi!

— Barbe Awalt