"You can not consider yourself a writer until you've published a book," said my friend Tere when I talked to had an affair with the lyrics since I was four years ago, when I learned to read and write, forcing my mom to teach me to do when he was just entering the first year of kindergarten.
After that there was "something" that I can not express with words that made me want to explain my immediate world, and not so immediate, making things with letters and their multiple forms. At the age of six brand new Christmas gift I had as a typewriter Olivetti Lettera 25, which soon became my favorite toy when I passed my cousin Cristina typing exercises that gave the Matehualense Commercial Institute. In a few months and at that age, when most of brats we can barely handle the pen, I already typed without seeing the keyboard at a speed of secretariat sixties. Thousand dollars per page charged to my brother's friends to make them the tasks they have in charge in the CBTis.
wrote everything. For example, if you watched the movie which I did not like the end, I reinvented. If you lived something that I liked, I rewrote. And for the twenty had written two novels. At twenty, after going through an emotional crisis, and also I had gotten involved with poetry. And yet, despite such a history in the opinion of my friend Teresa, I could not consider because it had published writer nothing. Yesterday
February 3 four years ago I published my first book, "In the chronicle of our legs" and it was thanks to my friend Tere supported and encouraged me to cross the line of anonymity. It was a small but very significant publication. Since the publication of that book changed my life completely and the effects produced are stronger now than at the time, for example, the book is more popular now-when units are sold-printed in the time I was also a writer and bookseller told "andale gachito buy me the book when you buy a book directly to the writer?"
Publish a book in Mexico is an odyssey of any way to do so. As a beginner any editorial deign to support someone who writes. Generated contests are all subject to intellectual mafias that do not give opportunity to others to grow and remain the same mercenary culture of publishing and are published and publishing dinosaurs and living off the government's cultural projects. And independently because you have to be very rich and wealthy to afford the high costs of printing, but if you put workplaces and Franciscan beggar's face and looking for sponsorship may be easier, he said Tere and started our search for businesses interested in cultural development of a people. Rather than asking
sponsorship
I felt as if we asked for alms. For starters it is not easy to arrive as a complete stranger to tell an entrepreneur who wrote a book and supporting you to publish it. They stay with the face of what. And what about? Is it to do aerobics? told me ungrateful when he heard the title I had. Concerned more for selling their products, sponsor a book can be counterproductive because few people read in Mexico, is unpopular, to better bring sponsorship tecate girls to teach the bells and whistles on a cruise while promoting your little shop, that if you sell, but do a book? Does anyone know a boy who does not live in the capital? Impossible. No thanks, the crisis is hard, they said.
There was a bastard, and I will not mention names, but it is a Super Matehuala that ends with 'ero' and not by belt, which gave me the amount of FIFTY PESOS brand. Can you imagine? Or the taxi. And I said, "thank God that I am educated and do not ask you wrap it and put it into the most secret place in your body. I'm not begging but if this is what you can bring is more than perfect" . I thanked him, I turned around and left. And of course I gave him credit when the acknowledgments.
The former mayor, had just come to the administration, and I went to look for as employer and as President. As an employer gave me five hundred bucks, as President sent me to hell. And so, wherever he went, I gave my little money and did as it helped me. Several days of sunny, from terrified, to fight with because I forgot Tere trades and came up with nothing. "And then you do not want to refuse the help," he said with a face of hell.
Matehualense businessman Virgilio López, like all educated gentleman he is, was among the few who treated me like I was Mario Vargas Llosa (Marquis Now!). I asked my project with all the care and education and ultimately helped me economically and emotionally and flatly refused to the back of the book I placed the logo of one of their companies. As Mr. Rosendo Trujillo also a former co-worker is also a good friend. or my cousin Lupita Mendoza and Arturo Hernandez to name a few. That is why in the back of my book I had to put "Butcher Chonita Tortillería tart, chorizería El Torito," say some, which many criticize me naco.
While all this happened, my friend Professor Luis Gerardo Flores Morales kick the book as a good teacher correcting me in English that is, the spelling and style. In some stories I missed with other clubs and I wanted to sticks. "This is corny, that seems cheap moralizing, change it here, fix it there, come on!" And as the new Director of Culture of that time, was what moved and I got all the support and space to conduct the presentation at the Cultural Center of Matehuala and my cousin Marisela Sauceda arrayed that day with a delicious buffet of snacks.
Before the presentation I went to find Mr. Alberto Celorio (RIP) Knowing that he had already published three books he wanted me to sponsor. It's eyes lit up when he said, and immediately agreed to read my book and make a review to talk about the day presentation. He told me he never would have imagined that my book was of such quality, writer instead of me as a young philosopher. "What is taken, Don Alberto?" I told him and from there was born the oldest of my friends with whom I could talk and talk but we end up the subject. Discover with astonishment that a character in his book was also my character, my aunt Cuca (RIP), who was his employee for many years of youth. The day of the presentation, after who knows how many years, Don Alberto and my aunt turned to greet them, giving life and reality to the stories of each of our respective books. Three years then both went to a better life.
My book was dedicated to a woman who inherited me the strength and courage every day, Sandra Lazo. (RIP) and it goes without saying that a special guest at the presentation I said I've gone to presentations from established writers and none has had so many people like yours. " That night I received the first bouquet of roses that I never had been given. It was a very special night because I was giving birth to my first child, where both the teacher Luis Gerardo, Don Alberto Torres Renatta Celorio and gave their views and the President thanked all who attended and those who not also attended, prompting giggles from the audience.
Already
later I received a letter from the deputy Lily where he apologized for not having attended when I went to look for me to support and pledged to help "pa there next time." From there I moved from place position, Tere said, "Now yes, you can consider yourself a writer."
Thus was born my first book where I mishmash of stories, anecdotes, memories and notes filofumarólicos. Since I'm still thanking all the people involved to become a reality to the point that as I mentioned, has become more popular now than at that time to Eligio Herrera as the "chosen" for guns and pulled him Internet dedications yet overlapping. "I also took out the book launch in Leon, Guanajuato, where José Luis Solís I organized a presentation in your space really cool cultural-ho and where a woman chose to bitch that shattered my book to all attendees and where a young boy wanted to fight me because the story I read said many curses.
I look forward to my next book will be born around April or May this year and which will give details later is again flowing through the hands of people who likes to read to me and I'm sure will cause a very strong argument.
It I still have my polytropias soon through this blog because the author, contrary to what Teresa thinks, only a writer as you type.
After only becomes bookseller.
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