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Dancing Chiva Literary
Arts Newsletter
November
2011
Hola to all on the Dancing Chiva list! A very warm welcome to
all, and especially to those of you who are new on this list.
= = = THREE NEW E-BOOKS = = =
 SPIRITIST
MANUAL
The secret book by Francisco I.
Madero, leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution, translated for the
first time into English by C.M. Mayo
>Available on Kindle now
Soon to be available on iBook,
Nook and as PDF
C.M. Mayo will
be presenting and discussing this book
November 10, 2011
San Miguel de Allende
Author's
Sala
Can't make the event? Click here for more about this very unusual
book:
MIRACULOUS
AIR
Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other
Mexico by C.M. Mayo
Currently available in paperback from Milkweed Editions; for
that edition, click here:
http://www.cmmayo.com/miraculousair.html
Also soon to be available on
iBook, Nook and as PDF
"With elegant prose and an artist's eye for detail, Mayo
may just have written one of the best books ever about Baja California.
Highly recommended"
Library Journal
 FROM
MEXICO TO MIRAMAR
Or, Across the Lake of Oblivion,
the award-winning nonfiction novela by C.M. Mayo
About a 2004 journey to Maximilian von Habsurg's (yes) Italian
castle, part of the research behind the novel based on the true
story, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled
Books) and El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano
(Grijalbo Random House-Mondadori). The essay, orignally published
in the Massachusetts Review, won the Washingtion Writing
Prize for Personal Essay.
Also soon to be available on
iBook and Nook
Also available as a double
audio CD.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/CMMayo1
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= = = FREE PODCASTS FOR WRITERS
= = =
 "How to Break a Writing Block"
"The Number One Technique in Techniques of Fiction"
"The Arc of Writerly Action"
and many more... Listen in now on iTunes or Podomatic:
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= = = FORTHCOMING E-BOOKS = = =
 El último príncipe del
Imperio Mexicano, la novela sobre la historia de la vida real por C.M. Mayo
Currently available in paperback from Gijalbo Random House-Mondadori;
for that edition, click here:
http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-el-ultimo-principe-del-imperio-mexicano.html
"En México se han
escrito novelas históricas que recrean con erudición,
maestría y poesía una época, un episodio,
una atmósfera y unos personajes. Pienso, desde luego,
en Noticias del imperio de Fernando del Paso; también
en la obra de Enrique Serna sobre Santa Anna. . .o la reciente
novela de C.M. Mayo: El último príncipe del
Imperio Mexicano, sobre el nieto de Iturbide en la corte
de Maximiliano." Enrique
Krauze
 My
Recollections of Maximilian
by Marie de la Fere, edited by C.M. Mayo
A previously unpublished English language eyewitness memoir.
Forthcoming.
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= = = WORKSHOPS = = =
February 20 and 21, 2012 San Miguel de Allende
Two Day Intensive " Techniques of Fiction"
C.M. Mayoto offer this workshop direct;y following the San Miguel
Writers Conference. organized by the San Miguel Writers Conference.
Click
here for more information and to register on-line
= = = C.M. MAYO LINKS = = =
C.M. Mayo's home page http://www.cmmayo.com
C.M. Mayo en español
http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol.html
C.M. Mayo's events in Mexico
City, Washington DC, and elsewhere
(workshops, book signings, conference panels, lectures)
http://www.cmmayo.com/events.html
= = = MAXIMILIANA = = =
"Maximilian ~ Carlota"
A blog for researchers,
both serious and armchair, of the Second Empire, the tumultuous
period of Mexican history also known as the French Interevention."
Updated on (most) Tuesdays.
http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.com
Maximilian von Mexiko
A webpage in English with on-line articles, bibliography, original
photographs and more
http://www.cmmayo.com/maximilian.html
= = = FOR WRITERS = = =
Visit C.M. Mayo's Resources for Writers
Page
>Links to several recommended editors
> Plus "Language
Overlay: A technique of Fiction"
>Link to Michelle Kerns' "30
Famous Authors Whose Works Were Rejected (Repeadetly and Sometimes
Rudely) by Editors"
>Link to Tom Christensen's "How
to Get a Book Published in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps"
= = = BOOK ARTS = = =
"My Marbled Papers Shop"
from Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.etsy.com/shop/mymarbledpapers
Eden Workshops on Bookbinding
http://www.edenworkshops.com
= = = E-BOOKS ARE THE FUTURE = = =
Publisher's Weekly: "At
ALA Midwinter, Librarians Ponder the Ebook Future"
New York Times: "Amazon
Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal"
Seth Godin: "The
Future of the Library"
= = = LITERARY LOVE (WE LOVE
THESE SITES AND WE THINK YOU WILL TOO) = = =
Beltway Poetry
http://washingtonart.com/beltway.html
BibliOdyssey
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/
Sophy Burnham's new blog, "SophyWisdom"
http://sophywisdom.wordpress.com/
Casa Lamm in Mexico City
http://www.casalamm.com.mx/
Sam Quinones: tell Your True
Tale
http://www.samquinones.com/category/true-tales/
Shiela Bender's Writing It Real
http://www.writingitreal.com/page.php?p=study_with_sheila
The Private Library
http://privatelibrary.typepad.com/
Unbridled Books (publisher of my novel, The Last Prince
of the Mexican Empire)
http://www.unbridledbooks.com
Whereabouts Press (publisher of my anthology, Mexico:
A Traveler's Literary Companion)
Travel the world from your armchair; hear whole countries speak...
http://www.whereaboutspress.com
La Sombra del Sabino in Tepoztlan,
Morelos, Mexico
Outstanding reading series, near Cuernavaca
http://www.lasombradelsabino.com.mx/
Literal Magazine: Latin American
Voices / Voces Latinoamericanos
Edited by Rose Mary Salum
http://www.literalmagazine.com
Saima Agency
Our virtual assistant, based in Brooklyn
http://www.saimaagency.com/
San Miguel Literary Sala
Reading Series in San Miguel de Allende
http://sanmiguelliterarysala.org/
SOL: English Writing in Mexico
Edited by Eva Hunter, based in San Miguel de Allende
http://www.solliterarymagazine.com
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