{"id":7046168,"date":"2026-08-24T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/tnbbcs-the-next-best-book-blog-indie-spotlight-eugene-costello\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:57:31","slug":"tnbbcs-the-next-best-book-blog-indie-spotlight-eugene-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7046168","title":{"rendered":"TNBBC&#8217;s The Next Best Book Blog: Indie Spotlight: Eugene Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-4198969713652143488\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\">W<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; text-align: center;\">elcome to our Indie Spotlight series, in which TNBBC gives small press authors the floor to shed some light on their writing process, publishing experiences, or whatever else they&#8217;d like to share with you, the readers!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Today&#8217;s spotlight shines on\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eugenecostello.com\/\">Eugene Costello<\/a> who released Puta Madre on August 5th.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Why I Made a Colombian<br \/>\nMigrant and Former Sex Worker the Heroine of My Novel<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 24.0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">I arrived in<br \/>\nSpain to begin my new life just a couple of weeks before the country entered<br \/>\none of the strictest pandemic lockdowns in the world. Arrangements to connect<br \/>\nthe electricity, water, gas and Wi-Fi in my rented apartment ground to a halt.<br \/>\nFor weeks, I was permitted to leave only to walk the hundred metres to my<br \/>\nnearest grocery store for essentials.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Shortly before lockdown, I had decided to<br \/>\nemploy a cleaner and, through word of mouth, found a Colombian single mother<br \/>\nthen in her late thirties, with a four-year-old son.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">It proved a wise decision for reasons<br \/>\nthat had little to do with cleaning. We became immediate friends, her<br \/>\ninfectious laughter and singing filling the apartment like sunlight. When<br \/>\nrestrictions permitted, she welcomed me into her home, where I could take my<br \/>\nlaptop and work in her son\u2019s bedroom using her Wi-Fi. Love is as love does, and<br \/>\nshe made me feel at home when I was far from my own family.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Valencia is compact enough to feel less<br \/>\nlike a metropolis than a collection of <em>barrios<\/em> and interconnected<br \/>\nvillages. It is also home to sizeable communities from Colombia, Venezuela,<br \/>\nEcuador, Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America. As I applied myself to learning<br \/>\nSpanish, my friend introduced me to people, stories and food that revealed<br \/>\nlives very different from my own.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">There was always food.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Somebody died? We\u2019ll cook.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Won the lottery? We\u2019ll cook.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">A son scored a goal at his football<br \/>\nmatch? We\u2019ll cook.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Food marked sorrow, celebration and all<br \/>\nthe ordinary moments between them. The voices, jokes, anxieties and ambitions I<br \/>\nencountered began crowding my imagination. Over time, elements of them were<br \/>\nmade flesh in the characters I tried to create\u2014not as portraits of particular<br \/>\nindividuals, but as fictional people shaped by the world in which I was now<br \/>\nliving.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The story of the world is the story of<br \/>\nmigration. People leave because they are hungry, frightened, ambitious, trapped<br \/>\nor simply convinced that another life must be possible somewhere else. Usually,<br \/>\nit is a mixture of all five. They arrive carrying recipes, memories,<br \/>\nobligations and expectations, and begin the exhausting business of constructing<br \/>\na new life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Daniela emerged from that world, but she<br \/>\nwas never intended to represent every Colombian woman, every migrant or every<br \/>\nmother. No character could bear that burden, and no writer should impose it.<br \/>\nShe is one woman confronting a particular set of circumstances and making<br \/>\nchoices that are sometimes courageous, sometimes questionable and always her<br \/>\nown.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\">Through Sof\u00eda<br \/>\n\u2014 whose name I have changed \u2014 I met several women whose circumstances had led<br \/>\nthem into sex work. They were among the warmest, funniest and most generous<br \/>\npeople I encountered. What also struck me was how little moral judgement they<br \/>\nfaced within their own communities. Migrant life can mean badly paid work,<br \/>\ninsecure housing, uncertain legal status and almost no employment protection.<br \/>\nPeople do what they need to do to survive, and their friends understand that.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">I did not want sex work to define<br \/>\nDaniela, still less to present her as either a fallen woman or a helpless<br \/>\nvictim waiting to be rescued. It is something she does during a difficult<br \/>\nperiod of her life; it is not the sum of who she is. She remains a daughter,<br \/>\nsister, mother, friend and, eventually, entrepreneur.