September 2010 Teleconference

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Monday, September 27, 2010

at 8:00 pm Eastern and Puerto Rico
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6:00 pm Mountain
5:00 pm Pacific
2:00 pm Hawaii


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 hopes 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. Click on the link above to register. 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


About the Book

Sisters, Strangers, and Starting Over

Beatriz Sánchez-Milligan is shocked when her 14-year-old niece, Celeste, stumbles into her 25th wedding anniversary party. Celeste reveals that her mother, Perla, has died and that she has nowhere else to go. Beatriz immediately takes Celeste in-a decision that troubles her husband, Larry, who remembers that wherever Perla went, trouble followed. He worries his wife is rushing in without having all the facts. Undaunted, Beatriz begins to plan a quinceañera for Celeste; but the party planning doesn't comfort Celeste, nor does it ease Beatriz's pain. She feels guilty for losing contact with Perla, and that guilt grows deeper when she meets Josie Mendoza, a journalist who reveals that Perla may have been murdered. Beatriz wants to adopt Celeste to make peace with her late sister, but Larry still has concerns. For the first time, their rock solid marriage starts to crumble, and a frightened, young girl is caught in the middle. Somehow Beatriz must find a way to save her family, before the ghosts of her past tear it apart.

Sisters, Strangers, and Starting Over book cover

(Published by
Grand Central Publishing
)

 

About the Author

Belinda Acosta lives and writes in Austin, Texas where she is a columnist for the Austin Chronicle. Her non-fiction has appeared in Poets and Writers, Latino USA, the Radio Journal of News and Culture, AlterNet, the San Antonio Current, and Latino Magazine. She is a member of Macondo, the writers' collective launched by acclaimed writer Sandra Cisneros.

She loves knitting, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, chips & salsa, mariachi (good, make your soul leap from your body, mariachi); conjunto music (todo old school), and given the opportunity, will square dance. Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz is her first novel.

About the Guest Interviewer

To Be Announced


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