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Diving into Ink: Poems of Love, Doubt, & Discovery and Lyrics from the Five Musicals
78 pages, Paperback
Published October 17, 2023
About the author
Joe Ortiz
6 booksJoe Ortiz is the author of The Village Baker (1993), and co-author of The Village Baker’s Wife (1997), and The Gardener’s Table (2000), all published by Ten Speed/Penguin.
His monthly columns on creativity in the Capitola Soquel Times and Aptos Times are the culmination of five decades of his experiences as an author, playwright, artist, and musician.
As a composer and lyricist, Ortiz has written and produced five musicals, among them Over the Roof (formerly Escaping Queens), which uses the incidents in Pastina as basis for the story.
Escaping Queens enjoyed its World Premiere at Cabrillo Stage (Aptos, California) in 2012.
Ortiz is co-owner and co-founder of Gayle’s Bakery and Rosticceria in Capitola. The business has grown, in its 48 years of community service, from a small, neighborhood shop to a full-service food emporium that serves more than 75,000 customers a month.
His monthly columns on creativity in the Capitola Soquel Times and Aptos Times are the culmination of five decades of his experiences as an author, playwright, artist, and musician.
As a composer and lyricist, Ortiz has written and produced five musicals, among them Over the Roof (formerly Escaping Queens), which uses the incidents in Pastina as basis for the story.
Escaping Queens enjoyed its World Premiere at Cabrillo Stage (Aptos, California) in 2012.
Ortiz is co-owner and co-founder of Gayle’s Bakery and Rosticceria in Capitola. The business has grown, in its 48 years of community service, from a small, neighborhood shop to a full-service food emporium that serves more than 75,000 customers a month.
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