Meditations

Photo by Richard Weaver http://rweaver.dphoto.com/

So friends and family everywhere: Those of you who know me know how swamped I’ve been ever since I took on numerous book projects last year (my Contraband novel, the PANIC! anthology, and co-editing Macho to Mariposa with Lord Charles Rice-González), though I won’t complain as it’s been a lot of fun and a major learning experience. Another book project is wrapping up—but we’ll get to that a little later…

Other fantastic developments have come about that I’d like to share with you…

Mayra Santos-Febres, the creator of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s wonderful Festival de la Palabra was in New York recently and we had the chance to meet in person. We spoke at length on a variety of subjects and I agreed to get on board and help coordinate the festival’s debut in New York this year, in May. So when those details surface I will share them…I’m really excited about this since this festival engages writers from around the world and is conducted in different languages (you can subscribe to this blog at the very bottom of this post for news on this).

Festival de la Palabra website: http://www.festivaldelapalabra.net/

(More on that soon, when the entire program is confirmed.)

As for the blog’s name change again: I cannot keep the same format running when my schedule fills in and warps; I know that many of you like to read the book reviews I post and there’s good news for you. I will still post book reviews. But blasting you once/twice a month with my feelings on random bits of literature feels a bit impersonal, so I’m going to strive to make this experience more intimate (don’t get any weird ideas) as well as informative.

So welcome aboard if you’re one in the latest surge of subscribers, and thank you for hanging in there if you’ve been following me for the last two years. It’s been fun for me, too! More news to come very soon…do you smell spring in the air yet where you are?

xo Charlie

To receive my bimonthly posts straight to your email, register here: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CharlieVazquez