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An inspirational, entertaining, and informative book focusing on the craft of writing and the practical business of publishing, one that provides aspiring authors with the nuts and bolts of the business. A book that not only showcases prominent figures but emerging voices as well, writers working on a wide range of genres from the literary to the commercial. In spite of their different backgrounds, education levels, and jobs, two factors more than any others bind these writers together: their passion and commitment to their craft and to sharing their stories with the world in spite of the odds. Latina Authors and Their Muses is a celebration of creativity, the writer’s life, the passionate quest for spiritual and artistic freedom. From the Foreword by Leticia Gomez “Latina Authors and Their Muses is a celebration of creativity and the creative writing process, but it also offers savvy information about the industry itself, as well as agents and publishers. It also provides helpful hints and strategies regarding promotion and marketing, whether you are a fledging Latina writer just getting started or a multi-published, seasoned author who has been around the publishing block once or twice.”
Latina Authors and Their MusesFrom Twilight Times Books- Amazon Sales Rank: #1052192 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-24
- Released on: 2015-09-24
- Format: Kindle eBook
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. “Los amigos mejores son libros.” By Gabriel Valjan I read this collection in two days. Anthologies, in my opinion, tend to be hit-or-miss affairs, but that wasn’t the case here.First, a word about the layout because there are 40 authors interviewed and the book is over 300 pages. Did I mention that I snatched up this title when it was running at the promotional price of 99 cents? Talk about a steal. Excluding Leticia Gomez’s Foreword and editor Mayra Calvani’s Preface, each author’s interview is about 6 or 7 pages long. Each chapter starts with a picture of the author and a block text of her description of her muse.Again – in my experience – interviews with writers are heavy on talking shop, leaving the reader with the sense that writing is esoteric, magical, or technical. You won’t find the women here discussing how prepositions can double as subordinating conjunctions. What you will discover is 40 strong, opinionated and hard-working women. What you will read is how each author approaches writing – loved Eleanor Parker Sapia’s distinction between the ‘art of writing’ and the ‘craft of writing’ – how each writer has had a particular journey to and from the desk. Yes, there are the expected ‘shop questions.’ You’ll read about work habits such as outlining, charting, character sheets, mind maps, and the importance of editing and revision; it’s all here and more. There are discussions on networking and self-promotion, the virtues and vices of having an agent, an editor, a critique group, a pseudonym, and a supportive partner or spouse. These writers are candid about the ups and downs. One author, Sandra Ramos O’Briant, happy to have finally been published, was told not to cash her royalty check because the small press had gone under. At the other extreme, Diana Rodriguez Wallach acquired an agent, editor, and her first publication in her early twenties. A Salem psychic had told her she was a writer.If I were to look at this anthology as a sociologist and I had to make one sweeping generalization about Latina authors, I would say this: every single woman in this volume is highly educated and self-motivated. None of them tolerates negativity and each had her own way of dealing with rejection and criticism. My generalization holds water. In addition to writing in their genre(s), we have a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer (Alisa Valdes), an immigration lawyer (Iris Gomez), a studio executive (Leila Cobo), several journalists and teachers, and a private investigator (Carolina Gracia-Aguilera). Some of these writers heard their muse calling them early in life, while others discovered writing later. Lucha Corpi met her inspiration and her series character, Gloria Damasco, the first Chicana detective in English, in a dream. She also mentions what I felt was a poignant anecdote, a King Learish scene of her reading to her father while he was recovering from a cornea transplant. He had her read the newspaper but not the “red page,” the crimes page, which he had hidden from her.Which brings me to my next point: culture. Bridging the divide between Anglo and Latino cultures and languages is discussed. Most of the authors were born abroad and emigrated, while others were born here as second-generation Hispanics. Some of these authors write in both Spanish and English. The diversity inherent in the Spanish-speaking world is well-represented in the book. Carolina De Robertis mentions how Juana de Ibarbourou is on the Uruguayan 4,000 peso note. Lyn Di Iorio drew inspiration from seeing a cauldron in the house of a Santería practitioner in Puerto Rico. There is also pain. I cringed as I read Sandra Ramos O’Briant tell how her mother advised her not to use the N-word, while she rubbed bleaching cream into her skin at night. I had expected to hear about discrimination or women oppressed within Latino culture because women shouldn’t be artists. What I discovered much to my surprise was that the majority of these women cited loving and supportive mothers and fathers who pushed education and accomplishment for their daughters; it shows: all of these women are accomplished in their ‘day jobs.’ It’s clear from the text that Mayra Calvani is a skilled interviewer, able to cover a lot of ground and draw out the joys, the insecurities, the pains and the indomitable resolve each of these women has demonstrated.The best friends may be books, but this volume, these women, should become a continued source of inspiration for any writer. The quote to this review is from Diana Lopez.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Good advice for all writers By Eddie Iturbi This volume of interviews crosses all kinds of boundaries to connect us with forty Latina writers. Some famous already, some sure to be in the future. The insights of these writers are wide ranging and right to the point. I looked at all the advice to aspiring authors and found some good stuff:"Accepting rejection is part of the process. Cry if you must, but don’t wallow in self-pity for long. While you’re waiting, start writing your next book, and never give up. I hate the thought of stories left untold. Never give up.""Those who succeed are the talented and relentless.""Find them, read them, tweet them, blog them, and overall support your fellow Latina authors, because we will support you back. It’s the only way we will grow this community, by embracing one another and not competing against each other.Sound advice for Latina writers, but good advice for all writers. This is an eye opening compilation.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Writers and teachers of writing always say you write best what you know By Mirta Ramirez-Espinola I do not presume to know the "thing" that plagues a writer's mind or what possess an author to create a work of art with words. For aspiring writers, the compilation of talent in this book by these women offers experience and insight into their process of writing. As it is a process, I want to know what experiences they utilize to create the interestingly cultivated stories? How do they organize all the imagery, romance, and/or pain that surfaces in many of the stories authored by these various Latina writers? What inspires them? Why do they write? In reading this book, I believe readers can connect to how the work was born. Writers and teachers of writing always say you write best what you know, and I think for the most part this is true. As women we have various experiences that can culturally define us as much as our gender can. However, after reading Latina Authors and their Muses, these women were inspired by many authors as well like: Emily Bronte, Silvia Plath, or Mary Shelly, and yet some read Stephen King and Charles Dickens. Many women of their generation probably read the top 25-50 famous British and American Literature authors like Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, George Orwell, Louisa May Alcott and others. As I poured through the book, the women have additional muses some call "whispers" or ideas they acquire from the eyes of their children or faces of their significant others, their grandmothers, or aunts, or mothers. A muse can be any one thing to any one person and it doesn't have to be consistent, as in life-it can change. As an aspiring writer, I will hold on to this book to keep me focused, to feel a connection to the words and the women authors, and to remember the bond that connects us not only through our culture, gender, or love of reading and writing, but to the human bond that connects us all. It's a book everyone should have on their shelf!-M. Espinola
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