If you enjoy this blog, you’ll love my still-unreleased novels. “Flamenco and the Sitting Cat” and “Tango and the Sitting Cat” are my love letters to you and to all who worry they’re too odd or old, overly damaged or young, or under deserving of happiness alone or with someone.
About Me
Reading, writing, and travel hooked me early. It was inevitable, given my multi-cultural family’s love of books and our frequent relocations to cities across the U.S. and Spain. Through it all, writing to friends and my dear grandmothers in Buenos Aires and Barcelona was a constant. Today I’m settled in Los Angeles with my Iranian-American husband who loves world dance, cooking, healthy living, music, and animals as much as I do. K-D, our one-of-a-kind-mix dog, rescues me from brooding over commas for too long.
As a journalist, I won an Emmy (click here for the documentary), was nominated for one the year before, and earned assorted cable TV awards. One of my short stories is in Verdad Magazine. Twice, I was honored as an “Emerging Author” at the Literary Women Festival of Authors, and my visual art features in “New Directions in Altered Books,” by Gabe Cyr and California State Long Beach’s literary journal, Rip Rap.
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I look forward to reading your work.
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thank you!
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Love your blog welcome … I’m excited for you and your Flamenco & the Sitting Cat book. Good luck with your self-publishing route. Im looking forward to reading your work!
My blog is new, literally 6-weeks old, so should be sleeping through the night, but guess what? The more I post, the more I want to post … somebody STOP ME!!!
Speak again soon I hope.x
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thank you! many congrats on your new blog, Viola – blogging is wonderful!
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Hi! what a great blog 🙂 I fell in love with it and of course your cute doggies. I shall be visiting your blog quite often now. And I so look forward to reading your novels. All the best.
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your kindness is much appreciated, glowofmind – I encourage all to visit your site as well 🙂
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Thank you for visiting our Blog. We are new and just getting into the etiquette. You have things well organized.
John
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