Hello, ahoi, welcome along. It's a brand new episode of writer's routine, where we find out how authors get stuff done. This week, we're joined by Rudy Ruiz. He's been a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards.

You can hear all about his new one, the resurrection of Fulhencio Ramirez.

We talk about beloved Mexican songs that helped shape the story,

and why the rule of culture and heritage plays such an important role in his writing.

It's become pretty important over you know, over the years, because I just am always drawn back to writing about these places, you know, which I'm familiar with, which I have history with, and my family has history with. At the same time, there's also a

social dimension to it. So I don't like to make my work sound preachy or overly political,

but at the same time, I feel like it's an opportunity to create empathy for the types of people I tend

to write about and to create greater understanding of border issues, immigration issues.

There is more on the way with Rudy Ruiz in this week's writer's routine.

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My name's Dan Simpson.

This is writer's routine.

Every week we chat to all kinds of writers. Debutants,

biographers, non-fiction writers, some of the world's most serial bestsellers, and we find out how they get things done. Where, when, how and why they write. This week, our guest is

Rudy Ruiz. He's an author, an entrepreneur,

and a social advocate, and that last one is key. It plays a huge part in the stories that he

tells. Now, he grew up along the U.S.-Mexico border, and he knows all about the hardship

that that life and that area brings.

It's why culture and heritage play such a key part in his stories.

He then went to Harvard and now lives in Texas, where I caught up with him from.

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