BronzeWord Latino Virtual Book Tours
BronzeWord Latino Book Tours Presents:
Cibolero
by Kermit Lopez
Jan 25-Feb 5
Jan 25-Feb 5
On one level, Cibolero is an action-oriented adventure tale as Antonio Baca sets out to rescue his daughter from an invading band of Texas Rangers using his skills as a Cibolero hunter.
On another level, Cibolero deals with racism, ethnicity and society in the “old West” and the historical ties of large parts of the present western United States to Mexico and Spain. Cibolero is a fictionalized account of a true but overlooked part of U.S. history.
Cibolero Book Tour Schedule
Mon Jan 25th: Sandra's Book Club
Tues Jan 26th: Regular Rumination
Wed Jan 27th: Latino Book Examiner
Thurs Jan 28th: Mama XXI
Frid Jan 29th: FireKing Press
Mon Feb 1st: Heidenkind's Hideaway
Tues Feb 2nd: Efrain's Corner
Wed Feb 3rd: BronzeWord Latino Authors
Thurs Feb 4th: Musings
Fri Feb 5th: TBA
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Hasta La Vista, Lola!
A Lola Cruz Mystery
by Misa Ramirez
Jan 18-29
What’s a girl to do when she finds out she’s been killed? Pinch herself to make sure she’s not a ghost, for starters. When Dolores Cruz comes home to her parents’ house to find every relative she has mourning her death, all hell breaks loose. With the help of on-again/off-again love Jack Callaghan, and juggling a new case thrown at her by muy misterioso boss Manny Camacho, it’s up to fledgling detective Lola to find out who’s behind the identity theft and suddenly wants her dead.
Hasta La Vista, Lola! Book Tour Schedule
Mon Jan 18 BronzeWord Latino Authors
Tues Jan 19 Book-Lover Carol
Wed Jan 20 Latino Book Examiner
Thur Jan 21 Julia Amante
Mon Jan 25 Murder By 4
Tues Jan 26 Book Journey
Wed Jan 27 Mama Latina Tips
Thur Jan 28 Caridad Piñeiro
Fri Jan 29 Literary Feline
Tues Jan 19 Book-Lover Carol
Wed Jan 20 Latino Book Examiner
Thur Jan 21 Julia Amante
Mon Jan 25 Murder By 4
Tues Jan 26 Book Journey
Wed Jan 27 Mama Latina Tips
Thur Jan 28 Caridad Piñeiro
Fri Jan 29 Literary Feline
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René Has Two Last Names/René Tiene Dos Apellidos
by Rene Colato Laínez
November 30-December 4, 2009 and January 11-22, 2010
Rene Has Two Last Names / Rene Tiene Dos Apellidos (Hardcover)
Rene Colato Lainez (Author)
Fabiola Graullera Ramirez (Illustrator)
Book Description:
Young René is from El Salvador, and he doesn't understand why his name has to be different in the United States. When he writes Colato, he sees his paternal grandparents, René and Amelia. When he writes Laínez, he sees his maternal grandparents, Angela and Julio. Without his second last name, René feels incomplete, "like a hamburger without the meat or a pizza without cheese or a hot dog without a wiener."
His new classmates giggle when René tells them his name. "That's a long dinosaur name," one says. "Your name is longer than an anaconda," another laughs. But René doesn't want to lose the part of him that comes from his mother's family. So when the students are given a project to create a family tree, René is determined to explain the importance of using both of his last names. On the day of his presentation, René explains that he is as hard working as Abuelo René, who is a farmer, and as creative as his Abuela Amelia, who is a potter. He can tell stories like his Abuelo Julio and enjoys music like his Abuela Angela.
This charming bilingual picture book for children ages 4 - 8 combines the winning team of author René Colato Laínez and illustrator Fabiola Graullera Ramírez, and follows their award-winning collaboration, I Am René, the Boy / Soy René, el Niño. With whimsical illustrations and entertaining text, this sequel is sure to please fans and gain many new ones while explaining an important Hispanic cultural tradition.
Author’s Bio:
René Colato Laínez is the award winning author of WAITING FOR PAPA, PLAYING LOTERIA, and I AM RENE, THE BOY.
Colato Laínez is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults. He is a bilingual elementary teacher at Fernangeles Elementary School, where he is known by the students as "the teacher full of stories." His forthcoming books are RENE HAS TWO LAST NAMES (Piñata Books, Fall 2009) and THE TOOTH FAIRY MEETS EL RATON PEREZ (Tricycle Press, Spring 2010), and MY SHOES AND I (Boyds Mills Press, Spring 2010)
BronzeWord Latino Authors Virtual Book Tour Schedule:
December:
Nov 30 BronzeWord Latino Authors
Dec 1 Lori Calabrese Writes!
Dec 2 Café of Dreams
Dec 3 Mama Latina Tips
Dec 4 Latino Book Examiner
January:
Jan 11 Regular Rumination
Jan 12 Yolanda
Jan 13 Tartamuda
Jan 14 LaLicenciada
Jan 15 Devourer of Books
Jan 18 Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile
Jan 19 Latino Book Examiner
Jan 20 One Persons Journey Through a World Of Books
Jan 21 The Sol Within
Jan 22 Bilingual in the Boonies
Rene Colato Lainez (Author)
Fabiola Graullera Ramirez (Illustrator)
- Reading level: Ages 4-8
- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Arte Publico Pr; Bilingual edition 2009
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1558855300
- ISBN-13: 978-1558855304
Book Description:
Young René is from El Salvador, and he doesn't understand why his name has to be different in the United States. When he writes Colato, he sees his paternal grandparents, René and Amelia. When he writes Laínez, he sees his maternal grandparents, Angela and Julio. Without his second last name, René feels incomplete, "like a hamburger without the meat or a pizza without cheese or a hot dog without a wiener."
His new classmates giggle when René tells them his name. "That's a long dinosaur name," one says. "Your name is longer than an anaconda," another laughs. But René doesn't want to lose the part of him that comes from his mother's family. So when the students are given a project to create a family tree, René is determined to explain the importance of using both of his last names. On the day of his presentation, René explains that he is as hard working as Abuelo René, who is a farmer, and as creative as his Abuela Amelia, who is a potter. He can tell stories like his Abuelo Julio and enjoys music like his Abuela Angela.
This charming bilingual picture book for children ages 4 - 8 combines the winning team of author René Colato Laínez and illustrator Fabiola Graullera Ramírez, and follows their award-winning collaboration, I Am René, the Boy / Soy René, el Niño. With whimsical illustrations and entertaining text, this sequel is sure to please fans and gain many new ones while explaining an important Hispanic cultural tradition.
Author’s Bio:
René Colato Laínez is the award winning author of WAITING FOR PAPA, PLAYING LOTERIA, and I AM RENE, THE BOY.
Colato Laínez is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults. He is a bilingual elementary teacher at Fernangeles Elementary School, where he is known by the students as "the teacher full of stories." His forthcoming books are RENE HAS TWO LAST NAMES (Piñata Books, Fall 2009) and THE TOOTH FAIRY MEETS EL RATON PEREZ (Tricycle Press, Spring 2010), and MY SHOES AND I (Boyds Mills Press, Spring 2010)
BronzeWord Latino Authors Virtual Book Tour Schedule:
December:
Nov 30 BronzeWord Latino Authors
Dec 1 Lori Calabrese Writes!
