Mary Castillo writes chick lit

Chick lit

Chick lit is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly. The genre sold well during the 1990s and 2000s, with chick lit titles topping bestseller lists and the creation of imprints devoted entirely to chick lit...

 romances with Latina heroines. A graduate of the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, Castillo once considered medicine as a career thinking it would allow her to one day retire and write novels. She now considers herself fortunate to have had the good sense to follow an impossible dream and tell stories with courageous and smart heroines. Her novel, Hot Tamara was Cosmopolitan Magazine's Red Hot Read in April 2005. Also in 2005, Castillo was also named one of the "Hot 25" by OC Metro magazine

OC Metro magazine

OC METRO Magazine is a business lifestyle magazine in Orange County, California. OC METRO is the largest of the five magazines currently published by Newport Beach-based Churm Media, Inc....

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Novels and novellas

• Hot Tamara, ISBN 0-06-073989-4.
• In Between Men, ISBN 0-06-076682-4.
• "My Favorite Mistake" in Friday Night Chicas (ISBN 0-312-33504-0).
• "Till Death Do Us Part" in Names I Call My Sister (ISBN 0-06-089023-1).
• Switchcraft, ISBN 0-06-087608-5.

External links

• Mary Castillo's Official Website
• Chica Lit: Mary's Blog