September 2009

The producers of Graffiti Girl came across this graffiti piece photo. “Grafangel” is my character Angel’s tag in Graffiti Girl. I thought this was cool to see.

It is Hispanic Heritage Month and Reading in Color is holding a cool giveaway of 8 titles for readers, including Graffiti Girl and Invisible Touch! In honor of Hispanic Heritage month I’m giving away 8 books with Latino/a main characters! There will be 5 winners. The first winne

Hispanic Heritage Month runs Sept. 15th-Oct. 15 and Color Online provides their Community HHM Recommended Reading List. Thanks so much for adding Invisible Touch to the list! And it’s an honor to be listed with such a great selection of titles! 1.Rogelia’s House of Magic b

I was lurking on a Twitter Kid Lit Chat last night and social networking sites were brought up. Do Twitter, Myspace, Facebook really help spread the word about books? What kind of updates/tweets do you like to read? Is Twitter replacing blogs? How do writers keep these social networks

“It’s amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.” ~ Patrick Swayze (Ghost) I am merely one of hundreds of thousands of fans of the entertainer, Patrick Swayze. I did not know the real man. I only knew what many of us knew—the talented individual on screen

I’ve been working on a new proposal. It’s a potential short connecting series. There are a lot of things to remember and explore with this proposal. So I started a small Book of Ideas. There are doodles and themes and characteristics and conflicts. Usually I have this info

I have been collecting a few more quotes. Quotes are wonderful. Quotes are memorable. And when done just right, quotes are awe inspiring. “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” — Joss Whedon “I write to give myself strength. I write t