Buzz Builds for "Mayan Calendar Girls" Novel

Online, August 28, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Cancun, Mexico - An unusual novel set in the Yucatan, but involving much wider areas and issues, including U.S. President Obama and film-maker Francis Ford Coppola is becoming an underground "cult" read among a mixture of readerships, ranging from expatriates and Mexico fanciers to "2012ers" to American and Canadian students.-and none seem to be to worried about the approaching "Mayan Doomsday" that the novel explains as "not the end of the world, just the end of time."

"Mayan Calendar Girls" originally gained a following as an online serial, with a loose team of anonymous writers posting a chapter each week. Now that it has emerged as a paperback on amazon.com, and more importantly as a Kindle ebook, it is starting to get wider readership and a great amount of discussion and passing around.

Publication has also "outed" two of the writers, longtime Mexico writer Linton Robinson and Science Fiction writer/field digger Grayson Moran. Moran explains some of the surge in acclaim for the book as, "Ereadership. It's hard to get English books in Mexico, so expats are getting heavily into Kindles and Nooks. And since it's so much cheaper than paper books, they read more. And there aren't really that many books set in Mexico that are pure pleasure reads."

Robinson agrees, "Digital books are the future, and the future is arriving faster all the time. Ironic since time ends in a little over a year, but there you have it. Mayan Calendar Girls might be the first big hit with overseas Kindle types."

In addition to the unusual story and setting of the book, it is starting to draw favorable reviews of the writing itself, and especially the characterization of the multi-cultural "girls" and the non-linear way the overall plot weaves several different stories together. "Sputnik", a hip Mexican weekly said, "Older readers complain about the multiple threads, but younger readers, familiar with films like "Babel", "Crash", "Go" and "Amores Perros" have no trouble following things."

Mayan Calendar Girls is published by Bauu Institute, a small press generally associated with scientific and Native-American studies, but also home to several novels about Mexico and the Southwest USA. Paperback and Kindle version are available on amazon.com, and at a discount on the BauuInstitute.com website.
ISBN 978-1936955008

Contact: Team 2012
mayancalendargirls at gmail.com
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