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NEWS
This page is let you know what's new on www.cmmayo.com— in particular, new listings of events, workshops, interviews, books and other publications, and any other changes and new features, especially on the Maximilian page. I'm continually updating, so be sure to come back and check in. If you'd like to receive a once-in-a-while e-mail about my events, writing workshops, and new books, (no worries, you can remove your name at any time) click here.
For my blog, Madam Mayo, where I cover a much wider range of subjects, and also host a Wednesday guest-blogger, click on the picture:
August 18, 2008
New on the Maximilian page: photos of Miramar Castle, his residence in Trieste, Italy.
August 14, 2008
Re: The novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Revisions have gone to my publisher, Unbridled Books, so this means the book could be available this spring. To be notified when it's available click here.
July 22, 2008
New workshop listed on events page: "Flash Fiction" one day workshop on Sunday October 5th at the Writers Center in Bethesda MD, just outside Washington DC.
July 7, 2008
New updates on the Maximilian page, including to the new book by Dr Konrad Ratz, webpage of Mexican historian Dr Patricia Galeana, and links to more photos of Chapultepec Castle.
July 4, 2008
New workshops and events.
June 9, 2008
New page of photos on my Maximilian page: Chapultepec Castle.
May 30, 2008
New link on my Maximilian webpage: Das österreichische Freiwilligenkorps in Mexiko 1864-67. About the Austrian volunteers in Mexico. In German. Excellent and extensive.
May 29, 2008
Spanish language website in process. More interviews, reviews, and the complete preface to Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion.
May 19, 2008
Poder interview (in Spanish) now on-line.
May 18, 2008
Spanish version of the website is under reconstruction.
May 16, 2008
New on my "resources for writers page": the neat-o sidebar and header by graphic designer Kathleen Fetner for "Giant Golden Buddha & 364 More Daily 5 Minute Writing Exercises"
May 13, 2008
The Writers Telesummit 2008--- this September with Eric Maisel--- I'll be giving the session about travel writing.
May 5, 2008
New link from the "resources for writers page": Writers's Blogs: Best (& Worst) Practices, the handout for my workshop at the Maryland Writers Association Conference.
April 24, 2008
New workshop--- flash fiction--- at the Writers Center this July. And another new interview--- this one on the Flannery O'Connor Award.
April 22, 2008
New interview: in the National Book Critics Circle Blog "Critical Mass".
April 10, 2008
New event listing: May 3rd, I'll be doing a blogging for writers panel at the Maryland Writers Association conference.
April 3, 2008
Still updating the webpage... new slides on the Baja California page slide show.
March 26, 2008
The mega-update of this webpage continues... changing the menus and some of the fonts and links...You may find that the menus don't all match... a few off-kilter links as yet... And in the works— maybe next week— an audio CD and a downloadable PDF (e-book) of "From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion: A Nonfiction Novela About a Fairytale"
March 25, 2008
Redesign still underway... Kathleen Fetner of Smythe & Son designed my blog's new header:
March 16, 2008
Redesign of website underway... new menu, etc. And a new page, buy books and cds.
March 11, 2008
My blog, Madam Mayo, is now available via e-mail--- the week's posts delivered on Mondays.
February 25, 2008
Updated links to the contributors, both writers and translators, to my anthology, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion.
February 20, 2008
New events--- Maryland Writers Association annual conference May 3rd and another reading in San Miguel de Allende July 2nd.
February 19, 2008
New on the Maximilian page: photographs from a recent visit to "El Olvido", Maximilian's private retreat in Acapatzingo, Morelos (purchased 1866), now an ethnobotanic garden and museum of folk medicine.
February 18, 2008
Genealogies for the novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, now on-line here.
January 28, 2008
Off to the AWP bookfair in New York with Tameme.
January 25, 2008
New events and workshops.
January 21, 2008
A few flash fictions now on-line.
January 17, 2008
New events, including a summer workshop in San Miguel de Allende, a spring workshop on flash fiction in Mexico City, and a reading this fall in Rockville, Maryland.
January 15, 2008
New events, including the All-Day Fiction Writing Seminar at American University, Washington DC, where I'll be chairing the panel discussion on writers blogs as a new literary genre.
New on the Maximilian page--- thanks again to Eduardo Wallentin--- the Spanish translation of an Hungrian newspaper article of 1876 by Dr Szender Ede.
December 12, 2007
Details have been posted on my events page--- on February 23rd I'll be leading the breakout session on creative nonfiction in the San Miguel Writers Conference.
December 11, 2007
Thanks to a tip from Eduardo Wallentin, a new link on my Maximilian webpage: Proceso de Fernando Maximiliano de Habsburgo, Miguel Miramón y Tomas Mejía (The Trial of Maximilian von Habsburg and the Generals Miguel Miramon and Tomas Mejia) with an introduction by Chantal Lopez and Omar Cortez. This is posted on Biblioteca Antorcha, a fantastic on-line library of classic in Spanish and Spanish translation.
