Press Releases
Longlisted for the 2020 Millennium Book Award
10 November 2020 Political thriller THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY has been longlisted for the...
Paranormal Romance Tops BookLife’s October Indie Spotlight
15 October 2020 AWAKENING MACBETH, a romantic thriller with a paranormal twist by Carmen Amato,...
Virgibooks Publishes Detective Emilia Cruz Stories in Italian
27 September 2020 The Italian translation of MADE IN ACAPULCO was released this week by Italian...
2020 Poison Cup Award from CrimeMasters of America
13 September 2020 The Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural series received the 2020 Poison Cup...
7th Detective Emilia Cruz Mystery is Finalist for 2020 Silver Falchion
30 July 2020 RUSSIAN MOJITO, the 7th installment of the Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural...
Detective Emilia Cruz Mysteries Released in Spanish
25 June 2020 CLIFF DIVER, the first thriller in the Detective Emilia Cruz series by Carmen Amato...
Articles by Carmen
Publishers Weekly: The Gift of Time
Jane Friedman:What Writers Have to Learn from the 10X Rule
DV Berkom: 5 Reasons Why a Badass Female Character Should be Your New BFF
Criminal Element: The Women of Narco Noir, with Jeanine Kitchel
Criminal Element: The Ascent of Narco Noir, with Jeanine Kitchel
Anne R. Allen’s Blog: What’s your Author Strategy?
The Rap Sheet: The Book You Have to Read: Beverly Gray in the Orient
KillerNashville.com: 7 Tips for Negotiating Your Mystery Movie Deal
Bookmarketingtools.com: The Prequel as Bait: How to Hook More Readers
Bookmarketingtools.com: Audience Segmentation: 3 Easy Steps to Doubling Your Book’s Discoverability
Bookmarketingtools.com: 3 Hot Tips for Finding Your Audience on Goodreads
Bookmarketingtools.com: Build Your Author Platform with the Easy Hub and Spoke System
JaneFriedman.com: 5 Mistakes You’ll Make on the Way to Publishing Success
Omnimystery.com: The 3 Sentence Mystery Setting Challenge
Mamiverse.com: I Love You Mucho: How Bilingual Humor Makes Us Smarter
Writing Forward: The 5-Minute Guide to Spicing Up Your Prose With Foreign-Language Words
Roger and Suzanne Mysteries: 5 Reasons Every Mystery Writer Needs a Dog
Murderlab: The Correlation Between Crime Rates and Creativity
Omnimystery.com: Fact, Fiction, and Mystery in Mexico
Latinas4LatinoLit: 10 Essential Nonfiction reads
Latinas4LatinoLit: 3 Online Sources for Short Stories
Latinas4LatinoLit: How to Build a Latino Library on Pinterest that Rocks!
Latinas4LatinoLit: Support Latino Authors! How to Write a Book Review That Matters
Latinas4LationLit: How to Use Amazon’s Categories to Find Hidden Latino Gems
Latinas4LationoLit: How to Host a Latino-themed Book Party
Interviews with Carmen
From CIA to Writing Thrillers: Carmen Amato on socialmediajustforwriters by Frances Caballo
Writing Unstoppable Female Characters During a Crisis on Books by Women
Authors Who Write Tantalizing Mysteries video profile on Ezvid Wiki
Birds of a Feather interview, March 2019
NPR Guest DJ on Alt.Latino: Latino Noir: Private Eyes and Really Bad Vatos
Mexico Retold interview with Carmen Amato, April 2014
Viviana Hurtado Interview with Author Carmen Amato, August 2013
Clive Eaton, author of The Pyramid Legacy, Interviews Carmen Amato