Life motto!
“Imagination is my Best Tool”
8
books
published
+29
years in the
cultural area
“Seeing myself born I regret, that’s why I became a lyricist, to sneak into every word, and make my life a novel”.
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Life motto!
“Imagination is my Best Tool”
I was born in Mexico City, at a time when that city was considered "The Most Transparent Region", and as reader, from the day I read, the Irving Wallace book “The seven minutes” (1977).
I was born as a writer (1994), from the day I felt that no one heard what I had inside and wanted to scream…Since then, my vital traffic light has marked the green in the transit of my trade to continue reading and writing.
And so, I will until my eyes are consumed at the bonfire.
Meanwhile, I identify myself as a proud bearer of my language, my roots and history, that shelters me. I read and write about the testimonies of my literary field and with what lends me the imagination to narrate the life of my fellow.
Academic Degree
Degree in Spanish Letters and Philosophy; with a Postgraduate in Cultural Journalism. Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mx.
Yesterday
At middle age I settled in the north of the country, where collaborated in two newspapers of great relevance in Monterrey, N.L.
Until today
Prolific novelist, I have published: Truth or Lie (1995); Let me imagine that there is no such thing as a past (2013); Who are you? (2017); An Uneven Couple (2019); The Power of the Dreams (2021); and the last one; Things not said out loud (2023).
Language “Reading and speaking Spanish and English”.
Imagination “No beginning or end, no borders or barriers”.
Narrative “Descriptive, real or fictitious, in order to attract, persuade and entertain the reader”.
1947 - Present
Chronicler and Analyst
Touring and knowing the world with all its avatars has been of great usefulness. Feeling and treasuring the tears, agony, sadness, joy of the people, who have commented and told me their incidents and adventures of their lives to relive them in my novels. Events that are lived and from which I learn a lot. I have been the filter of those who tell me their past, and I turn it into fictionalized stories. Undoubtedly, they are testimonies that have been of great importance for my literary work.
Poet and Novelist
The steps to narrate a story or create a poem, have an indispensable journey, starting from the idea. Once the direction of its conception is known, the narrative is projected on the stage of the sketch to give immediate life to the characters and the shielding of the arguments, whose characteristics will give life to the fictionalized story, with the caveat that imagination is the elementary tool to cement this narrative.
Reader and Writer
I have read a lot of books to possess and strengthen the cultural heritage. Thus, I have learned to interpret and analyze the lived experiences of other writers, whom I have kept in my library as a valuable formative treasure. So far, I have published six novels, each and every one of them, based on real events that the imagination turns into fiction.
A retrospective vision of a different Mexico from that of the twentieth century. An ideal setting for the performance of Don Carlos and the young Miguel, who lives between truth and lies. Between the duty to be and the want to be. Characters from Romel's first narrative work, in which each one lives in different contexts, a similar experience in which the scenarios are looked in the same dilemma. Lying you live the truth, or living you find the lie.
The decision is inevitable and leads to a dose of renunciation, pain and mixed feelings. It is not possible for Don Carlos to know in life the results of his decision, and in this is precisely the paradox of his truth. It is feasible for Miguel to know the results of his decision, and he contemplates without possibilities of salvation the equally paradoxical path of lying.
The passages of introspection of these entities are an eloquent pretext for the author to pour his deep love for the Mexican roots, and the heavens and hells that we all carry inside.
The narrative is based on the chronicle of a loneliness woman that remembers every moment, in a continuous process because it is precisely in herself that a helpless woman can find solace. This woman's loneliness keeps her submerged in complete desolation. A second feature in the text is its quality of trap, of deception, when everyone believes that it addresses their misfortune as its central theme, it turns out that it is not.
The fundamental core of the plot is carried out in the psychological sphere, focusing on a very important issue; search and definition of identity that each of the characters performs with such eagerness, that ends up putting them in extreme situations, in the most intricate human drama to find the light.
Suicide is the beginning and end of the novel, as an immediate and direct reference to explain some fundamental aspects of human behavior. But the best audacity of the novel is if there is really a suicide. Who does it, the character or the reader? Is it just a metaphor that opens a whole horizon of questions and leaves open all the possibilities of existence?
Let's leave it at that...
Laura tries to run away from a marriage immersed in violence. She abandons her life of luxuries and appearances in Monterrey to return to her native Saltillo, hoping to achieve tranquility for herself and her daughter. However, her ex-husband Oscar continues to haunt her. In the midst of this tense situation, a homeless man appears in her path. Who is this strange font of reading? How is it possible that these tattered clothes hide a cultured and kind man? Gradually undermining her distrust, this gentleman in ragged clothes will enter her life, restoring her lost faith in men. With gallantry, the previously unknown will light the candle of love in Laura, until he conquers not only her, but her entire family.
Meanwhile, from the shadows someone watches them with eyes full of fury and longing for blood. In this novel, Romel presents you with a story set in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. Who are you? It brings you face to face with the rebirth of love, with the healing of old wounds and with the firmness of grudges. This narrative leads us to ask, what else is a broken heart, a broken body capable of withstanding? How far will the author take the torture of his characters? After what happened in this plot, will it be possible, as he himself proposes, to achieve redemption? With sincere rawness, it weaves a current story, in which, despite the advances of the laws, violence against women and “machismo”, are still in force. At the same time, the author raises the defense of chivalry, drawing a male character firm in his convictions and aware of his worth. Who are you? It brings us closer to the forgotten, but still existing, values of relationships between men and women, in a story of constant suffering... of doubts about ourselves. A love story under the veil of a violent, insecure and unpunished Mexico. It is the chronicle of a sentimental relationship immersed in a sea of agitations, assaults, attacks, and provocations that are lived daily anywhere in the world.
