Dive into the wonderful and masterful works of author Alfredo Véa. You should firstly do this if you like quality literary fiction. We are also entering Hispanic Heritage Month and October is Filipino American History month, a perfect crossover. Véa’s works employ comic book realism (literary fiction that exercises an evolution of Latin American magical…
Category: Reads
DR163: Graphic Novella
A long-lost graffiti artist and trauma surgeon form an unlikely friendship when the magic of their hands turns them into midnight vigilantes. It’s the vertical scroll down graphic novella DR163. Aaron Guzman‘s art is a magical scroll down a mind-bending story written by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos of a doctor in need of healing and the…
On Tropes, Themes and Libraries
Clip from my longer read of the novel To Love Like Venus, where I highlight some of the larger themes of the book, which partially takes place in Greece in the near future 2050s and includes modern day concerns of impact of climate change, unsustainable tourism and the risk of unchecked foreign buyouts. While being…
Reading Venus in the Greek Islands
To Love Like Venus: when New York becomes Greece Themes, tropes and settings A beach read for the Greek islands? The book and this reading include the fun and sensuality of it all, but this reading also sets the novel within the culture and concerns of Greece, not at all just a backdrop. Plus I…
Reflections on a Marine Venus
Reflecting on the theme of a marine Venus: on statues, on legacy, on goddesses, youth and death. Reading an excerpt from Lawrence Durrell’s Reflections on a Marine Venus, while providing insight into some of the original non-fiction seeds of my debut novel, To Love Like Venus. You can find Durrell’s masterful works worldwide at bookstores…
Book Shopping by the Juicy Details
I’m the kind of book shopper that finds her books by walking into a bookstore mostly and seeing beautiful covers and titles, and I take it from there. Also of course book reviews I read, or something that I walk into. Authors (I’m told in the business world) make the mistake thinking that most readers…
Las Vegas-Clark County Library Venus Additions
Update in Las Vegas Venusian Library Buzz: Las Vegas “Free to be” library has added not one, not two, not three but FOUR hardcovers of To Love Like Venus, adding to its already ebook catalogue! I am library geeking out. On order at the moment, but find them at: Enterprise LibraryRainbow LibraryWest Charleston LibraryWindmill Library…
Getting over the Heebie-Jeebies about buying a Self-Published or Indie Book
Got the Heebie-Jeebies about buying a Self-Published or Indie Book? Slide through to learn some things about how you can be a curator of your own book tastes and join the growing crowd excited about adding Indie books to their home (and local) libraries. That includes you, literary fiction. See you soon at BookCon Indie…
Summer Life
Summer vibes, on a world that is (officially confirmed) to be spinning faster. Some of us are really feeling it. Slip into (or out of) something more comfortable. Now available to the public, samples of some of the stories in Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back (and one also in Not Your Papi’s Utopia)…
Persephone’s Flowers
Sometimes our eyes open up to the myth that make up our lives, and the seasons. From bucolic seaside hills, fireside and on the waterfront of an old tannery: sit down for storytelling from the book that bends genre, as well as spacetime. Journey through stories that question: what happens when we cross the line?…
