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Amara Castro Cid, Viguesa, has little in the literary world, but has already achieved success with her novels published so far, the long time and is with this and a cake.In this interview a bit of her and much more about her.I appreciate her time and kindness.
Amara Castro Cid - Interview
Amara Castro Cid: With this and a cake is a family novel, friendship, love and overcoming.It is the story of a young woman, Mariana, who returns to her native Vigo to recover from the consequences of an accident.Her father, her brothers, her psychologist, her physiotherapist ... All will be crucial characters for healing, not only physical but also mood.The subject that underlies is the grieving process, but it is a positive, tender book, which reads like and that, says readers, hooks from the beginning.
The idea was cooking over low heat.I have always paid special attention to how the loss of a loved one affects us.It is something that we all have to face at some point and we are not prepared.The trigger to capture my restlessness on paper was a day that I broke a glass in house kitchen.He was affected because he had a lifetime with me, the last one of a game of six, a survivor who came to an end for my clumsiness.I saw myself collecting the fragments and depositing them in the garbage delicately.I dedicated a few words of thanks, a funeral for a simple object.But I was good to do it, it relieved me.I began to think about the pain that generates a loss when there is no possibility of farewell and at that time he was born with this and a cake.
AMC: When I was little I was sick very frequently and I remember in bed with a book in my hands since I have reason.First, I was captivated a collection of stories, the miniclassics.Then, Michael Ende arrived with the character of Jim button.And as a book already of a certain extension, the magician of Oz worked his magic in me, giving me the taste for reading to accompany me the rest of my life.
The first story I wrote I don't remember her.As a child I already loved to write and did it daily.I have moved from home and city many times throughout life and I no longer know when I lost sight of my childhood notebooks.Recently I found a story on 1984, that is, my 9 years.It couldn't be more cheesy.A grandfather told his grandchildren in the heat of the fireplace.There was a burrito watching from the window, a very soft cat in the grandfather's lap, and, of course, a love grandmother who baked muffins for the snack could not be missing.
AMC: Laura Esquivel is always the first on the list by as water for chocolate, my favorite novel;Isabel Allende, especially that of her first works;Rani Manicka, for the footprint she left in me with mother of rice;Susana López Rubio, whom I do not get tired of recommending;Juan José Millás, teacher of teachers;Cristina López Barrio, by the force with which her narrative style catches me;Domingo Villar, my Contest, excellent writer whom I admire deeply;José Luis Martín Vigil, for having marked my reading youth so much;And I do not want to stop mentioning Eloy Moreno, not only for his letters but also because he has been my reference in perseverance to achieve the dream of writing.
AMC: I would love to meet Tara Westover, author and protagonist of an education.It would have been an honor to create John Brown, secondary character of how water for chocolate, of Laura Esquivel.
AMC: I can't be more maniacal and the worst thing is that this is aggravated with age.I collect all the typical manias of readers and writers, but I tell you a little more personal.When I write I have a few playmobil on the table.Most are characters from the novel I am working on, but two others, Crete and Cyprus, potential readers also accompany me.Without them I do not concentrate.If someone wants to make my life impossible, they have only to hide them and he will have won the battle.
AMC: There is no better time for me than four or five in the morning, when everything is silent.Keep in mind that I live on a pedestrian street, Vigo's most commercial, and it is not easyArrive some guitarist, a gamer or a singer -songwriter.If there is no one with the top decibels, it is because it is about to pass a demonstration, a comparsa or plays to attend Christmas lights.The libraries were my shelter, but I am unable to work with a mask.I hope to come back very soon.
And a very special site that I love writing is my parents' grain.I have appropriated it as a summer office and it is a delight of site to write.
AMC: I like to intersperate genres in reading.When writing, with the idea of publishing, I am more faithful to mine for that of "Zapatero, to your shoes", but I also keep in the drawer a few secrets.Who knows if one day ...?
AMC: I am reading the lost sister, by Lucinda Riley.It is the seventh book of the Saga of the Seven Sisters.I have all loved.I read it with a knot in my throat because the author has left us this year because of cancer.A young woman, with a brilliant career and both to tell ... I can't believe that this will be the last story of Lucinda Riley, so I try to move slowly, I don't want me to end.
I have started writing my third novel for a long time.For now I cannot reveal much, I will tell you only that the protagonist is called Rita and she is also set in Galicia, as my previous novels.I am very excited about this project, although at times I am assaulting the idea of not living up, more than anything because I am a human being and, as such, I have the normal fears that any other would have.Luckily, I'm not in a hurry.I am savoring each phase of the process and enjoy moving forward at my pace.
AMC: I started as a self -published author in 2017. I understand that the pandemic has made this way of launching a work in light considerably, but at that time, we were not so many and it went very well thanks to the titanic effort that I managed to do for thepromotion.However, I knew that this was not the path I wanted to continue and, for the second novel, I had more temperance.The day Maeva approved my manuscript I will always remember him as one of the happiest of my life.Now I am just where I wanted to be.You can not ask for more.
AMC: I think that, to a greater or lesser extent, we are all others, different from those who were before the pandemic.Personally, it is still especially difficult to get used to getting out of home again.Let's say I still suffer from a little mental perimeter closure, everything seems incredibly far away.And I leave, yes, but I do it with some effort.I have also become unable to watch a news without my tears.I guess all this will leave a mark on future stories, it is inevitable.