Dec 2 Café of Dreams
Dec 3 Mama Latina Tips
Dec 4 Latino Book Examiner
January:
Jan 11 Regular Rumination
Jan 12 Yolanda
Jan 13 Tartamuda
Jan 14 LaLicenciada
Jan 15 Devourer of Books
Jan 18 Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile
Jan 19 Latino Book Examiner
Jan 20 One Persons Journey Through a World Of Books
Jan 21 The Sol Within
Jan 22 Bilingual in the Boonies
Listen to BronzeWord Latino Authors Q & A Interview with Rene Colato Laínez here:
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Sins of the Flesh
by Caridad Piñeiro
Jan 11-22
Available Now
ISBN 9780446543835
GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING
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Book Description
Caterina Shaw’s days are numbered. Her only chance for survival is a highly experimental gene treatment - a risk she willingly takes. But now Caterina barely recognizes herself. She has new, terrifying powers, an exotic, arresting body — and she’s been accused of a savage murder, sending her on the run.
Mick Carrera is a mercenary and an expert at capturing elusive, clever prey. Yet the woman he’s hunting down is far from the vicious killer he’s been told to expect: Caterina is wounded, vulnerable, and a startling mystery of medical science. Even more, she’s a beautiful woman whose innocent sensuality tempts Mick to show her exactly how thrilling pleasure can be. The heat that builds between them is irresistible, but surrendering to it could kill them both . . . for a dangerous group is plotting its next move using Caterina as its deadly pawn.
Bio
Caridad Piñeiro is the USA TODAY and NY Times bestselling author of over twenty novels. In 2007, a year marked by six releases from Harlequin and Pocket Books, Caridad was selected as the 2007 Golden Apple Author of the Year by the New York City Romance Writers. Caridad’s novels have been lauded as the Best Short Contemporary Romance of 2001 in the NJ Romance Writers Golden Leaf Contest, Top Fantasy Books of 2005 and 2006 by CATALINA Magazine and Top Nocturne of 2006 by Cataromance.
Caridad has appeared on various television shows, such as the FOX News Early Edition in New York , and articles featuring her novels have been published in several leading newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Daily News, NJ Monthly and the Star Ledger.
For more information on Caridad, please visit
www.caridad.com or www.thecallingvampirenovels.com.
Facebook Caridad's Fan Page Twitter
Book Tour Schedule
Jan 11: BronzeWord Latino Authors http://www.authorslatino.com/blog
Jan 12: Julia Amante http://www.juliaamante.blogspot.com
Jan 13: Latino Books Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Jan 14: Babbling About Books and More http://kbgbabbles.blogspot.com/
Jan 15: Heidenkind http://www.heidenkind.blogspot.com
Jan 18: Una In A Million http://www.unainamillion.blogspot.com
Jan 19: Pagan Spirits http://www.erinoriordan.blogspot.com
Jan 20: Bergers Book Reviews http://www.bergersbookreviews.wordpress.com
Jan 21: Book Girl of Mur-y-Castel http://books-forlife.blogspot.com
Jan 22: Chasing Heroes http://www.chasingheroes.com
PRIZE:
Those who leave a comment are eligible for an autographed copy of Sins of the Flesh and a T-shirt!
ISBN 9780446543835
GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING
Order at Amazon
Order at Barnes & Noble
Order at Borders
Order at Books-a-Million
Order at Powell’s
Order at an Independent Bookstore
Book Description
Caterina Shaw’s days are numbered. Her only chance for survival is a highly experimental gene treatment - a risk she willingly takes. But now Caterina barely recognizes herself. She has new, terrifying powers, an exotic, arresting body — and she’s been accused of a savage murder, sending her on the run.
Mick Carrera is a mercenary and an expert at capturing elusive, clever prey. Yet the woman he’s hunting down is far from the vicious killer he’s been told to expect: Caterina is wounded, vulnerable, and a startling mystery of medical science. Even more, she’s a beautiful woman whose innocent sensuality tempts Mick to show her exactly how thrilling pleasure can be. The heat that builds between them is irresistible, but surrendering to it could kill them both . . . for a dangerous group is plotting its next move using Caterina as its deadly pawn.
Bio
Caridad Piñeiro is the USA TODAY and NY Times bestselling author of over twenty novels. In 2007, a year marked by six releases from Harlequin and Pocket Books, Caridad was selected as the 2007 Golden Apple Author of the Year by the New York City Romance Writers. Caridad’s novels have been lauded as the Best Short Contemporary Romance of 2001 in the NJ Romance Writers Golden Leaf Contest, Top Fantasy Books of 2005 and 2006 by CATALINA Magazine and Top Nocturne of 2006 by Cataromance.
Caridad has appeared on various television shows, such as the FOX News Early Edition in New York , and articles featuring her novels have been published in several leading newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Daily News, NJ Monthly and the Star Ledger.
For more information on Caridad, please visit
www.caridad.com or www.thecallingvampirenovels.com.
Facebook Caridad's Fan Page Twitter
Book Tour Schedule
Jan 11: BronzeWord Latino Authors http://www.authorslatino.com/blog
Jan 12: Julia Amante http://www.juliaamante.blogspot.com
Jan 13: Latino Books Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Jan 14: Babbling About Books and More http://kbgbabbles.blogspot.com/
Jan 15: Heidenkind http://www.heidenkind.blogspot.com
Jan 18: Una In A Million http://www.unainamillion.blogspot.com
Jan 19: Pagan Spirits http://www.erinoriordan.blogspot.com
Jan 20: Bergers Book Reviews http://www.bergersbookreviews.wordpress.com
Jan 21: Book Girl of Mur-y-Castel http://books-forlife.blogspot.com
Jan 22: Chasing Heroes http://www.chasingheroes.com
PRIZE:
Those who leave a comment are eligible for an autographed copy of Sins of the Flesh and a T-shirt!
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BronzeWord Latino Book Tours Presents:
Meet Me Under the Ceiba
by Silvio Sirias
Jan 11-22
September 30, 2009, 256 pages, $15.95
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-55885-592-0, ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-592-2
This affectionate portrayal of a small Nicaraguan town reveals humanity in all its beauty and ugliness
“I’m not afraid of that old man,” Adela once told her niece. But everyone in the small town of La Curva, Nicaragua, knew that the wealthy land owner, Don Roque Ramírez, wanted Adela Rugama dead. And on Christmas Day, Adela disappeared. It was two months before her murdered body was found.
An American professor of Nicaraguan descent spending the summer in his parents’ homeland learns of Adela’s murder and vows to unravel the threads of the mystery. The suspense builds as he patiently interviews the townspeople and extracts their intriguing and often outlandish accounts of Adela’s life and death in this backwater town. It quickly becomes apparent that Adela—a hard-working campesina who never learned to read and write—and Don Roque had one thing in common: the beautiful Ixelia Cruz. The love of Adela’s life, Ixelia was one of Don Roque’s many possessions until Adela lured her away.
