Photography: Carmela Trujillo, author's website.
carmela trujillo She has a very good writing profile. multifaceted and he has played several styles in literature, from the children's genre, the short story and poetry and the novel. She has also received several awards and mentions for it. He now has three works on the market, a poems, a novel and a book of reports. In this interview He tells us about them and many other topics. I really appreciate his time and attention.
Carmela Trujillo — Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your latest book is of poems and is titled dragonfly stress, but you have touched several genres. Is there one you prefer?
CARMELA TRUJILLO: Well, dragonfly stress, edited by the Cantabrian publishing house Libros del Aire, has been my first book of poems. And yes, it is one of the last books that I have published, but not the only one, because, a few months apart, the novel appeared Luci Fer lives upstairs, edited by HarperCollins, and also click-photo (only ebook, in Harlequin Ibérica), as well as a collaborative book of stories qualified writings from another world, in which 7 authors have participated and which is published by Kalandraka.
Regarding genres, I feel comfortable with everyone they. Each one requires a different time, style or mental capacity, of course, but I enjoy each one.
- AL: Can you remember any of your first readings? And the first story you wrote?
CT: My first readings, at the age of six, they came in an encyclopedic book in which several subjects had a place and in the Language section (or something similar, because I no longer remember) there were fragments of stories or poems, such as the Romance of Abenamar, anonymous, and that I still recite today.
When I was nine or ten years old, I read the books of Puck, those of The five and the collection of Clink that I found in the library. She read everything she caught and not always according to my age. For example, I remember that, when I was twelve or thirteen, I read Cold-blooded, by Truman Capote, because they were doing a promotion at the newsstand and I bought it with my savings; or the Russian novel The three kopec coin, by Vladimir Socolin, which I ran into on the sidewalk because a neighbor had thrown it off the balcony.
my first stories I wrote them when I was eight years old and I formatted them as book, with Artwork and everything, and then I sold them to my classmates.
And the first novel that I wrote and was published, and with which I won the City of Algeciras Award in 2005, it was titled click-photo. By the way, last year it was relaunched by Harlequin Ibérica in ebook format.
- AL: A head writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
CT: Above all, female writers: Carmen Martin Gaite, Lorrie Moore, Maggie O'Farell, Elisabeth Strout, Gloria Fuertes and Begoña Abad (the last two, as poets). I like them too Terry Pratchett and Ray bradbury, within the fantastic and/or science fiction genre. AND García Márquez. The poets Peter Salinas and Angel Gonzalez.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
CT: I've never considered it. I read and enjoy.
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
TC: The silence. The complete silence at the time of writing. I don't have hobbies to read, the sofa, a waiting room, the train are enough for me... (but, if it's in silence, much better, of course).
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
CT: I write in the living room from my house. The whole table is for me, I have it as a desk, full of notes, pens, folders... I can't write anywhere else. and it has to be morning, after breakfast and the walk with my dog. Then, in the afternoon, the corrections.
- AL: Are there other genres that you like?
CT: I would put it by saying what genres I like them less: The police and science fiction (except if written by Ray Bradbury).
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
CT: I just read exhausted mares, Bibiana Collado Cabrera, and I liked it a lot.
Regarding what I am writing: I have spent months correcting a pair of poetry books (The time of poetry is different, it asks for longer periods, with more rest than in the narrative, before considering that the book is already finished).
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?
CT: I think there is a excess posting, both by publishers and by the authors themselves who self-publish their works. I know that, on the one hand, it is good news (besides, there is also a lot of buying), but all this leads to the bookstore saturation and even publishers. And this means that most titles are barely given a chance: if there are no sales in the first month, for example, bookstores return them and make room for new books that arrive.
It is a feeling hyperactive, of literary stress or what do I know how to call it. And there are many very good works that are no longer present because a new batch arrives that, on many occasions, is no better than the previous one.
Respecto a why did i start posting, was something decided by the organizations and/or the editorials that created the contests to whom I presented my works. Normally, when I finish something that is really worthwhile, I send it to the publishers and they are the ones who decide whether to publish it. Or publishers ask me for something specific to be part of one of their collections or their catalogue. I have never edited myself.