Mary Heathcliff -in English-

A Christmas Gift

2012-07-02T12:57:00.000-05:00

Genre: Contemporary
Series: None
Main characters: Cristina y Matt

E book: Amazon Kindle
Date: 2011
Page count: 100
Format: Kindle
Price: US$ 6.80
Paper: CreateSpace
Date: 2012
ISBN/EAN13:    1477576096 / 9781477576090
Page count:    62
Trim size:    6" x 9"
Price: US$ 8,00

A long time ago, Cristina committed a mistake that made their family deeply hurt. Now, she wants to give her father and her stepmother a Christmas gift that makes their lives happier and amends the mistakes she committed in the past. Though she knows it will not be easy, she will try with all her heart. Will she succeed?
Matt never thought he would see Cristina again, but when it happens, he knows it is time to act…

I want to thank my friend Judith who made the proposal of the song and characteres for this book trailer.

Escaping to your arms

2012-06-12T12:17:00.000-05:00

Main characters: Annushka and Sergei
Genre: Historical romance
Amazon
Format: Kindle
File Size: 84 KB
Print Length: 24 pages
ASIN: B007RTNZS6
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Price: US $ 3.00 / EUR $ 0.89
Smashwords
Format: Pdf, Epub, Kindle, LRF, Palm Doc.
Words: 10136 (approximate)
ISBN:9781476139876
Price: US $ 1.00

Annushka and her family are in danger; in the country things are complicated, the Communists have taken power and as they belong to royalty, they will be annihilated. Running away is a priority, but she never imagined that her retreat would be the arms of his enemy…
Sergei was ordered to take care of this aristocratic family which must be executed, but besides to the disagreement with the determination, he has disappointed the cause he had fought because of the injustices he has seen. The beautiful woman who he must guard does not have to suffer the wrath of the party.
In the midst of the Russian Revolution, a love that is stronger than political hatred and ideologies is born.

Fragment
Seeing her up and go to the creek, Sergei had not been able to avoid follow her. It was his chance to clear things up, to apologize and assure you that would not hurt.
“Please, do not be afraid. I have something to say” he said after sitting next to her and seeing that she was leaving. “I swear I will not hurt”.
She knew that. Sergei would not hurt. Someone as wonderful as he could not make damage.
They were silent for a while, watching the place, contemplating each other.
“I have to apologize for... the kiss, but I could not avoid it. You are so beautiful... well I do not regret what happened. But you can be quiet and let guard down, it will not happen again. I know you are an engaged woman and I”m... very little... to you, who are almost a princess...”
“No,” she hastened noticing the pain in Sergei’s voice. “Do not say that. You are very brave, and you are helping us. Besides I am not afraid because I know you will not hurt. What happens is that I do not know... I cannot explain what happens to me... what I feel when... when...”
“When what?”
“When you are near” she said lowering her beautiful voice and looking down. After, a silence followed. “My heart beats faster, I feel that my legs do not hold me and it hurts my stomach” she looked up and saw that he smiled enigmatically. “I do not know what it means. Is that bad?”
“I do not know” he said smiling. “But that’s what I feel”.
Annushka blushed deeply. Perhaps she had revealed much, but she was sincere.
Sergei came near to her a little more. One hand stroked the girl's beautiful face before kissing her again. She did not resist... she did not want. So let the delight of the other evening she again missed that kiss by showing that more than anything.

Advice to Beginning Writers: When it comes to writing, you are what you read

2010-06-28T13:55:00.000-05:00

Some years ago, I found this interesting article and now I want to share it with you.

Advice to Beginning Writers: When it comes to writing, you are what you read

By Aidan Chambers

First published in The [Melbourne, Australia] Age , 27 August 1993.

Here is the best advice I can give anyone about writing: Read a lot. When you think about it, all writing is reading. What writing is for, after all, is reading. I write so that I can read what I've written. Who doesn't? And I write because I want to communicate to others - to readers. So being a writer means being a reader first and last.

I've met many writers. Every one of them reads for the sake of it as well as for 'work'. And mostly they read a great deal. As a writer you are what you read. What goes into you as a reader influences what comes out of you as a writer: the kind of thing you write, how you handle the language, the way you tell stories, compose poetry, make plays or shape your essays. You can't help it. People are made like that. And all artists, all craftspeople, learn how to become better by studying each other's work, especially those they admire and think are the very best. Writing is both art and craft. Which means, of course, that it matters not just how much you read, but what you read.