The interviews with Adela’s family, neighbors, and former lovers shed light on the circumstances of her death and reveal the lively community left reeling by her brutal murder, including: Adela’s older sister Mariela and her five children, who spent Christmas morning with Adela, excitedly unwrapping the gifts their beloved aunt brought them that fateful day; her neighbor and friend, Lizbeth Hodgson, the beautiful mulata who early in their relationship rejected Adela’s passionate advances; Padre Uriel, who did not welcome Adela to mass because she loved women; Adela’s former lover Gloria, the town’s midwife, who is forever destined to beg her charges to name their newborn daughters Adela.
Through stories and gossip that expose jealousies, scandals, and misfortunes, Sirias lovingly portrays the community of La Curva, Nicaragua, in all its beauty and ugliness. The winner of the Chicano / Latino Literary Prize, this spellbinding novel captures the essence of a world rarely seen in American literature.
Praise for Meet Me Under the Ceiba:
“(Meet Me under the Ceiba is) a fascinating read—very well written, with a delightful, lively pace.”—Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, judge of the 2007 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest.
“A provocative novel that opens up a little-known world to its readers.”—Booklist, on Meet Me under the Ceiba.
SILVIO SIRIAS is the author of a novel, Bernardo and the Virgin (Northwestern University Press, 2007), and he has written and edited several books on Latino/a literature, including Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion (Greenwood Press, 2001) and Conversations with Rudolfo Anaya (University Press of Mississippi, 1998). He received his doctorate in Spanish from the University of Arizona and worked as a professor of Spanish and U.S. Latino/a literature for several years before returning to live in Nicaragua in 1999. He currently lives in Panama.
Meet Me Under the Ceiba Book Trailer
Author's website: www.silviosirias.com
Twitter @silviosirias http://twitter.com/silviosirias
Book Tour Schedule
Jan 11: Book-Lover Carol http://bookluver-carol.blogspot.com/
Jan 12: Brown Girl Speaks www.browngirl.weebly.com/book-speak.html
Jan 13: Regular Ruminations www.regularrumination.wordpress.com
Jan 14: The Tranquilo Traveler http://blog.joshuaberman.net/
Jan 15: Pisti Totol www.pistitotol.wordpress.com
Jan 18: Mama XXI www.mamaxxi.blogspot.com
Jan 19: Farm Lane Books http://www.farmlanebooks.co.uk/
Jan 20: Sandra's Book Club http://sandrasbookclub.blogspot.com/
Jan 21: Latino Books Examiner www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Jan 22: Una in a Million http://unainamillion.blogspot.com
Prize: Those who leave a comment are entered to win a copy of the book!
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-55885-592-0, ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-592-2
This affectionate portrayal of a small Nicaraguan town reveals humanity in all its beauty and ugliness
“I’m not afraid of that old man,” Adela once told her niece. But everyone in the small town of La Curva, Nicaragua, knew that the wealthy land owner, Don Roque Ramírez, wanted Adela Rugama dead. And on Christmas Day, Adela disappeared. It was two months before her murdered body was found.
An American professor of Nicaraguan descent spending the summer in his parents’ homeland learns of Adela’s murder and vows to unravel the threads of the mystery. The suspense builds as he patiently interviews the townspeople and extracts their intriguing and often outlandish accounts of Adela’s life and death in this backwater town. It quickly becomes apparent that Adela—a hard-working campesina who never learned to read and write—and Don Roque had one thing in common: the beautiful Ixelia Cruz. The love of Adela’s life, Ixelia was one of Don Roque’s many possessions until Adela lured her away.
The interviews with Adela’s family, neighbors, and former lovers shed light on the circumstances of her death and reveal the lively community left reeling by her brutal murder, including: Adela’s older sister Mariela and her five children, who spent Christmas morning with Adela, excitedly unwrapping the gifts their beloved aunt brought them that fateful day; her neighbor and friend, Lizbeth Hodgson, the beautiful mulata who early in their relationship rejected Adela’s passionate advances; Padre Uriel, who did not welcome Adela to mass because she loved women; Adela’s former lover Gloria, the town’s midwife, who is forever destined to beg her charges to name their newborn daughters Adela.
Through stories and gossip that expose jealousies, scandals, and misfortunes, Sirias lovingly portrays the community of La Curva, Nicaragua, in all its beauty and ugliness. The winner of the Chicano / Latino Literary Prize, this spellbinding novel captures the essence of a world rarely seen in American literature.
Praise for Meet Me Under the Ceiba:
“(Meet Me under the Ceiba is) a fascinating read—very well written, with a delightful, lively pace.”—Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, judge of the 2007 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest.
“A provocative novel that opens up a little-known world to its readers.”—Booklist, on Meet Me under the Ceiba.
SILVIO SIRIAS is the author of a novel, Bernardo and the Virgin (Northwestern University Press, 2007), and he has written and edited several books on Latino/a literature, including Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion (Greenwood Press, 2001) and Conversations with Rudolfo Anaya (University Press of Mississippi, 1998). He received his doctorate in Spanish from the University of Arizona and worked as a professor of Spanish and U.S. Latino/a literature for several years before returning to live in Nicaragua in 1999. He currently lives in Panama.
Meet Me Under the Ceiba Book Trailer
Author's website: www.silviosirias.com
Twitter @silviosirias http://twitter.com/silviosirias
Book Tour Schedule
Jan 11: Book-Lover Carol http://bookluver-carol.blogspot.com/
Jan 12: Brown Girl Speaks www.browngirl.weebly.com/book-speak.html
Jan 13: Regular Ruminations www.regularrumination.wordpress.com
Jan 14: The Tranquilo Traveler http://blog.joshuaberman.net/
Jan 15: Pisti Totol www.pistitotol.wordpress.com
Jan 18: Mama XXI www.mamaxxi.blogspot.com
Jan 19: Farm Lane Books http://www.farmlanebooks.co.uk/
Jan 20: Sandra's Book Club http://sandrasbookclub.blogspot.com/
Jan 21: Latino Books Examiner www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Jan 22: Una in a Million http://unainamillion.blogspot.com
Prize: Those who leave a comment are entered to win a copy of the book!
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BronzeWord Latino Book Tours Presents:
Death at Solstice: A Gloria Damasco Mystery
by Lucha Corpi
November 30-December 11 2009
by Lucha Corpi
November 30-December 11 2009
DEATH AT SOLSTICE by Lucha Corpi
Arte Publico. 2009. c.240p.
ISBN 978-1-55885-547-2
Info: http://cli.gs/vP50A
Lucha Corpi’s newest book, Death at Solstice, the fourth in a series, has captured fans on both coasts. Join us on the book tour that will reveal secrets about her writing process and learn how her mysterious PI came to be. This lady is amazing. From reading Greek tragedies to writing mysteries, Lucha Corpi’s life is as intriguing as her PI’s tangled adventures.
