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“This novel… will touch many readers”

When I was looking for bloggers to help me spread the word about THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY, I was delighted to find two friends who are both Latinas and both blog. I am always interested in the Latina perspective on the novel (since it has a complicated relationship with the idea of heritage). I […]

Review on Agster Thoughts

I am so happy to watch the reviews coming in and I particularly enjoyed this one on the blog Agster Thoughts. The writer, Agata, shares her unique perspective of reading the novel as a fellow immigrant (albeit a documented one). I like seeing how people’s perspectives inform what they get out of the book. Click […]

Daylight confusion time

This morning I woke up sluggish and I didn’t understand why. I checked my phone and it said 8:00 a.m., around the time I usually wake up on a weekend, and definitely too late to feel that groggy. I turned on the t.v. and lounged for a while, then got moving. It wasn’t until I […]

Snowgardening

Yesterday it went up into the 60-degree range for the first time since about 1997. I took the opportunity to go nose around in my garden. While this may look like a garden only a mother could love, I assure you, there is a lot going on! I am continually amazed at nature’s resilience. Even […]

A moment of bliss

There are snapshotsyour mind takes that you hold on to forever. One, for me, was the night my daughter was born. The hubbub of her birth was over, her father had gone home, and finally it was just the two of us, as we had been for nine months. She’d had the hiccups inside my […]

Interview at Leonia Middle School

Last night I did probably one of the awesomest things I’ve done in my writing life so far: I went to my kids’ middle school and got interviewed by the principal in front of about 50 kids and parents as part of their book fair. There was a standing-room-only crowd in the music room as […]

Yes, I really am this rock and roll

Here’s a tip from me to you. Should you happen to buy a waver, one of those three-barreled curling irons that gives your hair wave instead of spiral curls, and should you find yourself so giddy from the look it gives your hair that you dance around and swing your head around rock-star style and […]

Texting with my mother is weird

My mother is something of a luddite. To put it in perspective, she got her first email address about a year ago. Even when I was a kid, she was the throw-up-your-hands-at-this-machine, can-you-set-the-VCR-timer kind of person. When the technology boom came along, she largely ignored it as it swirled around her, a small Pacific atoll […]

Shop local!

If you like to support your independent bookstore (and, of course you do), you can now find out which indie near you is stocking THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY just in time for the book’s release a mere week away. Simply go to IndieBound and put in your zip code. It will bring up a […]

How is this possible?

There are already used copies of my as-yet unreleased book available for sale on Amazon. Ummm… what? I mean, I know that Amazon started shipping a few days ago, but… what? The book selling adverture is trippy, peeps. That’s all I’m saying.