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Rewriting Fiction
 David Lyons
You've spent perhaps a year or more writing your first manuscript. You've read and reread the work, corrected typo and grammatical errors, maybe even made changes where you thought they were needed. But for most of us of modest ability, there's still a long way to go...
Cindy Sheehan Takes On the Robber Class
 Bob Fitrakis
Myth America is an online book by Sheehan geared towards destroying the military industrial and security industrial complex that killed her son Casey in the corrupt war in Iraq.
 Full Spectrum Dominance
 The Real News Network
William Engdahl on his book Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
The Best Kids’ Books Ever
 Nicholas D. Kristof
A mountain of research points to a central lesson: Pry your kids away from the keyboard and the television this summer, and get them reading. Let me help by offering my list of the Best Children’s Books — Ever!
Drama and Diplomacy Author Jenny McGill Launches Website
 Robin Noelle
Author Jenny McGill recently announced the launch of her new website, which features sample chapters and audio readings of her book 'Drama and Diplomacy in Sultry Puerto Vallarta,' which covers her fourteen years as the US Consular Agent in Puerto Vallarta during the 1980's and 90's.
Culture of Secrecy Backfires Disastrously on United States
 Sherwood Ross Associates
The culture of secrecy in Government and Corporate America is a pattern "which deeply and often disastrously affects all of American life," a law dean writes.
Register Now for Travel Classics West 09
 PVNN
Registration for the Travel Classics West 2009 conference, scheduled to be held from October 15-18 at the Fairmont Scottsdale Resort, is officially open to professional travel writers who have published a minimum of three major magazine articles within the last 18 months.
New Book Surveys Oaxaca Uprising to Teach Rebellion
 Hans Bennett
Teaching Rebellion does just that: it teaches us why the 2006 rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico was so impressive, and is something we can all learn from.
IFC Cleft Palate Program: Making Miracles
 Polly G. Vicars
Husband and I joined Puerto Vallarta's International Friendship Club in 1988. Neither of us had ever been 'club' people, but the word was that the projects of this organization, especially the Cleft Palate Program, made dramatic differences in the lives of the people in the community.
Inside Hemingway's Havana House
 Kelly Cobiella
This Havana house is more than a home, it's a time capsule. The clock stopped in the summer of 1960, when Ernest Hemingway walked out for the last time.
Q & A: Eric Schlosser
 Now on PBS
In this interview excerpt, Eric Schlosser, award-winning journalist and author of the book "Fast Food Nation," discusses the state of the American food system.
Guillermo del Toro's "The Strain"
 Rick Warner
Growing up in Guadalajara, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro developed a fascination with vampires. He devoured books on the subject, drew pictures of the bloodsucking creatures and kept detailed notes on their anatomy. Del Toro has put that knowledge to good use in "The Strain," a new vampire thriller co-authored with Chuck Hogan.
Writing About Writers: Puerto Vallarta and Jenny McGill
 Marvin West
'Drama and Diplomacy in Sultry Puerto Vallarta' author Jenny McGill tells it like it is. If you ask enticing questions, you get exciting answers: about her 35 years in Mexico, about beauty and bandits, about Fourth of July parties and the fake gardener who fleeced her out of $35...
Planet Earth 2010 Travel Writers Contest
 Karen Misuraca
The Bay Area Travel Writers organization, based in San Francisco, announces its latest travel book and travel article competition for writers from around the United States - and the world. Travel journalists, writers and authors are welcome to enter the Planet Earth Awards 2010 contest.
A Captivating Look at a Bizarre Reign in Mexico
 Rebecca Markovits
"Once upon a time ?" So begins the story of "The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire," as told by the writer, translator and economist C.M. Mayo. Those familiar four little words bring us directly to a wonderfully busy intersection, the intersection between fairy tale and history, and from that spot, Mayo leads us down a myriad of fascinating trails.
A Masterful Portrait of an American Icon
 Edward Klein
In TED KENNEDY: THE DREAM THAT NEVER DIED, Edward Klein presents a captivating portrait of a man who was sometimes a destructive thrill-seeker, at other times a constructive and powerful lawmaker - but always an American legend.
Boomers in Paradise: Living in Puerto Vallarta
 James Tipton
Robert Nelson's Boomers in Paradise: Living in Puerto Vallarta, profiles fourteen "baby boomers" who now reside in Puerto Vallarta. The book, though, will be of interest to any expatriate (or would-be expatriate) whether or not they live in Vallarta.
