Following the publication of my first two novels, not a week passes where I don’t get asked: “I want to write a book. What advice can you give me?” Or, “I have written a book. How do I get it published?” As I learn more about the publishing industry, my nuggets of wisdom have changed. [...]
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La historia de Leila Cobo, presentadora y músico caleña que triunfa en EE.UU. – diario El Pais.
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In March 31, 1995, I was a rookie reporter at the Los Angeles Times when I got a call from a friend in Texas: Selena, the Tejano music star, had been murdered. I knew of her, of course, and had watched her collect her Grammy. But that afternoon, with the phone in my hand, I [...]
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Bertrand Russell once said Envy is at the root of most unhappiness.
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Was reading the NY TImes travel section on Sunday, devoted to large degree to the woes of traveling with children. One mother complained that during her 12-hour flight to Hawaii–on vacation–she ran out of milk for her 18-month-old twins. The stewardess said she had no milk to give her. Mom and dad complained bitterly in [...]
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So, I’m having one of those days…you know, you start at 6 am, and run out the door to a meeting, which literally lasts 8 hours, then you rush out to the airport. It’s raining. Cats and dogs. And halfway there you realized you left half the things you needed for this trip, including those [...]
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BATTLE AGAINST THE BEVERLY HILLS MEAN MATRONS “You’re short, you’re fat and you have curly hair!” Ouch! The insult was hurled at me by a blond Beverly Hills matron at the tennis courts in Roxbury Park. Short? Well, at 5.3 I’m certainly not tall. Fat? I want to loose five pounds, but no, I plead [...]
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When I was a music student in New York, my father would periodically come to see me, arranging his visits around his occasional business trip from Colombia to the U.S. These were momentous occasions for me and I anticipated and relished them to such a degree that I would nix outings with boyfriends in favor [...]
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