I’m very excited that The Witch Owl Parliament is one of five Eisner Award nominees in the category Best Publication for Teens. I must give a huge thanks to illustrator / co-creator Raúl the Third, colorist Stacey Robinson, letterer Damian Duffy, and editor Stacy Whitman at Tu Books! “The Will…
I was delighted to learn that They Call Me Güero has been selected as a 2020-2021 nominee for the South Carolina Children’s Book Award.
At the Texas Book Festival, the Texas Library Association (TLA) announced the twenty books that made it onto the curated Bluebonnet List. They Call Me Güero was one of the lucky titles! Each year, 20 books are chosen for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Many schools and libraries around…
I received an email today from the Texas Institute of Letters notifying me that my YA novel The Smoking Mirror has been selected as a finalist for their H-E-B Award for Best Young Adult Book. The award winner will be publicly announced at the 2016 Awards Banquet in Austin on Saturday, April 16.
Pleased to learn that my essay “Toltec Traces in ‘Thunder-Rider’” (published in On An Underwood No. 5 ) has been nominated for the Robert E. Howard Foundation’s Cimmerian Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Online Essay. Thanks to Todd Vick (who himself racked up FIVE nominations, wow) for putting the…
