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lin
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Joined : 20 Mar 2008
Posts : 803
Location : Mexico
 |  Subject: Published AT LAST!!!  Thu Aug 07, 2008 3:52 am | |
| My book “Imaginary Lines” is just out on the new adoro books imprint… OVER TEN YEARS after I wrote that stuff!!!
All of the work in the book was published back in the mid-nineties, articles I co-wrote with Guadalajara/Tijuana writer Ana Maria Corona Espinosa. They all ran in good markets, from the San Diego weekly to Harpers magazine. And then… nothing. I’ve had more almosts and “we love it, but we’re going out of business” and “yeah, sure, but first we want to screw you” stuff.
But here it is, and I’m so glad because this is some of the nicest work I ever did in years of winning awards and meager rewards for writing. The book’s a collection of essays, what they’re starting to call “creative non-fiction” I suppose. Some are short features, mostly based on Anita’s memories of her childhood and spun into commentaries where cuisine becomes a macrocosm for the shifting fault lines of culture and nations.
Some are longer pieces, mostly set at the border, such as an interview with an aging gigolo, first-person accounts of girls who cross illegally to work as maids in the USA (the piece from Harpers), a cool thing on gamblers in Tijuana.
Throughout the book you keep being faced with those imaginary boundaries between race, language, culture, sex… the invisible lines that keep us apart and draw us together as humans.
It’s a POD book, essentially, but has some advantages: a cover by one of Mexico’s most prominent painters, cover blurb from a Pulitzer nominee, and pre-orders from a dozen bookstores and libraries. I’m really jazzed about the potential of this one and would like to invite you to check out the website (better yet buy several copies for everybody you know) and wish me luck.
www.adorobooks.com
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Abe F. March
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Age : 69
Joined : 26 Jan 2008
Posts : 1229
Location : Germany
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:09 am | |
| Good works never die.
Congratulations.
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Carol Troestler
Four Star Member
Joined : 08 Jun 2008
Posts : 354
Location : Wisconsin
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:48 am | |
| Congratulations, Lin. It sounds fantastic.
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zadaconnaway
Five Star Member
Age : 61
Joined : 16 Jan 2008
Posts : 1930
Location : Washington, USA
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:50 pm | |
| Best of luck to you lin! Hope you sell a million of them.
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Mother's Journals: parts 1, 2 and 3 ISBN # 1-4241-6969-0
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lin
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Joined : 20 Mar 2008
Posts : 803
Location : Mexico
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Forest Elf
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Joined : 09 May 2008
Posts : 444
Location : Happily Wandering
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:06 pm | |
| Muchas felicidades! Te deseo toda la suerte del mundo!!!
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Shelagh
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Posts : 2068
Location : UK
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Pam
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Age : 42
Joined : 02 Feb 2008
Posts : 1358
Location : Nova Scotia, Canada
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madhatter
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Joined : 13 Feb 2008
Posts : 243
Location : Tallahassee, FL
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:12 pm | |
| So proud of you, Lin! Hey...
"Bad things come at you fast...good things take awhile to simmer."
My character's words...er...or mine, through her.
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zadaconnaway
Five Star Member
Age : 61
Joined : 16 Jan 2008
Posts : 1930
Location : Washington, USA
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:35 pm | |
| I like that, Rhett, and it seems to be true!
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Zada Connaway
Mother's Journals: parts 1, 2 and 3 ISBN # 1-4241-6969-0
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lin
Four Star Member
Joined : 20 Mar 2008
Posts : 803
Location : Mexico
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Susan MacTabert
One Star Member
Joined : 29 Jul 2008
Posts : 30
Location : SoCal
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:46 am | |
| Best of luck, Lin. There should be fireworks to celebrate.
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lin
Four Star Member
Joined : 20 Mar 2008
Posts : 803
Location : Mexico
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Brenda Hill
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Joined : 16 Feb 2008
Posts : 576
Location : Southern CA
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Susan MacTabert
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Joined : 29 Jul 2008
Posts : 30
Location : SoCal
| | Subject: Re: Published AT LAST!!! Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:10 am | |
| Great fireworks! I enjoyed your booksite and the excerpts are tantalizing. I'd like to hear about your rock novel. Every author seems to have a different approach. DNs has a murder mystery running hellbent along the surface but the undercurrents are all about the music, the musicians. And the Light and the Darkness. No one can kill the music but the artist is fair game. RIP Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Freddie Mercury, Marc Bolan ...........
Best of luck with Imaginary Lines!
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"Once upon a time in the Land of LA, a nice enough journalist kind of guy was minding his own store when this jester appeared, ambushed him with the bauble of Art and transported him wicky-wacky to the underbelly of human passion and vice." Max Thisbee DIAMOND NEEDLES
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