LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS ANNOUNCES ITS BOOKS OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER

 

The Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club is pleased to announce its Books of the Month for October:

 

  

 

LOS MUERTOS: DAY OF THE DEAD FICTION edited by Adela Pineda Franco (Trinity University Press) – The first anthology of fiction devoted to the Day of the Dead celebratory holiday written by Mexican and Mexican American writers.  Twenty plus stories related to memorializing the dead.  (NOTE: Publisher offering 20% discount. Use the code Comadres20 for paperback only.  Here’s the link:  https://tupress.org/9781595343130/los-muertos/)

VANISHING DAUGHTERS by Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer) – This Bram Stoker Award-winning author has written a chilling suspense thriller about a haunted woman stalked by a serial killer and the nightmares of real life.   (NOTE:  Kindle Unlimited has this book for $0 now.)

 

  

SAVE THE DATE!  Mark your calendars for Monday, October 27, 8pm ET for the monthly Live Author Podcast when we will get a chance to talk to the authors and ask them about their books.   Register today for the podcast and you may win a FREE BOOK: https://latinolit.com/join-teleconference/

  

Shop for your books here:  https://bookshop.org/shop/lascomadresbookclub

 

Subscribe to the Las Comadres YouTube Channel for more author interviews.  Here's the link to last month's Live Author Podcast: https://youtu.be/jg4yB6FefVM?si=s_xr01YyWGxqVy1L

 

    

Happy Reading and Always Read Latino Lit!

 

 

LAS COMADRES CELEBRATES ITS MEMBERS ACCOMPLISHMENTS & BOOK NEWS FOR MONTH OF SEPTEMBER

 Comadres Lead the Way!

 

 

Join us in celebrating our Comadres Accomplishments and Book News.  

This list is for promotional purposes only and not intended as an endorsement of any kind.

 

 

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

     

Julia Abrantes (Delray Beach, FL) – Celebrated 20 years being cancer free from malignant melanoma. Amen.

 

Olga Campos Benz (Austin, TX) – Honored to receive the Community Leadership Award presented during the inaugural Latina Legacy Awards hosted by the Foundation of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Fellow Latina Legacy Award recipients include the Honorable State Rep. Lulu Flores, Yolanda Sanchez, Dr. Susan Warner Sanchez, Julie Ann Zuniga, and Raquel Valdez Sanchez. The luncheon and presentation occurred on June 12.

 

Bobbie Garza-Hernandez (San Marcos, TX) -- Courtney Enriquez received the Award of Excellence - Emerging Artist from the Emma S. Barrientos - Mexican American Cultural Center (in July).  She was also featured in a solo exhibit of her signature Loteria artwork at La Pena Gallery, on Congress Avenue, Austin, TX throughout the month of July.

 

Ligiah Villalobos Rojas (Studio City, CA) -- Her short play “woman Ascending” will be part of the Luminous Streets Project the last two weeks in September.  

 

 

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COMADRE AUTHORS

 

 

Nyx Coronado (Phoenix, AZ) --- Her debut romance novel, THE DHAMPIR’S ACOLYTE, is out now.  It’s a romance between a solitary dhampir and a merchant’s daughter. Can their romance withstand his ruthless family or will it cost her life?

 

Gina Isabel Rodriguez (Wilbraham, MA) -- I published my first piece of journalism on a lost documentary about the 1973 Chile coup: https://current.org/2025/08/why-wnet-backed-away-from-groundbreaking-coverage-of-the-chile-coup/

 

 

 

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Congratulations to all !