Carmen Baca

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About Carmen Baca

Hello! I'm Carmen. As if 36 years in the classroom weren't enough, I now "teach" from home, helping aspiring authors with their own manuscripts, researching marketing strategies, and working on my next book. You can find me in the mountains of northern New Mexico where my husband and I enjoy a peaceful, quiet life caring for our animal family and any stray that happens to stop by.

My first book, El Hermano, published in 2017 and was selected as historical fiction finalist in the NM-AZ Co-op Book Awards program. That book inspired many ideas for stories which I subsequently wrote and am still writing. Since 2017, I’ve published four more. My 3rd book, Cuentos del Cañón, received first place in short story anthology category from the NM-AZ Co-op Book Awards program. I’ve also published 43 short stories and articles in online literary magazines and anthologies between books.

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The One That Got Away : Women of Horror Anthology Volume 3 Jan 20, 2021

by Gwendolyn Kiste, Sonora Taylor, Catherine McCarthy, Janine Pipe, Yolanda Sfetsos, Meg Hafdahl, Michelle Renee Lane, Barrington Smith-Seetachitt, Mocha Pennington, Jill Girardi

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What doesn't kill me, might make me kill you!

30 women authors from around the world were challenged to write about The One That Got Away. Here you'll find tales of unrequited love, blind dates gone wrong, stalkers and their prey, cursed guitars, alien symbiotes, sinister letters, and bitter acts of revenge. Dive into murky depths and discover what hides inside the minds of women scorned..

Book 3 in the Kandisha Press Women of Horror Anthology Series

#frightgirlwinter recommended reading!

With Foreword by Gwendolyn Kiste (Bram Stoker Award Winning Author of The Rust Maidens)

Edited by Jill Girardi

Featuring stories from: Carmen Baca, Ushasi Sen Basu, Demi-Louise Blackburn, Ashley Burns, R.A. Busby, Amira Krista Calvo, Dawn DeBraal, Shawnna Deresch, Ellie Douglas, Amy Grech, KC Grifant, Meg Hafdahl, Rowan Hill, Stevie Kopas, Michelle Renee Lane, Catherine McCarthy, Villimey Mist, Mocha Pennington, Faith Pierce, Janine Pipe, Lydia Prime, Paula RC Readman, Marsheila Rockwell, Lucy Rose, Rebecca Rowland, Hadassah Shiradski, Yolanda Sfetsos, Barrington Smith-Seetachitt, J Snow and Sonora Taylor.

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Graveyard Smash: Women of Horror Anthology Volume 2 (Kandisha Press Women Of Horror Anthology Series) Nov 4, 2020

by Jill Girardi, Dona Fox, Michelle Renee Lane, J.A.W. McCarthy, V Castro, Ellie Douglas, Ksenia Murray, Janine Pipe, Demi-Louise Blackburn, Sonora Taylor

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Step through the prettiest cemetery gates you've ever seen and experience tombstone raves and widow's dances, Japanese snow-spirits, Aztec bruja and temple goddesses, vengeful ghosts, djinn and cannibals, vampire hunters, plague bearers, graverobbers, and terrors beyond reason. Read through the night as the dead rise from boneyards all around the world!

#FRIGHTGIRLSUMMER recommended reading!

Featuring chilling tales from:

Christy Aldridge

Carmen Baca

Demi-Louise Blackburn

R.A. Busby

V. Castro

Dawn DeBraal

Ellie Douglas

Tracy Fahey

Dona Fox

Cassidy Frost

Michelle Renee Lane

Beverley Lee

J.A.W. McCarthy

Catherine McCarthy

Susan McCauley

Ksenia Murray

Ally Peirse

Janine Pipe

Lydia Prime

Paula R.C. Readman

Yolanda Sfetsos

Sonora Taylor

Edited by Jill Girardi

With foreword by Doc Holocausto (Evilspeak Magazine, Harvest Ritual, Creepy Crawls)

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El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl Jan 29, 2022

by Scott Duncan, Jenny Irizary, Armando Rendon

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Mexican American writers make their mark in Science Fiction literature! In this first of a kind anthology, written solely by Mexican Americans, we are taken into space and near future barrios, to the other side of the universe, and onto post-apocalyptic worlds ala raza style. We have seen collections of futures of every kind, but not yet where Chicanada dominate the scene. Enter the world of El Porvenir, ¡Ya! - Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl -Chicano Science Fiction Anthology by Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press, an independent raza publisher.