America’s ‘Invasion’
 Malcolm Beith
"Invaded." That's the word former NEWSWEEK correspondent Joseph Contreras chooses to best sum up what is happening to Mexico this century in his new book, In the Shadow of the Giant: The Americanization of Modern Mexico.
Components of a Story
 David Lyons
So, what is story? Look it up in the dictionary and you won't find much there to help you if you want to write one. One of the 'how-to' books I once read offered the following equation. Conflict + action + resolution = story. It's a good starting point, but I think it needs some amplification...
Two Sides of Mexico's Best Short Fiction
 Carolyn Kellogg
The new anthology of short stories "Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction," edited by Álvaro Uribe, is out now from the Dalkey Archive Press.
Site Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies
 Brad Stone
Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it.
Mexico's Swine Flu Epidemic - Is the Truth Stranger Than Fiction?
 Ed Hutmacher
A few years ago, Barth Anderson wrote a biotech thriller about a mysterious virus that threatened to decimate the population of Mexico and spread to the rest of the world. Anderson surely didn't expect his book to foreshadow today's all-too-real flu epidemic in Mexico.
Compañero Obama? Obama Mends Fences with Latin America
 Benjamin Dangl
When George W. Bush went to Latin America, Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona called him "human trash," and protesters flooded the streets. Now, when Barack Obama visited, leftist Chavez wanted to shake his hand, the right-wing Uribe asked for his autograph and the anti-imperialist book Open Veins of Latin America made an unlikely journey to the White House.
Amazon Unveils the Kindle DX
 Alana Semuels
Now you can read newspapers, textbooks and PDFs - all for just $489! That's because Amazon.com unveiled the third iteration of Kindle, its digital book reader, at a press conference in New York today helmed by CEO Jeff Bezos.
Style, Voice, Tone (and Music) in Writing
 David Lyons
Talk about a writer's 'voice' and what follows is vague at best. I suppose what is meant is that the writer is achieving an identifiable style of writing. I prefer the term 'tone' in trying to define style, and one reason I probably like it is because it has musical application as well.
Mexico: Writer Who Exposed Child Sex Ring Fears Worst is Yet to Come
 Diego Cevallos
When Mexican freelance journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho published a book last year exposing a paedophile ring, she was warned by friends and colleagues that she would run into trouble.
Self-Publishing Comes Into Its Own
 David Lyons
Self-publishing is not just an end in itself, but increasingly provides a stepping stone to the world of traditional publishing. The self-published author who aspires to the 'big leagues' can make it by proving there is a market for his work.
Chavez's Gift to Obama Swiftly Becomes Best-Seller
 Associated Press
A book by an Uruguayan journalist that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama is now the No. 5 seller on Amazon.com. Galeano's book documents how foreign interests have dominated and afflicted Latin America since the Spanish conquest.
John Gibler, Mexico Uncounquered
 LBN Studio
John Gibler's book "Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt" takes a look into the history of Mexico and how the country got to where it is today.
Immigration Issues Top Mexico Book Club’s Reading Recommendations for April
 Ed Hutmacher
Who doesn't have an opinion about illegal immigration? Immigration is one of the thorniest hot-button issues yet to play out in the ongoing love-hate relationship between Mexico and the United States - and these three books do a good job of underscoring the prickly problem.
US Torture Team
 Jim Miles
About a year ago, a book came out in England that made a fascinating prediction: at some point in the future, the author wrote, six top officials in the Bush Administration would get a tap on the shoulder announcing that they were being arrested on international charges of torture.
Novel Ideas: Where Do They Come From?
 David Lyons
You're here and settled in. Puerto Vallarta is all you had hoped it would be and more. You're ready to write, but what? If there is a moment of terror in the mainly passive exercise of creative writing, it's staring at that first blank page...
China's Last Eunuch Spills Sex Secrets
 Emma Graham-Harrison
A turbulent life has been recorded in the "The Last Eunuch of China" by amateur historian Jia Yinghua, who over years of friendship drew out of Sun the secrets that were too painful or intimate to spill to prying journalists or state archivists.
Write, Publish, and Sell Your Book in Puerto Vallarta
 David Lyons
The idea of settling down in a tropical paradise to write that novel inside you has been the dream of many for generations. Every year, people arrive in Puerto Vallarta for an extended vacation with that same goal in mind - to write that book.
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