![]() It was the most Mexican pesos ever advanced to an American author named Valdes-Rodriguez beating the old record of 499,999 pesos set by Betty Valdes-Rodriguez (no relation) in 1989.īefore its publication in 2003, the film rights to The Dirty Girls Social Club were optioned by Jennifer Lopez. Valdes received a record-setting advance of 500,000 Mexican pesos from Hack's Press. "I need to write trashy literature for Hispanic chicks!" "Like a lightning bolt the idea struck me," said Valdes. Valdes claimed that it was late one night while writing an ad for a 250cc Suzuki dirt bike that she realized that her talents were being squandered. She went on to become a writer for the Albuquerque Bargain Trader where she pioneered the use of the abbreviation OBO (Or Best Offer). Before he could even walk the baby elephant man bones exclaimed "I am not an animal!"Īfter becoming an industry pariah and being blackballed by the newspaper industry, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez wrote an open letter of apology in which she blamed her pregnancy with the baby elephant man bones for her erratic behavior. Nine months later she gave birth to a baby elephant man skeleton which has since been identified as being extremely gifted. Her successful career there ended when she submitted a 3400-word resignation letter where she admitted that she had been having an affair with a famous resident of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. She then allegedly doctored up a resume and obtained work as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Valdes escaped from a sanitorium in 1990. Little is known about the author's teenage years except that she served as a clean-up tech at a veterinary abortion clinic where she practiced the saxophone in her spare time. Valdes distinguished herself as a world champion chicken caller. "It's just that the industry wasn't ready to publish them." They're ready now.Born in 1969, Alisa Valdes grew up on her father's squid farm in Kalamazoo, Michigan. "These writers have always been there," she says. Valdes-Rodriguez hesitates to take any credit. ![]() Since Dirty Girls made its debut, similar works by Latina authors, like Hot Tamara by Mary Castillo, have found their way into bookstores. Two more women's novels as well as two works of teen fiction are in the pipeline. ![]() Her second book, Playing with Boys, has sold 130,000 hardcover copies. Dirty Girls has sold more than 350,000 copies and is in development to become a series on the Lifetime network next spring. ![]() Latino life has found a diverse and willing audience. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and has worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. "That's not my reality." Born 36 years ago into a middle-class family in Albuquerque, N.M., she lives there now with her husband and young son. "I didn't want this to be 'Oh, here we are with our mantilla, praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe,'" says Valdes-Rodriguez, who is of Cuban-Irish descent. They include a reporter, a rock star and a news anchor none of whom ever gets absorbed in ponderous debates about the immigrant experience. The six women of The Dirty Girls Social Club are smart, funny and, most important, professionals. ![]() Then in 2003 Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez put pen to paper and produced a hip, fast-paced novel about six young Latinas trying to get ahead at the office and in the bedroom. Latino fiction was a realm of magic realism, stuck somewhere among clichéd visions of grandmas, mangoes and the sea. ![]()
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