Review of Death at Solstice
In her fourth outing (after Black Widow’s Wardrobe), Chicana sleuth Gloria Damasco has no idea that the road to finding stolen jewelry in the wine country of California’s Shenandoah Valley will lead to murder, kidnapping, and great danger. Verdict: Corpi has constructed a twisting story line that confounds her intelligent detective and the reader at every turn. This will please readers looking for a fast-paced tale with a Hispanic cultural background." LIBRARY JOURNAL
Author’s Bio
For Lucha Corpi, art has always meant activism. As a woman, a Hispanic, an immigrant and a mother, she has always found herself breaking down barriers in both life and literature. Corpi was born in 1945 in Jáltipan, Veracruz, Mexico, a small tropical village on the Gulf of Mexico into a community that fostered creativity, performances and an appreciation for music, poetry and storytelling. In 1964, she married and moved with her husband to Berkeley, California, a city in the throes of the students’ Free Speech Movement, which ignited the most turbulent decade in the history of the University of California-Berkley campus. It also coincided with the inception of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement in the southwestern United States.
Following an emotionally devastating divorce in 1970, Corpi found herself alone and in pain, with no family except her young son and very few friends. She turned to writing simply to get hold of her feelings, to face her contradictions and keep chaos at bay.
Her initial writing forays led to the exploration of poetry in Spanish as an outlet for her creativity. In 1970, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for poems later included in Palabras de mediodia / Noon Words(Fuego de Aztlán Publications, 1980; bilingual edition Arte Público Press, 2001). Her first collection of poems appeared in Fireflight: ThreeLatin American Poets (Oyes, 1976), and a third poetry collection followed: Variaciones sobre una tempestad / Variations on a Storm(Third Woman Press, 1990). During that same decade, Corpi resumed her university studies, which had been interrupted by her marriage and supporting her husband while he studied. The UC-Berkeley campus provided an excellent forum for her political activism. Among other pursuits, Corpi was one of five founding members of the Aztlán Cultural, an arts service organization that years later would merge with Centro Chicano de Escritores (Chicano Writers Center). She also joined the Comité Popular Educativo de la Raza, an organization of parents, students and teachers in Oakland that sought to establish bilingual child care centers and other programs in the city's unified school district.
After her first collection of poetry appeared, Corpi experienced a long and personally worrisome poetic silence. To ease the tension, she turned to prose, penning several award-winning short stories. In 1984, she wrote her first story in English and her first English-language novel, Delia's Song, was published by Arte Público Press in 1989. In 1990, Corpi was twice honored: she was awarded a Creative Arts Fellowship in fiction by the City of Oakland, and she was named poet laureate at Indian University Northwest.
The publication of Eulogy for a Brown Angel: A Mystery Novel (Arte Público Press, 1992) was the culmination of a life-long dream. The novel won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Best Book of Fiction. Corpi’s second mystery novel featuring Chicana detective Gloria Damasco is Cactus Blood (Arte Público Press, 1995), which was reissued in paperback in 2009. Black Widow’s Wardrobe (Arte Público Press, 1999) and Death at Solstice (Arte Público Press, 2009) are the two most recent editions to The Gloria Damasco Series. In between the publication of these works of fiction, she compiled and edited Máscaras (Third Woman Press, 1997), a collection of essays on writing by prominent Chicana and Latina authors.
Haven’t read Corpi? Then start with her first book in the series and read all the way through to Death at Solstice for a ride of thrills.
Series of Book by Lucha Corpi
#1 Corpi, Lucha, Cactus blood : a mystery novel Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press, c1995.
#2 Corpi, Lucha, Black widow's wardrobe Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, 1999.
#3 Corpi, Lucha, Crimson moon : a Brown Angel mystery Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, c2004 Civil rights movements
Fans can also turn to Corpi’s first mystery novel in a new series, Crimson Moon: A Brown Angel Mystery (Arte Público Press, 2004). Weaving the student movements at Berkeley, a serial rapist within the government’s ranks, a militant Chicano brown power group in Denver, and even the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, Corpi has once again penned an intriguing thriller that revisits one of the most disturbing chapters for the American psyche: the civil rights struggles and student revolts during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In addition to poetry and mystery novels, Lucha Corpi also writes for children. In 1997, she published her first bilingual picture book, Where Fireflies Dance / Ahí, donde bailan las luciérnagas (Children’s Book Press), and The Triple Banana Split Boy / El niño goloso (Arte Público Press) was published in 2009.
Corpi holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC-Berkley and an M.A. in World and Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University. A tenured teacher in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program for 30 years, she retired in 2005.
BronzeWord Latino Virtual Book Tour Schedule:
Nov 30Unloaded
Dec 1 Latino Book Examiner
Dec 2 Behind Brown Eyes
Dec 3Julia Amante
Dec 4 The Sol Within
Dec 7 Chasing Heroes
Dec 8Reading With Monie
Dec 9Book-luver Carol
Dec 10 Heidenkind's Hideaway
Dec 11 Musings
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BronzeWord Latino Book Tours Presents:
The HeartBreak Pill: A Novel
by Anjanette Delgado
November 9-20 2009
by Anjanette Delgado
November 9-20 2009
THE HEARTBREAK PILL: A Novel
By Anjanette Delgado
Published: Simon & Schuster Atria Books
ISBN: 1-7432-9753-9
Pub Date: April 2008
From Nov 9th to Nov 20th we celebrate the new book, Heartbreak Pill. A delight tale of love and heartbreak.
Author’s Bio:
Executive Producer/Writer: Anjanette Delgado.
Anjanette Delgado is a highly experienced and accomplished, Emmy Award-winning TV producer with 20 years of experience producing, designing and writing content and content strategy. She began her career as a journalist, covering presidential coups, elections, 1991 Gulf War, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the present war with Iraq, which she executive produced for Telemundo in 2003. She has written for Urban Latino, TV Más and the International Documentary Association magazine, written and produced lifestyle programs and documentaries for MGM Latin America. She has executive-produced, created original formats and/or launched significant projects for CNN, NBC, Telemundo, HBO Latin America, and the United Nations. Anjanette has applied her expertise to creating community-driven and empowering broadcast, print and event-based efforts for Latinos in the US. Prior to joining Grupo Prisa’s Plural Entertainment as Director of Strategic Content, Anjanette created, launched and implemented the social content and strategic marketing department of Community Connections at Telemundo, winning the first ever Sentinel for Health Awards ever given to a Spanish-language network or station for her campaigns on Breast Cancer and Diabetes. Anjanette has now added one more communications challenge to her breadth of experience by publishing her first novel. “The heartbreak Pill” was published this year by Simon & Schuster.
Description of Book:
Erika Luna is a thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami. When her husband of seven years; the very successful, very smart, very good-looking, founding partner of one of Miami’s most successful Public Relations firms falls in lust with another woman, their marriage spirals to hell and Erika’s practical nature leads her down the strangest of paths.
What’s a scientist to do when slapped with pain so deep it interferes with breathing? Try to cure it, of course! This is the premise of Emmy award-winning writer and producer Anjanette Delgado’s delightfully funny and touchingly poignant debut novel, THE HEARTBREAK PILL (Atria Books; $14.00; April 2008).
