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Cuban Coffee

February 25, 2018 by Claudia Long 2 Comments

Early morning in Havana Nothing about Cuba is as expected. As the Cubans say in describing their own country, “it’s complicated.” Even a cup of breakfast coffee can be complicated. […]

Filed Under: Journeys Tagged With: cafe de olla, coffee, Cuba, Cuban, Mexico, women

One-fruit compote, or the last Christmas Eve standing

December 24, 2017 by Claudia Long 1 Comment

I came from a family where the less said about religion the better. My Polish Jewish mother had suffered unspeakable cruelties at the hands of the Nazis, and survived by […]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: children's Christams dinner, Christmas, food, Jewish, pears, Polish Christams Eve, salmon, vigilia

Yes, please speak!

August 15, 2017 by Claudia Long 2 Comments

I’m still reeling from shock regarding #charlottesville, as so many of us are. But it sure didn’t take long for the “circular firing squad” to load up and start firing […]

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Fewer Hassles? Don’t make me laugh.

June 2, 2016 by Claudia Long 2 Comments

This summer I’m traveling by air on five separate trips. One for family needs, two for business, and two for pleasure. So I figured it’s about time I enrolled in […]

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No chocolates or roses. Equal living-wage pay, please.

March 8, 2016 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

No roses, chocolates or congratulations, please!  Do you know these women? Guess why not! Who was Anita Whitney? Leader and early founder of the American Communist Party, she was an […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #IWD2016, #womensfiction, #WomensHistoryMonth, 1920, harlot, historical fiction, Women's Dreams, workers' rights, writing

Spotlight: 7 easy places your readers can discover you

February 27, 2016 by Claudia Long 2 Comments

I interviewed my book club last night. All are women 50 years old or more, and very much part of my reader demographic. They all read at least a book […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #bookclub, #indiebook, #indiebookstore, #indiereader, #indiewriter, #newbook #womensfiction #Latina, #womensfiction, Booktrope, Women writers, writing

A new view of old news: Anti-Muslim Fervor is Anti-Semitic

February 11, 2016 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

The Facebook-Twittersphere is awash in worry over the current, very ugly anti-Muslim rhetoric. Trump’s comments are only the tip of this nasty iceberg. What’s left unsaid is how the ground […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #DuelforConsuelo, #ISIL, #Trump, antisemitism, historical fiction, inquisition, Jewish, Spain

Dropping the F-bomb in a poem

October 17, 2015 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading and hearing a lot of poetry lately. I had the incredible honor of hearing our new US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera a couple of weeks ago, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #amwriting, #anger, f-bomb, golf, language, poetry, wrting

Showing our face to the world

May 21, 2015 by Claudia Long 1 Comment

One of the oddest things about being a writer today is the need to post, blog, publicize and talk, not about our books, but about ourselves. Gone are the days […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #DuelforConsuelo, home, Mexico, secrets, writing

Coming out Jewish on Passover

April 3, 2015 by Claudia Long 3 Comments

And the best matzo brei recipe ever… In 1967 I came out Jewish with matzo brei. I was twelve when I first tasted the delicacy. Why so late, you may […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Easter, inquisition, Jewish, Latina, matzo, matzo brei, Mexico, Passover, recipes, The Duel for Consuelo

Did you expect the Spanish Inquisition?

February 10, 2015 by Claudia Long 1 Comment

Ah, the deathless #MontyPython line! Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisitionnnnn! But in Mexico in the 1600-1700s they most certainly did. I had the great honor of addressing the conference The […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Crypto-Jews, Jewish, Ladino, Latina, Latina Books, Mexico, The Duel for Consuelo, WeNeedDiverseBooks

Heart-wrenching Tale of A Midwife in Puerto Rico, early 1900s

January 16, 2015 by Claudia Long 4 Comments

Today I have the rare pleasure of interviewing a famous blogger (The Writing Life) and soon to be famous author! Please enjoy this conversation with Eleanor Parker Sapia, author of […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #Midwife #PuertoRico, Caribbean Fiction, Latina Fiction, Women's Fiction

When Art Matters #jesuischarlie

January 8, 2015 by Claudia Long 3 Comments

As a writer I join the thousands of voices responding to the horrors in France yesterday. I should be better at putting into words the anger and disgust I feel […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #jesuischarlie, #StephanPastis, Art Matters, cartoons, freedom, theater, theatre, writing

History to Story: touring the blog

December 29, 2014 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

If you’re new to my blog, let me introduce myself. I’m a very energetic writer living in Northern California. I spent my childhood in Mexico City, and I write about Colonial Mexico in the late 1600s and early 1700s, and San Francisco in the 1920s. Pretty broad range, you might say, but there are strong connections between the two times.

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Adapting and Assimilating: the brilliant photos of Judah Passow

October 28, 2014 by Claudia Long 2 Comments

Last night I had the incredible pleasure of visiting an exhibit of photos by Judah Passow, featured in a photography exhibit at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. The […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #DuelforConsuelo, #Haggis, #Halloween, Burns Night, Jewish, Mexico, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, Tablet Magazine

Impermanence, and the more things change

October 9, 2014 by Claudia Long 6 Comments

It’s not surprising, at the end of the High Holidays, that my thoughts turn to change. Return again, we sang, return to the land of your soul. So I mused […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #DuelforConsuelo, #harvest, #HighHolidays, #newbook #womensfiction #Latina, bookbub, earth, Jewish, Latina, Sukkot, tomatoes, Women's Dreams

The Worst Violinist in the World

September 19, 2014 by Claudia Long 8 Comments

I have been following the release of Living By Ear by Mary Rowen, and thinking about music. She suggested we post videos of ourselves singing. Ahem.  You really don’t want […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #womensfiction, Booktrope, historical romance, Living by Ear, novels, ukulele, violin, women

Living By Ear

September 12, 2014 by Claudia Long 2 Comments

I am delighted to present a book by the mighty fine author, Mary Rowen! Launching on September 16—LIVING BY EAR Living by Ear, a women’s novel by Booktrope author Mary […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #womensfiction, Mary Rowen, New Book, Women writers, Women's Dreams

Full moon, new inspiration

August 11, 2014 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

Supermoon August 2014 The giant moon (no, I know, it just seems bigger due to some scientific explanation…) rose as we watched from 8200 feet, at the #SquawValley ski resort. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #Squaw Valley, #supermoon, Jewish, Latina, Latina Books, Mexico, New Book

Just how published are you?

June 23, 2014 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

Very well published, thank you! I spent Saturday at San Francisco’s Litquake #Digi.lit2014, and had the pleasure of meeting writers at all different spots in their careers. Like me, some […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Booktrope, digi.lit2014, indie publishing, Litquake, self-publishing, small press, The Duel for Consuelo

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  • Cuban Coffee
  • One-fruit compote, or the last Christmas Eve standing
  • Yes, please speak!
  • Fewer Hassles? Don’t make me laugh.
  • No chocolates or roses. Equal living-wage pay, please.
  • Spotlight: 7 easy places your readers can discover you
  • A new view of old news: Anti-Muslim Fervor is Anti-Semitic
  • Dropping the F-bomb in a poem
  • Showing our face to the world
  • Coming out Jewish on Passover
  • Did you expect the Spanish Inquisition?
  • Heart-wrenching Tale of A Midwife in Puerto Rico, early 1900s
  • When Art Matters #jesuischarlie
  • History to Story: touring the blog
  • Adapting and Assimilating: the brilliant photos of Judah Passow
  • Impermanence, and the more things change
  • The Worst Violinist in the World
  • Living By Ear
  • Full moon, new inspiration
  • Just how published are you?

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