THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

    The Latina Book Club welcomes author Lilibeth Andre , an artist and a writer. Today, Lilibeth shares with us her fascination with the oral history of Mexico’s legends, and how they inspired her novel, THE LADY OF THE TURQUOISE PENDANT. Q: For THE LADY OF THE TURQUOISE PENDANT, which came first the painting or the book idea? A: The book idea came first. I originally wrote it as a short story. Then in 1999, I began to work on the book, and completed the manuscript in 2002. I created the painting in 2012. I decided to do portraits of the main characters, and that turned into a series of eight paintings to illustrate the book. At first, it was challenging to take characters I created with words and turn them into a 2D image. So I started, as I do with most things, with the hardest character first, the Jaguar Knight. Q: What is the legend of the volcanoes? Was it always a love story? Are these legends recorded anywhere for the next generation? A: The legend ...

Yolanda is the author of PORRIDGE & CUCU: MY CHILDHOOD and THE HONEYEATER.  She will be featured on April 3rd on Writers Wednesdays.  Yolanda was also generous to offer a FREE E-Book to all Latina Book Club readers on March 11 and March 16 only.  See link at end. Please join me in welcoming Yolanda to The Latina Book Club. Q.  Tell us about your new book, PORRIDGE & CUCU: MY CHILDHOOD. What is it about? PORRIDGE & CUCU is the story of a young girl growing up with her family—first in Panama, then in New York. The novel chronicles the life of Yamila as a child—during carnival, in a Catholic girls' school, playing with friends, navigating a bicultural and bilingual existence, eating "porridge and cucu" (foods she ate as a child). Also, a few ghost stories as told by her grandfather. Q.  Is this story autobiographical? Tell us about your background. Where is your family from? where did you grow up? siblings? children? PORRIDG...

The Latina Book Club congratulates Nilsa Rodriguez on her debut novel, THE RISING MOON, a YA paranormal romance that is thrilling, scary, complicated and exciting all at once.    Join us today as we "speak" with Nilsa and find out about her new series and her favorite things. How many lives do you have to live to realize that love is stronger than time and death? You and I both know my life is far from normal. I'm a werewolf, madly and desperately in love with a vampire. I could never live a normal life even if I tried." ~Angelia Lafosse Q&A....with Nilsa Rodriguez In your novel, THE RISING MOON, you introduce us to Angelia Lafosse. Tell us about her and her world. Angelia (Lia to her friends) is an eighteen year old girl who has grown up being shuffled between foster home and foster home. She lost her parents when she was only four years old and because everyone she has ever loved died, including her foster mother, Lia believes she is cursed...