About the work
Better Things is a novel about love, music, business, and life.
Do you believe you can have everything you want in life?
This is what Jon and Iris wonder after they meet during the "Step It Up Summit" in Miami. Could their personal and business success start at the same time? Would it be wise to mix business and pleasure? Can you really trust that life works for you, even when you’ve failed over and over again?
When all your dreams start to come true, could you be the one person getting in your way?
In this novel, we join Jon, Iris, and their friends as they work, trust and commit to their belief that better things can exist and happen to all of them.
I wrote this work inspired by past experiences in Summits, peer relationships and our intend to make the music and entertainment industry more human, soulful, connective, and successful.
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About the creator
“My novels always have a little humor, a lot of sensibility and the common search for justice and healing between people. I have the privilege of speaking 2 languages fluently, and giving my work a slightly different tone in each. With a little more social and political load in my works in Spanish, unavoidably perhaps. ”
I started writing plays while I was in high school, for our local theater department. I did an adaptation of Cindirella, and then an original play. After that, during college, I kept my writing to myself. After reading "Yo" by Julia Alvarez, I questioned how much of the world around me filtered my work, and if I had the right to share it so publicly. I kept writing all along, saving my stories and drafts, and after many years of pondering, I published my first book, a novel "El Poder de las Palabras" and shortly thereafter. "Caught in Between: Why we are too connected to unplug, and too old-school to live online."
I have published over ten books by now, and have found that the more I write and encourage my creative process, the easier characters and stories flow. My first books in English were an attempt to share what I had learned about the use of technology, business, and entrepreneurship. But then, I remembered that the best way for us to learn is through storytelling. So I went back to writing fiction, and allowing my characters to connect with the reader with whatever they may learn from them.