So excited to announce that Mary Kate Castellani at Bloomsbury has acquired world rights to The Moon Conch by Guadalupe García McCall and me, along with a second book tentatively titled Hearts of Fire and Snow. The Moon Conch, a YA fantasy romance, features a young Aztec warrior and a…
In conjunction with Estudio Tlalli, I have established THE PATH GRANT, which will award annual $2500 prizes to new and emerging BIPOC women writers of speculative fiction. Depending on funding, between two and ten recipients will be selected by a panel of judges by December 15th of each year. Funds…
Estudio Tlalli has wrapped up the cover for The Deepest Green, Book Two of The Path, my space opera quartet. All royalties from the series underwrite THE PATH GRANT, which provides $2500 prizes to emerging women writers from communities of color. Here’s the cover! Information The Deepest Green Book Two…
I’m so excited to share that They Call Me Güero has a new home … and a sequel on the way! Kokila will be publishing They Call Her Fregona, which delves into the life of Joanna Padilla and her relationship with Güero, the narrator of the first book. The reprint…
Thrilled to share a book trailer and the cover for both the English and Spanish versions of The Witch Owl Parliament, Volume 1 of Clockwork Curandera, the new graphic novel series co-created by Raúl the Third and me that drops this October from Tu Books. First, the covers! And here’s…
In conjunction with Estudio Tlalli, I am establishing THE PATH GRANT, which will award annual $2500 prizes to new and emerging BIPOC women writers of speculative fiction. To fund the grant, I am donating all of my royalties from my space opera quartet THE PATH (The Blue-Spangled Blue, The Deepest…
Karai Senryū was born in 1718 in Edo. A town official and frequent judge of poetry contests, he was responsible for popularizing a more whimsical or humorous variation of haiku that now bears his name (senryū). Some of his work is darkly ironic, as in this piece. her parents, left…
In 1688, during one of his many journeys throughout Japan, Bashō came to Mount Yamato Katsuragi. Near the Shinto shrine for the local god, Hitokotonushi, the poet composed this haiku. still, what joy I’d feel to find the god’s face amid all these morning blooms —translated by David Bowles, April…
On Wednesday, February 17, Tor(dot)com revealed the cover of The Blue-Spangled Blue, book one of The Path, my new BIPOC space opera. We have since updated the image on the cover. Here’s the new version! Series description: Humanity stands at a crossroads. Our next steps will either lead us over…
After writing my first science fiction novel, The Blue-Spangled Blue, I began to get ideas for a sort of literary soundtrack, music that would dramatize certain scenes or embody characters. By 2012, I had produced fifteen instrumental pieces. In 2020 and 2021, I crafted another five compositions for the book’s…
