So excited to share the cover for my debut picture book My Two Border Towns, illustrated by Erika Meza, being released simultaneously in Spanish as Mis Dos Pueblos Fronterizos by Kokila on August 24, 2021. A description of the book: Early one Saturday morning, a boy prepares for a trip to the…
So delighted to see Rise of the Halfling King (illustrated by Charlene Bowles) on Kirkus’s list of Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of 2020!
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…
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…
A work-in-progress. The soundtrack to my novel The Swirling Black. Will be released spring 2022. 1-Only the Broken 2-Reversing the Arrow 3-Semanawak 4-Return of the Dead
Today, July 7, sees the release of books 1-3 of my 13TH STREET series from the new HarperChapters imprint of HarperCollins, a sort of Latinx Stranger Things for kids ages 5-9. These chapter books focus on three cousins (Malia, Dante and Ivan) who find themselves fighting strange creatures in a…
I’ve recently had a couple of articles published that draw from Aztec philosophy to think about modern life. Give them a read! In Psyche, June 16, 2020 “Learning Nahuatl, the Flower Song, and the Poetics of Life“ In Zócalo, May 10, 2020 “Aztec Kings Had Rules for Plagues, Including ‘Do Not Be a Fool’“
People search for information about my parents all the time (hrm), so I thought I’d create a post with some basic data points. My father David Oscar Bowles grew up in McAllen. His parents were Manuel Garza and Lois Marie (Bowles) Garza. His older sister was Elizabeth Marie Bowles, and…
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…
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.