Authors: Ernest Hogan, Mario Acevedo, Frank Lechuga, Martin Hill Ortiz, Pedro Iniguez, Nicholas Belardes, Armando Rendón, Lizz Huerta, Emmanuel Valtierra, Rios de La Luz, Beatrice Pita, Rosaura Sánchez, R. Ch. Garcia, Ricardo Tavarez, Rosa Martha Villarreal, Carmen Baca, Scott Russell Duncan, Gloria Delgado, and Kathleen Alcalá.

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Far From Home: an Anthology of Adventure Horror May 14, 2021

by Samantha Kolesnik, Ed Kurtz, Hailey Piper, Lenn Woolston, Michael Patrick Hicks, Mitch Sebourn, Ross Jeffery, Stephanie Ellis, Vaughn A. Jackson

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A dangerous climb in the moonlight. A couple's trek through uncharted wilderness to save their child. A sinister painting that holds unimaginable power. Sixteen horror authors share thrilling tales of terrifying adventures in Far From Home: an Anthology of Adventure Horror.

This anthology includes stories by Ed Kurtz, Hailey Piper, Lenn Woolston, A.K. Dennis, Cynthia Pelayo, Michael Patrick Hicks, Vaughn A. Jackson, Audrey Williams, Villimey Mist, Beverley Lee, Stephanie Ellis, Ross Jeffery, A.A. Medina, Carmen Baca, Ali Seay, and Mitch Sebourn.

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Cuentos del Cañón Jan 9, 2019

by Carmen Baca, Grant P. Hudson

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Cuentos del Cañón is a series of a dozen stories set in or near the same canyon that is home to her first novel El Hermano. We feel the palpable agony of the parents of an infant victim of the evil eye, the terror of the victims of realistic nightmares, and the wonder of a youth shoved to safety by his cousin who is actually in France. The Devil appears in the middle of a dance, an entire village disappears, Saint Death teaches humans life lessons, and a serpent that nightmares are made of exists in a corner of Sangre de Cristos - these are a few of the stories you’ll find in this collection by award-winning story-teller, Carmen Baca.

Señora Baca gives her own twist to several folk tales and legends told by her elders and ancestors through oral tradition and creates others that are new additions to New Mexico literature. She takes both human and phantasmagorical characters through life’s experiences and emotions in each story and makes their experiences truly credible.

Gleam: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Second Flash Fiction Anthology 2019 Sep 26, 2019

by Steve Carr, Catherine A. MacKenzie, Susanne Thomas, Nelson Kamkuimo, Rich Rurshell, Pam Van Allen, Heather Hood, L. T. Waterson, Sharon Frame Gay, RLM Cooper

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Flash fiction is often a small, vivid illustration or incident which fades into a larger, wider, unspoken background. The power lies in the unsaid, the inferred, the after-thrill which comes as the ephemeral piece ends, leaving you, the reader, transfixed and transformed.
Enjoy this set of sixty experiences, brought to you by new and established authors from around the world.
Flash fiction is often a small, vivid illustration or incident which fades into a larger, wider, unspoken background. The power lies in the unsaid, the inferred, the after-thrill which comes as the ephemeral piece ends, leaving you, the reader, transfixed and transformed.
Enjoy this set of sixty experiences, brought to you by new and established authors from around the world.

Featuring the work of R. L. Adare, Diane Arrelle, Peter Astle, Carmen Baca, Gabriella Balcom, Jim Bates, Gary Bonn, Lael Braday, Bonnie B. Bradlee, Belinda Brady, David Bowmore, Elizabeth Brown, Steve Carr, A.S. Charly, RLM Cooper, Dawn DeBraal, Denise D’Souza, Ximena Escobar, J.W. Garrett, Kelli J Gavin, Sharon Frame Gay, Jill Girardi, Phil Gladden, Marlon S. Hayes, Robert Hazel, Jesse Highsmith, Heather Hood, Justin Jones, Archit Joshi, Nelson Kamkuimo, Jill Kiesow, Shawn M. Klimek, Mark Kodama, A.J. Lawdring, Emma K. Leadley, James Lipson, Vickie J. Litten, Catherine A. MacKenzie, Giuseppina Marino Leyland, Christopher McCurry, Umair Mirxa, Elizabeth Montague, Sandra Nguyen, Charlotte O’Farrell, A.L. Paradiso, Natalie Partridge, Kari Pohar, Supriya Rakesh, Richard Rebel, Michal Reibenbach, Rich Rurshell, Andrew Scobie, CL Steele, Susanne Thomas, Justin Tuijl, Pam Van Allen, L.T. Waterson, Ger White, G. Allen Wilbanks and C.L. Williams.

