Have you seen the news? I’m part of Las Musas, an unprecedented group of debut and Sophomore Latinx authors of MG and YA stories. Head over to our website to learn more about us and our books. Although we all come from very diverse backgrounds, we each represents a different aspect of the Latinx […]
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
Monday, 11 December 2017
On Wednesday, my super agent Linda sent me a quick text: Your book will be announced sometime Thursday. Needless to say, I couldn’t sleep all night. Every time I thought about the announcement going live, I got butterflies in my stomach. And then Thursday arrived, and my book wasn’t in the morning Publisher Marketplace new […]
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Look at this graphic: The first time I saw this illustration I cried. I mean, LOOK AT IT! One and a half books representing the Latinx characters in children’s books? The equivalent of three pages representing the Native American people? Look at the similarly dreadful percentages of representation of our African American children, and our […]