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">That is why I gave her the idea for <em>Empanadas<br \/>\nde Puta Madre<\/em>, the food business through which she transforms her<br \/>\nlife. She does not escape poverty through luck or the intervention of a<br \/>\nbenevolent man. She builds something from the skills, recipes and determination<br \/>\nshe already possesses. Her son\u2019s eventual literary success extends that story<br \/>\ninto the next generation: the child of a migrant woman who was denied an<br \/>\neducation becomes an acclaimed writer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">I wanted to celebrate the contribution<br \/>\nmigrants make to the societies in which they settle without pretending that<br \/>\nmigration is easy or that every struggle produces a triumphant ending. Above<br \/>\nall, I wanted Daniela to be permitted the same complexity that fiction has<br \/>\ntraditionally granted more privileged characters: to make mistakes, take risks,<br \/>\nsurvive compromises and create a life larger than the one circumstances<br \/>\nappeared to have allotted her.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">I hope I have done her justice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiys8C2vZkYYIRdeNotrLUVtO7OZ-dFxDdrz8GcmQsSbkIMKxw0v0XyxWX22U-xxw_uoDB71_aO4UfSxXT4t5l2CE7m7HVqdhSEXrHg6amFDK18yumAD4YWh0gEpvn-UfrWnH6G9AWUsuegIk_UGQTbHe355tXiQO-Ff7wr8fsOCeDQm8PkPRU5KOoj1gdn\/s2560\/eugene.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2560\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiys8C2vZkYYIRdeNotrLUVtO7OZ-dFxDdrz8GcmQsSbkIMKxw0v0XyxWX22U-xxw_uoDB71_aO4UfSxXT4t5l2CE7m7HVqdhSEXrHg6amFDK18yumAD4YWh0gEpvn-UfrWnH6G9AWUsuegIk_UGQTbHe355tXiQO-Ff7wr8fsOCeDQm8PkPRU5KOoj1gdn\/s320\/eugene.jpg\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\">You can buy<br \/>\nthe English paperback of <i>Puta Madre<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.es\/Puta-Madre-novels\/dp\/B0HD6FL4PK\">here<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0and the Kindle version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.es\/Puta-Madre-novels-Book-English-ebook\/dp\/B0HD19163V\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\">The sequel<br \/>\nBeyond Puta Madre is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.es\/Beyond-Puta-Madre-novels\/dp\/B0HD1CF5XG\">paperback<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.es\/Beyond-Puta-Madre-novels-English-ebook\/dp\/B0HD18W6NT\">Kindle<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 115%;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Daniela Arango arrives in<br \/>\nValencia from Colombia with little money, limited choices and a determination<br \/>\nto create a better life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/>\n<br \/>After surviving through sex work and cleaning jobs, she becomes a mother and<br \/>\nbegins building something of her own: Empanadas de Puta Madre, a food business<br \/>\nrooted in the recipes, resilience and communal spirit she brought with her from<br \/>\nhome.<\/p>\n<p>As Daniela\u2019s fortunes change, so does the life of her son, Daniel, whose<br \/>\nliterary ambitions carry the family\u2019s story into another generation.<\/p>\n<p>Set against the streets, neighbourhoods and migrant communities of Valencia,<br \/>\nPuta Madre is a novel about motherhood, migration, friendship and the stubborn<br \/>\nhuman capacity for reinvention.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br \/>\n<!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh9pjqX0FwMTY0PXo19mL5IGmibFyZmsw3LnCIH3YdDCmFdJtOV8u7q00-5LDx03_1-jr99fZRyqbNA4TmzDXdeahopGp-KHkJR1oTtbnjyxFxoh7lR-3z5njJBBbX68DjQ6-Ea-FQE3qnXHALqvWL1TotrFgxnOiSc-h1cToRFoRFdp6X7fM-FH5isbYPm\/s1410\/Euge%20profile%20pic.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1410\" data-original-width=\"1058\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh9pjqX0FwMTY0PXo19mL5IGmibFyZmsw3LnCIH3YdDCmFdJtOV8u7q00-5LDx03_1-jr99fZRyqbNA4TmzDXdeahopGp-KHkJR1oTtbnjyxFxoh7lR-3z5njJBBbX68DjQ6-Ea-FQE3qnXHALqvWL1TotrFgxnOiSc-h1cToRFoRFdp6X7fM-FH5isbYPm\/w240-h320\/Euge%20profile%20pic.png\" width=\"240\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eugenecostello.com\/\">Eugene Costello<\/a> is a<br \/>\nBritish-Irish journalist and author based in Valencia, Spain. During a career<br \/>\nspanning more than thirty years, his work has appeared in numerous British<br \/>\nnational newspapers and magazines. He is the founder and editor of Valencia<br \/>\nLife and writes about Spain, migration, public health and the glorious<br \/>\nabsurdities of everyday life. His novels Puta Madre and Beyond Puta Madre<br \/>\nfollow a Colombian migrant who rebuilds her life in Valencia through<br \/>\nmotherhood, friendship, food and formidable determination.<\/span><br \/><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br \/><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our Indie Spotlight series, in which TNBBC gives small press authors the floor to shed some light on their writing process, publishing experiences, or whatever else they&#8217;d like to share with you, the readers! Today&#8217;s spotlight shines on\u00a0Eugene Costello who released Puta Madre on August 5th. 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