More news, including presentations at the University of California
San Diego, Stanford University, University of El Paso, many interviews,
and more on the
book's home page.
Featured at the Texas Book
Festival "A Layered History"
Sunday October 26
C.M. Mayo and M.M. McAllen discuss a side of Mexico's histpry
that, until now, has gone argely unexamined. 11 am - 12 pm. Texas
State Capitol: Capitol Extension, Room E2.016
February 2012 Press
release for the iBookstore and Kindle editions of Podcasting
for Writers & Other Entrepreneurs
December
2012 A new ebook
this month:
So you
have something to say!There are many eager ears
out there, in cars, on trains and planes, in waiting
rooms, in kitchens, perhaps washing dishes… Audio podcasts,
on-line digital files, not only serve as an important promotional
tool for writers, but they can be storytelling
vehicles in themselves,
whether as stand-alone works
or complements to text, and as such, a powerful way to reach
new audiences.
Based on award-winning writer and avid podcaster C.M.
Mayo's one day workshop at the Writer's Center,this
ebook provides an introduction and overview of podcasting for
writers, from basic concepts to nuts-and-bolts tips.
In 10 "easy peasy" steps (along with some "fancy
schmancy" alternatives for those so inclined). Mayo shows
you how to generate and publish your unique
podcast — and yes, get it onto iTunes.
A free
ebook now available as a PDF download: "My
Recollections of Maximilian" by Marie de la Fere, a
rare circa 1910 English language eyewitness memoir, edited and
introduced by C.M. Mayo.
(Tip: If you're
using an iPad, click on "open in iBooks.")
Conversations with Other Writers:
Michael K. Schuessler
As part of the series of occasional Conversations
with Other Writers, C.M. Mayo talks with Mexican art and
literature expert Michael
K. Schuessler, author of the biographies of two major Mexican
literary figures, Gualadupe Amor: La undécima musa
and Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Portrait, and editor
of Alma Reed's long lost autobiography, Peregrina: Love and
Death in Mexico. *About one hour and 7 minutes.
New
workshops: C.M. Mayo will be teaching at the Writer's Center
in Bethesda MD (just outside Washington DC) this May 5th with
Podcasting for Writers and How (and How Not) to Write Dialogue.
New podcast: C.M. Mayo discusses the
secret book of 1911 by the leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution,
Francisco I. Madero, Spiritist
Manual. Recorded at the PEN / Sol Literary Magazine Reading
Series, February 22, 2012, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (in
Engish).
New podcast: C.M. Mayo interviews Edward
Swift, author of the memoir My Grandfather's Finger and
many acclaimed novels, including Splendora and The
Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint.
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El
último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano
por C.M. Mayo, traducido por Agustín Cadena
Novela basada en la increíble
y verdadera historia del desconocido nieto de Agustín
de Iturbide, a quien Maximiliano de Habsburgo "adoptó,"
convirtiéndolo en el presunto heredero de su imperio.
Desde el momento de publicación en México, se ha
considerado como novela clásica sobre el breve y convulsivo
reinado del emperador Maximiliano y su corte. La prosa de C.M.
Mayo conduce al lector a sentir el México de esos años,
el sabor de la comida, el olor de las especias y las flores,
el calor. Mayo escribe para los sentidos, y para todas las épocas.
El último príncipe del Imperio mexicano
es una historia al mismo tiempo arrolladora e íntima,
una historia sobre la geopolítica, el glamour del poder,
los oscuros laberintos de la ambición, y sobre todo, la
historia de un niño que al final no fue un príncipe
sino un pequeño que pertenecía a sus padres.
