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How Long Do You Give Away Promo Freebies?

25/5/2018

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PictureDraft of the cover for "The Long Walk". Cover from https://www.canva.com/.
For you writer friends, how long do you let your freebies run for?  A few days?  A couple of weeks?  I am thinking since this will be the first of many pubs and I am an unknown, a couple of weeks.  I am revising this story one more time before I launch it.  Nope, this one is not in the Antojitos section, but I may couple it with "Paranoia:  The Corrido of Andrea Quinta", since that story has been up on my author site for some time.

It's a test launch before I weave and spin out "La Bruja del Barrio Loco."

This morning I worked on The Harvest, which is coming along nicely.  It really is an overhaul from previous versions.  I have been writing and rewriting this novel for so many years now, but now, I've hit my stride.  I will finish this draft by June 2018, no doubt.

This morning, I had Ashley meet the rebellion.  It will be a short interaction because Ashley needs to finish her candidacy.  Besides, she has unfinished business with Dean Andreanna, that vile bitch.  I have also had her contact Alan, which again will only be temporary because Alan is about to encounter more struggles.  So stay tuned!

Well, this morning, I am taking my son to school, so I have to cut this one short.  Plus, I have to clean the house.  It looks like teenagers live here, which they do not. 

We are going on another trip, so I want to leave my house in relatively good order.  This trip is awesome for me because it will mean more time to write and to read to a captive audience in the car along the way.  Ha ha ha.

Keep that action moving!  #Resist!


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    Dr. Jesú Estrada,
    Pen Name: 
    María J. Estrada
    Chicago, IL

    I grew up in the desert, between Yuma and Somerton, AZ, close to the Cocopah Reservation. Because I was ever-bored, I became an avid reader of Spanish comic books or novelas. Then, once I learned how to read in English, I devoured everything in both languages.  

    I have been writing stories in mis lenguas since I was six years old. My fiction and poetry focus on working class issues, primarily about laborers in the Southwest.

    In real life, I am happily married, been so for over ten years and have a fabulous nine-year-old, son, and three-year-old, daughter, who keep me incredibly busy.  My husband is heroically supportive and encourages me to follow my literary passions.

    All of my degrees, including my Ph.D. from Washington State University are in English, which makes me a big fat English nerd.  Currently, I live in Chicago and teach full-time at Harold Washington College to an amazing student population.  Of course, one of my favorite classes to teach is Creative Writing, but I love all of my students and all my classes because I teach all the novels and story/poetry collections I want.  Lucky me.

    (Yeah, sometimes I let my students write non-serious fiction.)

    My next book coming out is Not Your Abuelita's Folktales, a Magical Realism collection of short stories for Young Adults.

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