Imagine what your life would be like if you had a switch, an interrupter of sorts, located somewhere in an unobtrusive part of your body, let’s say on your calf, like a tattoo. See yourself pressing this lever, pin, or button, and being able to control the most uncontrollable part of your body: your heart. You wouldn’t suffer over what isn’t good for you. You wouldn’t cry for what cannot be. You’d just live. You’d be happy.
This is exactly what Erika Luna dreams of after her über successful and sexy husband Martin leaves her for one of his assistants. Sure, she has a strong support group: her perpetually optimistic gay father and his ultra feminist live-in lover, her dramatic best friend Lola, a non-profit theater organizer obsessed with surrounding herself—and Erika—with positive energy, and her recently hired divorce lawyer who also considers herself a spiritual advisor. But it seems that ever since her Humpty Dumpty of a heart had fallen off the wall and turned into a spackled eggshell wall treatment straight out of a Martha Stewart magazine, she is incapable of a logical, methodical, or scientific decision, much less an intelligent one. Erika just wants to be well, sane, and happy again. Immediately.
She’s a woman of science, a researcher; a woman of arguments, facts, and reason. So how can she allow heartbreak to turn her into a raving lunatic? She promises herself that she will come up with a plan—a pill—that will end heartbreak forever. She’s determined to be the absolute leader of humiliated wives and broken hearts the world over.
And with that vow, Erika begins a journey of healing and self-discovery. When Martin left her, she was forced to say good-bye to the life she’d always been afraid of losing and quiet the doubts of her heart. But perhaps, time does heal all wounds, and with the help of her motley crew of a “family”—which now includes a dashing neighbor who works as a director at a domestic violence shelter, she learns to view herself as a person of worth, a woman who has talent, and a woman who must trust herself to love again. And in the end, she realizes that she can’t eliminate love’s pain—because through it we learn to grow as people.
Hip, smart, and utterly significant in today’s world of Match.com and E-Harmony, THE HEARTBREAK PILL by Anjanette Delgado will make readers laugh (at some of their past actions done in the name of love), and feel hope that love is out there—and that they don’t have to sacrifice themselves to find it.
Nov 9 Unloaded http://www.un-loaded.com
Nov 10 Julia Amante http://juliaamante.blogspot.com
Nov 11 The Sol Within http://www.thesolwithinanna.blogspot.com
Nov 12 Latino Book Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Nov 13 Behind Brown Eyes http://right2write.blogspot.com/
Nov 16 Ramirez Chasing Heroes http://chasingheroes.com
Nov 17 Musings http://Nilkibenitez.blogspot.com
Nov 18 Reading With Monie http://www.readingwithmonie.com
Nov 19 That Happened to me http://ThatHappenedtoMe.Blogspot.com
Nov 20 Writing to Insanity http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
Jo Ann Hernandez
BronzeWord Latino Authors
BronzeWord1 AT yahoo com
By Anjanette Delgado
Published: Simon & Schuster Atria Books
ISBN: 1-7432-9753-9
Pub Date: April 2008
From Nov 9th to Nov 20th we celebrate the new book, Heartbreak Pill. A delight tale of love and heartbreak.
Author’s Bio:
Executive Producer/Writer: Anjanette Delgado.
Anjanette Delgado is a highly experienced and accomplished, Emmy Award-winning TV producer with 20 years of experience producing, designing and writing content and content strategy. She began her career as a journalist, covering presidential coups, elections, 1991 Gulf War, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the present war with Iraq, which she executive produced for Telemundo in 2003. She has written for Urban Latino, TV Más and the International Documentary Association magazine, written and produced lifestyle programs and documentaries for MGM Latin America. She has executive-produced, created original formats and/or launched significant projects for CNN, NBC, Telemundo, HBO Latin America, and the United Nations. Anjanette has applied her expertise to creating community-driven and empowering broadcast, print and event-based efforts for Latinos in the US. Prior to joining Grupo Prisa’s Plural Entertainment as Director of Strategic Content, Anjanette created, launched and implemented the social content and strategic marketing department of Community Connections at Telemundo, winning the first ever Sentinel for Health Awards ever given to a Spanish-language network or station for her campaigns on Breast Cancer and Diabetes. Anjanette has now added one more communications challenge to her breadth of experience by publishing her first novel. “The heartbreak Pill” was published this year by Simon & Schuster.
Description of Book:
Erika Luna is a thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami. When her husband of seven years; the very successful, very smart, very good-looking, founding partner of one of Miami’s most successful Public Relations firms falls in lust with another woman, their marriage spirals to hell and Erika’s practical nature leads her down the strangest of paths.
What’s a scientist to do when slapped with pain so deep it interferes with breathing? Try to cure it, of course! This is the premise of Emmy award-winning writer and producer Anjanette Delgado’s delightfully funny and touchingly poignant debut novel, THE HEARTBREAK PILL (Atria Books; $14.00; April 2008).
Imagine what your life would be like if you had a switch, an interrupter of sorts, located somewhere in an unobtrusive part of your body, let’s say on your calf, like a tattoo. See yourself pressing this lever, pin, or button, and being able to control the most uncontrollable part of your body: your heart. You wouldn’t suffer over what isn’t good for you. You wouldn’t cry for what cannot be. You’d just live. You’d be happy.
This is exactly what Erika Luna dreams of after her über successful and sexy husband Martin leaves her for one of his assistants. Sure, she has a strong support group: her perpetually optimistic gay father and his ultra feminist live-in lover, her dramatic best friend Lola, a non-profit theater organizer obsessed with surrounding herself—and Erika—with positive energy, and her recently hired divorce lawyer who also considers herself a spiritual advisor. But it seems that ever since her Humpty Dumpty of a heart had fallen off the wall and turned into a spackled eggshell wall treatment straight out of a Martha Stewart magazine, she is incapable of a logical, methodical, or scientific decision, much less an intelligent one. Erika just wants to be well, sane, and happy again. Immediately.
She’s a woman of science, a researcher; a woman of arguments, facts, and reason. So how can she allow heartbreak to turn her into a raving lunatic? She promises herself that she will come up with a plan—a pill—that will end heartbreak forever. She’s determined to be the absolute leader of humiliated wives and broken hearts the world over.
And with that vow, Erika begins a journey of healing and self-discovery. When Martin left her, she was forced to say good-bye to the life she’d always been afraid of losing and quiet the doubts of her heart. But perhaps, time does heal all wounds, and with the help of her motley crew of a “family”—which now includes a dashing neighbor who works as a director at a domestic violence shelter, she learns to view herself as a person of worth, a woman who has talent, and a woman who must trust herself to love again. And in the end, she realizes that she can’t eliminate love’s pain—because through it we learn to grow as people.
Hip, smart, and utterly significant in today’s world of Match.com and E-Harmony, THE HEARTBREAK PILL by Anjanette Delgado will make readers laugh (at some of their past actions done in the name of love), and feel hope that love is out there—and that they don’t have to sacrifice themselves to find it.
