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Author: Caroline Anna Bock
Caroline Bock is the author of the forthcoming novel THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, a workplace love story, from Regal House Publishing (summer of 2026 publication date). Stay tuned for more news about The Other Beautiful People. More at her official author site: www.carolinebockofficialauthorsite.wordpress.com
Caroline Bock, official author photo, credit: Michael Bock
Official author bio here:
Caroline Bock is the author of THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, a workplace love story, inspired by her two-decade career at AMC, Bravo, IFC, and IFC Films (on sale June 2, 2026, Regal House Publishing). She is also the author of the young adult novels LIE and Before My Eyes, as well as the award-winning short story collection Carry Her Home. She is the co-president/prose editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House.
Now available everywhere books and ebooks are available. This project — to have my critically acclaimed first novel translated into Spanish — is one I have long worked toward, and I finally undertook it on my own with the help of professional translators Laura Arguëlles Icaza and Antonieta Romero-Follete. Muchas gracias. Even more so, LIE / LA MENTIRA is particularly timely- it’s the story of love and hate in the suburbs of Long Island, of immigration, of a murder, and the community’s reaction…. Todos lo saben. Nadie habla.
La Mentira -Lie da vida, en una traducción experta al español, a la historia de un crimen contra dos hermanos de ascendencia salvadoreña, un nacido en Estados Unidos y el otro no. Ambientada en Long Island, Nueva York, esta novela narra las historias de cinco adolescentes y cinco adultos, entrelazando las mentiras y las verdades de lo ocurrido una noche fatídica. Todos lo saben, nadie habla es la charla de la comunidad, excepto que sí hablan en La Mentira-Lie, una novela confesional, al estilo de Rashomon, escrito por Caroline Bock.
La Mentira -Lie – brings alive, in expert Spanish translation, the story of a crime against two brothers of El Salvadoran heritage, one American-born, one not.
Set in Long Island, New York, this novel shares… the stories of five teens and five adults, weaving together the lies and truths about what happened one fateful evening. ‘Everyone knows, nobody’s talking’ is the word in the community, except they are talking in La Mentira-Lie-a confessionary, Rashomon-like novel by Caroline Bock.
Book Details:
Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 inches 200 pages ISBN: 978-1-941551-48-6
Caroline Anna Bock is a novelist, short story writer, and editor based in the Washington DC area. Maryland. She is also the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a nonprofit literary press based in Washington DC since 1975. Reach her directly at cbock8908 @ gmail.com.
LIE – a critically acclaimed (starredreviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, and the Library Journal) young adult novel, inspired by a true crime, about love and hate in suburban America. Published by St. Martin’s Press. LIE is for ages 14 and above.
LIE…starred reviews “Suspenseful and thought provoking.” starred review, Booklist
“Unusual and important.” starred review, Kirkus Reviews
“…reads like a confessional.” starred review, Publishers Weekly
Available in Spanish for the first time this spring of 2025. Available in paperback and in ebook formats everywhere books are sold. Everybody knows. Nobody is talking. Todos lo saben. Nadie habla. More details about LA MENTIRA here.
Before My Eyes – A long hot summer on Long Island. Three teens working at a beach snack shack. Romance. Tragedy. Before My Eyescaptures a moment when possibilities should be opening up, but instead everything teeters on the brink of destruction.
From St. Martin’s Press and highly acclaimed for its sensitive, character-driven story, Before My Eyes is a young adult novel for ages 16 and above. Optioned by Tangerine Entertainment.
CARRY HER HOME…WINNER OF THE FICTION AWARD FROM THE WASHINGTON WRITERS’ PUBLISHING HOUSE. FORTY-SEVEN STORIES FROM FLASH TO FULL-LENGTH THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART AND CARRY YOU HOME.
A REVIEW FROM THE FOREWORD INDIES:
Carry Her Home Caroline Bock Washington Writers’ Publishing House (Oct 15, 2018) Softcover $17.95 (216pp) 978-1-941551-16-5
In an early piece in this book of short, connected stories, Caroline Bock establishes a daughter’s reverence for her father: “let me recall the days when I picked tomatoes beside my Pop, and ate one or two directly from the vine at his direction in his garden under the sun, and I was young, and I was a child loved.”
Bock moves from a child who is loved to child who is sidelined by grief and stress when her mother suffers an aneurysm that leads to institutionalization, leaving behind her children and her floundering husband. In this autobiographical and imaginative book, Bock imbues her parents’ story with compassion, rich detail, and cumulative power.
The forty-seven stories gather around the central narrative of Bock’s parents, though the book also fast forwards to Bock’s adult life and reverses to understand her grandparents. From a misguided and slapdash escape plan to a magical dance, an awkward family dinner to a notion store owned by a grandfather, Bock sketches rich landscapes and fully realized scenes.
While each story can stand on its own, it is when they accrue that the book’s power is fully realized, giving it the depth and detail of a novel. Conscious of her own creative approach, Bock chose a medium that allows for the room to imagine her way into her parents’ lives, thoughts, and emotions. Her father, Pop’s, voice is powerful as he moves from courting to marrying to losing his wife.
The stories range from near prose poems and flash fiction to longer, more traditional short story forms. Bock uses the varying lengths to create a rhythm in the reading, with the short punch of “The Understanding” moving into the longer, cinematic “The Day After the Dance.” Experimental and genre-bending, these stories bring together the introspection of memoir with the imaginative detail and potential of fiction.
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