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What an honor for Luz to be chosen as Brooke Warner’s Book Pick of the Week on Write-minded podcast. Write-minded is a Weekly Inspiration For Writers, a “unique blend of inspiration and real talk [...]

Special Virtual Event with the Sacramento Public Library: Female Protagonists’ Quest to Make Their Voices Heard  Celebrating 100 years of women’s right to vote. Join Shelley Blanton-Stroud (Copy [...]

What is the book about? Luz is actually the story that protagonist Alma can never tell her daughter Luz. While the novel begins with the mother and daughter in 2015, the heart of the book is [...]

Women Writers, Women’s Books has republished my essay written back in March as we began to shelter-in-place. http://booksbywomen.org/finding-common-ground/ Finding Common Ground: Writing Across [...]

So happy to have this essay up today on Women Writers, Women’s Books — How Writer’s Block Enriched My Life! Every writer experiences some form of writer’s block. For some, it’s the inability to [...]

Let me repeat that. What a week! International Book Award First I received the news that Luz placed as an Award-winning Finalist in the International Book Awards for Multicultural Fiction. [...]

“We can all relate to a daughter’s desperate need to find her missing father and to a father’s reasons for seeking the best means to support his family. These are common feelings and experiences [...]

With the cash prize that came with winning the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Multicultural Fiction, I made a donation to United We Dream to support the fight for DACA dreamers who [...]

Just received this news! Luz is listed as one of eight books to read this weekend! Happy Fourth! 📚 💥 🇺🇸 Check out the list: 8 BOOKS TO READ ON 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND by She Reads 0 JULY 3, 2020 Many [...]

“Authors Answer” asks five random questions because “sometimes it’s fun to ask authors to talk about their life beyond the book they’ve just written.” Here’s my five answers. [...]