I will be moderating the panel
AT LAST: FIRST FICTION

Please join me and a wonderful group of recently published novelists: Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack (they wrote as one), Alex Espinoza, Jeff Hobbs, and Andrea Portes. I have read all of their books and can’t wait to meet them (Jennifer and Karen I’ve met before at the SBCA Awards..the night they won best fiction - not bad for a first novel - but it really is a wonderful book, I read it in one night over to morning - I haven’t done that since Once Is Not Enough in 1975).
This really is a top-notch group of emerging talent. DON’T MISS IT!!!

Shortly before my mother died, I was moved to write this piece. It was such a crazy time, I’m amazed I had the clarity to write anything at all. The good people at Slow Trains immediately agreed to publish it.

Excerpt:

“This is not material,” I tell myself as I lean in to kiss her. “This is your mother.” But it is material. Like the brainwashed assassin who can’t help but kill, I have been trained to write.

Maria Moreno de Santiago 1937 - 2007.

A WRITER ABROAD…it’s every writer’s dream to get away from it all, explore new horizons, meet all sorts of different people from all walks of life. Sometimes dreams come true. It took me three months to travel around the world, but a simple click will get you there…one - two - three!

Thanks to friends and fans, Tomorrow They Will Kiss tops the bestseller list for the year 2006 at Skylight Books.

The Smile of the Crocodile

They finally found Chucho, in Coral Gables, decomposing in his car. Neighbors first noticed birds, graceful white vultures circling above their houses, silent as spirits, against the powder-blue Miami sky…

Denver’s Rocky Mountain News names Tomorrow They Will Kiss among top ten overlooked gems.

Tomorrow They Will Kiss is featured in the July issue of Delta Sky magazine. There is a brief article, as well as an excerpt.

This Magic Moment

See, I’m not just another prostitute. What happened with Rodney King was personal. It was special. He knows it and I know it. Sometimes you feel something. But the Cubans, they would never understand that…

“Enjoyable and touching - timely, too, reminding us in the midst of a polarized debate over immigration of the multiplicity of real-life meanings encompassed by that term.”

- The Boston Globe

Eduardo Santiago will be reading and signing his new book at 2pm Saturday August 12. Children are welcome.