She, Tamy, he, Kass; they are two beings in need of affection, each in their own world. Both have, like everyone else, virtues and defects; but what makes them different is that despite the difficulties they face in their dissimilar lives, they meet and connect, despite the great difference in ages. They establish a special relationship, a postmodern society that, without legal documents, formalizes their union as a couple. When love crosses paths there is no destiny that can be twisted .... An uneven couple, tells the story of two lovers who, for those things in life, are at the wrong time.
On the one hand, a girl in search of the American dream who begins her journey in search of her happiness in the other side of the Mexican northern border. There, she knows pain, love and suffering, and a mature man, alone, eager for company, and to feel loved again.
An uneven couple takes us by the hand through a pleasant, fluid narrative and immerses us in a love story that invites to believe that the seemingly impossible may be possible.
HERE ARE GATHERED VARIOUS LITERARY TOPICS
· Emancipatory Rebellion vs Habit
· Violence vs Solidarity among migrants
· Eroticism vs Solidarity between women
"The appearance of a brain tumor in young Ricardo creates a series of conditions that alter the harmony in his growth. He undergoes four surgeries, and in each one he loses the power of his senses and control of his limbs, including the deformity of his face. Over time he acquires a strange power in the corner of his brain. He learns that, through concentration and sleep, he can control his human nature and master his power, to use it through a dream channel and be able to move out of his body mass".
In the reality of everyday life, human beings have severe encounters with the subconscious. Individuals make decisions, actions, and thoughts that have an inescapable filter called consciousness, which is the ability to recognize the difference between good and evil in human behavior.
It is precisely in this space where the narrative breaks the sanity of the reader, realizing the powers of mental concentration, extracorporeal experience and in turn, the projection of consciousness allowing the astral unfolding of the protagonist and creating a scenario of duplicity.
This is a novel woven for the reader who has no limits in (his-her) imagination.
This is an entertaining compendium of ten stories quite unique in their originality and presentation. These stories not only involve us in unique love situations, but portray them in an authentically Mexican way, within their mischief and their doses of tragicomedy. Thus, we find a fat man who decides to lose weight for love, with a kidnapped woman who falls in love with her captor and a spiteful wife who finds the best punishment for her opponent.
Loaded with eroticism, these stories also portray hunters and their skilled prey, which leads us to wonder who is really the maker of love situations; If he, who thinks he is the one who throws the hook, or she, who handles the fisherman's hand.
In “Cosas que no se dicen en voz alta” we are participants of forbidden loves and we delight in the imagination of characters who dare to go beyond what society allows, entering under the bed sheets of love trios or in the imagination of a school and its first love.
“Cosas que no se dicen en voz alta” is one of those books that allow us to experience what few dare to live, showing through some facts that actually happened, the consequences of daring to have affairs, and deduce with a smile, the ironies learned between whispers.
The book contains a poem in each story, and ironies at the end. Also, the last two stories contain a pencil stroke each.
After leaving an abusive marriage, Laura finds herself intrigued by a homeless man who she believes is not who he says he is. She becomes entranced with the Tramp and is enchanted with his caring and fondness for her. Her ex-husband, Oscar, becomes aware of their romance and decides to make her life miserable, to the point of despair and distress. Her captivating Tramp is unmasked by his beloved Laura, revealing his true self. Laura's willingness to make her relationship work leads her into dark unimaginable circumstances. This novel reflects how some women are still silenced by sexism today and brings us closer to those forgotten values."
-Brenda Lizbeth San Miguel
"This story is an archetype of how life is lived in Mexico today. Violent, insecure, and relentless, it is a chronicle of turmoil, assaults, kidnappings, cynical impunity, and attacks, which are experienced intermittently. A message confirming that the immune offender is now uniformed and carries a badge. He's authorized to corrupt and eliminate others."
- Roberto Meléndez
In the pages of "Postmortem Chronicles," three stories are immortalized, three lives analyzed from the perspective of the author, Roberto Meléndez.
The first part is an interview conducted on an astral plane with two greats of Mexican literature, Rosario Castelanos and Elena Garro. Their lives were contradictory and restless, but they are a pleasing example to remember two different women on the margins of society, because they shaped their own selves in their essays, stories, and novels. This is the ideal justification for taking time for time and savoring their literary past.
The second part is a recounting of the life of an ordinary man, who, through his journey, will take us to unparalleled places in Mexico while imbuing the story with brief glimpses of his fears and aspirations, his challenges and successes, his family life, and his love for his country. Someone who, despite temptations, dies with the satisfaction of having been a man of integrity and incorruptibility. It's a beautiful story that touches us and scrapes the rough edges of our hearts.
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He was
Born in Mexico City, at a time when México was considered "The Most Transparent Region".
Studied
University of Coahuila, Mx. Is Degree in Spanish Letters; with a postgraduate degree in Journalism Cultural.
Yesterday
At middle age it is established in the north of the country, where collaborates in two newspapers of great relevance in Monterrey, N.L.
Today
Prolific novelist, has published: Truth or Lie (1995); Let me imagine that there is no past (2013); Who are you? (2017); An Uneven Couple (2019); and latest novel The Power of the Dreams (2021). Things You Don't Say Out Loud (2023). 2024 Published his most recent novel: Unmasking an Enigma.
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MEX Amazon & Mercado Libre
USA – Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Mex – Gandhi. El Sótano.
Mexican novelist. Degree in Spanish Literature from the Autonomous University of Coahuila.
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