I'm getting ready to make my award-winning novel Soulsaver available on Amazon Kindle. The manuscript is currently about 75% edited and formatted. Hope to be uploading it in the next few days. Stay tuned! ‪#‎Soulsaver‬ ‪#‎Kindle‬

Preparing to make my award-winning novel Soulsaver available on Amazon Kindle. Currently about halfway through editing and formatting the manuscript. Hope to be uploading it in the next few days. Stay tuned!

I now have an author's page on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing​. You can check it out here.

In my day job, I've done a considerable amount of translation work over the years -- English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English -- for clients such as Citibank, Interstate General Properties, Max Factor, Pizza Hut, Scotiabank, TIRI Realty, and Banco Popular of Puerto Rico, to name just a few. I've also translated a few screenplays for producers here ( Read more... )

Who could ever have suspected ( Read more... )

GLASS WOMAN PRIZE
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NO ENTRY FEE

Awarded for a piece of short fiction or creative nonfiction written by a woman.

Length: between 1 and 25 pages.

The prize for the second award is US $380 and online publication (the winner of the first award of US$500 has already been selected).

Deadline: September 21, 2007.

Before the conference on local film distribution started yesterday morning (see previous post), I managed to corner the head of the local Film Fund and ask when he thought we might get the contract for Souls taken care of.

He (in Spanish): "There are four other productions we have to deal with ahead of yours."

Me (in Spanish): "So, January, then ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning (December 14th), I'm attending a conference on local film distribution at which the main speaker will be the general manager of the largest movie theater chain on the Island ( Read more... )

Since I last posted about our production of Souls on September 22nd, we have been trying to get our contract with the Puerto Rico Film Fund negotiated and signed so we can access the 5-year, interest-free $150,000 loan they have approved for our project and get rolling ( Read more... )

HOLY HORRORS
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Wanted: Anything that spins, gestates, evolves, devolves, erupts, or otherwise issues, in a spectacularly evil, disturbing, supernatural, horrific, weird, insane, or otherwise grotesque way from religion.

5,000-word limit. Pays 5 cents/word. Pays 2 cents/word for reprints. Deadline February 2007.