In A Delicious Dilemma, Valeria (Val) Navarro is the thirty-two-year-old owner of Navarro’s Family Restaurant together with her father in the fictional New Jersey town of East Ward. Her parents, Enrique and Gabriela, moved from Puerto Rico to the United States in the late seventies and established the family restaurant before starting a family. Val […]
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Over the course of the next few blog posts, I’m going to be talking about my debut novel, A Delicious Dilemma. As a debut, it already occupies an important place in my writing life, being my very first full-length publication. But it is also a love letter to the NJ community of my childhood, and
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From the publisher: She’ll inherit an empire…but only if she can resist her ex—in this Sambrano Studios novel by Adriana Herrera. She’s on track to be the new CEO. Her ex is the only one standing in the way. When Esmeralda Sambrano-Peña unexpectedly inherits her father’s media empire, it ruffles more than a few feathers.
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Screenshot/forward preorder receipts via DM or email them to seraspromos@gmail.com, and I will send you Sabor de Casa, an exclusive recipe book, courtesy of the Navarro Family Restaurant. Includes 10 recipes for dishes mentioned in the novel, with detailed instructions on how to prepare them as well as a few snippets of Val’s opinion. Because
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I’m going to forgo the prompt today but I am going to talk a little bit about an aspect of my writing process that has taken me some time to embrace. It has to do with discovery writing. Discovery writing is when you start writing your story and “discover” where it goes. People often refer
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My debut novel, A DELICIOUS DILEMMA is now up on NetGalley! If you are a reviewer or blogger and have a NetGalley account, request your copy today! From the publisher: Different worlds collide in Sera Taino’s debut novel. It’s hard to remain enemies when you’ve broken bread together Val Navarro’s first mistake: going out dancing
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Imagine waking up on a Monday morning to this little morsel of news! Publisher’s Weekly published a lovely review of my debut novel, A Delicious Dilemma, available 8/24 (paperbacks on shelves 9/1). If you’d like to read the complete review, click the link below: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781335408068 I made a couple of graphics with some of my
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Upcoming events to promote my 8/24 release of A Delicious Dilemma. In case you’d like to get to know me or spend time with my incredible hosts: 6/21 – 8:00pm EST Telenovela Talks IG LiveHosted by Adriana Herrera @ladriana_herrera 7/8 – All dayPreorder BlitzMultiple PlatformsHosted by Meet Cute Creative @MeetCuteCreative 7/21 – 7:30 pm EST Inside the
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Today’s Prompt: How do you create your characters? Do you make a profile of them? Do you know your character before you start writing the story? My writing process is a little wild. I usually start with a premise, prompt, trope or idea and almost simultaneously, my characters show up. They are fully formed people,
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Writing Projects Today’s question: Tell us about ideas you have floating around. World building snippets, or ideas for new stories. Just a few bullet points. I have so many ideas! I have notebooks full of ideas to write. In fact, that’s how I keep track of them – I keep a daily journal (almost) and
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