All posts by Rufel Ramos

About Rufel Ramos

RUFEL F. RAMOS is an English professor at Dallas College (a multi-campus community college in Dallas County, Texas) and a published author. She is also a survivor of a rigorous liberal arts education, a single mother, an aunt, a big sister, the oldest child, an adopted kid, an Asian-American, a US Navy brat, a bemused Catholic, a sci-fi/fantasy geek, a mediocre Maker of stuff, and a once-and-future globe trotter. She often writes on any and all of those roles on her blog, thelizardqueen.wordpress.com and her website, rowenasworld.org.

Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, Retcon Edition

ZOEY FITZPATRICK: an English college professor, living in quiet loneliness, until she discovers that her brother Jamie (presumed dead for twenty years) is still alive, albeit dying in a hospital bed as a “John Doe.”

ARIEL: a fallen angel, living an eons-long life of benign serial possession, but can’t escape his last human host, who is dying — Zoey’s brother.

An urban literary fantasy, with homage to Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton, YE WATCHERS AND YE HOLY ONES is a romantic drama of how Zoey and Ariel become more than friends in the end.

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Scaffolds: A Childhood Memoir of Books

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As a GenXer in the 1980s, I grew up as a latch-key kid. TV, movies, and video games vied for my siblings and my attention as we ate junk food. Yet, I became a reader at an early age, majored in English post-high school, and became a teacher and writer. Something about my childhood encouraged me to become a life-long reader. What was it?

SCAFFOLDS: A CHILDHOOD MEMOIR OF BOOKS is about the meaningful books I read when I was a kid and teenager. But the key to creating a life-long reader isn