A literary fictional novel by
....Carlos Alvarado
....Carlos Alvarado
All About Me.....
Thank you for visiting my site. I appreciate your interest and hope you enjoy the highlights of my
book presented here. I sure would love to hear from you, especially on what you thought about
my new novel, Cry WaterColors.
A residency instructor once wrote of my medical histories to be most alluring. Thereafter,
dramatizing medical histories was my only creative writing outlet (greeting cards being an
exception). After many years in the practice of medicine, and volumes of medical histories
chronicling my frustrated aspirations, on my first laptop I wrote a whimsical paragraph that
challenged me to expand into a book. It eventually became my first born, Cry WaterColors.
Inspiration, I like to think, is granted on every encounter; but to have the view of Lake Tahoe, as I
did while I wrote from my home, made inspiration pour like water from a spout. The view from my
dinning table was the brush with which I painted the setting for my book. Ten feet of snow and
calloused hands eventually led me to pack the finished novel and head for the coastal shoreline of
South Florida.
An editor once commented that the melodrama with which I colored the storyline may “sell” in
Latin America, but not in the U.S. of A. Well, I tempered it some but kept most of the vigor of
adjectives. Like picante spicing bland foods, adjectives appropriate value to our mundane
occurrences. After all, an artist must use the tools granted him, and these are drawn from his
culture as much as circumstance. I am grateful for the Hispanic melodrama my mother seasoned
my upbringing; then there were no easy pickings, but plenty of violin tuning…….Tell me if you
think it would sell in America.
Why the title “Cry WaterColors”? My very good friend Robert Paci offered it as a comment on
artistic genius; and because life is too short to waste on tuning the violin, rather than indulging in
its tune.
I thank you for your interest and look forward to sharing my first book with you and your friends.
book presented here. I sure would love to hear from you, especially on what you thought about
my new novel, Cry WaterColors.
A residency instructor once wrote of my medical histories to be most alluring. Thereafter,
dramatizing medical histories was my only creative writing outlet (greeting cards being an
exception). After many years in the practice of medicine, and volumes of medical histories
chronicling my frustrated aspirations, on my first laptop I wrote a whimsical paragraph that
challenged me to expand into a book. It eventually became my first born, Cry WaterColors.
Inspiration, I like to think, is granted on every encounter; but to have the view of Lake Tahoe, as I
did while I wrote from my home, made inspiration pour like water from a spout. The view from my
dinning table was the brush with which I painted the setting for my book. Ten feet of snow and
calloused hands eventually led me to pack the finished novel and head for the coastal shoreline of
South Florida.
An editor once commented that the melodrama with which I colored the storyline may “sell” in
Latin America, but not in the U.S. of A. Well, I tempered it some but kept most of the vigor of
adjectives. Like picante spicing bland foods, adjectives appropriate value to our mundane
occurrences. After all, an artist must use the tools granted him, and these are drawn from his
culture as much as circumstance. I am grateful for the Hispanic melodrama my mother seasoned
my upbringing; then there were no easy pickings, but plenty of violin tuning…….Tell me if you
think it would sell in America.
Why the title “Cry WaterColors”? My very good friend Robert Paci offered it as a comment on
artistic genius; and because life is too short to waste on tuning the violin, rather than indulging in
its tune.
I thank you for your interest and look forward to sharing my first book with you and your friends.
