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+## SHORT BIO (50 words)
+Archaeologist Elena Vasquez weaves ancient Mayan mysteries into pulse-pounding thrillers. In *Shadows of the Forgotten City*, a cursed jade mask unleashes deadly rivalries across centuries. She splits her time between Tucson digs and restoring 1970s motorcycles in her dusty garage.
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+## MEDIUM BIO (150 words)
+Elena Vasquez spent a decade excavating Mayan ruins before turning those bone-dry digs into heart-racing fiction. Her debut thriller *Shadows of the Forgotten City* follows an artifact hunter whose discovery of a jade death mask ignites a conspiracy linking 9th-century rituals to Silicon Valley greed.  
+A field reporter for National Geographic in her early career, Elena draws on real expeditions—mud-caked notebooks and venomous snakes included—to ground her plots in tactile history. She's lectured at universities on Mesoamerican codices and once outran a collapsing cenote.  
+Now based in Tucson, Arizona, Elena tinkers with vintage motorcycle engines and plots her next book, where Aztec codices hide tech billionaires' secrets.
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+## LONG BIO (300 words)
+Elena Vasquez grew up in the Sonoran Desert, hauling rocks with her geologist father and sketching petroglyphs that whispered half-told stories. By 25, she'd traded classroom chalk for a trowel, joining expeditions in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. There, amid humidity-thick jungles and venomous fer-de-lance snakes, she uncovered pottery shards and jade talismans that fueled her obsession with history's hidden grudges.  
+A stint as a stringer for National Geographic honed her eye for narrative amid chaos—she dodged rockslides to file stories on looted tombs. But the real pull was fiction: why bury truths when you could resurrect them? *Shadows of the Forgotten City* channels that fire. Its cursed jade death mask, inspired by a real 9th-century find from her Calakmul dig, drags a skeptical artifact appraiser into a web of rival collectors, ancient blood oaths, and boardroom betrayals.  
+Elena's prose snaps like a breaking vine—taut, earthy, alive with the grit of fieldwork. Influences like Tony Hillerman's Navajo landscapes and Arturo Pérez-Reverte's historical swashbuckles seep through, but her voice is pure desert: spare, sun-baked, unflinching. She's shared her codex translations at the Southwest Museum and consulted on PBS documentaries about Mayan collapse.  
+Today, from her Tucson adobe, Elena restores carburetors on Harley Sportsters, brews coffee strong as cenote water, and researches her follow-up: a thriller where an Aztec flower war manuscript exposes AI-driven corporate espionage. Her work insists the past isn't buried—it's just waiting to claw back.
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+## FIRST-PERSON "ABOUT ME" (100 words)
+I write thrillers because Mayan ruins taught me history doesn't whisper—it bites. *Shadows of the Forgotten City* started with a jade mask I held in 2015; its carved screams demanded a story of artifact thieves and tech moguls chasing cursed power. I've dodged scorpions on digs, filed dispatches from collapsing caves, and now I trade trowels for keyboards in Tucson. When the words stall, I wrench on old motorcycles or hike slot canyons. Grab a copy, and let's unearth what the ancients left buried.
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+## SOCIAL HANDLE BIOS
+- **Twitter/X (160 chars):** Archaeologist spinning Mayan curses into thrillers. *Shadows of the Forgotten City*: jade mask sparks killer conspiracy. Tucson mechanic by day. #HistoricalThriller DM for digs. elenavasquez.com @ElenaVasquezWrites (137 chars)
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+- **Instagram (150 chars):** Unearthing Mayan secrets 🗿 one thriller at a time.  
+*Shadows of the Forgotten City*—cursed jade drags hunters into chaos.  
+Desert hikes. Vintage bikes. Real digs.  
+elena@elenavasquez.com 📍Tucson (128 chars)
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+- **LinkedIn (220 chars):** Archaeologist & author Elena Vasquez. *Shadows of the Forgotten City* blends Yucatán digs w/ modern conspiracy—jade death mask vs. artifact traffickers. Ex-National Geographic reporter; lecturer on Mesoamerican history. Open to speaking/podcasts. Tucson, AZ. elenavasquez.com (198 chars)
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+## AUTHOR PHOTO CAPTION
+Elena Vasquez brushes dirt from a jade artifact replica during a 2022 Yucatán excavation.
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+## MEDIA CONTACT BLOCK
+Elena Vasquez  
+elena@elenavasquez.com  
+(520) 555-0192  
+elenavasquez.com  
+Twitter/X: @ElenaVasquezWrites | Instagram: @ElenaVasquezWrites | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elenavasquez