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June 26 - Conversation with The Madrid Review: "The Main Character Is Society": Mel Páez on Ocumo, Power, Politics and the Contradictions of Latin America
June 18 - Ocumo: A Latin American Novel has a new cover design and it is dazzling! The artist behind it is "Lizszi" Felicia Wickmark from Ängelholm, Sweden. To connect with Lizszi and see more of her work go to her Instagram, LinkedIn and lizszi.com
Also, Valentina Álvarez in Azores, Portugal, is designing the cover for the Spanish translation to be released on Sept. 1! Check out Valentina’s work on Instagram and valentina-alvarez.com
June 12 - So cool to see Ocumo: A Latin American Novel on Northwestern Univeristy Medill School's page Books by Medill Alumni
May 31 - Ocumo: A Latin American Novel is available at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore
May 12 - Sales of Ocumo: A Latin American Novel have surpassed sixty-nine copies. That’s extra special since, in the book, presidential candidate Sonia Elena Ortega jokes that sixty-nine is her favorite number:
.. Her powerful and famous gringo friends still loved to retell the story of the day at the racetrack when Sonia Elena outclassed them all with a legendary stroke of beginner’s luck ... "I looove sixty-nine," she said.
May 5 - Big thanks to CHORLTON BOOKSHOP in Manchester for stocking Ocumo: A Latin American Novel
April 16 - Check out Jen Paul's take on Ocumo: A Latin American Novel
March 31 - I've now launched my YouTube channel. Take a look!
March 17 - Ocumo: A Latin American Novel is now featured at the Indie Author Bookstore, a brand-new online site dedicated entirely to indie authors. Click here and check it out
February 24 - Ocumo: A Latin American Novel is #1 on Amazon Sweden's list of Caribbean & Latin American Literature
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