Linton Robinson's Books
Aug.01.2011
When it came to calendars, those ancient Mayans got a lot of things right. But they also missed a few bits. So TEAM 2012 fills in the whole picture: a batch of hot, sassy Calendar Girls who are all about getting their hands on the purloined clues to what will really happen on 20/12/2012. If they can pull off the investigations and daring raids needed to keep this cosmic lore (...
Aug.01.2009
"Flesh Wounds" was a syndicated column that appeared in several Western "hip urban weeklies" during the early nineties. It was originally created for the San Diego cultural review "Revolt In Style" and expanded (including the creation of Jessica Creager's great artwork) for the Seattle "Scroll". Much of the work in the eBook collection first...
Mar.15.2009
If anybody wondered why star journalist Mundo Carrasco would stop investigating Mazatlan's drug lords and politicos in order to run the shady new puppet mayor's press relations, then they had never been to bed with the scorching, amoral, monumental Mijares. Mazatlan's huge, blaring Carnival became the greatest time Mundo had lived since his days as a local baseball hero: access to...
Nov.01.2008
An inexpensive but massively comprehensive manual covering all aspects of making and using video "trailers" of "previews" for marketing books on the internet...easily, and for free.
Covers free programs for video and audio, none requiring special skills. Sources for obtaining support and help, video clips, artwork, sound effects, and music free on the internet...
Aug.08.2008
Tales, interviews, and culture/culinary essays that drew fans in border region papers and Harpers magazine, IMAGINARY LINES gives a warm, humorous, sometimes dark portrait of frontiers not just of the Mexico/California border, but of many invisible fault lines in the human condition: rich/poor, third/first world, home/foreign, male/female.
A rare collaboration between two writers...
Aug.01.2008
Collection of poems, reprint of a cult classic from the Seattle poetry fever of the Eighties.
80 pages, paperbound. $5 pocketbook
Cover blurbs by Robert Bly and Allen Ginsberg
Aug.09.1986
A fun, educational romp through Spanish slang as spoken in Latin America. This is the coolest, cheapest, most notorious book of slang in all Mexico, amigo. The best-seller in a genre it practically invented, MEXICAN SLANG 101 continues as one of the most read English books in Mexico.
About Linton
Born an ex-patriate, Lin Robinson has lived much of his life in Asia and Latin America, as well as dozens of US cities.
Though working at times as a psychometrist, jailer, smuggler, carpenter, diver, jewelry maker and the usual writer's vocational grab bag,...
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