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Maria E. Andreu

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Maria E. Andreu is the author of JULIETA AND THE ROMEOS, LOVE IN ENGLISH
(Balzer + Bray) and THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and the Newark Star Ledger.

LOVE IN ENGLISH is an Indie Next Pick, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book, and a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. Her debut novel, THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY, was a National Indie Excellence Book Award winner. Both titles were Junior Library Guild Selections.

She is a Red Dead aficionado, a cat herder,
and a believer in (and a skeptic of) happy endings.

Visit her at https://mariaeandreu.com.
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Hello! I absolutely loved your book “Love In English”. What inspired you to become a writer? Do you have any advice for aspiring authors?

Maria E. Andreu Thanks for your question and thank you for sharing your impressions of Love in English.

Like most writers, I came to love books as a reader. I found s…moreThanks for your question and thank you for sharing your impressions of Love in English.

Like most writers, I came to love books as a reader. I found so much joy and insight in books, I wanted to be part of creating that for others.

As for advice for aspiring writers, there is a lot: read everything, particularly the genre(s) you want to write, but also outside those too. Take classes, even free ones online if ones in person aren't available. Find your "people," others who are looking to work on their writing as well. Let them critique your work so you can see how what you intend to say is received by readers. (It's not always the way we think!).

But if I had to narrow it down to one bit of advice, it's this: keep going. Persevere. There will undoubtedly be rejection (especially for those looking to get "traditionally" published). There were many times when I wondered if I had what it took, if any agent would ever want to have me as a client or if an editor would ever buy a book I wrote. It's a tough business, trying to have the stories of our hearts intersect with the market, what people will buy. But it's rewarding and meaningful, so keep going. That may mean learning something new, getting a different critique, taking another class, scrapping a story you love and starting a new one... whatever the next step is, take it, then take the one after that.(less)

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Maria E. Andreu Hogwarts would be the first one that pops into my mind. I'd like to figure out how to get into the paintings.

But, actually, one that gets a little de…moreHogwarts would be the first one that pops into my mind. I'd like to figure out how to get into the paintings.

But, actually, one that gets a little deeper into my own yearnings is the post-apocalyptic world of Station Eleven. I've made no secret of the fact that the collapse of modern society fascinates me. Of course it would be awful and I hope it never happens. But if it did: what would it take to survive? Who would make it? If I could go to the post-flu world of Station Eleven, I'd test my mettle. Also, I'd join the Traveling Symphony and try to convince them to let me write plays for them to perform.(less)

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	Love in English 3.90 avg rating — 2,252 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come On In by Adi Alsaid (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Yamile Saied Méndez (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Zoraida Córdova (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Side of Empty 3.91 avg rating — 892 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Julieta and the Romeos 3.77 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove by E.D.E. Bell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marriah Allen Pina, Joshua Amodeo 4.35 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Glück in tausend Worten 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Side of Empty by Andreu, Maria E. (2014) Hardcover 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Fuckface. A face that likes to do sex? Doosh nozl? Shit biscuit? Duck butter? Bananas. Like “crazy”? If I had to pick a fruit that is crazy, I’d pick pomegranates, with their juicy beads hiding in impossible recovecos, from which it takes an hour to free them. If that’s not bananas, I don’t know what”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

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“I lack precisely the thing to explain what I lack. The words. For every word I get out, there's a whole iceberg of thoughts and hopes and feelings that stay unspoken. But how do I speak them?”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

tags: esl, foreign-language, immigrant, immigrant-experience, language

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“My family is not running a marathon. We're running a relay. My parents have gotten me this far. Everything I do is to get us further. I carry their hopes along with my own.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

tags: american-dream, child-of-immigrants, family, immigrant, immigrant-experience, immigrant-parents

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