Soccer, press and drugs, in Cabanillas’ first novel | Football24 News English

More than twenty years have passed since Ana Isabel Cabanillas write a story that now, at 43, has decided to self-publish and see the light. This is the first book by this eclectic lover of reading and writing. His novel, Under suspicion, mix “soccer, press, drugs and friendship, who make a good cocktail in this work that will hook the reader from the beginning, whether he is a sports lover or not, “says Cabanillas.

It is the story of “Roberto Godoy, a well-known footballer for Estudiantes de Magallanes, a club that struggles to win the league championship that season. Everything changes the day he overhears a conversation that should never have been heard. From then on At the moment, the idea of ​​a possible corruption within his entity begins to haunt his mind, until the plot thickens and the first confrontations arise “, he describes.

Her love of reading and soccer were what led her to write. As you remember, “the book is based on my own experiences during my time as a soccer player, which is reflected in certain moments of the work, where situations and feelings of that time are reflected. “And the thing is that the etxebarritarra has been a federated player for 21 years.

The story had been written for a long time: “The truth is that I wrote the book when I was 19 years old and I was studying to pass the September exams at the Faculty. But I took paper and a pen and started to do it. I wrote nothing but the idea came up and it was intertwining occurrences until I found the final outcome. I was totally hooked on the story and I didn’t stop writing it until I put the END on the last page. ”

From that process remember that wrote it almost at once, quite easily. And is that “honestly, it has almost cost me more to correct it now (there have been 4 corrections), than to write it at the time, without a computer or Internet or anything like it”. As I was writing it, “I wasn’t aware, I just let the idea flow and that’s it. Sometimes, at night, phrases would come to my head that I thought were so perfect that I had to get out of bed to write them and not forget them the next day. ”

He has always liked to write and read. According to her account, “as a child, I read every night in bed until my mother came to force me to turn off the light to sleep. Sometimes I would listen to her and other times, when the story was interesting, I would turn it on again to read secretly And when I went to the dentist, as a reward for having been good, I always asked for a book when I left the office. Summers were great opportunities for me to devour books. ”

The book has been self-published, since “after sending it to publishers I saw that it does not work like that, so I decided to self-publish. The guys from Rubric have helped me a lot, and in mid-December I had in my hands the first copy of the 100 that we put out. The truth is that they have sold very quickly. “At the moment,” it can be purchased in the bookstores of Etxebarri, Hobbiton and where Loli in San Antonio. They can also request it from me directly, whoever wishes, can contact me (https://anaisabelcabanillas.wordpress.com/). He assures that he never thought to see his novel published. “The most beautiful thing has been to see the metamorphosis that that bunch of pages underwent to end up being a magnificent finished book. With that, my objective has been fulfilled and everything that comes after is an extra”.

Another novel

The desire to write has led her to be already immersed in her second work. “Although it is something different, it is also an intrigue novel, in which the protagonist must delve into the true story of her life at a time when she believed she had everything under control. A mixture of secrets, love, family, ins and outs and of course, a little nod to football, in this case, female “.

“The book will hook the reader from the beginning, whether he is a sports lover or not”

Ana Isabel Cabanillas

Author of ‘Under Suspicion’