January 28, Houston: The book launch party for Lone Star Legend is at Brazos Bookstore, at 7 PM. Y'all are all invited!
February 4, Houston: I'll be reading/signing at the downtown Houston Public Library, at 6 PM.
February 5, Austin: I'll be reading/signing at BookPeople and will undoubtedly stop by the FlipHappy crepe trailer some time after that.
February 5, San Antonio: I'll be reading/signing at the San Pedro Barnes and Noble and will probably buy some coconut candy at Mi Tierra, too.
My other blog: Go read my the Houston Chronicle parenting blog (or my ChronMomBlog, as I like to call it) and find out what I've said to piss off the more conservative commenters this week.
Buy my new novel, Lone Star Legend.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Win free books!In celebration of
Look at these sexy titles:
Zumba by Beto Perez , Maggie Greenwood-Robinson
Evenings at the Argentine Club by Julia Amante
Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz by Belinda Acosta
Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo
Amigoland by Oscar Casares
I haven't read any of them yet, but I've heard good things about all of them, and they share my publisher, who hires good editors, and I'm doing a reading with Oscar Casares in May, so I'd love to send them to y'all and hear what you think.
Here are the contest rules:
1. You must have a non-P.O.-box mailing address in the US or Canada that you're willing to send me if/when you win.
2. You must post, in the comments on this post, the name of your favorite Latino author.
You must post your email address as well so I have some way of getting your address from you. If you don't want to comment, you can also email me your response at gwendolyn.zepeda@gmail.com.
3. If you have a preference as to which of the books listed you'd like to win, go ahead and type that, too.
4. I will put y'all's names in a Franco Sarto shoe box and have my cats draw the winners. Then I will give your addresses to Hachette (my publisher) and they will send y'all the books.
Deadline for entry is October 31.
Ready?
Go!
Comments:
My favorite Latino author is Gwendolyn Zepeda. :)paulworthington@yahoo.com
# posted by
Paul Worthington : 9:31 PM
Isabel Allende
Ann Bever
vabever[at]yahoo.com
# posted by
Ann : 10:12 PM
My favorite Latino author is Alisa Valdes Rodriguez.
# posted by
Adriana78 : 7:38 AM
Gwendolyn Zepeda and Sandra Cisneros
I'd love to read Amigoland, but all of those books sound terrific.
knittingreaderATgmailDOTcom
# posted by
KnittingReader : 3:40 PM
Shoot, my favorite Latina author is also Gwendolyn Zepeda! I'm in need of books, so I'll read any of them.
amy@stacystudio.com
# posted by
: 5:56 PM
Favorite latina author: Alisa Valdes Rodriguez..thanks to her and her book club, i learned about YOU and Houston, we have a Problema, which i am currently reading. Honestly, any book would be great.
bethgonzalez@yahoo.com
# posted by
Elizabeth : 6:58 PM
My favorite Latino author is Paulo Coelho.
My first choice is Amigoland, and second choice is Tell Me Something True.
beltane@jeffnash.com
Thank you for this opportunity!
# posted by
: 9:53 AM
Junot Diaz
ydutchover at hotmail.com
Any book but Belinda's (because I have it already). :)
# posted by
Yvonne : 8:09 PM
One book that stands out from a Latino author is Victor Martinez from Parrot in the Oven.
ktbuettner@gmail.com
# posted by
Kim : 9:00 PM
Easy! For me too, my favorite latina author is Gwendolyn Zepeda!
M.R.
# posted by
: 7:21 AM
Luis Rodriguez
I haven't read any of the books listed, so if I were to win any of them, I'd be tickled!
learue@yahoo.com
# posted by
Lea : 3:29 PM
Just posting to say how much I enjoyed meeting you at the Texas Book Festival and to thank you for signing "Growing Up With Tamales" for my sister at the reading on Sunday. (We were the ones who were at the knitting demo.)
I have to say, I was very impressed with the kids who introduced you. Did they get school credit for that? They did such a good job, especially the boy, recognizing the themes of your work. I definitely could not define "themes of an author's work" when I was in 6th? grade, much less tell you what any of them were for a particular author.
# posted by
: 8:45 PM
Hi, Anna. I enjoyed meeting you both and my mind is indelibly impressed with your snowcone-tinted smiles. :)
Rest of y'all: I shook the box and drew your names and I'll be emailing you for your addresses momentarily...
# posted by
Gwen : 1:13 PM
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