La Quinceañera Jun 18, 2020

by Carmen Baca, Grant P. Hudson

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THE TRADITIONAL QUINCEAÑERA is Marguerite Quintanilla’s special celebration, replete with splendid garments, gifts, and decorations. But a little girl disappears from the event, and another vanishes from the same location five years later. No one can explain how Marguerite’s last doll, a Quince gift, connects the two. Before she leaves the town of Pajarillo to begin her religious life, Marguerite gives away the rest of her Quince gifts: her first pair of high heels, the tiara, the scepter—all the regalos go to people special to her. But the gifts come with peculiar gifts of their own and begin to alter their new owners in particular ways. Two strangers and an unseen threat drawing its power from an ancient lost world mean that all is not what it seems, and immortal souls are at risk.

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Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2020: A Sweetycat Press Publication Jun 12, 2020

by Sweetycat Press, Steve Carr

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WHO are the 116 emerging writers in this Who's Who? WHAT have they written? WHERE do they live? WHEN did they start writing? WHY do they write? HOW can you find out more about them?

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Shattered Veil: An Anthology of Ghost Stories Apr 18, 2021

by Aditya Deshmukh

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The other side exists. You can't always see it, but you can feel it.
It calls you. A touch, and it shatters. It unveils.
Can you bear the other side?

Shattered Veil is a collection of 20 chilling stories that explore this other side of existence, in ways that are haunting and tragic, or comforting and blissful.

THE SILHOUETTES by Sam M. Phillips
AND DARKNESS SHALL REIGN by Frederick Pangbourne
THE RESTORATOR by Patricia Scott
SIRENA HERMANA by J. Agombar
I HEARD FOOTSTEPS by C. Marry Hultman
ENCUENTRO EN LA MALHORA by Carmen Baca
1906 REMINGTON by Chisto Healy
CEREMONIES by David Powell
HALLOWEEN NIGHT by Alan Derosby
WHAT THE DICKENS by Marcus Cook
FUN LAND MONSTERS by R. A. Goli
GHOSTED MAILMAN by Carlton Herzog
THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE by Candace Meredith
WHY SHE LEFT ME by Robert Mackey
IN THE EVENT OF MY DEATH by Stephanie Scissom
SNOWBROTH by Vonnie Winslow Crist
DIRT by Tom Garback
WHEN SHADOWS COME by Ken Goldman
THE BOUDOIR OF THE SECOND EMPIRE by Wag
PRE-OWNED JEANS by James Dorr

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Unity, Volume 1: A Magical Realism Anthology Dec 6, 2020

by Maria J. Estrada, Priti J, Jack Hirschman, Carmen Baca, Norbert Somosi, Scott Duncan, Daniel Brooks, Elaine Carnegie-Padgett, Ximena Escobar, Shawn Klimek

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Writers Unite! Anthologies Dimensions of the Wild West Volume One Apr 30, 2021

by Writers Unite!, Deborah Ratliff, Lynn Miclea, D. A. Ratliff

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Cowboys on dusty trails. Cattle drives. Bank robbers and sheriffs. Whether riding a horse in the old West, a pickup truck in present day, or a mining transport on an asteroid, good fought evil, and tales of the West continued. Enjoy this collection of stories from the authors of Writers Unite! as they take you from the old West into the future.

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Dimensions of Paranormal Volume One Oct 30, 2020

by Writers Unite!, Lynn Miclea, D. A. Ratliff

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Paranormal. Does the word bring a shiver to your spine or cause you to think of ectoplasmic slime? You favorite group of authors from Writers Unite! invite you to experience their version of shivers and slime.

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The other side exists. You can't always see it, but you can feel it.
It calls you. A touch, and it shatters. It unveils.
Can you bear the other side?