Nov 9 Unloaded http://www.un-loaded.com
Nov 10 Julia Amante http://juliaamante.blogspot.com
Nov 11 The Sol Within http://www.thesolwithinanna.blogspot.com
Nov 12 Latino Book Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Nov 13 Behind Brown Eyes http://right2write.blogspot.com/
Nov 16 Ramirez Chasing Heroes http://chasingheroes.com
Nov 17 Musings http://Nilkibenitez.blogspot.com
Nov 18 Reading With Monie http://www.readingwithmonie.com
Nov 19 That Happened to me http://ThatHappenedtoMe.Blogspot.com
Nov 20 Writing to Insanity http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
Jo Ann Hernandez
BronzeWord Latino Authors
BronzeWord1 AT yahoo com
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BronzeWord Latino Book Tours Presents:
Sunstruck
by Mayra Calvani
Sep 7-18 2009
by Mayra Calvani
Sep 7-18 2009
Latina Virtual Book Tour for Mayra Calvani
Sunstruck
by Mayra Calvani
Zumaya Publications
Print ISBN: 978-1-934841-18-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-934841-19-8
Parody/Satire/Women's Fiction
Available from all online retailers and brick & mortar bookstores.
Sunstruck is a parody/satire and the style is very different from how I write nowadays. I grew up in San Juan with an artist mom and from an early age visited many art shows and went to artist meetings. A quiet child, I mostly observed. My book was influenced by what I saw. Artists' circles can be very interesting and strange at times!
I wrote the novel in three weeks in a strickly stream-of-consciousness style. Back then, my inner critic wasn’t as strong, so I wrote more freely. I didn’t say 'no' to crazy ideas… so this is a weird, crazy book. People either love it or don't know what to do with it. One reviewer called it ‘Brilliant’, and another said she had never read another book even remotely like it.
Book Description
Twenty-four-year-old Daniella is an architecture student living with her narcissistic artist boyfriend in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Abandoned by her father at an early age, Daniella always falls for the wrong type of man. Her most enduring male relationship so far is with her 30-pound Turkish angora cat. Thankfully, Daniella's mother is always there to offer a shoulder.
Several strange mysteries are threaded through Daniella's everyday life: her ex-husband, Ismael, has just opened an outlandish hotel for animal lovers that has her distraught; Ismael's wife, a rich woman Daniella fondly refers to as "Lady Dracula," has some gruesome ways to keep her skin looking young; Daniella's mother is founding a revolutionary, feminist society called The Praying Mantises; the island's national forest is being depleted of hallucinogenic mushrooms; meanwhile, young girls are disappearing and there's a nut loose dressed as Zorro slashing the rear ends of women who wear miniskirts.
Oppressed by all these crazed, eccentric characters, Daniella feels herself falling into an abyss. Then something horrendous happens, making Daniella wake from her stupor and take charge of her life.
What reviewers are saying... "Brilliant" --MyShelf.com
"[Mayra Calvani] is the queen of wit." --Book Reviews by Debra
"Dark and quirky humor coupled with quixotic characters adds to the surprising mix found in Sunstruck... I've never read a book remotely like it. Everything from the humorously weird to the actue macabre can be found between these covers, and then some." --Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review
"Highly entertaining!" --Romance Junkies
"Salvador Dali meets Terry Gilliam in a surrealistic romp that skewers the society of dilettantes and artistic poseurs. Reading Sunstruck is like having one of those long, convoluted dreams that seem to be totally logical until they twist off into another dimension entirely. Monty Python's Flying Circus would be proud." --Blue Iris Journal
Read an excerpt in English and Spanish.
Visit http://sunstruckthenovel.blogspot.com for more information.
Latino Virtual Book Tour Schedule
Sept 7 Behind Brown Eyes -http://right2write.blogspot.com/
Sept 8 SpanglishBaby - http://www.spanglishbaby.com/
Sept 9 Mama Latina Tips - http://www.mamalatinatips.com
Sept 11 Writing to Insanity - http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
Sept 14Efrain’s Corner - http://efrainortizjr.blogspot.com/
Sept 16 Christina Rodriguez - http://christinaerodriguez.blogspot.com
Sept 17 Unloaded - http://www.un-loaded.com
Sept 18 Chasing Heroes - http://chasingheroes.com
Sunstruck
by Mayra Calvani
Zumaya Publications
Print ISBN: 978-1-934841-18-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-934841-19-8
Parody/Satire/Women's Fiction
Available from all online retailers and brick & mortar bookstores.
Sunstruck is a parody/satire and the style is very different from how I write nowadays. I grew up in San Juan with an artist mom and from an early age visited many art shows and went to artist meetings. A quiet child, I mostly observed. My book was influenced by what I saw. Artists' circles can be very interesting and strange at times!
I wrote the novel in three weeks in a strickly stream-of-consciousness style. Back then, my inner critic wasn’t as strong, so I wrote more freely. I didn’t say 'no' to crazy ideas… so this is a weird, crazy book. People either love it or don't know what to do with it. One reviewer called it ‘Brilliant’, and another said she had never read another book even remotely like it.
Book Description
Twenty-four-year-old Daniella is an architecture student living with her narcissistic artist boyfriend in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Abandoned by her father at an early age, Daniella always falls for the wrong type of man. Her most enduring male relationship so far is with her 30-pound Turkish angora cat. Thankfully, Daniella's mother is always there to offer a shoulder.
Several strange mysteries are threaded through Daniella's everyday life: her ex-husband, Ismael, has just opened an outlandish hotel for animal lovers that has her distraught; Ismael's wife, a rich woman Daniella fondly refers to as "Lady Dracula," has some gruesome ways to keep her skin looking young; Daniella's mother is founding a revolutionary, feminist society called The Praying Mantises; the island's national forest is being depleted of hallucinogenic mushrooms; meanwhile, young girls are disappearing and there's a nut loose dressed as Zorro slashing the rear ends of women who wear miniskirts.
Oppressed by all these crazed, eccentric characters, Daniella feels herself falling into an abyss. Then something horrendous happens, making Daniella wake from her stupor and take charge of her life.
What reviewers are saying... "Brilliant" --MyShelf.com
"[Mayra Calvani] is the queen of wit." --Book Reviews by Debra
"Dark and quirky humor coupled with quixotic characters adds to the surprising mix found in Sunstruck... I've never read a book remotely like it. Everything from the humorously weird to the actue macabre can be found between these covers, and then some." --Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review
"Highly entertaining!" --Romance Junkies
"Salvador Dali meets Terry Gilliam in a surrealistic romp that skewers the society of dilettantes and artistic poseurs. Reading Sunstruck is like having one of those long, convoluted dreams that seem to be totally logical until they twist off into another dimension entirely. Monty Python's Flying Circus would be proud." --Blue Iris Journal
Read an excerpt in English and Spanish.
Visit http://sunstruckthenovel.blogspot.com for more information.
