RIVERDALE AVENUE BOOKS WILL
PUBLISH BIOGRAPHY OF JENNI RIVERA IN JANUARY
NEW YORK CITY – (December
xx, 2012) - Riverdale Avenue Books
(RAB), a new publisher specializing in
e-books and audio books, will publish a biography of Mexican-American
singer Jenni Rivera, who was killed this week in a plane crash. The book will be written by New York Times
best-selling author Marc Shapiro and journalist Charles Vazquez.
RAB will publish English and
Spanish versions of the 65,000 word book simultaneously (in both e-book and
paperback). RAB publisher Lori Perkins said she already has
strong interest in foreign and subsidiary rights with international publishers.
The
California-born Rivera was an iconic performer and Latina role-model, selling over 15 million albums worldwide. She was
nominated for Latin Grammys in 2003, 2008 and 2010. The Shapiro-Vazquez biography will take
readers through her early life as one of five children in a tight-knit musical
household, her teen-age pregnancy and the launch of her professional career.
The book will also tell the
story of her early successes as a regional Mexican Banda artist and her skill
as an entrepreneur who started enterprises that ranged from realty and
cosmetics companies to The Jenni Rivera Love Foundation.
It will also include the
background story of the December 9th flight of a U.S. registered
private Learjet that crashed near Iturbide in Nuevo León, Mexico, killing
Rivera and six others.
With
more than twenty-five years, covering
film, television and music for national and international newspapers and
magazines, Marc Shapiro is the author of J.K. Rowling: The Wizard
behind Harry Potter, Justin Bieber: The Fever! and other bestselling celebrity biographies.
Charlie
Vázquez is a Bronx-born journalist, novelist, poet and cultural producer. The
author of two novels and a collection of bilingual poetry, he has edited
two anthologies of new Latino literature. He has lectured
at universities and cultural institutions in the United States, Mexico and
Puerto Rico and is the New York City coordinator for
Puerto Rico’s “The Word/Festival de la Palabra.”
Press Contact:
Jackie Markham
212-687-1765
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