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Andromeda Romano-Lax

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Andromeda Romano-Lax worked as a freelance journalist and travel writer before turning to fiction. Her first novel, The Spanish Bow, was translated into eleven languages and was chosen as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, BookSense pick, and one of Library Journal’s Best Books of the Year. Among her nonfiction works are a dozen travel and natural history guidebooks to the public lands of Alaska, from Denali National Park to the Tongass National Forest, as well as a travel narrative, Searching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez: A Makeshift Expedition Along Baja’s Desert Coast, which was an Audubon Editor’s Choice. She is a co-founder of 49 Writers, Alaska's statewide literary nonprofit. She currently lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia ...more

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Andromeda Romano-Lax Thanks for asking, Judy! I'm working on a thriller set in Guatemala, involving a mother trying to learn the truth about her daughter's death. It's mor…moreThanks for asking, Judy! I'm working on a thriller set in Guatemala, involving a mother trying to learn the truth about her daughter's death. It's more of a conventional thriller in the sense of no hybrid structure, no long-ago past storyline. I've had a ball writing it, and it's partly based on a trip I made to Guatemala, so it's been fun bringing the setting and culture alive--especially during this COVID era, when we can't travel! Thanks for asking, and I apologize I never saw this question when it was first posted two months ago. (!) (less)
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Plum Rains

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The Spanish Bow

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Behave

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Annie and the Wolves

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The Detour

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Searching for Steinbeck's S...

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Denali: A Living Tapestry

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Sea Kayaking In Baja

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La Musica Della Vita

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Gratitude for a "Best Book of the Year" that almost wasn't written

I almost didn't finish writing my latest novel, Annie and the Wolves. Even after finishing it, and despite interest from my agent, I put the manuscript away, back in 2012, and never expected to look at it again.

(I changed my mind in 2018, rewrote it from page one with drastic changes, and published it in Feb 2021!)

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“Since I was a very small boy, traveling from town to town, three hundred days a year, I learned to love this life. The cradlelike rock and sway of the train, the hospitality of our countrymen, the gentle hearts of our countrywomen. You will find that, as long as you keep moving, there is no end to the delights awaiting you. But you must keep moving, Feliu. Even when the heart skips; even when the view blurs.”
Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Spanish Bow

“Al mejor cazador se le escapa la liebre”
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“A lot of well-meaning and important people take an interest in eugenics,” Father said, still maintaining that curiously even tone. “Roosevelt does. Alexander Graham Bell does.” “And Margaret Sanger,” Mother chipped in. “A number of progressives.”
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“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
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