READING WITH LAS COMADRES
A partnership with Las Comadres,
American Association of Publishers
and Borders, Inc. Las Comadres book clubs are meeting
in specific
Border's locations to discuss the September 2008 pick.
(Click
here for more information on the bookclub!)
More
Than This
by
Margo Candela
Monday, September
22, 2008
8:00pm Eastern and Puerto Rico, 7:00pm Central, 6:00pm
Mountain, 5:00pm Pacific, 2:00pm Hawaii
The interview should last approximately 1 hour
Join Marta Acosta,
and comadres around the
nation on September 22, as she interviews
Margo Candela
author of
More Than This
published by Touchstone, A division of Simon
and Schuster
All will be welcomed by spokesperson comadre
Esmeralda Santiago. More at http://www.esmeraldasantiago.com
Have
you ever wanted to know how an author writes
a book? Where she gets her ideas? Who or what is her inspiration?
What she hoping to accomplish? Now you can have these and
other questions answered in the Reading with Las Comadres
LIVE Teleconference Series!
Each month comadre guest interviewers (announced monthly),
will interview a comadre author, whose latest book has just
been released, in a teleconference. To register
just fill out the form below. You will receive a confirmation
with the date, time, and call in numbers for the teleconference.
On the day of the event, just phone in and listen to the interview!
You may send questions to the author via Nora Comstock.
More
ThanThis
Sometimes what we have is not enough.
She doesn't know his name and he doesn't know hers, but they
just might be perfect for each other. Alexander Velazquez,
an ambitious lawyer from a working-class neighborhood, and
Evelyn Sinclair, a daughter of privilege trying to make it
on her own, are strangers living parallel yet very different
lives. Alex finds himself deeply entrenched in the life of
an unredeemable client, and Evelyn realizes she's committed
herself to a company with questionable ethics.
They are both brokenhearted workaholics constantly trying
to keep up with the demands of family and friends. What they
both want is to find meaning in their lives; what they're
doing is looking in the wrong directions. As they watch each
other through their office windows, all they can do is wonder
about what might happen if they took a chance on the stranger
across the street.
****+****
Margo Candela (the pen name for Maria A. Del Toro) was born
and raised in Northeast Los Angeles. After graduating from
San Francisco State University with a degree in journalism
she wrote for magazines and websites. Since turning her attention
to fiction, she's seen three of her novels published in two
years (Underneath It All and Life Over
Easy, Kensington Books, 2007 and More Than This,
Touchstone Books, 2008). Her fourth, How Can I Tell
You, will be published next summer by Touchstone.
This fall she is returning to school and looking forward to
starting her next book. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.
Online you can find her and her blog at www.MargoCandela.com.
Interviewed by Marta Acosta. Marta lives in
the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a feral reader, roaming
the stacks of the public library. She received a degree in
English Literature and Creative Writing from Stanford University
and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Contra
Costa Times, and Spaces Magazine. Marta lives with her husband
and son and their crazy dog. An avid gardener, she likes independent
films, funny novels, loud music and lively conversations.
More about Marta at www.martaacosta.com
