Memoirous

What happens when a neighborhood begins to die because a major business closes down and jobs move away? Economically squeezed the citizens of Pig Park decide to take their destiny into their own hands. Masi and her family operate a bakery that has fallen on hard times. Both she and her parents need to be revitalized. By using traditional and contemporary tools, whatever is at hand, they set out on an entrepreneurial enterprise, to build a mysterious La Gran Pirámide. But is it a scam or a scheme? Will the people of Pig Park be able to overcome their sense of despair and blight?  Pig Park is the story of a community coming together and how a group of kids help to save their neighborhood. Come to find out the main ingredient in turning around a failing bakery and neighborhood is hope and faith in themselves. Pig Park Claudia Guadalupe Martinez Cinco Puntos Press and at Amazon 254 pages

2014 was a momentous one for my critique group. Myself an another member both came out with books. Check out: PIG PARK by Claudia Gualalupe Martinez CLICK HERE to order Aren't we the BEST! 2015 is bound to be even better.

I’ve been busy working on another e-book related to writing—and always am intrigued by prompts or how writers can trick themselves into producing something we wouldn’t normally think of. There is an on-line journal asking for submissions of 375 words maximum—but here’s the catch: dialogue only. From the website guidelines : Dialogual publishes quality dialogue-only stories. Any genre, except erotica. However, we do not take anything that has been accepted before, or that has appeared on blogs or similar sites. In other words, we want fresh material. We are looking for stories that say something, but we are not looking for one-liners, two-liners or whatever else-liners. That's only a small punchline best left for something else. Also, refrain from sending things that tell, such as "Janice said," or "Brian advised." Basically, anything that is not dialogue-only will not be accepted, regardless of how good it may be.  We publish two to four tim...