Latino Virtual Book Tour Schedule
Sept 7 Behind Brown Eyes -http://right2write.blogspot.com/
Sept 8 SpanglishBaby - http://www.spanglishbaby.com/
Sept 9 Mama Latina Tips - http://www.mamalatinatips.com
Sept 11 Writing to Insanity - http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
Sept 14Efrain’s Corner - http://efrainortizjr.blogspot.com/
Sept 16 Christina Rodriguez - http://christinaerodriguez.blogspot.com
Sept 17 Unloaded - http://www.un-loaded.com
Sept 18 Chasing Heroes - http://chasingheroes.com
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BronzeWord Latino Book Tour Presents:
America Libre: A Novel of Family, Country and Revolution
by Raul Ramos
August 4-18 2009
by Raul Ramos
August 4-18 2009
Winner's share: $50 Cash
How the contest works: Take a digital photo of your copy of AMERICA LIBRE. Post it on the Photos section of the Friends of AMERICA LIBRE Facebook group (at the link below) or on Twitter at the hashtag #MyAmericaLibre. The most original photo as judged by our distinguished panel of international aesthetic experts (that would be me and my agent) will be declared the winner on August 19, 2009. Enter as many times as you like. (By the way, be inventive but keep it legal. Please don't risk life, limb or imprisonment in your creative pursuits. It's only 50 bucks.)
Facebook Friends of AMERICA LIBRE
http://www.facebook .com/group.php?gid=11312784 6015&ref= mf
(BTW, I hope you'll join the group!)
http://www.raulramos.com/ and his Author’s Diary http://raulramosysanchez.blogspot.com/
Raul Ramos y Sanchez A long-time resident of the U.S. Midwest, Cuban-born Raul Ramos y Sanchez is a founding partner of BRC Marketing, an ad agency established in 1992 with offices in Ohio and California. Besides developing a documentary for public television, Two Americas: The Legacy of our Hemisphere, he is host of MyIimmigrationStory.com http://MyIimmigrationStory.com — an online forum for the U.S. immigrant community. Ramos began writing America Libre http://raulramos.com/A_Inside_Raul_Ramos_Sanchez.htm in 2004, with the input of scholars from Latin America, Spain, and the United States. After five months as a self-published edition, America Libre, was acquired by Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books). Grand Central Publishing also acquired El Nuevo Alamo, the sequel to America Libre. El Nuevo Alamo is slated for release in 2010.
Raul Ramos y Sanchez AMERICAN LIBRE Latino Virtual Book Tour Aug 3: Musing http://Nilkibenitez.blogspot.com
Aug 4: Chasing Heroes http://chasingheroes.com
Aug 5: Mama Latina Tips http://www.mamalatinatips.com
Aug 6: Efrain's Corner http://efrainortizjr.blogspot.com/
Aug 7: Writing to Insanity http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
Aug 10: Sofritos for Your Soul George Torres
Aug 11: Behind Brown Eyes http://www.TerriMolina.com
Aug 12: Mayra Calvani Latino Book Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Aug 13: Unloaded http://www.un-loaded.com
Aug 14: Caridad Pineiro http://www.caridad.com/
Aug 17: Julia Amante http://juliaamante.blogspot.com/
Aug 18: Queer Latino Musings on Literature http://charlievazquez.wordpress.com/
How the contest works: Take a digital photo of your copy of AMERICA LIBRE. Post it on the Photos section of the Friends of AMERICA LIBRE Facebook group (at the link below) or on Twitter at the hashtag #MyAmericaLibre. The most original photo as judged by our distinguished panel of international aesthetic experts (that would be me and my agent) will be declared the winner on August 19, 2009. Enter as many times as you like. (By the way, be inventive but keep it legal. Please don't risk life, limb or imprisonment in your creative pursuits. It's only 50 bucks.)
Facebook Friends of AMERICA LIBRE
http://www.facebook .com/group.php?gid=11312784 6015&ref= mf
(BTW, I hope you'll join the group!)
http://www.raulramos.com/ and his Author’s Diary http://raulramosysanchez.blogspot.com/
Raul Ramos y Sanchez A long-time resident of the U.S. Midwest, Cuban-born Raul Ramos y Sanchez is a founding partner of BRC Marketing, an ad agency established in 1992 with offices in Ohio and California. Besides developing a documentary for public television, Two Americas: The Legacy of our Hemisphere, he is host of MyIimmigrationStory.com http://MyIimmigrationStory.com — an online forum for the U.S. immigrant community. Ramos began writing America Libre http://raulramos.com/A_Inside_Raul_Ramos_Sanchez.htm in 2004, with the input of scholars from Latin America, Spain, and the United States. After five months as a self-published edition, America Libre, was acquired by Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books). Grand Central Publishing also acquired El Nuevo Alamo, the sequel to America Libre. El Nuevo Alamo is slated for release in 2010.
Raul Ramos y Sanchez AMERICAN LIBRE Latino Virtual Book Tour Aug 3: Musing http://Nilkibenitez.blogspot.com
Aug 4: Chasing Heroes http://chasingheroes.com
Aug 5: Mama Latina Tips http://www.mamalatinatips.com
Aug 6: Efrain's Corner http://efrainortizjr.blogspot.com/
Aug 7: Writing to Insanity http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
Aug 10: Sofritos for Your Soul George Torres
Aug 11: Behind Brown Eyes http://www.TerriMolina.com
Aug 12: Mayra Calvani Latino Book Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Aug 13: Unloaded http://www.un-loaded.com
Aug 14: Caridad Pineiro http://www.caridad.com/
Aug 17: Julia Amante http://juliaamante.blogspot.com/
Aug 18: Queer Latino Musings on Literature http://charlievazquez.wordpress.com/
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BronzeWord Latino Book Tours Presents:
Estevan Vega
The Sacred Sin
June 14-June 27
The Sacred Sin
June 14-June 27
Today begins the First Ever Latino Virtual Book Tour.
Estevan Vega is our guest author for this spectacular event.
I have his bio and a few questions you might find interesting since he is twenty years old. Then the list of blogs who will be hosting Estevan for the two weeks of this First Ever Latino Virtual Book Tour.
Here we go:
Do you do your own laundry, pick up your dirty socks and the kind of things that would make a woman know you’re the sensitive type? What do you do for household chores?
Ahh, the household chore question. Surprisingly enough, I do a lot of the chores around the house. Living in a mess isn’t fun for me. My dad works a ton, and one of my younger brothers tries to maintain a full job and stay busy 24/7, so there’s a lot of times when I kinda get stuck doing the “chick” stuff. Folding clothes…and there are a bunch, most of the time not even mine. Dishes. The lawn. Vacuuming and sweeping and whatever else there is. My dad usually cooks…great food, by the way, so I guess it’s all a fair trade. He jokes with me and says we’ll make somebody good wives one day.
What would a first date be like with you?
There might be good food, some good music, and a lot of nervous jokes. Having had only a few of them, I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but I try to make the girl laugh, even if it’s at me at first. Well, on second thought, that kinda just happens all on its own, and I try to roll with it. I guess I’d want to make our date unique somehow. Taking a girl out and drawing in a reader are two very similar things. You gotta keep them interested…make them laugh, be serious and vulnerable for a while, then try to give them something new, something fresh they’ll remember you for.
When you write, do you do one straight draft, or do you edit every page as you go?
Well, this is about books! If I edited every page as I went, I’d probably go insane. Even editing at the end of the manuscript is killer. When I write, I try to get something really good in the first few pages…start with something powerful, something that could drive the rest of the novel. So, that’s when a lot of the editing takes place initially, at least, until I hit writer’s block.
