This is a great book, An American Bimbo in Yucatan, which my publishing company, SunTopaz LLC, will be publishing soon. However, I wonder about the title. It is a fantastic true story of a woman from Oregon who moves to Yucatan, meets and marries a Mayan man, and has lived in a Mayan village for the last 19 years.
I fear the “American Bimbo” in the title sounds too much like a clueless, ignorant, unkind blonde disrepecting the Mayan people. In reality, she is very grateful for all she has learned from the Mayan villagers.
But, she is blonde and she did start out pretty clueless. Maybe a better title would be “An Oregon Bimbo in Yucatan.” What do you think?
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I am in the process of working on publishing a personal experience book of a woman’s story of living in the Yucatan with a Mayan husband for the last 18 years. It is a heartwarming and also informational book. In going over her photographs, I am happy and nostalgic for the wonderful people we met in Yucatan.