What else does reading do? I've just glanced through the notebook I kept while writing my novel The Toll Bridge. The reading recorded there seems to me to fall into four main kinds.

• Reading that makes me want to write. Some writers, some books make me want to put words on paper. They stimulate me, give me an appetite, encourage me to go on during the dull and difficult times. They set me standards to judge myself against.

• Reading that tells me what I need to know in order to write my own books. I suppose most people would call this 'research'. For episodes in The Toll Bridge I needed to know about such subjects as the phase in women's lives called the menopause, the effects and treatment of concussion, and a particular psychological condition called the Fugue state. So I read medical books. I needed to know about the history and architecture of the bridge where the story is set. So I read a local history book about the bridge. The sexy games played at teenage parties, the ornithology and mythology of the raven, the history of the ancient god Janus, and a raft more of information all came from books. In order to write anything you need raw material to work with. Reading books (and now the internet) are the biggest source of supply.

• Reading that teaches me how to write or to write better. All the time I'm reading, a part of my mind is watching out for passages that will help me with my own writing. I'll start reading a chapter in a novel and find myself thinking, 'That's a good way to begin', and I'll store it away for later adaptation to my own use. I might even copy the passage into the notebook that always accompanies the novel I'm busy writing so that I won't forget it. Sometimes when I'm stuck, not sure how to handle a scene, I'll roam through my bookshelves, sampling favourite authors, books I admire, hunting for a scene that will give me a clue or provide a pattern, a model that will get me going. Not that I 'copy' slavishly. But there is a truth not usually admitted in public: all writing is theft. You take from other writers what helps you, and recycle it into something of your own.

• Reading that takes my mind off my own writing. 'When I was writing,' Ernest Hemingway reported, 'it was necessary for me to read after I'd written … in order not to think about or worry about my work until I could do it again.' I know what he means. There are books that make me want to write, and there are books that take my mind off my work and refresh me. The ones that refresh me and give me new energy are different with each book I write. While I was writing The Toll Bridge, Graham Greene's The Human Factor recharged my batteries, as did books by Paul Auster, Marguerite Duras, Margaret Mahy, Jan Mark, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cees Nooteboom, Jeanette Winterson, and a whole lot more.

All this makes it sound as if reading, for me, is just a matter of helping me in my work. But that's not how it is. I'm a reader first, a writer second. Reading makes me. Writing remakes me. I'd be lost if I didn't read, wouldn't know myself. By reading what I've written I find out what I've become.

Two tips;

First, keep a record of what you've read. Nothing elaborate, simply a notebook in which you list the date you finished the book, its title and author. Reading is like a journey. It's important to know where you've been, otherwise it's easy to forget.

Second, learn to read slowly, and learn to hear what you are reading as if it were being read aloud. All reading, all writing, is about the use of language. Attend to the way the language is used as much as anything else - the sound of its music, its rhythms and tunes, its pace, its pauses, its syncopation and its harmonies, its discords and its polyphonies, what it doesn't say as well as what it does say. To do that you have to read slowly enough to hear its music in your head. (If you find it hard to hear in your head, read it out loud.)

Do this and you'll achieve the end of all reading and all writing, which is this: that you enjoy it enough to revel in it, and you live your life more fully.

Taken from: Aidan Chambers' official web site

About Me

2010-04-14T14:14:00.000-05:00

I like to write, but when I have to write about me, it is difficult to find the words to do so...

I have always liked literature. In my childhood I read short stories. Later on, my interest was over detective story. But I found my real genre at seventeen, when I found, almost like an accident, a novel by Johanna Lindsey. When I finished to read it, I knew my life would never be as it was. During many years I read lots of books, and once, I told myself "you can write something like this". Suddenly a wonderful idea came to my mind and it was the origin of "Hermosa Impostora". It was not easy: many days, many words, many tears... but I did it, finally I did it. People who read it told me it was good, so I decided to write again, and again, and again. I realized I had a kind of talent and since that moment I have written several novels, six of them published in Spanish by Editora Digital (one of them traslated and published in English).

I only ask God to give me the opportunity (and imagination) to continue writing and also that readers like what I write, because finally the main purpose of a cratfwork is the people who receive it.

Welcome to my English web site

2010-04-08T13:02:00.000-05:00

It is a pleasure for me to say welcome to this new place where you can find information about me and my novels in English language.

I will update this site little by little, so please, be patient.

Thanks for being here!!!