TED BERNAL GUEVARA introduces his new novella, Asphalt & Water, the third book to the James Dean phenomenon.

He also has a new poetry collection entitled Nice, AND a new book of haikus, Haiku U.

Mr. Guevara resides in South Carolina, where he is a freelance writer. He is the author of two other James Dean conceptual novels, Days of Slint and Lips of a Mastodon. His first novel, A Circle with Two Corners, won praises from Midwest reviews, including one from The Sentinel. The crime-romance novel, True Feel, is in its Second Edition.

Ted has published three other volumes of poetry, Films, Birds on Elephant, and Tonto and Destinata.

Although he delves into an array of themes, always looking for the unusual and the edgy, Guevara finds adherence in the plight of the disabled and all their "profound richness," as he states in a poem.

At age 9, his family moved from the Philippines to Marion, Indiana—where all his physical challenges were realized and at the same time, rewarded. His physician father never taught him how to dribble a basketball but had trained him to type a thousand words per day--from notable books--to increase his typing speed. Ted caught the literary bug instead, from the exercise.

Kirkus considers Mr. Guevara as Author to Watch.