Category: Books
Cover Reveal for BLUE
Synopsis of THE SMOKING MIRROR
Carolina and Juan Ángel “Johnny” Garza are twins living in a small Texas town on the US-Mexican border. Shortly after their 12th birthday, their mother disappears. Their father—Dr. Oscar Garza, a professor of history—is convinced she left him; the twins suspect foul play of some sort. This suspicion is made…
THE PATH Coming 2021!
Exciting news: Castle Bridge Media has bought my BIPOC-futurist space opera quartet THE PATH (formerly named D’Angelo Chronicles.) Revised versions of the first three books (briefly self-published a decade ago) will drop quarterly in 2021 with stunning new cover art by Cody Jimenez. Then the series will wrap up in…
13TH STREET Launches
Starred Review for Halfling King
Kirkus has give Rise of the Halfling King a starred review! “An unmissable adventure of mythical proportions,” they call it. Huge congratulations to my illustrator (and daughter) Charlene Bowles, and much love and respect to our publisher, Cinco Puntos Press, who had the idea of creating a series of graphic…
Spanish Translation of FSDHS
My award-winning book Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico is now available in a beautiful Spanish translation from Vintage Español (Penguin Random House). Order your copy of Serpiente Emplumada, Corazón del Cielo today! It’s perfect for that special relative or Spanish-speaking student.
My Debut Children’s Book!
As Editor or Contributor
FEATHERED SERPENT a Kirkus Best YA Book of 2018
Cover Reveal for BLUE
Synopsis of THE SMOKING MIRROR

Carolina and Juan Ángel “Johnny” Garza are twins living in a small Texas town on the US-Mexican border. Shortly after their 12th birthday, their mother disappears. Their father—Dr. Oscar Garza, a professor of history—is convinced she left him; the twins suspect foul play of some sort. This suspicion is made…
THE PATH Coming 2021!

Exciting news: Castle Bridge Media has bought my BIPOC-futurist space opera quartet THE PATH (formerly named D’Angelo Chronicles.) Revised versions of the first three books (briefly self-published a decade ago) will drop quarterly in 2021 with stunning new cover art by Cody Jimenez. Then the series will wrap up in…
13TH STREET Launches
Starred Review for Halfling King

Kirkus has give Rise of the Halfling King a starred review! “An unmissable adventure of mythical proportions,” they call it. Huge congratulations to my illustrator (and daughter) Charlene Bowles, and much love and respect to our publisher, Cinco Puntos Press, who had the idea of creating a series of graphic…
Spanish Translation of FSDHS

My award-winning book Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico is now available in a beautiful Spanish translation from Vintage Español (Penguin Random House). Order your copy of Serpiente Emplumada, Corazón del Cielo today! It’s perfect for that special relative or Spanish-speaking student.