"Partiendo de una concienzuda
y afortunada búsqueda en archivos públicos y privados,
Mayo logró reunir un caudal de información notable
de la que hace uso con bastante desenvoltura....No me queda sino
celebrar esta novela, que, comenzando lentamente, termina subyugando
por su notable narración." Pablo
Soler Frost, Letras Libres
"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
"El
último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano no es
una biografía... O para decirlo más acertadamente,
es mucho más que una biografía. Se trata de una
historia apasionada y original sobre ese experimento trágico,
heroico, cruel, cómico y hasta absurdo que fue el breve
gobierno de Maximiliano de Habsburgo en México. Para escribir
la crónica de esa epopeya, la autora, C.M. Mayo, se involucró
en un esfuerzo de investigación monumental. De no haber
ocurrido de esa manera, el producto editorial habría resultado
muy diferente y, por supuesto, de meor calidad... La perseverencia
en este tipo de indagaciones resulta fundamental. Es la histamina
que impulsa la exploración sin truega y que la autora
nos comparte en esa suerte de confesión intelectual que
es el epílogo de su conmovedor libro." EduardoTurrent, El Economista
The Arc of Writerly Action
A blog post based on my talk on a panel about writing historical
fiction, American Independent Writer's Conference, 2011. Includes
a handout of recommended reading.
New in the Catalog:
Now for sale as both Kindle and PDF download: "The Building of Quality," the novelesque short story by C.M. Mayo,
from the Kenyon Review.
Writing
workshops:
The schedule will be updated soon. C.M. Mayo will also be offering
a one day "Techniques of Fiction" workshop at the Writer's
Center (near Washington DC) in September. Click
here for more details.
We're getting ready to publish our first
newsletter! Want to receive it? Click here
to join up! You'll also receive a free e-book, "C.M.
Mayo on Creative Writing: The Best from the Blog," a series
of inspiring and practical tips for writers.
The May 28th workshop
in Mexico City is sold out. Stay tuned for an announcement
about another to be scheduled soon.s
New on the website: Q & A with C.M.
Mayo. Coming soon: an archive of the newsletters.
We'd be delighted to have you follow us on twitter @dancingchiva
C. M. Mayo's popular "Techniques
of Fiction" one day workshop will be offered in Mexico
City on Saturday, May 28, 2011.
In our
shop: PayPal is up and running. You can now pay instantly
and safely using any major credit card.
Our all new bodaciously user-friendly website is up &
running, with Mail Chimp, Twitter, "The Bleat" blog,
and more, check it out!
Announcing Our Spring 2011 Workshop
Schedule
C.M. Mayo's popular "Techniques of Fiction" one day
workshop will be offered in Mexico City on Saturday, May 28.
This is a one day only workshop, from 10 am - 2 pm. Visit our
Workshop page for a full description
and to register on-line (on-line registration available shortly).
P.S. There may be a second one day workshop in the Los Cabos
area in Baja California Sur, also in May; check back for new
about that next month (or, to be notified, click
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Our e-book titles will
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own on-line shopwill offer some very unusual autographed
limited editions. More news soon; stay tuned.
Thank you
for your interest!
Our completely redesigned webpage is under construction!
We will be launching several e-books and limited editions in
2011.
We invite you to view our catalog,
which features forthcoming Baja Californiana, Maximiliana, and
Works for Writers.
C.M. Mayo's "Techniques of Fiction"
one day workshop will be offered
in Mexico City this spring; look for on-line registration
on the workshop page soon.
Listen to a new podcast
, "Hell, I Knew It Was Paradise," from one of our forthcoming e-books,
C. Mayo's widely-lauded travel memoir of Baja California, Miraculous
Air.
We have now have a YouTube channel.
At present it shows "trailers" for books (all in print
and available in paperback on www.amazon.com from other publishers)
by C.M. Mayo. We will be adding more videos for the forthcoming
Dancing Chiva titles in the coming weeks.
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Our e-book titles will
be available on iBooks and Kindle (amazon.com), and our
own on-line shop will offer some very unusual autographed
limited editions. Stay tuned.
Conversations with Other Writers:
Michael K. Schuessler
Announcing the
publication of the first English language translation of Francisco
I. Madero's secret book, Spiritist Manual, 1911. 
Featured at the Texas Book
Festival
Miraculous Air: 
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