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Returning to my much-neglected blog, I realized it’s been almost two years since I’ve posted here. My most recent post gives a hint. In that, I wondered, “Is happiness bad for writing?” Short answer: it’s at least bad for blogging, for me. Much has happened since the days I sought refuge daily by screaming into […]

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As a novelist who has spent my life shaped by immigration, I’m drawn again and again to immigrant novels that explore what it means to leave one home behind and build another. I grew up undocumented in the U.S., and that experience, the everyday fear and longing, the complicated love for the country that didn’t […]

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This past year, I went welding, fell in love, stuck my toes in the sand, traipsed through Buenos Aires, slow danced in several antique stores, spent lazy afternoons in my favorite places in New York,  laughed more than in the last five years combined, and committed to my health in a way that has been […]

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Epic Reads just posted an excerpt of JULIETA AND THE ROMEOS. Check it out! Click here. Want to see it typeset? Click here.                  

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I’m so excited for my upcoming book launch party at Books of Wonder. Deets: When: May 22, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. Where: Books of Wonder, 42 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 There will be goodie bags, snacks, and bookish fun. It would be so great to see you there!  

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Poughkeepsie always puts on a great book festival, and this year’s was no exception. A gym full of authors, readers, and, of course, books! What could be more awesome? Sign up to hear about their next one here.

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I didn’t write as much as I would have liked to in 2022. 2021 and the early part of this year were scary, financially, so I leaned into getting work to compensate. Lots of work. All the work. So, actually, if I’m being accurate, I wrote a ton in 2022. As my upcoming book’s publication […]

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In anticipation of my book coming out next year, I’ve been wondering what makes a great book pre-order campaign. The reporting on the first week a book is out compiles sales data from ALL the books sold in the months leading to the publication date. This means that the books sold prior to publication are […]

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Oblong Books is hosting a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read event, put together by the Hudson Valley YA Society and I get to be on the panel! I’m super excited about this one, as it will also feature my dear friend Margarita Longoria and Adi Alsaid, who edited the anthology Come On In, […]

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I feel lucky to have some pretty cool writing friends, and Alda P. Dobbs is chief among them. Learn about the awesome way we met, what inspired her to write her break-out hit Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna… and meet a special guest star with some pretty cool questions at the end. If you have […]

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