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2016 Recap
This was a very busy year for me, especially with travel and translations, even though it seems that most of the things I worked on this year are still in the pipeline for publication in the year(s) to come ( Read more... ) -
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Signing copies of UNA BARBA PARA DOS this evening at the LGBT Book Fair in Madrid.
Firmando ejemplares de UNA BARBA PARA DOS ésta tarde en la Feria de Libros LGBT en Madrid.
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"Lost Cat": a micro story in Spanish from my new book UNA BARBA PARA DOS
Here is one of the micro stories from my new Spanish-language book, UNA BARBA PARA DOS, which is a collection of 100 erotic micro fictions (each a maximum of 500 words, or both sides of a single sheet of paper ( Read more... ) -
We Belong Together
On a day full of so much political divisiveness in so many countries, I find the news this morning that my picture book WIJ HOREN BIJ ELKAAR (We Belong Together) illustrated by Ann de Bode, will be published in China to be heartening news. Not just because it's another rights sale, but because it shows people still believing in the power of ( Read more... ) -
Latvia
I've hardly used this journal, as anyone who still has it on their feeds will know. Not sure it makes sense to try and summarize what's happened in the interim, so will just jump in as if I've been using it all this time ( Read more... ) -
Tour for new book in Spanish
I've been remiss in posting, but my new book in Spanish, UNA BARBA PARA DOS, came out on February 1st, and today was the first booklaunch, in Madrid, of the 6 city promotional tour: Madrid, San Sebastian, Bilbao, Santander, Valencia, Barcelona.
Here's the info on all the cities and the dates I'll be presenting on at different bookshops.
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2015 Recap
This was a very busy year for me, although a lot of the projects I finished writing or translating have been pushed back to 2016 or 2017. Publishing can be like that--sometimes things happen in the blink of an eye and at others there is a lengthy gestation period. The good news is: lots of books and projects in the pipeline... Including my return ( Read more... ) -
2014 Recap
2014 was a pretty good year for me, although in some ways it was a year of transition, as I try and put into practice some reflections on my own life following the death of my grandmother last December; this will hopefully lead to my moving away from the more-commercial translations, which pay much better than literary ones (alas!) but which I am ( Read more... ) -
Interview
Grateful to M. Lynx Qualey for highlighting A Midsummer Night's Press's new Periscope Poetry imprint with this Q&A with me on her blog: http://arablit.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/new-imprint-looking- -
Book trailer for EuroNightmare
This is the book trailer for Aleix Saló's graphic novel EURONIGHTMARE, which I translated into English for Penguin Random House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDqayC1sR7g