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S. Ramos O'Briant

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About Me

Writer S. Ramos O'Briant's work has appeared in Whistling Shade, AIM Magazine, Ink Pot, NFG, La Herencia, The Copperfield Review, The Journal of Modern Post and Café Irreal. In addition, her short stories have been anthologized in Best Lesbian Love Stories of 2004, and What Wildness Is This: Women Write the Southwest, (University of Texas Press, 2007). "Lana Turner Slept Here," will be in the forthcoming Latinos in Lotus Land: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature, (Bilingual Press, 2008). Her book reviews have been published on La Bloga and Moorishgirl. Please visit her at The Secret of Old Blood for links to her writing or BloodMother
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Writers who work at their craft, and writers who work at selling their craft. Readers who have several books going at once, but love to get hooked on one.

My Blog

Breaking the Rules: Confession and Revelation

Someone recently summed me up when I revealed my Catholic encrusted childhood. That knowledge muddies the waters in any relationship carrying with it preconceived notions of stereotypical neuroses. Gu...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:56:00 GMT

Let the Right One In: The Book

Loneliness plays an important part in coming of age stories. Toss in brutal bullying of a latchkey kid, single moms, a nondescript  read soulless  apartment complex, an assortment of teenaged glue s...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:33:00 GMT

Vampires and Evil: the Antihero Reborn

Vampires have historically been considered evil, and were blamed for many little understood situations in the cultures that spawned them. But fictionally they are currently not considered 100% bad. Si...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:34:00 GMT

Vampires and Mortals

  Based on recent focus of vampire/human love affairs in both literature, movies, and television it seems normal for humans to fall in love with vampires and for the undead to rise heroically to...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:32:00 GMT

10 Top Memories of 2008

10 top Memories of 2008 in no particular order:1. My son's graduation.2. Catching the first rainbow trout at our family reunion in Arkansas.3. Accidentally smashing four pizzas we were toting back to ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:06:00 GMT

"Secrets"

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Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:38:00 GMT

West Hollywood Book Fair 2008

Keven Roderick at LA Observed covers the West Hollywood Book Fair. Brief clip of me:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeryBItUHSA
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:52:00 GMT

Sex and the City in My City: The Girlfriend Movie

Mega-crowds of women in L.A., dressed outlandishly in 4-inch stilettos and toting designer bags, in which they've smuggled pre-mixed Cosmos, are standing in line to see Sex and the City, The Movi...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:10:00 GMT

What Family Shall Endure: Black Snake Moan

Watched Black Snake Moan [HD DVD]..on t.v. last night. It was so worth it. 1 I like Samuel L. Jackson in just about everything I've seen him in. 2 Christina Ricci plays a nymphomaniac. There should b...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:51:00 GMT

Memories of Mom, or Why I Enjoy the Macabre

Mom left Dad, again, and we were driving from East Texas to New Mexico. There was a horrible accident on the flatlands, and Mom pulled over to do the looky-lou thing. I might have been six.Cars were t...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 14:43:00 GMT