C.M. MAYO’S BOOK NOTES & CONVOS, launching in January 2025, is a refocused version of my original blog, Madam Mayo, which first appeared in 2006, and regularly so until mid-2022. It’s been an interesting time off-line. I’ll leave it at that.
Look for occasional posts on, as the title says, book notes and convos (conversations) with other writers. I expect to be surprised, as I usually am, by what the Muse prompts me to post, but I venture that most of my writing here will address Mexico, Texas, rare books, and literary travel memoir. I’m still at work on a book about Far West Texas, and starting in 2025 I will be editing the “Vintage Lenses” series of late 19th-early 20th century masterworks of literary memoir for Olmos Park Press.
I’m the author of several books in various genres including poetry, short fiction, historical fiction, and travel memoir (more about my works here). To date, most of my works focus on Mexico and the US-Mexico borderlands. It seems the most popular of my works is the novel based on the true story, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. I’ve won some awards over the years but, as a native Texan, the most meaningful recognition to me was in 2017 when I was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters.
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