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It’s Sant Jordi again, it seems like yesterday when we celebrated Book Day 2015, and another one is already knocking on the door. What a special day! It is to lots of people, readers and those who don’t read so much, because it’s a beautiful day, filled with roses and books, where we celebrate the day of love, in high caps, the love for books, also in high caps, and even more so for those of us who work in the publishing world, which captivates and hooks us, but makes us suffer at the same time. The book process has a lot of phases, I won’t go on to explain each one of them today, but in each phase you experience different feelings that you always live intensely, at least I do. The moment an author gives you a new novel, it’s exciting, you have very high expectations, and you want to swallow it. The moment you share that reading with the author, with a cup of coffee, has it’s pros and cons, but a lot of excitement, wanting this to work, and the moment the publisher falls in love with the project, it’s just magic. I can only think about how I will tell that author who will see one of his dreams come true, one of the most beautiful parts of my job.

Another special moment is when you see the cover for the first time, when you give a face and a dress to all that amount of words that made you laugh, suffer, cry, depending on the case, and the final climax, which is the publishing of the book, and what comes later, finding the reader who will also fall in love with the project, which many people have worked hard on, with the effort, will and thrill of a dream.

So a nervous feeling in the stomach for another Sant Jordi where I’m glad to recommend our raging novelties, and ask for a favor: celebrate this day at its most, buy that book that you most feel like reading, no matter which one, because what’s important is to read. But don’t let reading be just a one-day thing, enjoy it all throughout the year because a good book is the best company in this long trip that is life, I have no doubt at all. Happy Sant Jordi to all my colleagues in the sector and to the readers who know that literature feeds.

SUGGESTIONS FOR SANT JORDI FOR…

…the history lovers

• Etheria de Coia Valls
• La montaña maldita de Begoña Garcia Carteron
• La filla de Lilith de Glòria Sabate
• Les veus del Liceu de Xulio Ricardo Trigo

…the dreamers and the ones who are eager about every day

• Sueños a medida de Núria Pradas
• El invierno que tomamos cartas en el asunto de Ángeles Doñate
• Diamante azul de Care Santos
• Un perro de Alejandro Palomas

…the great mystery solvers

• Maldita verdad de Empar Fernández
• Para morir siempre hay tiempo de Carmen Conde
• La vidente de la luna llena de Isabel del Río
• La Bíblia andorrana de Albert Villaró

…the big adventure livers

• La filla del capità Groc de Víctor Amela
• El informe Ahnenerbe de Santi Baró
• El nazi de Siurana de Toni Orensanz
• El cuarto reino de Francesc Miralles

…the realists

• Pont de cendra de Raül Romeva
• La primera estrella de la noche de Nadia Ghulam and Javier Diéguez
• Ni felices ni para siempre de Clay Newman
• La vacuna contra el miedo de Montse Domènech

…the ones who want to achieve their little-huge challenges

• Ikigai de Francesc Miralles and Héctor Garcia (Kirai)
• ¿Y si realmente pudieras? de Pilar Jericó
• No soy de este mundo de Gaspar Hernández
• Shakespeare para enamorados de Allan Percy

…the one who want to get to know the international ‘best-sellers’

• Illuminae Expediente_01 de Amie Kaufman y Hay Cristoff
• Cartas de amor a los muertos de Ava Dellaira
• Bajo la misma estrella de John Green
• Magnus Chase y los dioses de Asgard de Rick Riordan

…the young readers

• Sapere Aude (Trilogia Eblus III) de Care Santos
• L’efecte Calders de Santi Baró
• La filla de l’argenter de Núria Pradas
• La venjança dels panteres negres de Gemma Lienas
• La Reina de cristal de Ana Alonso y Javier Pelegrín
• Por una sonrisa un beso de Moon River

…the little ones at home

• El club de los caníbales se zampa a Don Quijote de Gabriel García de Oro
• El ladrón de las croquetas de Pedro Riera
• Yes we dance 4 El precio de la fama de Esther Sanz
• William de Care Santos

I’ve learned that you have to learn to behave in life. Respect everybody’s opinion, which doesn’t mean agreeing with them, but listening and accepting them even if your opinion is completely different, or even opposite. We have to learn to live with different kinds of people, with different views, but most of all with respect. One of the big debates is about what we call alternative; if homeopathy is good or bad, if what’s spiritual and natural is better. The truth is that I’ve always been interested in this world of the intangible, less scientific, without being extreme, because I always think that extremes aren’t healthy. This is why, when Gaspar Hernández suggested writing a book following a Catalan, Enric Corbera, who travels around the world saying that “nothing is real” and “we live in a dream”, I was equally surprised and excited. It’s true that I thought it wouldn’t be an easy book and even less so with just two hands, but Gaspar Hernández, author of EL SILENCIO, which sold more than 60000 copies, and LA TERAPEUTA, a novel that’s still alive in the market and is catching more followers because it’s the first novel that speaks loud and clear about ANXIETY, has managed to perfectly portray this  personality who’s not very known here, but a lot in Latin America, where he fills auditoriums, and whose Youtube videos have thousands of views.

