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Interview

Do you have any tattoos?  Where? When did you get it/them? Where are they on your body?

-No, I’m old school and I try to protect my skin.

Is your life anything like it was two years ago?

-I retired from teaching high school and community college 20 years ago, so no, not much has changed. However, thanks to this Covid virus, I’m not traveling as much as I was two years ago. I miss that!

How long have you been writing?

-Basically, all my life. I turned serious when I retired from teaching, and was published almost immediately.

What advice would you give a new writer just starting out?

-It takes tenacity and a lot of hard work. If you love to write, it won’t seem like hard work because it’s a labor of love, as the old Bard said.

Tell us something about your newest release that is NOT in the blurb.

–I plumbed my childhood experiences with my Hispanic family and Mexican friends to come up with the story and the sometimes comical characters. The old dichos in Spanish originated with my grandmother and other Spanish-speaking friends.

Saving La Familia

by Donna Del Oro

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GENRE: Contemporary Romantic Suspense

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BLURB:

A romantic suspense comedy set in Silicon Valley, a young Latina teacher, Dina Salazar, is asked by her Mexican-born grandmother to rescue her cousins from a dangerous Mexican drug cartel. After all, her stern grandmother tells her, she is the “smart one” in the family. To do so, she has to recruit help from her hated ex-fiance. What’s a girl to do when “la familia” calls?

SAVING LA FAMILIA by Donna Del Oro, about a latina teacher who’s recruited by her Mexican-born grandmother to save her cousins from a dangerous Mexican drug cartel. It’s a romantic-suspense comedy with many “buen dichos”!

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Excerpt:

Grandma Gómez—”Life is like an artichoke. It takes a lot of peeling to get to the heart of things.”

How did I, in three short months, get to the heart of my Mexican-American family? It wasn’t easy, believe me. Especially since I was the family’s desgraciada. The disgraced one. Ever since I turned eighteen and had my legal name changed from Dolores—which means aches and pains in Spanish—to Dina. My namesake, Grandma Dolores Gómez, refused to speak to me or acknowledge my existence for about a year after the name change. Before that, I was simply the family brat and rebel. The know-it-all. But you see, Grandma was the heart of the matter. And the big, dark secrets she kept closed up in her heart all got ex- posed in those tumultuous months. And before I could blink and realize what was happening, I was roped into a scheme to rescue cousins I never knew I had out of the deadly clutches of a Mexican drug cartel. Why was I chosen, you ask? Me, Dina Salazar, the desgraciada? A single schoolteacher with a long line of loser-boyfriends? How did I end up looking up the barrel of a cartel commando’s automatic weapon? Come along with me and I’ll tell you.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Donna Del Oro lives in Northern California with her husband and three cats. She taught high school and community college English classes for 30+ years and is now happily retired. When not doing research, writing novels, or reading voraciously, she travels and sings with the medal winning Sacramento Valley Chorus.

Donna is a member of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento chapter of Sisters in Crime in addition to the Valleyrose chapter of the RWA. She has judged RITA entries and does developmental editing on the side. Two of her novels, Operation Familia and Born To Sing, have won national and international awards.

Contact me at:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donna.wierzbowski.1

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3152322.Donna_Del_Oro

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Donna-Del-Oro/e/B003AUDSCY

donna@donnadeloro.com

https://www.donnadelorobooks.com/

Buy Link:   The book will be free during the tour.

https://www.extasybooks.com/Saving-La-Familia