Melinda Palacio

 

 NEWS
How Fire Is A Story, Waiting
coming soon, Tia Chucha Press, Fall 2012

Fellow Bloguero, Ernest Hogan, offers his review of Ocotillo Dreams on La Bloga.

LA Examiner Books reviews 
Ocotillo Dreams.

EFE Newspaper offers the first review of Ocotillo Dreams in Spanish. Also on MSN Latino.

Fiction Review: Publishers Weekly reviews Ocotillo Dreams.

Ocotillo Dreams named a top pick of 2011 by La Bloga
and
by Chicana scholar and librarian, Maria Teresa Marquez

Melinda Palacio named a top ten author of 2012 to watch and read by LatinoStories.com

January Blog Post

Two publications are now available: 
The Southern Poetry Anthology IV: Louisiana,
Texas Review Press 2011
            and
Phat’itude Literary Magazine’s special Summer Issue on the Sixties.

year of the dragon
february 2012
February  29, AWP

ADD Your Book Club: Read Ocotillo Dreams: Contact:
melindapalacio@gmail.com

UPCOMING: 
AWP: Chicano Debut Novelists panel, March 3
March 2 PALABRA book signing
March 22 Merced, CA
March 23, CSU Fresno
March 29, EPCC
April 5, CSU Channel Islands
April 10, East L.A. Library

Selections have been made for the Women’s Literary Festival
The authors for the Women’s Literary Festival in Santa Barbara include: Susan Dunlap, Heidi Durrow, Melinda Palacio, Michele Serros, Candacy Taylor, Rebecca Tinsley, and Karen Tei Yamashita. Mark your calendars for May 5, 2012. 
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Advance Praise for 
Ocotillo Dreams

Book Store Roll Call

Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA

Tattered Cover, Denver, CO


Tecolote Book Shop, Montecito, CA


Changing Hands Books , Tempe, AZ, 


Tia Chucha’s , Sylmar, CA


Chaucer’s Books, Santa Barbara, CA


Mesilla Cultural Center, Mesilla, NM


Alamosa Books, Albuquerque, NM


The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio, TX

Garden District Book Shop, 
New Orleans, LA

Maple Street Bookshop, New Orleans, LA

The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA 

Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA

La Casa Azul Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
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Ocotillo Dreams

Book Review:

Fiction Review on PW

Publishers Weekly


Book Review: Dreams gives us another look at troubled borderlands: El Paso Times


Book Review of Ocotillo Dreams by Bojan Louis on Hinchas


Fellow Bloguero, Ernest Hogan, offers his review of Ocotillo Dreams on La Bloga.


Book Review: A Poetic, Political, and Riveting Novel


The National Book Critics Circle Spotlights Ocotillo Dreams by Rigoberto González


I’m featured in La Casa Azul Bookstore

and the Latino Author


Susan Larson’s radio interview on NPR’s The Reading Life, WWNO


CASA MAGAZINE interview

Ocotillo Dreams featured in   NewsTaco, article by Yago Cura.

October 2, mention in La Opinión.


October 2, Article by David Steinberg in the Albuquerque Journal


October 3, Radio interview in Espejos de Atzlan, KUNM



September 16, ForeWord Reviews