ARTICLES
BY MARY CAMARILLO


Susan Straight’s 1001 Novels About America
The Los Angeles Times published author/teacher/book fence curator Susan Straight’s “1001 Novels To Find America” project on May 29, 2023 and it is incredible. Each

Three Terrific Books About the Midwest
Midwesterners have a reputation for being “nice” and there does seem to be a certain Midwestern sensibility. I’m working with a public relations firm based

Brenda Lockhart’s Seven Layer Dip
The Lockhart Women opens on the night of June 17, 1994, with Brenda Lockhart stressing about her husband’s unexpected insistence on going to a coworker’s

The Writer’s Inner Journey
Meredith Gordon started The Writer’s [Inner] Journey to “prove that there is/was/and will never be only one way—one right way—to write. This meant there would

Midwest Review of The Lockhart Women
The April 2023 issue of Midwest Book Review’s online “Reviewer’s Bookwatch” features a review of “The Lockhart Women.” Scroll down on the link to read

The Cost of Living Affordably
Last month I slipped anonymously into a Huntington Beach TEA community meeting to hear our city attorney Michael Gates discuss his most recent battle with

What Makes a Novel Unputdownable?
The Hasty Book List started as a hashtag on Instagram so Ashley Hasty could keep track of the books she’d read and refer back to

The Best Books of the 1950’s
When writer friend Valerie Taylor proposed a Best Book of the Decades project for the “Books Live Forever” Facebook page, I claimed my own decade,

The Lockhart Women in the Library Journal
Thanks to the December 2022 Issue of Library Journal for including a two-page spread honoring the 2022 Indie Author Awards. The Lockhart Women was the

THE LOCKHART WOMEN IN SEATTLE
NEXT TIME YOU’RE IN SEATTLE… Stop by the beautiful public library downtown. They not only have copies of The Lockhart Women on their shelves, they

Voyage LA Interviews Mary Camarillo
Voyage LA Magazine included an interview with me in their Daily Inspiration feature as part of the Orange County Collection. I got to talk about

An Orange County Cooperative
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday but every day is a good day to support community. My favorite bookstore and community space is LibroMobile in Santa Ana,