My friend texted me to say my novel, Mother Mother, is circulating in the San Diego County Library system. This makes me so inordinately happy! When you’re a famous, big name author, of course your book will be in every library, on book store shelves, topping Amazon’s Hot Hits list. But when you’re a small press author like me, whose books sell in modest numbers, to know your work has earned a spot that’s permanent–that’s the definition of absolute thrill.

So if you live in San Diego and hold a library card, please request my novel: Mother Mother by Jessica O’Dwyer.

I’d love for you to read it. Xoxoxo

Jayro Bustamante’s film, La Llorona, already nominated for a Golden Globe in Best Foreign Language Film, was just shortlisted for an Oscar, in Best International Feature!

Films from 93 countries were eligible in the Oscar category; La Llorona is one of 15 films to advance to the next category. Below is a link to an interview with Jayro Bustamante and Jane Fonda, as well as a clip from the film.

Film description: “Filmmaker Jayro Bustamante (Ixcanul) combines horror with political filmmaking in this adaptation of the legend of the Weeping Woman. In Guatemala, Alma is murdered with her children during a military attack. Thirty years later, the general who ordered the genocide is found not guilty, and Alma comes back to the world of the living to torment him. In Kaqchikel and Spanish with English subtitles. Director Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala 2019) 97 min.”

Watch: Jane Fonda & Jayro Bustamante Talk Awards Contender ‘La Llorona’ – Deadline

Movie poster of La Llorona from internet.