December 10, 2007
My essay from Creative Nonfiction (also available as an audio CD), "The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City" appears in Lee Gutkind's anthology, Hurricanes and Carnivals (University of Arizona Press).
Also: some new pictures have been added to the Baja California slide show.November 23, 2007
New travel writing workshops in Mexico City and near Washington DC.
November 16, 2007
New Tameme chapbook, Jorge Fernandez Granados's "Los fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos", translated by John Oliver Simon as "Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles" is in production. Pub date is January 2008, in time for the AWP bookfair in New York City.
Also, my translation of a short story by Mexican writer Monica Lavin appears in the new bilingual anthology edited by Thomas Christensen, with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa, New World / New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas (Two Lines World Library).
October 31, 2007
New events in Texas, Washington DC, and Mexico. And new interviews.
October 17, 2007
"Techniques of Fiction" special one day writing workshop will be held on October 27th from 10 am to 2 pm in Mexico City. By the way, the Dancing Chiva website has been redesigned.
October 12, 2007
New interview in the premier issue of Baja Breeze.
September 24, 2007
New event in San Diego.
September 21, 2007
New interview--- on DCist, Washington DC's mega-blog.
September 1, 2007
New events listings--- New York, Washington DC, La Jolla, Mexico City, and more.
August 22, 2007
Madam Mayo's Blog roll-o-rama of Litblogs and Madam Mayo's Blogroll of Misc. Beguling Blogistas are now up. More anon.
August 15, 2007
"Techniques of Fiction" special one day writing workshop will be held on October 27th from 10 am to 2 pm in Mexico City. Updates to events and workshop pages.
August 5, 2007
The new novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, now has a webpage with an excerpt, and more to come... Updates to the recommended literary travel memoirs list (for my workshop participants and anyone else interested in creative writing).
July 29, 2007
Rigoberto Gonzalez's review of Tameme's first chapbook in the El Paso Times
July 27, 2007
Updates on interviews and Maximilian.
June 20, 2007
Two events--- a reading and a booksigning--- at the American Library Association conference in Washington DC June 22 and June 23. Visit my events page for the details.
June 18, 2007
Baja California Slide Show--- embryonic version--- up on the "Baja California" page. Photos of boojums, cave art, Rio Mulege, and more. And more to come....
June 12, 2007
Solutions Abroad's Umair Khan interviews C.M. Mayo about living in and writing about Mexico. Interviews page updated.
June 10, 2007
"From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion" my essay about a journey to the Emperor of Mexico's castle in Trieste, Italy, has won the Washington Prize for Best Personal Essay.
June 4, 2007
Interviews updated. New interview in The Quarterly Conversation.
May 19, 2007
Now on-line: "From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion"--- from Masachusetts Review December 2006. Finalist Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry Award Best Magazine Journalism. Updates on Maximilian page.
May 18, 2007
More new events for Miraculous Air and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion at the Wilson Center, the Center for US-Mexico Studies at UCSD, and elsewhere. New essay now on-line: "From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion"--- from Masachusetts Review December 2006, finalist Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry Award Bvest Magazine Journalism.
April 30, 2007
More new events for Miraculous Air including a reading at the American Library Association meeting in Washington DC and at the Sombra del Sabino in Tepoztlan, Mexico. Plus some updates to my resources for writers page.
April 10, 2007
More new events: June 16 travel writing workshop at the Writers Center, and the Washington DC American Library Association Conference
March 6, 2007
Miraculous Air is out in paperback from Milkweed Editions. Webpage in process of being updated...
February 16, 2007
New links on Maximilian.
February 14, 2007
New events.
January 26, 2007
More text on my Maximilian page: Adiós Mamá Carlota: about the Mexican Protest Song of 1866.
January 24, 2007
New text posted on my Maximilian page: a 1923 newspaper interview with Cordelia Jordan de Degollado, widow of Maximilian's ambassador to the United States.
January 7, 2007
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion to be presented in San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico this February 18th at Baja Books and Maps. See events page. Also, the Tameme page has been updated with information about the new chapbook, Agustin Cadena's "Carne verde, piel negra ~ An Avocado from Michoacan."
December 11, 2006
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion has been nominated for Planeta.com's Best Mexico Travel Book of the Year. To see the nominees and to cast your vote, click here.
November 21, 2006
Workshop page updated. Mexico City workshop for January 2007 has been filled. No longer accepting applications. (For other workshops in 2007, please check the events page.)
November 5, 2006
Events page updated.
October 21, 2006
Maximilian page has new links.
October 18, 2006
Finally, I put up a little something about my work as an economist-- two finance books I published as Catherine Mansell Carstens, Las finanzas populares en Mexico (1995) and Las nuevas finanzas en Mexico (1992).
October 9, 2006
New events: Southwest Writers & Artists Festival reading; Texas Book Festival panels; Mexico City workshops, and more.
October 5, 2006
Maximilian page updated. New page of Maximilian in Queretaro photos.
October 3, 2006
New events. Ciao to the Daily 5. New headshots by Teresa Castracane.
