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Support your community by purchasing the book from a local Indie bookstore and get a free wooden bookmark handcrafted by the author, R. Ch. Garcia. Bookmarks are comprised of three sacred woods, salvaged or rescued by the author: redwood, black walnut & mesquite. To redeem…

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When Flora & Fauna Muse Me #4

In just a few seconds, What I’ve worked on for 2+ yrs. might happen. Finally! Hardest thing will be figuring out how to do a video so you’ll believe I really accomplished it. Video without scaring off iii, as I call him. A mountain chickadee…

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When Flora & Fauna Muse Me #3

In my last post about #myyardbirds, I showed you Bandito, a mountain chickadee who eats peanuts out of my hand. What did I start? Have I gotten myself into mucho trouble? What happened this week began last Spring. Black-capped chickadees nested in our blue spruce,…

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When writers peyote their books

Did you ever try to finish 4 term papers on 4 different subjects for 4 different classes? In a week? Ever fill out forms for 4 different jobs in 4 different trades for 4 different companies? In a week? That’s about what I did last…

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Sharings for Winter Soltice

Sharing #1: My new novel Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub is a melding of peoples, generations and species. Here’s a “taste”: In a somber tone, the bartender Julio said, “Bueno, if you might see el viejito Tomás tomorrow, you should have un traguito tonight.…

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When Flora & Fauna Muse Me #2

In just a few seconds, What I’ve worked on for 2+ yrs. might happen. Finally! Hardest thing will be figuring out how to do a video so you’ll believe I really accomplished it. Video without scaring off Bandito, as I call him. A mountain chickadee…

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Wooden You Like To… #2

Writing ideas come from everywhere, all the time, in many ways and forms, but working with wood is major for me. In this tab I’ll share both my amateur woodworks and musing thoughts that came with them. Your art teacher never encouraged you? You tutor…

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Wooden You Like To… #1

I worked hours each day for over a month, trying to finish the neo-Aztec cuna in time for my son’s first-born. I found few images of what it could look like. Few because the Spaniards burned almost all the native libraries and codices in Mexico.…

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When Flora & Fauna Muse Me #1

A great predator. No, not 45, something more natural, a Cooper’s Hawk, as far as I know. They’ve been around for years, sometimes as many as a family of four. [One  killed at our nearby park in the Northside.] Below are sitings, none of them…

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An epic journey of discovery,

transformation and destiny will keep readers at the edge of their seats and gasping at every new twist.

-David Bowles, award-winning author of Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico

A tantalizing style of Chicano sci-fi-mythology,

challenging the rites of passage in masculinity, the american dream, and ancestral healing. An echoing voice from the past with a new style of the present, provocatively transforming and retelling U.S. history.

- Sarah Rafael García, author of SanTana's Fairy Tales & founder of LibroMobile

Powerfully evocative, lyrically descriptive,

rollicking, rolling, smart yet down-to-earth, authentic and as unpretentious as anything of beauty could be. The characters are unforgettable, diverse, with iconoclastic heroes and everyone else smashing stereotypes.

- Thelma T. Reyna, author of Dearest Papa: A Memoir in Poems