Hinterkaifeck shortly after the murders, 1922. Photo Source: https://wiki.hinterkaifeck.net/wiki/Sonstiges:_Bildergalerie   The...

In the winter of 1777, General George Washington led 12,000 military members and their families to Valley Forge. Located about 20 miles...

It's hard to believe the holiday season is winding down and it's time for my annual year-end blog post. 2023 certainly proved to be an...

Five years ago, I wrote the first draft of a novel titled The Center of the Earth. Since it is a historical fiction book, I had to do...

Content Warnings: Terminal illnesses, death My earliest memory of Abuelita is from 1998. Before then, I didn’t see her much since she...

A New Adventure On February 25, 1950, Felipe Porfirio Campos Carrillo was born to Felipe and Ruth Campos in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The...

My husband David and I recently visited the East Coast. We walked around Old Town Alexandria in Virginia, spent hours at various museums...

*The following poem was originally featured at a fundraiser for table//FEAST magazine, held at SweetCup Gelato in Houston, TX. Today...

Ever since I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be a writer. My mom often took me to our local library and waited patiently as I took my time...

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Gabriela Orozco Belt. Her picture book, Only for a Little While, comes out on June 27, 2023....

2021 was not the best time for my writing goals. My former publishing house shut down and I barely wrote anything. Additionally, nearly...

Aerial view of Apeldoornsche Bosch, circa 1926. Source: CODA Archives In the Forest Over a hundred years ago, a mental hospital for...

Content Warning: descriptions of crime scenes, antisemitism, violence Introduction Victorian England is not known for being a luxurious...

Hey y'all! It's been a busy month for me with publishing-related stuff. Here we go: My creative nonfiction piece titled "Four Women" was...

This has been my little secret for a couple of months and I'm so happy to finally share the news. Seeing one of my books in a bookstore...

This interview was originally published in November 2019 on the Vital Narrative Press blog. -DPC Mr. Peter Philipps is quite the...

Thank you for considering me as your Middle Grade fiction mentor. Pitch Wars is a mentorship program designed for emerging writers to...

By the end of my first semester of college I had flunked every course except an easy-A elective and was put on probation. The dean’s...

Before I signed with my agent, I was an author for Vital Narrative Press, an independent publishing house in Memphis. After my contract...

Thank you for considering me as your Middle Grade fiction mentor. Pitch Wars is a mentorship program designed for emerging writers to...