Tucson Festival of Books–March 10 & 11, 2018

A cluster of interested readers attended my first Tent Talk at the Tucson Festival of Books on the University of Arizona campus. An amazing event with thousands of people browsing the campus mall in search of their favorite authors and to learn about new books like mine. I was a bit starstruck when I encountered Luis Alberto Urrea, having learned that he was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for fiction this year. I met Luis last summer 2017 at Fishtrap writer’s gathering in beautiful Joseph, Oregon. Never imagined then that his writing would achieve such prominence. Well deserved and very exciting. I’m reading his latest novel now: House of Broken Angels.