We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Yvette De Oro. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Yvette below.
Yvette, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
Three main things contributed to my resilience
1) being born into Mexican/American culture,
2) being removed from Mexican/American culture and
3) romance books (reading in general).
There’s a reason why El Paso keeps being brought up in songs. Yes, there’s struggle, but there’s also generosity and a welcoming spirit. There’s a nostalgia there. A history of resilience. Border folk have kinship. In El Paso, almost everybody looks like me.
My family moved to us Calgary when I was in the first grade. Lovely, graceful. It’s a different kind of generosity and welcoming spirit. There’s gentleness. Peacefulness. Openness. Border folk have kinship. In Calgary, almost nobody looked like me.
I forgot my spanish, but would re-learn it during the summers visiting my grandparents. “Why do you sound like a white girl?” kids would ask at the beginning of Summer. Then, back to Calgary, where my eyes and skin color highly contrasted almost everyone else’s. I learned the Canadian national anthem long before learning the American one – and was good at learning French, because I knew Spanish.
I’m from here and there – AND not of here nor there.
I think that’s neat. I have range and I’m glad for it.
Border folk are different. Less fearful and more welcoming. Resilient, like me.
Having lived in Dallas the last 25 years hasn’t changed that, I’m still a border gal.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Yvette is drawn to things that have stories to tell and likes to write fun/sassy/honest romance stories!
End-of-Life doula trained. Inspired by: life, death, red dirt music, and romance writers
She had her debut in 2021 with an indie press anthology and has her sixth book coming soon.
Mine to Match – Book 1 of the Tempting Fate series – NEW book/NEW series launching February 26th, 2025 on KU!
Frontera Latina – Dallasite by way of El Paso and Calgary – Yvette lives with her husband and 14+ year old lab named BB.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
1) Curiosity. Wonderful things happen with curiosity instead of (or in spite of) fear.
2) Reading. I really wish more people (men especially) would read romance books. This world would be a better place. But if not, reading in general, getting out of your own head space is important.
3) Make efforts to get out of your comfort zone. Same ‘ol, same ‘ol is so boring.
Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?
There’s an escalated effort to ban books in the United States – romance books especially – and I rage. Read a book instead!! Learn. Grow. Educate. Critical thinking skills – hooray!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.yvettedeoro.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deorobooks/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deorobooks
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@deorobooks
- Other: @deorobooks on all socials
Image Credits
Staci Hart – Mine to Match cover (Illustrated)
Alia Michelle Photography
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