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Lila Guzman, Ph.D.
Award-Winning Author
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​This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
​It also marks the 25th anniversary of LORENZO'S SECRET MISSION.
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In 1776, a secret flatboat flotilla delivered supplies from New Orleans to Fort Pitt.
The next year, Texas beef fed soldiers who were fighting the British.
The $ comes from the Spanish Pillar Dollar.
Galveston, Texas (the site of Rick Guzman's birth) is named for
the Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez.
Lila Guzman was raised in Kentucky (three miles from William Linn's cabin.)
There were three Revolutionary War battles outside the Original Thirteen Colonies.
(Baton Rouge, Mobile, Pensacola)
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Now is a great time to schedule an author visit, either by Zoom or in person.
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Email me at lorenzo1776@yahoo.com and put SCHOOL VISIT in the subject line.
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There are two options:
1. Author visits are free if the classroom purchases a classroom set
(25 books) from the publisher.
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The LORENZO series:
LORENZO'S SECRET MISSION
LORENZO'S REVOLUTIONARY QUEST
LORENZO AND THE TURNCOAT
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2. If you want a historical presentation to your school
or organization, contact me concerning the honorarium.
I am located in Round Rock, Texas, between
Austin and Georgetown.
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I also do a presentation on Fiction Writing, both novels and short stories.
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The Lorenzo series is a good introduction to
the lesser-known aspects of the American Revolution.
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If you are in Louisiana, a state that borders the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers,
Kentucky, or Pennsylviania,
then LORENZO'S SECRET MISSION is best for you.
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If you are in Texas, LORENZO'S REVOLUTIONARY QUEST is best for you.
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If you live in Galveston, Texas, your city was named for General Galvez,
the Spanish Revolutionary War hero who led the Battles of Baton Rouge,
Mobile, and Pensacola.
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In LORENZO'S SECRET MISSION, Lorenzo joins a secret flatboat flotilla
delivering supplies from the Spanish in New Orleans to General Washington.
(A Kentucky pioneer, William Linn, figures prominently in the story.
William Linn died near Jeffersontown, Kentucky, about three miles from my home.
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