The book NO SOY DE ESTE MUNDO/NO SÓC D’AQUEST MÓN published by Ediciones B, is a journalist work by Gaspar where he explains cases lived in the first person. He shows interest for non-duality, the Advaita, and the book “Un curso de Milagros”, and he investigates up to what point, Enric Corbera can perform miracles, like a lot of his followers claim. However, Corbera is also followed by doctors and his method is taught in universities in Latin America, but even so there are lots of people who think ¿Miracles? Those don’t exist. ¿Another enlightened one? ¿A guru who’s praised in Latin America because they believe in the supernatural more? These questions fill up this book, which shows a way of seeing life that’s radically different to the majority.

A spiritual diary, of the intangible. It’s difficult to explain, yes, but with this book you can check where the study comes from, what sources feed it and testimonies that live a life they may have not been able to live otherwise. A book that will open up debates, like I did in today’s blog, but that at the same time, gives an alternative, hope, for those who are in a vita finito moment. A journalistic and objective view of a method that everyone is free to follow or not, but that we should all know exists, before quitting.  There’s not a more precious value than each person’s life and we’re each is free to handle it however we want. And what’s most important is that I think we have the duty to respect it.

After nine months of pregnancy, you can finally hold your baby. You feel really happy and apparently everything’s perfect… ¿Everything? Maybe not. You are aching, you don’t recognise your own body and everyone wants you to take care of yourself, but you don’t know where to start from.    

Dr. Magda Carlas offers practical and very easy solutions for you to eat properly in this new phase of your life and, eventually, to recover rationally the figure you had before getting pregnant.

In this book you will find information on those foods that you need if you are breast-feeding, what exercises are the best for reducing fat from the “conflicting” areas, how you can eat healthy after getting back to work and also some guidelines for your baby’s food.

The book includes as well hundreds of delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes, designed especially for you because, under the exposed circumstances, cooking probably will be one of the last activities you will feel like doing.

This is the story of Balial, a Gargoyle who returns to life during a stormy night, when lightning takes him off from the stone wall to which he has been linked for centuries; the wall belongs to a famous cathedral of the revolutionated city of Paris. Stunned, the Gargoyle stamps on the floor. Its horrible appearance reflected in a puddle reminds him his destiny: to provoke fear to anybody.

Written in first-person, Historia de una gárgola is the intimate chronicle of the adventures and, basically, misadventures of a smelly, ugly, repulsive and frightening monster whose maximum pleasure is feeding on the fear that he causes, but, surprisingly, he has the power to talk and talk a lot, he can love and become a voracious reader of ancient prophecies and demonic creatures treaties.

Balial is a buffoon, a fun, eloquent and ironic narrator who shows us the humiliations suffered throughout his life. Milo J. Krmpotić explains a tale of terror and picaresque starring a postmodern anti-hero with intestinal problems that must choose between the good and the evil to save the world from the Kingdom of Horror and thus avoid the end times.

Following the success of last Christmas campaign LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA (LITERATURE FEEDS) in collaboration with Fundación Educo, Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria replaces once again the Christmas gift with a supportive commitment. “We want the gift to be for those who really need it”.

 Under the slogan LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA ILUSIONES (LITERATURE FEEDS ILLUSIONS) a new initiative starts off which benefits will go to Pallapupas NGO. Pallapupas is a totally innovative project that contributes to the humanization of hospital processes. Humor is used as a tool to face the adverse situations that live around disease.

 You can cooperate by acquiring a tote bag with the emblem LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA ILUSIONES (LITERATURE FEEDS ILLUSIONS) at a minimum price of 5 €. The objective of this action is to encourage the publishing world to help those who need it most.

With the intention to raise the maximum possible benefits and the willingness to get publishers involved as much as possible, the bag LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA ILUSIONES (LITERATURE FEEDS ILLUSIONS) will travel to the Frankfurt Book Fair, publishing business most important event, as you know.

We want to know if the publishing world keeps it’s nose!