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Real Talk: Four Dollars and Fourteen Cents Closer to the Dream

I made $4.14 today. That’s not a typo. That’s not me rounding down from a more impressive number. That’s four dollars and fourteen cents, earned through royalties from Kindle Direct Publishing.…

Gabriel LucateroJuly 26, 2025

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Real Talk: The Mirror We Write With

I once judged a woman for rolling her eyes at the barista when her oat milk latte wasn’t hot enough. Qué ridícula, I thought, watching her storm off in her…

Gabriel LucateroJuly 23, 2025

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Real Talk: You’re Wrong About Everything

And So Am I I used to think I had it all figured out. I used to think that my opinions were sharp enough to cut through bullshit, that my…

Gabriel LucateroJuly 11, 2025

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Fiction: The Girl With The Blue Umbrella

A Nightmare... I’ve been having a lot of nightmares lately. For reasons we already know—politics, the economy, and being brown-skinned—my mental state has shifted. I am more guarded, looking over…

Gabriel LucateroJuly 6, 2025

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Real Talk: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

And Why We Keep Falling for Them I once convinced myself that working a dead-end job was a “stepping stone” when, in reality, I was just scared to admit I…

Gabriel LucateroJune 19, 2025

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Book Review: A Is For Alibi

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton When Sue Grafton published A is for Alibi in 1982, she turned the whodunit genre upside down with her style of tough-girl detective…

Gabriel LucateroJune 9, 2025

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Real Talk: The Writer’s Curse

Telling Stories in a World That’s Stopped Reading Writing has never been easy. But writing in the 21st century? That’s just for people who enjoy the pain. It’s like throwing…

Gabriel LucateroJune 1, 2025

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Real Talk: Shut Up and Be Ungrateful

I was standing in line at Ralph’s, half-listening to the guy in front of me complain about the price of eggs. As if inflation personally offended him. He turned to…

Gabriel LucateroMay 26, 2025

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Book Review: Carrie

Let me tell you about the first time I read Carrie. It was raining (because, of course, it was), and I ducked into a crumbling used bookstore that smelled of…

Gabriel LucateroMay 18, 2025

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Real Talk: The Most Important Belief You Can Have

(And Why You’re Probably Getting It Wrong) The most important belief you can have as an indie writer—or as a human fumbling through this bizarre circus called life—is this: You…

Gabriel LucateroMay 15, 2025

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Real Talk: Four Dollars and Fourteen Cents Closer to the Dream

Real Talk: The Mirror We Write With

Real Talk: You’re Wrong About Everything

Fiction: The Girl With The Blue Umbrella

Real Talk: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

Book Review: A Is For Alibi

Real Talk: The Writer’s Curse

Real Talk: Shut Up and Be Ungrateful

Book Review: Carrie

Real Talk: The Most Important Belief You Can Have

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