Tag: Latinx
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‘Red Ridin’ book focus of presentation
A University of Barcelona associate professor presented a program called “Fractured Fairy Tales and Subversion: Red Ridin’ in the Hood and Other Cuentos” in March 2024 via the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center in Santa Barbara, California. According to the IHC site, “the Mexican American author makes use of a series of elements to provide a Latinx…
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‘Weeping Woman’ eBook free for Hispanic Heritage Month
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Kindle copies of my horror thriller, “The Weeping Woman” are free Sept. 15-19. Det. Blue Rodríguez, who has visions of the dying, is assigned to find missing children, but she discovers the case echoes an old Mexican legend of a monster preying on the innocent. “While horror of a…
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‘Best Amigas’ is Américas Award Commended Title
So honored that my book BEST AMIGAS has been named a 2024 Américas Award Commended Title for Young Adult Fiction. The Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature is literary award presented annually that recognizes high quality “children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use.” It is…
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Trini’s Magic Kitchen available for preorder
When her mom loses her job, Trini Sánchez must live with her unconventional grandparents in a small town and go to a new middle school. Grandma teaches Trini family recipes and though reluctant at first, Trini comes to understand the magic of cooking and hopes to pass that on to her mom, who hates to…
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Writing horror, mysteries and just writing…
A good writer and my friend, Bonnie Dodge featured my new book “Under the Blood Moon” on her website. She asked me questions, tough ones, about how I wrote my horror mystery and my writing process.