Gina Ruiz

Gina MarySol Ruiz is a social media marketer, freelance writer, poet and book reviewer.  Gina has  maintained several blogs over the years with her book reviews (AmoXcalli, Cuentecitos, The Flipbook).  AmoXcalli and Cuentecitos will continue to run on Blogger but no new content will be added.  The Flipbook which was her graphic novel review site is now defunct and all the reviews from that are being pulled into the new location The Graphic Landscape. The content of AmoXcalli and Cuentecitos has been imported into the new site and all new content will be added here.

Gina’s poetry has been published on Poetic Diversity.org and her book reviews and articles published on La Bloga and Xispas, two websites with a strong Hispanic/Latino focus.   La Bloga was named Tu Ciudad’s Best Blog of the Year for 2006.  Gina is also a columnist with Blogcritics.org and has a regular section entitled Minor Considerations, a column dedicated to Children’s Literature.  She has also been a panelist for the Cybils awards two years running in the Graphic Novel category for two age groups.  A list of all writing credits and clips resides at her resume site.

She is also enjoying ghost Tweeting for Guy Kawasaki at Alltop.com and being part of that incredible team of people working on it evangelizing it.  Most recently, Gina has launched her own online magazine Slinkmag.com about virtual worlds in general and Second Life in particular and will launch its companion site Slinkmarketing.com dedicated to In-World Marketing in SL. She’s fascinated by metanomics, hyperbolic geometry and the social interaction in virtual worlds.

Gina currently lives in Eagle Rock, California and spends an awful lot of time with her two partners in crime, aka the grandkids, Jasmine and Aiden (often referred to in her writing as J&A) in bookstores, parks, museums and other fun hangouts, not to mention cooking and baking up a storm for her cooking website Doña Lupe’s Kitchen.

She is a member in good standing of SCBWI - Los Angeles Chapter, Linkedin Journalists and Las Comadres Para Las Americas.  You can find her on Foodbuzz, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn.  She’s a saavy social marketer and is always finding new things to play with on the internet.

You can link to any of Gina’s work in the sidebar and please feel free to suggest links for the various blogrolls or books you’d like her to review.