When my first novel The Closet of Discarded Dreams, a Chicano fantasy, received honorable mention last year, I felt lucky and honored. I'm not a contender this year, since I haven't had a novel published since. Still, on-screen, I can remember the feeling and hope some of my acquaintances do well, in my place. But only this year, remember.
Over the ruido of Las Vegas slots, the 2014
International Latino Book Award finalists will be announced this weekend. Here's
some special Gritos! for books of friends, and contributors to La Bloga (may they have better luck on-stage than they do at the roulette table):
Señor Pancho
Had a Rancho,
René Colato Laínez
Noldo and his
Magical Scooter at the Battle of The Alamo, Armando B. Rendón
Our Lost
Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence, Sarah Cortez & Sergio Troncoso
What the Tide Brings, Xánath Caraza
Good Money Gone, Mario Acevedo [w/Richard
Kilborn]
Mañana Means
Heaven, Tim Z.
Hernandez
Desperado: A
Mile High Noir,
Manuel Ramos
The Old
Man’s Love Story,
Rudolfo Anaya
Ghosts of
the Black Rose, Land of Enchantment 2, Belinda Vasquez Garcia
Reyes
Cárdenas: Chicano Poet 1970-2010, Reyes Cárdenas
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| Sylvia Moreno-Garcia |
Another latina finalist. In Canada!
The
novel This Strange Way of Dying by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia was short-listed for The Sunburst Award
Society for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, 2014.
The Sunburst Award
jury said: "Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s short story collection This Strange Way of Dying is a grimoire
of the beautifully macabre, capable of summoning up strange worlds imbued with
the secret fears and thrills we try to bury in shadow. Moreno-Garcia’s words on
the page whisper sweet seductions, inviting the reader to open doorways to her
or his subconscious and become familiar with things that have been estranged.
This
Strange Way of Dying bridges the divides
between science fiction, horror, and fantasy, opening readers to the overall
power of the uncanny, whether through Lovecraftian stories of summoning
darkness, feathered snakes, vampires, necromancers, resurrected soldiers,
witchcraft, or tales of murder and betrayal. Silvia Moreno-Garcia makes the
mundane magical, the normal strange, and points out the macabre foundations of
our social myths. This Strange Way of
Dying opens funhouse mirrors, revealing for the reader her or his own
distorted image, changed by the experience of reading.
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
is a writer, editor, and publisher who was born in Mexico but now lives in British
Columbia. This Strange Way of Dying
is her first collection; her debut novel, Signal
to Noise, will be published in 2015.
BIG Lástima:
On Facebook I claimed I'd be featured in an NPR broadcast yesterday. I lied. Due to broadcast quality, it didn't happen. Sorry, because it might have been my fault, what with doing the phone interview outside on the patio and my dog's barking. See last Saturday's post for info I would've given.
Es todo, hoy,
RudyG, aka Chicano fantasy author Rudy Ch. Garcia
As a Canadian writing a romantic novel set mostly in Mexico, it's nice to see Sylvia Moreno-Garcia from Canada doing well with her novel. And, one of the best Mariachi Band from Canada was invited recently to tour in China.
ReplyDeletegracias for the plug on reyes' book, carnal rudy. he won honorable mention. hope you and your familia are doing well. juan
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