Torn Between Worlds: Compelling Novel for Teenage Girls and Young Women Immigrants

I recently decided to have the cover of my first novel redesigned to attract its intended audience: teenage girls, especially Hispanic ones as well as any other young women immigrants living in the United States. The theme of trying to adjust to a new culture would be relevant to a wide variety of young adult … Continue reading Torn Between Worlds: Compelling Novel for Teenage Girls and Young Women Immigrants →

Highly Recommended-Five Stars

By Dr. David Hamilton The narrative of Torn Between Worlds is in the first person documenting a young girl’s experience of growing up in Mexico, the US and Spain. During the course of three years time, she experienced the aftermath of 9/11, violent repression of a protest in Mexico and a terrorist bombing in Madrid. … Continue reading Highly Recommended-Five Stars →

The best books about young people overcoming obstacles to survive

Nancy Blodgett Klein shares the 5 best books on young people overcoming obstacles to survive. Have you read Holes? — Read on shepherd.com/best-books/young-people-overcoming-obstacles-to-survive Shepherd.com is a great site for finding books to read because the books are organized by themes rather than by particular authors or by overly broad subjects. It's also a great site … Continue reading The best books about young people overcoming obstacles to survive →

Goodreads Review of My Novel

After being published more than a year ago, my novel Torn Between Worlds: A Mexican Immigrant's Journey to Find Herself is finally getting some attention on Goodreads. It has 32 ratings with 23 reviews so far. Eighty percent of the people who have read my book loved it (50%), liked it a lot (18%) or … Continue reading Goodreads Review of My Novel →

A Goodreads Review of My Novel

Here is the latest Goodreads review of my book, Torn Between Worlds: A Mexican Immigrant's Journey to Find Herself. Since the novel was published in February 2021, the book has received 29 rating and 21 reviews there, with an overall average score of 3.79 out of 5 stars. See this link for details: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56912602-torn-between-worlds. Review … Continue reading A Goodreads Review of My Novel →

Two Recent Reviews of My Novel

In the last few weeks, I have received two more reviews of my novel, Torn Between Worlds, A Mexican immigrant's journey to find herself, on Goodreads. In case you don't subscribe to Goodreads or may not have seen the reviews, I thought I would share them here. (By the way, I love Goodreads, an online … Continue reading Two Recent Reviews of My Novel →

Understanding Sept 11, 2001

World Trade Center Twin Towers in flames in NYC The New York Times produced a story today that shared how students from 12 countries around the world were taught about the catastrophic events that occurred 20 years ago. It's very interesting to read what, if anything, is taught about the events of that day. Most … Continue reading Understanding Sept 11, 2001 →