How Long Do You Give Away Promo Freebies?

5/25/2018

Draft 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,
Chicago, IL

I grew up on the outskirts of Yuma, AZ, close to the Cocopah reservation. Because I was ever-bored, I became an avid reader of Spanish comic books and anything in English. Then I moved onto Steinbeck and Stephen King and now read international authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Atwood, and Roque Dalton. I also read a lot of coming of age fiction.

I have been writing stories in both Spanish and English since I was six years old. My fiction and poetry focus on working class issues, primarily about laborers in the Southwest. I also write non-serious fiction, like zombie fiction (I was into it before it got popular with the Walking Dead series, which I love) and dabble in magical realism with a fusion of cuentos and folklore.

I have a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Washington State University, a Masters Degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors of Arts from Northern Arizona University. I have also taught creative writing, and will do so, spring 2019, if the stars align. Currently, I live in Chicago and teach full-time at Harold Washington College to an amazing student population.

More about me. I am happily married, been so for over ten years, and have a fabulous eight-year-old who makes my life phenomenal: He too is starting to write short stories. I had a second baby, Simona (3), which put a temporary set-back on the publication of my first book, but made my life infinitely more wonderful. My husband is also incredibly supportive and books my readings @ home60601@gmail.com.

That damned itch just won't let me be, so I'm back to my original love of words. Puro Amor!