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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of several novels, including Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow and The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. She has also edited a number of anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. Cthulhu's Daughters). Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. ...more

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2024 Book Tour

I’ll be promoting the launch of my latest novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome, this August and visiting Seattle, Dallas and NY.

Links and more information below:

8/6: University Bookstore and The Mexican Consulate, Seattle, WA, 6pm PT

8/8: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, 7:30pm CT

8/9: The Strand, New York, NY, 7pm ET

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	Mexican Gothic 3.67 avg rating — 369,286 ratings — published 2020 — 10 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
	Gods of Jade and Shadow 3.89 avg rating — 68,136 ratings — published 2019 — 7 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 Daughter of Doctor Moreau 3.58 avg rating — 33,034 ratings — published 2022 — 34 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
	Velvet Was the Night 3.52 avg rating — 27,359 ratings — published 2021 — 4 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 Beautiful Ones 3.86 avg rating — 20,643 ratings — published 2017 — 22 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
	Silver Nitrate 3.62 avg rating — 21,755 ratings — published 2023 — 17 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
	Certain Dark Things 3.74 avg rating — 16,880 ratings — published 2016 — 25 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 Lover 3.80 avg rating — 12,192 ratings — published 2023 — 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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	Untamed Shore 3.78 avg rating — 4,231 ratings — published 2020 — 18 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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Update January 6, 2024: Available via Netgalley and Edelweiss. Netgalley link: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo... Edelweiss: https://www.edelweiss.plus/#sku=05936... Out in 2024. Historical novel (no speculative element) about the making of a fil ...more
Dec 18, 2023 11:46AM · 315 likes · like · see review
Silvia Moreno-Garcia made a comment on The Seventh Veil of Salome " Hi, yeah, those were exactly the posters we were thinking about, with the women swooning in historical costumes. Hope you enjoy it. "
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Update January 6, 2024: Available via Netgalley and Edelweiss. Netgalley link: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo... Edelweiss: https://www.edelweiss.plus/#sku=05936... Out in 2024. Historical novel (no speculative element) about the making of a fil ...more
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia has read My Brother's Keeper by Tim Powers	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
It's a bit of a travesty that Tim Powers' latest novel, My Brother's Keeper, is not going supernova seeing as it combines the Brontes, a mysterious cult and werewolves. Powers is a wonderful writer of any type of SFF, but I adore his historical novel ...more
Sep 23, 2023 09:22PM · 117 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of My Brother's Keeper by Tim Powers. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — My Brother's Keeper by Tim Powers
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My blurb: Hardaker will put a spell on you with her sleek and haunting prose.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia has read Adama by Lavie Tidhar	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
Here's my blurb: This violent, shadowy history of a kibbutz family makes for a propulsive, decades spanning noir saga. I couldn’t put it down. ...more
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Here's my blurb: This violent, shadowy history of a kibbutz family makes for a propulsive, decades spanning noir saga. I couldn’t put it down. ...more
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My blurb: An epic journey into the future, powerfully haunting.
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Set in 1993 in Mexico City, this novel follows a sound editor and a former soap opera star as they stumble onto an occultist who made a curious film decades before. Out 2023. What genre is this? The editor and I called it supernatural suspense with a h ...more
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“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there's power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

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“Books, moonlight, melodrama.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

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“A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
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Meet Me at the Surface by Jodie Matthews - 272 pp

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The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 320 pp

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