iUniverse

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone tonight at the monthly meeting which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing!

Scheduled to read is our Vice-President, Becky; Andre Cshias; Robert Garcia; Mary Lou Barrera; Fleur Tamon; Enrique Carstens; Martha Curcio; Belza Ramos; Leticia Duarte; Juan Manuel Perez; and Daniel Farias.

In yesterday's "Books" section of the Express-News, there was an article on first-time San Antonio author Corinne Chacon and her first novel "The Mystics of Reyesville." What makes this unique is that Chacon's book was not published by a major or minor publishing house. Her book was self-published through iUniverse. Those of us who have been in the Society for a while know that Ruben Soto, the Society's founder, published his first book through iUniverse too. What is interesting to me is that the Express-News reviewed the book--remarkable in that I don't recall seeing any reviews on books that have been self-published in the newspaper before. Maybe this is the paper's "wake-up" call that all "good" books aren't necessarily published in the traditional sense and that there are nuggets of gold in the self-publishing world. We shall see.