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Magazine Articles
Bed, Breakfast, and Bananas
New Mexico Magazine
April 2007
          Bed, Breakfast, and Bananas
          by Melody Groves
Close your eyes. That aroma-soul-satisfying, enticing, mouth-watering-ahh… bread baking. It wafts up the stairs and floats into your bedroom like a welcomed visitor. Outside, crows perched high in Ponderosa pines caw to the turquoise sky. Enticed out of blissful slumber, you follow your nose to the kitchen of the Black Range Lodge in Kingston, New Mexico. And who greets you in the kitchen? Owner Pete Fust busy baking bread, squeezing fresh oranges, perking delicious coffee, and creating mountains of homemade food. His wife and co-owner, Catherine Wanek, makes sure everyone is served hearty doses of rest, relaxation and camaraderie.

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Albuquerque: A Quick 300 Years
True West Magazine
April 2006
          Albuquerque: A Quick 300 Years
          by Melody Groves
Long before Christopher Columbus was a twinkle in his daddy's eye, Pueblo Indians lived in the Rio Grande Valley, farming what would become present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico. Crops of beans, corn, and squash sustained permanent settlements.

It was April 23, 1706, that Spaniard Francisco Cuervo y Valdez founded a little villa on the banks of the Rio Grande and named it San Francisco Xavier de Alburquerque. Legitimized as a settlement by the viceroy of New Spain (the Duke of Alburquerque), it became the newest colony of the territory of New Mexico (Mexico is an Aztec word meaning Aztec).


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Raging Bull
Desert Exposure Magazine
          Raging Bull
          by Melody Groves

Riding a one-ton bull is much like riding a shar-pei dog. A big, big shar-pei. I've sat on the back of 2000 pound bulls and one thing I find remarkable, is the way the hide slips under my hands. Before easing onto the warmth of this beast, I'd had no idea bull's skin moves so easily. That was only one of the millions of tidbits I learned when I climbed on the back of my first bull. Just for the record, I've never sat on the back of a shar-pei.


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Screenplays
Speaking For The Dead
Conflicted between her psychic abilities and police training, policewoman Victoria Dos Pasos, fights off a ghost, a murderer, and the man she loves until learning to trust her psychic aptitude and her heart.

A 6-minute promotional DVD is available.

Love Your Local Ghost
Geology Professor Micah Adams falls head over heels in love with Rebecca Snow without realizing she is a fashion-challenged ghost.

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Appearances
"Festival of the West", Chandler, Arizona
March 13-16, booksigning

New Mexico Gunfighters, Horsemen's Feed and Supply, Albuquerque
April 12

Treasure House, Old Town, Albuquerque
April 19, booksigning 1-3pm

Vintage Cowgirl, Old Town, Albuquerque
May 3, Launch Party 2-4pm, booksigning

Western Writers of America Convention, Scottsdale, Arizona
June 14, booksigning


Available topics for speaking engagements include:

- SouthWest History
- Screenplay Writing
- Rodeo
- Gunfighting for Fun and Profit
- Basics of Writing

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