This literary biography is an ego exercise, and that’s why it exists on my blog. Because I have achieved things in time and I forget that I did them.
It is also an exercise in memory because there are days when I think that I did not do enough or that I did more before. But the truth is that my productive pattern has always been the same, even from the time when I had more time. So…

- Year 1984.
- The Neverending Story was released in theatres. I didn’t see it then, but the images and Limahl’s song that I saw on TV marked me for life. I was 6 or 7 years old.
- Year 1989.
- I read Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Before that, I didn’t even read the schoolbooks. I became a voracious reader and was bitten by the creative bug. I was 11 or 12 years old.
- Between 1990~1994.
- I filled my school notebooks with pseudo poetry and fantastic stories that I wrote late at night. One in ten had something like an ending.

- Year 1994.
- I participated in the school magazine, as part of a journalism workshop. I edited it, diagrammed it, and made all the photocopies.
During college
- Year 1995.
- I started Journalism. I was 17 years old. That same year, I applied to the Zona de Contacto magazine with a story. And in the personal interview, they laughed at my face because I had “about fifty finished stories.” I was not selected. And I got so angry.

- Year 1997.
- I spent much of my days in the computer lab at the university, hooked up to a Mac with a monochrome screen because no one used those. I learned HTML and wrote several short stories, which I later had to print because floppy disks were incompatible with PCs. «In the Blood», «Semilleros» and «Artemio Salinas» were born.
- Year 1998.
- Over the summer I wrote my first (unpublished) novel, Deke, dramatic sci-fi with time travel and transcendental teen romance. I was 20 years old.
- Year 1999.
- Over the summer I wrote my second (unpublished) novel, sci-fi/urban fantasy with messiah and various “New Adult” romances.
- Year 2000.
- I participated in an elective writing workshop at the university and wrote a short story a week for 4 months. Most of them were style tests.
- Año 2001.
- I was a finalist in the 1st Andrés Bello Literature Contest with a weird story about a blind guy who sees the world with perfect clarity.
Graduated and working

- Year 2007.
- I wrote Sordomudo, a short science fiction novel for young people (around 50k words). It remained unpublished for a few more years.
- I also published online Anemia, a collection of salvageable stories with tales from the workshop I participated in 2000.
- Year 2008.
- I began my participation in the Poliedro group of Chilean Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction writers. I also started a collaboration with Sergio A. Amira in a four-handed project.
- Year 2009.
- I was a finalist in the call for Dream Makers 2009 book. The edition of the printed book is terrible, but it doesn’t matter, I was selected.
- Year 2010.
- The novel Psique written in collaboration with Sergio A. Amira was published.
- I also published Corcho Loco y otros Relatos online, a collection of several short stories that I had written until then.

- Year 2011.
- I published in PDF the collection of short stories There is a Zombie in my Soup.
Self-publishing on Amazon
- Year 2013.
- I published the En la Sangre collection on Amazon with my ten best Urban Fantasy stories. Before that date, I hadn’t thought of piblishing (for real) on my own.
- I also published the horror story Espantos Cotidianos on Wattpad. I won in a contest on the platform, and it became the No. 1 story in the Horror category in Spanish. I was 36 years old.
- Together with colleagues from Triada Ediciones, we gave a talk on “How to write Fantasy and Science Fiction” at La Furia del Libro (GAM halls).
- Year 2014.
- I sent a reduced version of Sordomudo to a literary contest in Spain (25k words). It was returned unread to me because there was no one to receive the manuscript. Cuak!
- I published the reduced version of Sordomudo on Amazon.
- I studied for eight months a diploma in Editing and Publications. I learned a lot about the industry and the editorial process.
- Together with colleagues from Triada Ediciones, we gave a Fantasy and Science Fiction literary workshop at the Santiago Library.
- Year 2015.
- I convened, selected, edited and published an international collection of urban fantasy short stories called Dolunai. There are no stories of mine there. It can be downloaded for free at Smashwords.
- Year 2016.
- I taught a brief literary workshop on my own about the construction of stories before writing them.

- Year 2017.
- I published the long story Madre Árbol Hijo Semilla on Amazon. This is the first time I contracted an editor to do revisions and corrections on my work.
Learning new things
- Year 2018. I did not publish anything, but I did many activities and some changed me as a writer:
- I advanced a horror movie script that was born in 2017, during the Pixar in a Box Storytelling course.
- I studied and worked for nine months in my craft as a writer during the screenplay diploma for TV at PUC. We ended the year with a bible for the series and the script for the pilot, as well as a pitch before a great commission. It was a team effort and I learned a lot.
- Year 2019.
- I published my new collection of short stories, Furia de Estrellas.
- 2019 word count: 55k.
During the Covid-19 pandemic

- Year 2020.
- Confined since March due to the global pandemic by coronavirus SARS-CoV2 Covid-19.
- I decided to include my blog posts as part of my literary output for the written word count, under the “nonfiction” category. And I no longer feel so pathological thinking that “I don’t write”. Because the truth is that I do write, it’s just that not everything is “fiction”.
- In July, my short story “guai fai” was published in the free anthology CONFINAMIENTO by Cathartes Ediciones.
- 2020 word count: 55k.

- Year 2021.
- Still confined, but with some liberties thanks to the stubborn incompetence of the Chilean authorities.
- The first days of January, I set up the website libros.guajars.cl with all my historical production. Prior to September 2001, there is nothing to show.
- I participated in the selection and editing/correction of stories for Carnívoras, a Zombie anthology written by women, from Editorial Astartea.
- In May, I published Somnis Obitus, a pretentious name for a book with my Poliedro short stories (volume 3, 4 and 5).
- In September, I published Los Niños Monstruo (The Monster Childrens), an urban fantasy and “period” horror novel, set in the Santiago’s winter of 1984.
- In November, was selected a story of mine for the anthology Rapsodia, a short stories rock anthology from the group Textualmente Activas.
- Year 2022.
- In October, I finished the first draft for the novel that I started in 2011. I hope to have news by the end of 2023.
- In December, I published Deke, the unpublished novel I wrote in 1998, under the title Esta Novela está Mal Escrita (This Novel is Badly Written). I added the rewrite piece I put together in 2011 that I didn’t finish. Plus a memoir where I tell why I wrote and why I decided to publish such nonsense.
- Year 2023.
- I started using Scrivener. I love it, and I think it’s important to declare it here.
- Summary of unfinished works accumulated on the hard drive and backed up in the cloud: 19 texts, which are divided into one movie, two graphic novels, and 16 long novels. About 140k words of unfinished works of fantasy, horror and science fiction.
I will keep updating this literary biography