I also try to move fast, so as the story moves, I move. I like getting all my thoughts down before I start hacking away at it. I must admit, though, that some of the best writing usually comes after it’s had time to sit and sort of ferment.
Tell us one fun memory you have of you and your dad doing something together that will stay with you forever?
Well, there’s plenty memories of me getting on his nerves, getting smacked, running from him and having screaming matches. But he joked with me today that you only hurt the ones you love. And I guess he’s right. Although, it seems we also love the most the ones we love. I remember arguing over our first real story. As a writer, that’s probably the memory that sticks out the most. The dialogs were pretty much me thinking I had a clue what to do, and him reminding me constantly with his good writing that I didn’t. I think it might have become kind of like a competition. I had to surpass him as a writer. He says I have, but not sure if it’s the truth.
What are the attributes/characteristics of your Dream Woman?
Man, these are all very personal questions. To be honest, I’ve thought and prayed a ton about what a dream woman would be, since I was, like, 6. I used to think a dream woman consisted of someone who stayed at home, never had to work because I made all the cash, was totally gorgeous and loved me.
My tastes have somewhat changed, but at the same time stayed the same. Being a writer, I would like someone to help out with bringing home the bacon, at least at this stage in my life. I’d like a girl who is capable of being independent and surviving, but allows me to lead and love her. My faith is important to me, and it must be at the center of our love. Being a good mother is very important to me as well. She needs to love me and love herself, and be strong in moments when I feel faint. She’s gotta be a descent cook, too, because my dad knows his way around a kitchen, and I’ve kinda been spoiled. This dream angel must be made complete by her beauty and wisdom. And beauty comes in all shapes, sizes and hearts. Blonde, brunette, red-head, whatever. My dad’s a hair stylist, so…Blondes are normally my vice, but I’ve been really appreciating the dark-haired and green eyed women. We’ll see what God has in mind, you know?
June 14 BronzeWord Latino Authors
Eljumpingbean http://eljumpingbean.blogspot.com
June 15 Latinitas Magazine http://www.mylatinitas.com
June 16 The Art of Random Willynillyness.com http://theartofrandomwillynillyness.blogspot.com
Carol in Carolina http://caroincarolina.blogspot.com
June 17 Caridad Pineiro http://www.caridad.com/
June 18 Writing to Insanity http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
June 19 Lara Rios http://juliaamante.blogspot.com/
June 20 Musings http://Nilkibenitez.blogspot.com
June 21 rafaelMarquez.me http://www.rafaelmarquez.me
June 22 Latina Reader http://blogs.qoobole.com/latina-reader
June 23 Café of Deams http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/
June 24 Latino Pundit http://www.latinopundit.com
June 25 Queer Latino Musings on Literature http://charlievazquez.wordpress.com/
June 26 Mama Latina Tips http://www.mamalatinatips.com
June 27 Latino Book Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner
Estevan Vega is our guest author for this spectacular event.
I have his bio and a few questions you might find interesting since he is twenty years old. Then the list of blogs who will be hosting Estevan for the two weeks of this First Ever Latino Virtual Book Tour.
Here we go:
Do you do your own laundry, pick up your dirty socks and the kind of things that would make a woman know you’re the sensitive type? What do you do for household chores?
Ahh, the household chore question. Surprisingly enough, I do a lot of the chores around the house. Living in a mess isn’t fun for me. My dad works a ton, and one of my younger brothers tries to maintain a full job and stay busy 24/7, so there’s a lot of times when I kinda get stuck doing the “chick” stuff. Folding clothes…and there are a bunch, most of the time not even mine. Dishes. The lawn. Vacuuming and sweeping and whatever else there is. My dad usually cooks…great food, by the way, so I guess it’s all a fair trade. He jokes with me and says we’ll make somebody good wives one day.
What would a first date be like with you?
There might be good food, some good music, and a lot of nervous jokes. Having had only a few of them, I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but I try to make the girl laugh, even if it’s at me at first. Well, on second thought, that kinda just happens all on its own, and I try to roll with it. I guess I’d want to make our date unique somehow. Taking a girl out and drawing in a reader are two very similar things. You gotta keep them interested…make them laugh, be serious and vulnerable for a while, then try to give them something new, something fresh they’ll remember you for.
When you write, do you do one straight draft, or do you edit every page as you go?
Well, this is about books! If I edited every page as I went, I’d probably go insane. Even editing at the end of the manuscript is killer. When I write, I try to get something really good in the first few pages…start with something powerful, something that could drive the rest of the novel. So, that’s when a lot of the editing takes place initially, at least, until I hit writer’s block.
I also try to move fast, so as the story moves, I move. I like getting all my thoughts down before I start hacking away at it. I must admit, though, that some of the best writing usually comes after it’s had time to sit and sort of ferment.
Tell us one fun memory you have of you and your dad doing something together that will stay with you forever?
Well, there’s plenty memories of me getting on his nerves, getting smacked, running from him and having screaming matches. But he joked with me today that you only hurt the ones you love. And I guess he’s right. Although, it seems we also love the most the ones we love. I remember arguing over our first real story. As a writer, that’s probably the memory that sticks out the most. The dialogs were pretty much me thinking I had a clue what to do, and him reminding me constantly with his good writing that I didn’t. I think it might have become kind of like a competition. I had to surpass him as a writer. He says I have, but not sure if it’s the truth.
What are the attributes/characteristics of your Dream Woman?
Man, these are all very personal questions. To be honest, I’ve thought and prayed a ton about what a dream woman would be, since I was, like, 6. I used to think a dream woman consisted of someone who stayed at home, never had to work because I made all the cash, was totally gorgeous and loved me.
My tastes have somewhat changed, but at the same time stayed the same. Being a writer, I would like someone to help out with bringing home the bacon, at least at this stage in my life. I’d like a girl who is capable of being independent and surviving, but allows me to lead and love her. My faith is important to me, and it must be at the center of our love. Being a good mother is very important to me as well. She needs to love me and love herself, and be strong in moments when I feel faint. She’s gotta be a descent cook, too, because my dad knows his way around a kitchen, and I’ve kinda been spoiled. This dream angel must be made complete by her beauty and wisdom. And beauty comes in all shapes, sizes and hearts. Blonde, brunette, red-head, whatever. My dad’s a hair stylist, so…Blondes are normally my vice, but I’ve been really appreciating the dark-haired and green eyed women. We’ll see what God has in mind, you know?
June 14 BronzeWord Latino Authors
Eljumpingbean http://eljumpingbean.blogspot.com
June 15 Latinitas Magazine http://www.mylatinitas.com
June 16 The Art of Random Willynillyness.com http://theartofrandomwillynillyness.blogspot.com
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June 17 Caridad Pineiro http://www.caridad.com/
June 18 Writing to Insanity http://www.locacrazywriter.blogspot.com
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June 22 Latina Reader http://blogs.qoobole.com/latina-reader
June 23 Café of Deams http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/
June 24 Latino Pundit http://www.latinopundit.com
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June 27 Latino Book Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner