"The Next Big Thing"
I was invited by Andrea Hernandez Holm.
What is the working title of the book?
If Jesus Could Not Save Himself, How Would He Save Me?
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Could-Save-Himself-Would/dp/0761858830/ref=la_B001JS8OK0_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1361382975&sr=1-7
Where did the idea come from for the book?
I had previously written other books on Mexican American issues but the story that lingered was my experience of having attended an Assembly of God Church as a teenager and I wanted to explore that.
What genre does your book fall under?
Mexican American Studies, Religious Studies, American Studies
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Have No Ideal, Don’t Know Any Teenage Mexican American actors and they would have to be tall, skinny, black hair Apache looking because that’s part of the story line.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
Attending a Reagan Revolution Anglo Protestant Church as a brown person.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
Two months.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
I was inspired about to write about this from my grandmother Alberta in Baja California who was a 7th Day Adventist and would spend my summers with her and Ken Hillman Sr. who was the person that would invite me to the church and became my adopted father because we developed a good friendship and burying him at age 17 due to colon cancer was very painful but I've never forgotten him. I wanted to honor both of them.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
The description of the sermons on devil music and against Darwinism.
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
My book was published by Rowman and Littlefield in Lanham, Maryland. They had published four other books of mine.
Please include the names of at least four authors you have invited to participate.
Oscar Barajas- Columnist-News Taco
David Ordaz- Cartoonist
Rodrigo Valles-
Hugo Moreno-
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