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Literary Lotería at @habanaoutpost for #LitCrawlBK #lxpmember & Steering committee member Nancy Mercado poses for a photo with one of the emcee's @acevedowrites before the event began. #LxPCelebrates #hispanicheritagemonth #latinoheritagemonth #latinxheritagemonth #latinxinpublishing #latinxwriters (at Habana Outpost)

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Join us for another #lxpchat on Tuesday, October 10 at 7PM EST with Norma, #lxpmember and former Steering Committee member. Be sure to tune in and follow the conversation using #lxpchat #LxPCelebrates #latinxheritagemonth #latinoheritagemonth #hispanicheritagemonth NORMA PEREZ-HERNANDEZ is an acquiring editorial assistant at Kensington Publishing Corp. She has worked on a variety of projects, including fiction, romance, mysteries, thrillers, and non-fiction. A New York City native, Norma studied English literature at the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York and is a graduate of the Publishing Certificate Program at City College. She is thrilled to build a list with diverse authors and books. (at New York, New York)

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#repost Come visit the Latinx in Publishing booth at #BKBF booth 422 you'll spot us with the #Bruja flag 🙌🏽 swipe left to see our bookmarks designed by #lxpmember @la_nieta_x #LxPCelebrates #hispanicheritagemonth #latinoheritagemonth #latinxheritagemonth (at Downtown Brooklyn)

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"Another favorite thing about working in publishing is swapping books and ARCs (advance reader copies) with other publishing colleagues. Here are a few that are in my TBR pile!" - Norma Perez-Hernandez, Editorial Assistant at Kensington publishinglife #publishinghouse #latinxscreate #lxpworkselfie #lxpmember #writersofinstagram #books #askeditor #recruit #community #booksofinstagram #fiction #romance #tbr #bookhaul #ireadyanovels #claudiagray #kasiewest #melissaseacruz #psilikeyou #defythestars #alexandeliza

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"One of my favorite publishing perks is fun book swag! This super cute mirror is promoting @alyssacolelit’s Loyal League series of historical romance novels set during the Civil War." - Norma Perez-Hernandez, Editorial Assistant at Kensington publishing #publishinglife #publishinghouse #latinxscreate #lxpworkselfie #lxpmember #writersofinstagram #books #askeditor #recruit #community #booksofinstagram #bookshelf #shelfie #adultbooks #fiction #romance #historicalromance

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"Now that I’m back from the holiday break, reading is back in full swing! This really means submission reading, since client reading never really stopped. I’m happy to say that I’m nearly caught up on full manuscript requests (now down to 3), so that’s exciting! I also got like five revised client manuscripts to review (Lol, my clients send them in groups without fail. It’s a conspiracy!). So it’s reading, reading, revising, revising…" - Linda Camacho, Literary Agent at Prospect Agency, LLC #publishing #askagent #literaryagent #publishinglife #latinxscreate #latinos #latinas #books #reading #revision #lxpworkselfie #lxpmember #latinxinpublishing #agent #writersofinstagram

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"An editor oversees each stage of the production process for a book. It's rewarding to see a manuscript designed and after working on it editorially for so many months as a Word doc. Next step for this one: many rounds of copyediting from our production team. I review their notes and liaise with the author on all queries." Joanna Cárdenas, Editor at Viking Children's Books #publishing #publishinghouse #writing #bookproduction #books #gettingshitdone #latinxscreate #latinxinpublishing #lxpmember #authors #authorsofinstagram (at New York, New York)

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Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas #1) by Zoraida Córdova

REVIEW by by Cindy L. Rodriguez and Cecilia Cackley for LatinosinKidLit.com

“Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives.

Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can’t trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange marks on his skin.

The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…”

OUR TWO CENTS: We’re thrilled to kick off our new blogging year with a celebration of Labyrinth Lost, an action-packed, urban, portal fantasy with a powerful, complex Latina main character. This novel tackles family, friendship, love, survival, and self-acceptance all while Alejandra Mortiz and her friends Nova and Rishi fight for their lives in a dangerous underworld.

Alex, a 16-year-old Ecuadorian-Puerto Rican, has been fighting against her magical powers for years, feeling her growing abilities are more of a burden than a blessing. She believes her magic is responsible for her father’s disappearance, and she fears more harm will come to herself and her family if she wholly embraces her magic during her Deathday ceremony. Alex, therefore, sabotages the ceremony, which causes her family to be kidnapped from their Brooklyn home to Los Lagos, where they may die at the hands of The Devourer, an evil, power-hungry bruja who’s happy to destroy anyone who gets in her way. The first few chapters really establish Alex’s character and her position in her family so that you understand and care about how conflicted and guilty she is about her family’s disappearance. The stakes could not be higher, and you want Alex to succeed.

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