Sandra Rodriquez Barron’s LA HEREDERA DEL MAR (Rayo/HarperCollins June 2008) is on Críticas’s list of “Top Picks for Hispanic Heritage Month—Titles to Celebrate”. As per their website, “This list consists of titles reviewed in Críticas since September 2007 that successfully explore themes relevant to Hispanics living in the United States and is meant to help librarians, booksellers, and educators plan their festivities. As with our “Best Books” selections every year, it is impossible to pick every single good book, and thus we have chosen the ones that stood out the most to us.”
- LA HEREDERA DEL MAR is a translation of THE HEIRESS OF WATER, which won the 2007 International Latino Book Award for “Best First Book”, was a Borders Original Voices Selection and was the first Las Comadres National Book Club selection ever. About HEIRESS, Isabel Allende wrote, “Barron’s exuberant prose yields an immensely entertaining reading experience. You are fraught with the certainty that she is the gatekeeper of the secrets of the sea.”Visit Tinta Fresca.com for this month’s review, namely, “En esta magnífica novela se entrelazan las pasiones humanas y los elementos naturales. . .” Please visit this link for the complete review: http://tintafresca.us/index.php?/FICCION/LA-HEREDERA-DEL-MAR
Caridad Pineiro just received the cover for her December 2008 release, SOLDIER’S SECRET CHILD, from Silhouette Romantic Suspense. To see the video trailer for this novel, please click here.
Also, in October, Romance Novel Television will be featuring Caridad in their 13 Days of Halloween event. For more information, visit www.romancenovel.tv.
Multi-genre author Mayra Calvani was recently interviewed by Norm Goldman for BookPleasures.com on the subject of book reviewing. Please click here to read the full interview.
L.M. Gonzalez is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th through October 15th) by hosting a number of authors who have Hispanics/ Latinos as primary or secondary characters in their books. Please click here to visit her blog and check out the interviews with the authors.
L.M. Gonzalez is also pleased to announce that she sold a short story, A LOVE FOR ETERNITY, to The Wild Rose Press for their Vintage line. A LOVE FOR ETERNITY is a time travel story where the heroine goes back to 1955.
Rogelia’s House of Magic by Jamie Martinez Wood has been nominated for the Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award.
Also check out these upcoming events with our NuncaSola members!
October 4, 2008
Caridad Pineiro and fellow author Rayna Vause
- Collingswood Book Festival
10:00 am to 4 pm
Outdoor Street Festival Along Haddon Avenue
Downtown Collingswood, NJ , www.collingswoodbookfestival.com
October 5, 2008
Jamie Martinez Wood at the LA/Orange County Pagan Pride
- Title of the talk: The Role of Play in Magic and Ritual
Description: At its heart, magic is play – a childlike dance with symbols, intuition and nature. All too often the realm of magical practice has become rigid and serious with implications that you can do something wrong. With the Fool’s enthusiasm and Fae energy, we hold lightly to our desires, allowing the joy of happiness to flow through us. In this way, magic becomes real, not imagined; fun, not work; a joyful expression of the light essence that lives brightly in each one of us.
October 10-12, 2008
Meet Jamie Martinez Wood at the FairieCon
- A fantasy conference and tradeshow about all things faerie and fantastical. There is a Good Faeries Ball and a Bad Faeries Ball (which I’ve heard is held at a haunted brothel!).
Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA
Booksigning and tarot/numerology readings at my booth, which will be in the Realm of the Muse pavilion. I’d love to meet my East Coast sisters and to prove it, I’ll send five best customer passes to the first five ladies who contact me at jamie@jamiewood.com
October 14, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Tuesday, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Cigar Bar & Grill (Tour Launch Party)
850 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
415.398.0850
October 16, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Thursday, 7:00 pm
Eso Won Books
4331 Degnan Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90008
(323) 290-1047
October 20, 2008
An Evening With Margo Candela, Mary Castillo, Reyna Grande and Jamie Martinez Wood
- Come spend an evening with these dynamic authors who will talk about their inspirations and paths to publishing, as well as answer your questions! The panel and book signing starts at 7:00 p.m., Monday, October 20 at the Signal Hill Public Library, 1770 E. Hill Street in Signal Hill, CA. For more infomation please call (562) 989-7323 or visit http://www.marycastillo.com.
October 21, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Tuesday, 5:00 -7:00 pm
Nuyorican Poets Café
236 E 3rd St.
New York, NY 1009
212-505-8183
October 22, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Wednesday, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Hue-Man Bookstore & Café
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd
Between 124th and 125th Streets
New York, NY 10027
212-665-7400
October 24, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Friday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Book People
603 N. Lamar
Austin, TX 78703
512-472-5050
October 25, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Saturday, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Twig Book Shop
5005 Broadway
San Antonio, TX 78209
210-826-6411
October 25, 2008, 3:30 to 5:30 pm
Caridad Pineiro will be signing books and meeting fans at the
New Jersey Romance Writers Literacy Book Fair
- New Jersey Put Your Heart in a Book Conference
Woodbridge Hotel and Conference Center
515 Route 1 South & Gill Lane, Iselin, New Jersey (NJ) 08830
Phone: 732-634-3600 Fax: 732-634-0258 www.hotelwoodbridge.com
October 28, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Tuesday, 8:00-10:00 pm
Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305-444-9044
October 30, 2008, 7pm
Latina Panel and Booksigning with Jamie Martinez Wood, Mary Castillo, Margo Candela, and Sandra Lopez
- Libreria Martinez
110 N Main Street Santa Ana, CA
714-973-7900
Free hologram bookmarkers by Get Flipped.
November 1, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Saturday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Garden District Book Shop
2727 Prytania St
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-895-2266
November 18
Jamie Martinez Wood
- Presentation
Orange County Public Library Association Fall meeting
November 20, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Thursday, 7:30 pm
Readers Books
130 E. Napa St.
Sonoma, CA 95476
707-939-1779
November 24, 2008
Irete Lazo The Accidental Santera Book Tour
- Monday, 7:30 pm
Capitola Book Café
1475 41st Ave # G
Capitola, CA 95010
831-462-6297
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