Published AT LAST!!!

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

Good works never die.
Congratulations.

Congratulations, Lin. It sounds fantastic.

Carol

Best of luck to you lin! Hope you sell a million of them.

Thanks everybody.

Now the really tedious part starts.

Muchas felicidades! Te deseo toda la suerte del mundo!!!

Ditto!

Great news Lin! The site and video look great too - best wishes with all of it!

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.

I like that, Rhett, and it seems to be true!

I wasn't sure how this would turn into a thread on cooking, but I knew Rhett could pull it off. :-)

Best of luck, Lin. There should be fireworks to celebrate.

Thanks Susan.


Say that's a pretty interesting site there. I have a rock novel to flog as well. How are you doing with that one?[img][/img][img]

That's so cool. lin, and I'm so happy for you. Congratulations!

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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No one can kill the music but the artist is fair game.

Too easy, though... they all kill themselves :-) Sounds like a lot of fun

Forest Elf wrote:

Muchas felicidades! Te deseo toda la suerte del mundo!!!

Ermm double ditto if I'm sure that what Forest Elf put ain't rude, which I'm sure it's not, so double ditto mi amigo

Wonderful news! Yeah, now for the promotion, the fun part.

Malcolm