Luck is Just the Beginning: a novel: Book Clubs

Have book club? I will travel!

I love book clubs and have been a member of several, the most long standing since 2002! If you would like to read Luck is Just the Beginning in your book club, please contact me for guest appearances and signed copies at 916-217-9841 or celestejleon@gmail.com.

I can come to your book club in Sacramento, Reno, Grass Valley/Nevada City and the Tahoe Basin. I'm available by Skype or ZOOM anywhere else!

Check this page for updates on book store signings, guest appearances and lectures that I will be featured at and thank you for your support.

About Me

Celeste León is an award winning author. Her passion for the past ten years has been writing Luck is Just the Beginning, the novel inspired by her father’s life; it was just released by Floricanto Press on November 23, 2015. When nineteen-year-old Ramón León wins the Puerto Rican lottery, his dream of establishing the first dental and medical clinic in his village becomes achievable. But an unexpected chain of catastrophic events intervenes. Luck is Just the Beginning is not only an enchanting story of the joys and sorrows of family, but also the saga of one man's determination to see never give up on his dream.

Luck is Just the Beginning won a Mariposa Award for Best First Book in the 2016 International Latino Book Awards and Finalist in the category of Multicultural Fiction in the 2016 International Book Awards. Celeste was named one of the "Top Ten New Latino Authors of 2017" by LatinoStories.com. Click here to read the list of nominations!

Celeste’s award winning short stories, A Lucky Man, and Sharing Luck, were published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating People Who Make a difference, as well as in www.beliefnet.com and The Preservation Foundation. Both stories are adaptations that ultimately grew into her novel. Celeste is a 2013 alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She is the recipient of First Prize in the annual contest for the High Sierra Writers group in Reno, Nevada for her essay, Finding Home, about her travels to Puerto Rico in search of her family roots. Celeste is a physical therapist and lives in Truckee, CA with her family. Please visit her website at www.celesteleon.com.

Luck is Just the Beginning: a novel

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