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Featured in Publishers Weekly’s Endnotes, how the incredible cover for Ito Romo’s forthcoming book FILTH EATERS came to be with the hard work of artist Vincent Valdez and designer Jen Blair!

How ‘Filth Eaters’ by Ito Romo Got Made An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.

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Because he & Aneida live in Dallas, my nephew Rey got his hardcover copies of FILTH EATER @DeepVellumBooks.bsky.social (early copies/pub’s bookstore). ❤️ Hold your baby boys close & teach them to love reading. Out May 19 sooner? Available for preorder. @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social

Where are the Knights of Columbus now? I used to see them lined up in full regalia protesting outside Planned Parenthood clinics. Where are they now and why aren't they showing the same kind of public display for the Pope that they showed against women's health?

With my brothers, Rodrigo, Ricky, Rafa, my cuñis Raul, and our dear life-long friend Eduardo Villarreal. ❤️ Hold your people close.

The most beautiful capirotada from my cuñis Betty in Laredo. You made us super happy. Gracias. ❤️ Felices Pascuas

After six years waiting patiently, my peonies are finally blooming.

“On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars ― Something good will come out of all things yet ― And it will be golden and eternal just like that . . . ”—Jack Kerouac

Filth Eaters - Ito Romo| Latino Book Review What makes good vampire fiction? Bram Stoker’s Dracula turned the immigrant body into a vessel for the anxieties of empire. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire made immortality a theater for grief....

A prceptive, stirring review of FILTH EATERS by @itoromo.bsky.social.

“Romo writes the body with meticulous, devotional attention… The prose doesn’t separate the erotic from the predatory…That fusion is the novel’s thesis about power.”

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Nuestra linda abuela Sofía González Villarreal (row 1, l to r, 7th). Photo is in terrible shape so I cropped to post while I work to clean it up. @ 1920, Laredo, Texas. Maybe ‘la escuela amarilla’ Central? Such a lovely smile. I can still hear her laughter. ❤️ Remember those who came before you.

First blooms of the season: Shooting Star Hoya (hoya multiflora)! ❤️ Blooming like crazy—a sign of hope, I say. Here’s to a beautiful spring!

My response to President Trump YouTube video by James Talarico

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Filth Eaters By Ito Romo A high-strung and inventive literary horror that will delight fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Mariana Enriquez, Ito Romo’s debut novel traces the thousand-year lineage of a new kind of va...

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5.18.26 — the FILTH EATERS are coming.

¡VIVA DOLORES HUERTA!
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Review of FILTH EATERS in Publishers Weekly. Available for preorder wherever you buy your books. Please share. ❤️👊🏼❤️

Super happy to read with Stephanie Elizondo Griest and Jose Skinner at AWP this year in Baltimore. Missing from photo is D Seth Horton and Elise McHugh. ❤️👊🏼❤️ @sgriest.bsky.social

@sgj.bsky.social Did I have to get both kinds of gravy? ¡Saludos, amigo!

QEPD Pedro Friedeberg

"In his masterful FILTH EATERS, Romo conjures a vampire epic across epochs and continents that would’ve shook Vlad, Dracula, Nosferatu, and Lestat to their bones, culminating in a Mestizoavatar of the undead who completes an occult destiny—to save the world. Try to be un-shook."
--John Philip Santos

Nothing like walking through your neighborhood to vote early. Vote as if your freedom depends on it. ❤️👊🏼❤️

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