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January 25,
2010
New interview with Bethanne Patrick,
The Book Studio, about the Washington DC story behind the story
of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.
January 25, 2010
New
on the book tour schedule:
 March 19, 2010
Charlottesville
VA
Virginia
Festival of the Book
True
Stories of Fact & Fiction:
2 pm
A panel
with C.M. Mayo (The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire): Lenore Hart (Nevermore); A.
Roger Ekirch (Birthright); modertaor: Larry Baker.
Central JMRL Library, 201 E. Market St, Charlottesville VA. Full
details about this event here.
January 1, 2010
The audio
CD of C.M. Mayo's award-winning essay, "From Mexico
to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion" -- about a journey to
Maximilian's castle in Trieste, is now available for purchase
at CDbaby.com
November 19, 2009
The Last
Prince of the Mexican Empire selected as one of Library
Journal's Best Books 2009.
"Once
upon a time, there was a little half-American boy who briefly
became heir to the Mexican throne—until his distraught parents
sued the doomed Emperor Maximilian for his return. As in the
best historical fiction, Mayo's sparkling first novel transforms
a forgotten historical footnote into a spellbinding, heartbreaking
tale filled with drama and fascinating characters."—
Library Journal
New review:
The Last Prince
of the Mexican Empire
packs a wallop. It is a fascinating historical account delivered
in such sweeping, compelling prose as to ring more like literature
than fact—and, fundamentally, one could say that it’s
both; it proves false that old Dorothy Parker adage about historical
novels being neither novels nor history. This is an extensively
researched and brilliantly organized book, combining geopolitics,
international finance, military strategy, and, alas, the eternal
struggle of a family, a child, and the human heart in the midst
of it all... Mayo, who has lived in Mexico for many years and
has written extensively about its history and culture, is the
author of a travel memoir about Baja California, among other
works. Her literary style is seasoned, intelligent, and wonderfully
informed.
Himilce
Novas, Multicultural Review
November
13, 2009
C.M.
Mayo and The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire will participate
in the Virginia
Festival of the Book
in March 2010.
November 10, 2009
New reviews for The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.
November 6, 2009
New events and reviews; the Reader's Guide now with photos and
links.
October 11, 2009
Critical
Mass: National Book Critics Circle
Small Press Spotlight: An Interview with C.M. Mayo by Rigoberto
Gonzalez
October 9, 2009
Note new time for October 18th event at the Historical
Society of Washington DC: 2:30 pm.
September
8, 2009
New interviews, including BookCast.
Several new events this fall, including
Fall for the Book Festival in Virginia, the Historical Society
of Washington DC, the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, and
the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara.
August 31, 2009
New review by Rigoberto Gonzalez of The Last Prince of
the Mexican Empire in The El Paso
Times.
The complete Library of Congress
lecture is now on-line here.
August 27, 2009
Fall
for the Book Festival (George Mason University): David Heath
interviews C.M. Mayo about
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and the story behind
the story of Mexico's half-American prince. September 2009. Read
this and more interviews here.
August 7, 2009
Playlist
posted (originally published in largehearted boy blog): music
to accompany the novel.
C.M. Mayo to present the novel at La Sombra del Sabino in Tepoztlan,
Morelos, Mexico, September 6th. For details, visit please the events page.
July 3, 2009
Write On! Online Debra
Eckerling interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire and the writing process.
Re: book presentation at the Mexican Consulate in Houston:
Read Rose Mary Salum's blog post about the event here.
And mine (at Madam Mayo blog) here.
June 30, 2009
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
selected as Indie
Bound Notable Book for June 2009.
Updates on the Rosedale
photos page.
New reviews: Mexico
Connect; Library
Journal.
June 8, 2009
Read C.M. Mayo's guest-blog post for bookreporter.com "A
Book Group Meeting Menu"
"...a swashbuckling, riotous good time, befitting the fairy-tale
promise of the opening sentence..."  Read
the rest of review in the Austin American-Statesman
Click on the butterfly to view the trailer by Julia Sussner.
 The Last
Prince of the Mexican Empire will be published by Unbridled Books on
May
5, 2009.
Now
available! Click here to buy your copy.
Coast-to-coast book tour with stops
at the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington DC; the Writers
Center (Bethesda MD); Books, Inc (Palo Alto CA),Mrs Dalloway's
(Berkeley CA); Book Passages (Corte Madera CA); Vroman's (Pasadena
CA); Book Works (Del Mar CA); The Twig (San Antonio TX); Book
People (Austin TX); Blue Willow Bookshop (Houston TX) and many
more.
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C.M. Mayo's The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books, 2009)