https://www.christopherrosales.com/about daily 0.75 2024-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589693511926-ZXXHXVBETTAQANLBV2W2/speculations-in-color-760.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589693591589-K655DFW0OHQZS4TY69MU/CrossBorder-2019-draft-2-663x1024.jpg About https://www.christopherrosales.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-05-16 https://www.christopherrosales.com/publications daily 0.75 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589758624889-ZOY71NAJFMSPD6S3LR10/WIB_ILBA.png Publications - Literary-Crime Broken River Books, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589758500227-Y9N5VSFPBZMUXZJZGMS4/Gods-on-the-Lam.jpg Publications - Mystery-Sci-fi-Western Perpetual Motion Machine, 2017 https://www.christopherrosales.com/professional-services daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1588998886977-K519U6QNFI8IEB5E7Z7M/Rosales_Public+Speaking.jpg Professional Services - Speaking & Events Speaking engagements have included university commencements, readings, and literary festivals and conferences across the United States. Topic specialties include: diversity and representation in literature and publishing; form and experimentation; writing into and against popular genres such as crime/noir and thrillers. Click here for more on past talks and events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589694997175-698EYGNR9TTYRMZ50XUW/Rosales_TeachingBWS.png Professional Services - Teaching Christopher David Rosales has been teaching writing and literature to adults and teens for over 13 years. His hybrid seminars and workshops incorporate critical theory, popular cultural studies, popular criminology, socio-historical contextualization, and creative writing. He believes in reflective and experiential learning to open minds, forge narratives across national and global landscapes, or encourage collaboration. Writing Workshops have covered topics from writing the novel, short story, and flash fiction to comedy and screenwriting, along with workshops for teachers on revising the workshop model in the classroom. Literature and Craft courses integrate literature, film, and music, and have included novel-reading for the writer, reading and writing crime/noir from Poe to Pulp Fiction in literature and film, urban slang and the language of hip hop in contemporary American literature, and the myth and mythology of authentic blues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1588999779316-3ER5XATEG3S93982KMPG/Consulting.jpg Professional Services - Editing & Consulting Big picture and developmental revision, line editing, complete manuscripts or works-in-progress: all projects are welcome. Rosales specializes in narrative engagement across genres, which means working with you to zero in on your story or memoir’s pulse, then vividly dramatizing choice scenes and details to keep your reader hooked. Forms: Novels, stories or collections, memoirs, personal essays, screenplays and interdisciplinary adaptations. Rates are based on industry standard and are calculated according to each project. Costs will be discussed and confirmed prior to signing an agreement. https://www.christopherrosales.com/forthcoming-projects daily 0.75 2025-04-05 https://www.christopherrosales.com/home daily 1.0 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589390658683-A977HNQ1DSN3DOT6ZZST/WIB_ILBA.png Home - “Word Is Bone is a cinematic novel set outside LA at Y2K … These memorable characters, the pacing of the plot, and the language itself will have you turning pages to keep up with the movie playing in your mind's eye. It's VERY cool, and if you like literary fiction, crime, or noir … read this book.” —Mary Kay McBrayer, America’s First Female Serial Killer and BookRiot editor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589160620930-8S8SXDY7XEVSIKYLGWPC/Both+Sides Home - Read “Fat Tuesday” in Both Sides: An Anthology of Border Noir "In this timely volume, readers will find rage as well as hope and, occasionally, a dash of spirit-lifting poetry.” —Publishers Weekly "Sometimes-sad, sometimes-infuriating, but always-illuminating...This gratifying and sometimes wryly funny read stands on its own, but it’s also worth recommending as an #ownvoices alternative to Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt." —Booklist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589386857728-JSLZGVX1Q3P8DOLEVK17/WIB_ILBA.png Home Cover Art by Matthew Revert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/c7999aee-0375-402d-8a66-8a79b5b34612/Book-launch-flyer_ENG.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/cc41c3b9-e7bc-4c96-ae3d-cd8c18e5c30d/IMG_2376.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/35d166f8-6beb-492e-b2f4-ca6aeb24897e/tempImageSeeAZW.jpg Home - ABOUT Christopher David Rosales “Rosales reads like early Marquez meets Bel Canto, with a shade of noir thrown in...difficult moments are offered with a beautiful and satisfying lightness that makes them shimmer and resonate and remain with you for good.” - Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses https://www.christopherrosales.com/home/word-is-bone monthly 0.5 2020-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1589739284466-CYJSLV2FWIQJRXLC3M9B/WIB_fulljacket_ILBA_small.png Home - Word Is Bone - Praised for its “street-level intimacy” of “ how a community weaves narrative webs to understand their own truths” and as a must-read for lovers of literary crime and noir, Word Is Bone is a story about the people we love, the ones who leave, and the memories that never do. https://www.christopherrosales.com/home/gods-on-the-lam monthly 0.5 2020-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb5dec583c10525dd0632da/1588978543996-IWCZ7PNO0VK9K275DT4O/gotl-cover_small.jpg Home - Gods on the Lam - Gods on the Lam Wayne, a former forest service fire-fighter, wakes up on the highway-side unsure of where he was going or who he is. It’s the 1980s, and a rash of disappearances haunt his small Northern Arizona mountain town called Show Low. The disappearances are being called abductions. Meanwhile, reformed alcoholic and dedicated mother, Ruby, has been hunting her missing son for years and believes he did not simply run away. Her search leads her to Show low. In the forest, loggers have transformed into zombie-like creatures fighting over the last of a vial of blue liquid. In Wayne’s investigations alongside Ruby, they learn one very important thing about Wayne’s past, and that vial. It’s linked to Ruby’s missing son in a way that might drive her to kill for vengeance. Read a review or…