The Ex-Mexican Wives Club: Here at Last!

I'm very happy to announce the publication of The Ex-Mexican Wives Club. This new memoir explores my years as an undocumented worker in Mexico City in the early 1980s and reconnecting with the women I once knew there.

Amazon has not yet linked the two versions of the book. If you'd like to purchase a paperback, please click HERE. If you prefer an ebook, click HERE.  I hope you enjoy the read.

A Special Offer

Do you read Amazon/Goodreads reviews when selecting a book for yourself or for a gift? I know I do.

This is a request and an offer. I've recently discovered that many of my Amazon reviews have disappeared. These reviews matter. They affect book sales.

Here's the request:

• If you posted a review on any of my books, particularly the memoirs, please take a peek and see if it is still there. If not, would you consider re-posting a brief review?
• If you have read any of my books and never posted a review, would you consider doing so?
• If you have not read my books, would you consider reading and posting a review?!

Here's the offer:

• For the next few days, all of my e-books will be available for FREE.

Here are the links to get your FREE copies:

• The Thirty-Ninth Victim: A Memoir
• Mom's Last Move: A Memoir
• Running Secrets
• Biking Uphill
• Walking Home

Here's my plug for the next memoir:

The Ex-Mexican Wives Club will be available soon. I hope you enjoy the read and, of course, I'd appreciate your honest review. In case you missed it, the back cover blurb is here.

The Ex-Mexican Wives Club: Cover Reveal

October arrived here in Seattle with a bite in the blustery wind and a new academic year, as The Ex-Mexican Wives Club pushes toward publication. Cover designer, Loretta Matson has done it again with this beautiful cover honoring the artwork of Mexican painter, Antonio Ramirez.

Want to know more? Here's the back cover blurb: 

HEARTBROKEN AND DRIFTING, alone and broke, Arleen Williams landed in Mexico City in 1979. There she built an illegal teaching career,international friendships, and later a marriage. Then, this invented life collapsed under the weight of family tragedy.

Back in Seattle, Williams spent decades banishing her memories of those years in Mexico, intent on being a normal wife and mother. But questions remained. Who was that young woman who created a life for herself in Mexico? Why did she go and what brought her back? Where were the women she once knew?

Through journals and correspondence spanning four decades, The Ex-Mexican Wives Club takes the reader on an exploration of unanswered questions and rekindled friendships in a world forever changed by socioeconomics and border politics.

 Want to read more? The Ex-Mexican Wives Club will be released this fall.