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 The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, Miraculous
Air, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary
Companion, and Sky Over El Nido
are all in-print and available in paperback editions from both
bookstores and all major on-line booksellers.
I'm
delighted to chat with book clubs anywhere in the United States,
Canada, and Mexico via telephone or Skype.
If your book club has access to a speaker phone or Skype, send
your name, a bit about your book group, a telephone number to
call, and a proposed time (EST). Book chats usually last from
20 - 30 minutes.
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Some
fun things for book groups:
What
connects you to the 1860s?
My
novel is based on the true, strange, and heart-breaking story
of, as the title says, “The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.”
If you’ve never heard of Mexico’s little half-American
prince, not to worry: even many beautifully educated Mexicans
have not. Mexico’s 19th-century history is, to make an understatement,
labyrinthically labyrinthical. (I like to say, if you’ve
heard of Santa Anna and you know that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s
Independence Day, you’re doing OK.) . . . READ
MORE
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Book Group Meeting Menu
Apart from controversy, there's
nothing better than some yummy cake and jolt of coffee to get
a book group going. For The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, my novel based on
the true story of 19th century Mexico, I beg you, skip those
gloppy nachos and so very twentieth-century-American-tourist
"margaritas"; they would not only put everyone to sleep,
but they would be no more appropriate than, say, hamburgers and
Pepsi for Gone with the Wind. May I suggest some café
de olla and Mrs. Yorke's raisin cakes? Recipes follow.
Who is Mrs. Yorke, and what is she
doing in a novel about Mexico? . . . READ
MORE..
Reading Group Guide
From the publisher, Unbridled Books.
Includes background and discussion about the book, as well as
an author interview and suggested reading list.
If you do not find the
book on the shelf,
the bookstore can order it for you.
All my books are in print
and carried by major book distributors.
Where to buy C.M. Mayo's books and CDs?
Click here for all ordering options.
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 Miraculous
Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles
through Baja California, the Other Mexico
Now available
in paperback from Milkweed Editions
With elegant
prose and an artist's eye for detail, Mayo may just have written
one of the best books ever about Baja California. Highly recommended
Library Journal
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Now
 Sky Over El Nido
Winner, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
tautly
fashioned prose, alive with myriad turns of phrase as on-target
as they are idiosyncratic.Publisher's Weekly
Order
Now
 Mexico:
A Traveler's Literary Companion
Edited
by C.M. Mayo: a dazzling collection of Mexican fiction and prose,
many in translation for the first time
Discovering
it was like opening a door and walking into a brightly lit room
filled with all kinds of literary treasures
Mexico Connect
>>Q
& A with C.M. Mayo about this book
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Now
A Note About
the Photo
That's me signing a donated copy of Miraculous Air at the Cabo San Lucas
Humane Society annual fundraiser. Every year I set a side a certain
number of signed copies of my books to donate for charity auctions.
If you have a 501 (c) charity looking for donations of autographed
books, get in touch here.
Please
be sure to provide (1) information about your charity, including
a website (2) purpose of the auction / fundraiser (3) when and
where the fundraiser will take place.
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