There are people who read my fiction and immediately identify themselves, or a moment, or a place or a person. My stories are fiction, but they are often placed in real locations, down to specific moments in time. These moments aren’t borrowed from newspaper accounts, but they could very well be. Last week, I read [...]
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There is a scene in “The Devil Wears Prada” where our heroine, Andy–highly educated, competent, intellectual, beautiful noble and polite–gets reduced to an incoherent bundle of nerves by her boss from hell, Miranda, who, in the midst of a hurricane in Miami, demands that Andy somehow find a way to fly her to New York. [...]
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Popular Latino Novels Exceptional, Affordable Gifts.
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My adventures on writing a novel have been heartwarming and overwhelming. “Tell Me Something True,” my first novel, came out Oct. 1 and, I have to confess, the very first review that came in was terrible. TERRIBLE!!!!! No, I’m not over-reacting. If I eer get over the trauma of reading someone’s opinion of how banal [...]
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Some great gifts for the book lover on your list – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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Ok, I’ll be the first to admit this wasn’t really a forum for books. But this year’s summit brought together a vast array of artists who were truly inspiring. On Day 1, we had the Rivera family, four brothers and one sister who are all singers and composers, thanks largely to their father, who was [...]
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How exciting to see so many avid readers in Phoenix. There were some 400 women in that room!
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“Tell Me Something True” hits stores Oct. 1! Can’t tell you how excited I am! D-Day coincides with the 24th Annual Hispanic Women’s Conference in Phoenix, where I’ll speak t the “Chic-Lit” Latin author’s panel. And it is Chic-Lit, in the sense that it’s told from two women’s perspectives….but neither the topic nor the melancholia [...]
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People often ask me where the story comes from: When I got pregnant with my first child, I was terrified at the possibility of dying before she got to know me, so I started writing a journal for her–as with Dear Gabriella–where I recounted what we did together. My fear was compounded by the fact [...]
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