Green Phoenix Migratory Patterns Emerge
2005-2006 have seen a lot of transitions for Green Phoenix Productions. We are now bi-continental — President Michelle Miller Allen is living most of the year in Scotland and part of the year in New Mexico. Most of her work currently is focused on finishing editing and preparing to publish Elizabeth McBride’s memoirs, working on her own book (A Bear Named Hope: On Grief and Healing Through Creative Synchronicity (c) 2005), filling custom orders for Synchronicity Ritual Prayer Shawls, and working on future plans for GPP.

NAMASTE: The Imagery Within Words
In May, 2005, Green Phoenix Productions and The Jemez Mountain Trading Company produced a joint art show, "NAMASTE: The Imagery Within Words" at the Trading Company in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. This was a showing of Digital Collages & Greeting Card Artworks by ShaRi Brooks, based on the late Rick Allen’s Bardic Poetry CD "Inconstant Bard" and Michelle’s novel "Journey From the Keep of Bones". The show also featured SYNCHRONICITY Ritual Scarves by Michelle. As usual, 10% of GPP’s proceeds from the sale of our items in this show went to Jemez Helping Hands, a non-profit community service organization.

GPP Products Available
Please visit our GPP Products page to see our new offerings! Sacred Covers for Sacred Oobjects, Synchronicity Medicine Bags, Muse Candles, Wee Lavender Portraits and personalized stitchings from Dragonfly Threads are new this season, plus our traditional GPP Products continue to be available either via this website or at The Jemez Mountain Trading Company. Two new pages have been added — one for ShaRi's Art and one for Michelle's Synchronicity Ritual Scarves, Prayer Shawls & Vestments. And we have a new simple-to-use order form and have generally worked with Stone Toad Graphics to make your shopping experience at GPP user-friendly and cyber-safe.

Book Reviews
A book review of Journey from the Keep of Bones will be featured in the April 2006 issue of New Mexico Woman, an Albuquerque-based magazine (review by Linda Vozar Sweet). The novel was awarded #1 Runner Up for Best Visionary Fiction in the 2003 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Awards. The honors were bestowed on Green Phoenix Productions (distributor) on June 29, 2003 at the International New Age Trade Show West (INATS West) Awards Banquet held at the Denver Merchandise Mart, Denver, Colorado.

Several on-line book reviews of Journey from the Keep of Bones and interviews with the author have been published over the past year. If you Google the title, you can find and read them.

The Winter 2003 issue of Dream Network: A Journal Exploring Dreams & Mythology carried a great review. Dream Network, a Jungian-based publication, can be visited (including a Dream Store which features GPP’s books and CD) at www.DreamNetWork.net.

Great Reads Column
New Mexico Woman Magazine: Michelle Miller Allen continues to write her monthly book review column in which she features thematic groupings of books by and about New Mexico women. We are discussing the possibility of bringing this column on line here at the GPP website in the near future. (www.nmwoman.com) There are some incredible women in this state!

Memoirs to be Published
Writer Elizabeth McBride died in February, 2004. During the last year of her life, Michelle had the honor of working with her, helping her to finish organizing and editing her memoirs, and that project was finished only a couple of weeks before Elizabeth’s death. McBride made arrangements before her death for GPP to finish the editing and publish the memoirs posthumously. "The Last of the Nice Girls" will be published by Green Phoenix Productions, a small edition for family and friends. We are very proud to be working on this worthy project and will keep you posted as publication date is clear — anticipated for the Winter 2006 at this time.

Investors Invited
From time to time we have offers to invest from supporters of what we are trying to do at Green Phoenix Productions. A little here, a little there. We gratefully accept such offers, which so far have been informal and based on a belief by these people that "GPP will do great things!" If you are interested in talking to us about this, please contact Michelle Miller Allen at greenphoenix@valornet.com. It can take a few years for a little business like ours to get on its feet and become self-sustaining, so we’re happy for any help we get. We gradually hope to produce more, distribute more, and take on the work of more artists, writers and musicians whose work speaks to us.

We are also into barter, open to suggestions. And, of course, the BEST way you can help us keep going is . . . go to the GPP Products egg and ORDER SOMETHING!

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