''This first anthology, Primera Página, by the Latino Writers Collective, is a breath of fresh air,'' writes Virgil Suarez. Francisco Aragón writes, ''Primera Página is more than a book, more than an anthology. It s a community one borne of community-building in the best sense of the term.'' And as Rane Arroyo writes in his preface, ''How might Latino poets living in the Midwest differ from those writing and living in other parts of our country? Read these poets for that answer.''

Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland

Literature & Fiction

Latino Writers Collective

United States

Scapegoat Press

Cuentos del Centro offers not only contemporary stories of migrant workers, growing up with an eccentric mother, and reminiscences of 1960s psychedelic trips but also historical tales when romance and love endured the hardest of the times. The stories in this book range from a funny look at adolescent love and the poignant story of a worker on his way back to Mexico to visit wife and children, afraid they won’t know or want him, to a wicked tale of female revenge on a philandering man and the chilling story of a young Latino family taking refuge at a stranger’s farm to sit out a possible tornado.

Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Latino Heartland

Short Stories & Anthologies

With poems, translations, and an essay, Francisco Aragón enacts a dialogue between poetry and prose, memory and imagination, self and other, as he deftly begins to un- cover a road where a gay, Latino, and cosmopolitan poet fully inhabits the world. More than a collection of poems, Glow of Our Sweat is a community of poems, one where multiple voices and genres mingle, converse, and commiserate.

Glow of Our Sweat

Francisco Aragón

In Plotting the Character-driven Novel, Linda Rodriguez turns her sought-after writing course on using depth of character as a springboard to a strong plot into a book designed to help the aspiring writer who wants to tell a story made compelling by the truth and complexity of its characters. She provides examples of actual documents she has used in creating her own award-winning books to demonstrate the methods she teaches.  Great plot springs from character and the motivations each character has for taking or not taking action.   How do you use character as the springboard to a strong plot that draws its complexity from the motivations of its characters?   What are the hidden fears and desires of each major character, what happens when these are frustrated, and how do they intersect and conflict with one another?   What are the secrets this character is hiding even from him/herself? What will this character tell you about her/himself if given the chance?   Through asking these kinds of questions of your characters, you will learn to create an exciting and complex plot, building from the integrity of the characters you create.

Plotting the Character-driven Novel

Self-Help

Linda, Rodriguez

Creativity

Cherokee Marquitta "Skeet" Bannon thought she was leaving her troubles behind when she fled the stress of being the highest-ranking woman in the Kansas City Police Department, a jealous cop ex-husband, and a disgraced alcoholic ex-cop father. Moving to a small town to be chief of a college's campus police force, she builds a life outside of her work. She might even begin a new relationship with the amiable Brewster police chief. All of this is threatened when the student editor of the school newspaper is found murdered on campus. Skeet must track down the killer, following trails that lead to some of the most powerful people in the university. In the midst of her investigation, Skeet assumes responsibility for a vulnerable teenager when her ex-husband and seriously ailing father wind up back on her hands. Time is running out and college administrators demand she conceal all college involvement in the murder, but Skeet will not stop until she's unraveled every last secret.

Every Last Secret

Pick a Garnet to Sleep in features poems of loss, of resistance to injustice, of celebration of the natural world, and of appreciation of art and poetry itself. Begun during the pandemic, this book ultimately is unified by hope.

Pick a Garnet to Sleep in

Shuck, Kim

Poetry

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Scapegoat Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.