I am so grateful for all the men and women who serve our country, as well as those who have served over the past two centuries. I am particularly thankful and appreciative of those who have laid down their lives for our freedom. Whoever said "freedom isn't free" was right. Brave men and women [...]
Idaho Book Extravaganza
Tomorrow begins the Idaho Book Extravaganza at the Boise Centre on the Grove. It will run October 28 from 11am to 5:30pm and October 29 from 9am to 4pm. There will be lots of fabulous workshops available, like "The eBook Revolution", "The New Publishing Paradigm", "Writing and Publishing Mystery", and "30 Ways to Make Big [...]
Selected as one of Idaho’s Top 50 Authors
One of Idaho's Top 50 Authors I am so excited and so honored to have been selected as one of Idaho's Top 50 Authors by the folks at the Idaho Book Extravaganza. There will be an awards ceremony on Friday, October 28th at 5:30pm down at the Boise Center on the Grove. If [...]
Who Wants to Win a Free Kindle? – from Bestselling Author, Aaron Patterson
No joke... Free. How you might be asking with your eyes full of glee!? Step One: RE-Post this message to your blog, Facebook profile or RE-Tweet. Step Two: Go to the Airel page linked here, and "like" the page as well as post your link on the wall. Everyone who does this, will be automatically [...]
Getting Schooled
A gripping account of survival, prejudice, heartbreak and love When I was in high school, many years ago, my mom used to tell me that I should appreciate going to school, that I would go nowhere in life without an education. At the time, I thought she was just being a mom, telling [...]
Are You Thinking About Becoming an Author?
For all of you who would love to be a published author and are considering going the self-publishing route, I came across a really good blog article you might want to check out: http://reviews.cnet.com/self-publishing/ There is so much good information out there for new writers trying to break into the publishing world. The chances of [...]
Cinco de Mayo Book Signing
Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, and I was invited to do a book signing at Rediscovered Books in downtown Boise because of the Hispanic theme of my book, "CHICANA." I sat along side of well-known children's author, Judy Cox, who was signing her book, "Cinco de Mouse-O!" We each took turns reading to the customers [...]
Excerpt from Chapter 1 of CHICANA
CHAPTER 1 ESCAPE TO AMERICA
Immigrants – We All Came From Somewhere
1922 Phoenix - My grandmother, her aunt and cousins America is a land of immigrants. Everyone here immigrated from another country, except the Native Americans. Each immigrant family has a story, including my own. I hope you'll take time to listen to each other's stories. My new book, CHICANA, chronicles my family's story from my [...]