BOOK SIGNING PARTY FEB 1

FREE EVENT – BOOK SIGNING PARTY

For Immediate Release

Event date: Friday, February 1, 2008

Time: 5:00 to 7:00 pm,

Short reading at 6:00 pm by the author

Event: Ronald P Chavez’s Time of Triumph Book Signing Party

Where: Santiago’s Gallery, in the mall below Ogelvies on Taos Plaza, 103 East Plaza Suite F

Book Title: Time of Triumph

Author: Ronald P. Chavez, “The Taos Poet and Route 66 Storyteller”

Contact: Sandy Penny, Santiago’s Gallery, 751-3902 or Ron Chavez, 758-3390

Noted Taos author and poet Ronald P. Chavez’s long-awaited collection of short stories and selected poems, Time of Triumph, has just been released by Booksurge Publishing on Amazon.com. Santiago’s Gallery will host a book signing from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on Friday, February 1, 2008. At 6:00 pm, Ron will perform a short reading of excerpts from the book. Hot mulled wine and cider will be served with Ron’s Route 66 Club Café Salsa Rica. Music, art and literature combine to create a warm, friendly atmosphere to meet the author and celebrate his literary success.

“Time of Triumph is about the tragedy and triumph of the human spirit; the passion and pain of love that defines the heart. It’s about the horror of war and how ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances overcome injustice and adversity. It’s about hope drawn from the beauty of nature and a lust for life that sweetens the soul. All this is captured in Ron Chavez’s short stories and interwoven with his poetry in both Spanish and English. Time of Triumph grabs your mind, heart and soul, and ignites your emotions.”

A native of New Mexico, Taos is Ron’s chosen home. He rose to national fame as owner of the Club Café on Route 66 in Santa Rosa. While serving up the best chili, sourdough biscuits and gravy along the Mother Road, he offered a free side dish of road stories to all who were lured in by the Fat Man billboards. When corporate fast food hit the local freeway, he was forced to close. Disillusioned, depressed and displaced, he wandered New Mexico until he landed in the mountains above Taos where his depleted spirit was revived. Reconnecting with the land and himself, he rose from the ashes like a beautiful Phoenix: brilliant, bold and flying high again.

Many of his works are set in and around Taos, and he says the town and the mountains played a major role in his healing and writing inspiration. “Resting Place of Tears” explores the sad truth of the white crosses planted by family and friends along the roads for their too soon departed loved ones. “Time in the Trees” acknowledges the dual power of this land to destroy and to heal. “Seeking the Light” portrays the Taos Spirit as a journey that resonates with the Taos landscape but originates within. “Cry Hope” is a desperate dark-night-of-the-soul plea to be able to laugh again. “The Loneliest Road” is a light-hearted departure from the intensity of Chavez’s journey. At the end of the book, you are grateful to be released from the emotion of the experience, but by the next day, you can hardly wait for his next book.

Time of Triumph is available online at www.Amazon.com, and will also be on www.BookSurge.com, www.Abebooks.com and www.Alibris.com by the end of January 2008. It will be noted on www.BooksinPrint.com and www.GlobalBooksinPrint.com. It can also be purchased in Taos at Santiago’s Gallery. Books purchased at the event will be personally dedicated by the author.# # #