Books:
Shoes Full of Sand, 299 pages, Blue Hydrangea Productions, ISBN: 978-0-9833894-1-5. Why would two otherwise sane people decide to leave their jobs, home and family to start over on the Oregon Coast? Read about it in this memoir, which is also about dogs, music, the beach, life, death, and squirrels. (Also available for $4.99 as an Amazon Kindle ebook and at Smashwords.com in other ebook formats.)
$16.95 plus $2 shipping & handling
Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California, 256 pages, photographs. Blue Hydrangea Productions. ISBN: 978-1892076359.
Immigrants, their daughters and granddaughters tell the stories of their life in California as Portuguese Americans, talking about work, marriage, religion, homesickness, and how they struggled to reconcile their old-country ways with their new American lives. Read excerpt.
PRICE: $18.95 + $2 shipping & handling.
Chelsea Faust is a stubborn American newspaper reporter who knows nothing about her Portuguese roots until she meets Simao Freitas and falls in love. Despite their mutual attraction, their romance appears to be doomed as Simao battles memories of a painful loss while Chelsea pursues a news story headlong into a situation that could cost her life. Read excerpt.
PRICE: $20.95 + $2 shipping & handling.
Freelancing for Newspapers, 176 pages, Quill Driver Books, ISBN: 978-1884956-68-3. It's here! All the wisdom from my online class and more in one handy volume. Chapters include finding markets, developing ideas, pitching, writing and publishing, and the business side of freelancing. Lots of handy references and exercises to get you started or reinvigorate your inner writer. Available at most online and brick-and-mortar bookstores and right here..
$14.95 plus $2 shipping and handling
Seeking the Story Grandpa Never Told, Blue Hydrangea Productions. The quest for the story of my grandfather, Albert Avina, took us to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where we explored the Portuguese world he never told us about. This illustrated booklet tells the story of our journey.
PRICE: $4.95 + .75 shipping & handling
You can purchase my books from me directly online, through the links to their publishers, or by mailing checks to Sue Fagalde Lick, P.O. Box 755, South Beach, OR 97366.
Contact me at this address also for information about classes, talks and editing services.
