Dirty Mexican politics, journalism, femmes fatale, and baseball sprawl across Mazatlan's carnival week as Mundo Carrasco tries to find out who killed the mayor and why they're also trying to nail him and the amoral beauty he's infatuated with.

Part crime action, part romance, part travelogue, "Sweet Spot" is a lived-in look at a unique Mexican resort town located in Sinaloa "the Sicily of Mexico". Dashing, funny, and gripping by turns, it's a fun read that takes you to a foreign party port in some exciting and menacing company.

This book has been a long time coming: accepted by two different publishers who fouled up getting it out...but finally produced beautifully by Adoro Books. In addition to the other many types of book it is, it's a love letter to my old neighborhood, friends, enemies, women and weirdness from my years living above Olas Altas Bay in the "Pearl Of The Pacific".

IMAGINARY LINES VIDEO WINS AWARD!

I was pleased and proud when the video for IMAGINARY LINES won this category in the Covey Awards. The Covies aren't the Oscar, but they are one of the very few awards in the area of book videos. Since there is a popular vote component, I would like to thank all the fans and supporters who voted for this vid, which can be seen by clicking the picture above.

Thanks again

Lin

The first in a planned line of inexpensive manuals for writers and small publishers from Adoro Works, my new manual is a very comprehensive how-to for absolute beginners at making videos, but with enough information and tips to be of use to intermediate users as well.

And hey, the price is certainly right.

ADORO WORKS

Actually, it's a reprint with a couple of new pieces, but hey...

In fact, a reader on another forum commented on the poem "Fuse", which can be read on the excerpts page and was written like 30 years ago, as being timely and topical. And thinking about it, I guess it really does have more to do with the "post 9/11 world" than before.



Anyway, it's out on adoro books, which is moving into poetry and planning some aggressive experiments that go really well with my long-held opinion that poetry needs to be snatched back away from the constipated academics and made a staple of peoples lives the way it used to be.

I am so pleased to have my new title IMAGINARY LINES out at last on Adoro Books... most of it was written ten years ago for California mags and Harpers. It's some of my favorite writing, inspired by my collaboration with Ana Maria Corona.

It's a combination of reminiscence of Mexican girlhood and cooking, interviews with border people from illegal maids to gigolos to matadors... all explorations of the invisible lines of nationality, culture, sex, food, and blood that divide us and tie us together.


Tales, interviews, and culture/culinary essays that drew fans in border region papers and Harpers magazine, IMAGINARY LINES gives a warm, humorous, sometimes dark portrait of frontiers not just of the Mexico/California border, but of many invisible fault lines in the human condition: rich/poor, third/first world, home/foreign, male/female.

A rare collaboration between two writers across some of the more obvious lines--Catholic Mexican mother Ana Maria Corona and jaded American muckracker Linton Robinson--IMAGINARY LINES transforms the life stories of maids, matadors, gigolos, cooks, gamblers, and con men into metaphors for the vague but palpable fault lines that separate us, yet bind us together.

IMAGINARY LINES is a book distinguished by cover artist Victor Cauduro, one of Mexico's finest and most celebrated painters, and by Pulitzer nominee Luis Urrea, who considers it a "well guided tour" to the labyrinths of interculture interface.