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Grey

Oh my god oh my god oh my god, people. It is not often that I want to send you off to read someone else’s words. I want you all to myself, but today I must put your needs ahead of my own. Because I have quite possibly found one of the funniest things I’ve […]

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BooksNJ 2015 has come and gone

This past Sunday I was thrilled to be one of the authors invited to participate in BooksNJ, a book festival held on the grounds of Paramus Library. We had a gorgeous, sunny day under a sea of lovely white tents. Thousands of people were in attendance (some from as far as Pennsylvania and upstate New […]

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The green door

It was an unprepossessing little set of scraggly leaves in a plastic pot, a gift from my mom. My mother, raised on a dirt road halfway around the world, chickens and grapevines out back, loves all things bargain, even of the plant variety. She can take a wilted annual that’s given up its last hopes […]

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Born again spinster

I began to sense a shift in my perception, a growing awareness that I was now in possession of not only a future, but also a past. It was almost a physical sensation, as if everything I’d ever thought or done had been embroidered onto the long train of a gown that now trailed behind […]

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First of all

I have a tendency, especially when I’m angry, ofstarting with, “First of all…” “First of all” usually turns into a long harangue, at which point I’m kind of spent, so that I wander around verbally, confused about my argument. This is the point at which my daughter usually asks, “Is there a second of all?” […]

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Housekeeping

For those of you who subscribe via email, I wanted to write you a little note about the posting that I do sporadically which I like to call “housekeeping.” This morning, I created two new posts (“Awards and Praise” and “Events”) so as to freshen up that carousel you see to the left of the […]

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Awards and Praise

2014National Indie Excellence Award winner. 2015 International Latino Book Award Finalist 2015 CLASP Américas Award CommendedTitle A School Library Journal Top 10 Latino Books of 2014 pick. A 2015 Top Ten Latino Authors to Watch (and Read)by Latino Stories AJunior Library Guildselection. “Must-read YA for Spring 2014.” Bookish “With immigration reform ahot button issue across […]

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Upcoming Events

I hope to meet you this fall at one of these upcoming events! Texas Teen Book Festival Austin, Texas September 26th, 2015 Click here for more information Bar Harbor Book Festival Bar Harbor, Maine October 9th and 10th, 2015 Click here for more information

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Surviving Santiago

Last night I took a drive toManhattan’s Lower East Side to celebrate the launch of Surviving Santiago, my friend Lyn Miller-Lachmann’s latest book. Lyn was one of the first people I met in the wonderful world of publishing. It was a few months before my own novel came out. She revieweditfor her blog, The Pirate […]

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CLASP Américas Award Commended Title

I just found out that THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY was named as one of CLASP’s Américas Award Commended Titles of 2015. CLASP stands for Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. Their Américas Award was established in 1993 to recognize authors of books either set in Latin America or deal with issues of Latin Americans […]

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