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Portfolio 1

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The shadowed hand at the door

This week, I thought I might have Covid. (Not to fear: after a PCR test, I found out I did not). I am vaccinated, and while I’m venturing out to restaurants and into the city cautiously, I have by no means returned to pre-Covid life, a thing that would have made a positive test feel […]

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Cute sneak peek of LOVE IN ENGLISH

MY publisher has just put together the sweetest video with an effect highlighting my use of #### to represent when the main character doesn’t understand the words people are using. I love how they did that! Check it out: click here.

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2021 Virtual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival

I’m so excited to be on this panel with these awesome writers, talking about something that’s so important to me. Amplifying Voices and Visions: Border and Immigrant Perspectives in Children’s Literature Daniel Aleman, Maria E. Andreu, Alda P. Dobbs, Payal Doshi, and Margarita Longoria Booktalks/Best New Books, Common Core Where: 2021 Virtual Fay B. Kaigler […]

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Watch North Texas Teen Book Festival Crazy Stupid Love Panel

I had such a great time on this panel! And although the date has come and gone, the wonders of remote events means that it now lives on YouTube… and you can watch at your leisure! Click here to check it out. It was a wide-ranging, fascinating conversation with authors I was fangirling over.

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Author Stories Podcast Interview

There are a lot of fun moments in bringing a book out into the world. One of the best in promoting LOVE IN ENGLISH was being invited on to Hank Garner’s show, Author Stories. Hank knows writing and writers and asked insightful and interesting questions. I could have talked to him much longer! I hope […]

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Epic Reads Contemporary Meetup

Just announced: Epic Reads Contemporary Meetup! So much fun coming up and I’m excited to share it all with you. In March I’ll be chatting with the awesome Elise Bryant (HAPPILY EVER AFTERS), Katie Henry (THIS WILL BE FUNNY SOMEDAY) and Monica Gomez-Hira (ONCE UPON A QUINCEAÑERA) and talking about my latest book LOVE IN […]

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LOVE IN ENGLISH – the playlist!

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Books of Wonder launch event

Tonight was such a blast! My virtual book launch happened at Books of Wonder via Crowdcast, and I had the best time. I was joined by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones, New York Times bestselling authors of I’M NOT DYING WITH YOU TONIGHT, and we had a wide-ranging conversation about why we write about what […]

It’s been seven years between books. Here’s what finally got me to book # 2.

When LOVE IN ENGLISH comes out on Tuesday, it will be seven years since my first book came out. Here’s a bit about what it took to get here. I started life as “the precocious one.” My mom taught me to read (in Spanish) at four years old. I came back to the U.S. at […]