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So honored and proud to have my essay “The Better Story: Why I Prefer Fiction” published on Story Circle Network’s Telling Herstories Blog. It began as I was thinking about the books that I read [...]

Cooking Lived Experience into the Written Word   I’ve teamed up with two amazing women for this fabulous event—a special FREE webinar on October 21 hosted by Story Circle Network—an [...]

Here’s the link to this morning’s interview. I’m still overwhelmed by the lovely comments and insights that Diane Dewey shares about her reading of Luz. She asked me some penetrating and [...]

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 [...]