Category: Fiction

Finally, the pre-order link has gone live. I will post it below along with my publisher’s author page that has more information as well. Any support is appreciated and thank you in advance. I am so excited for everyone to finally read all of my hard work. This is just the beginning in the series.…

So, I am knee deep in the editing process of my my first novel and its going great but good news as has come way as well! My publishers have asked me to come up with a followup to Treasure Hills. I am so excited and currently working on the outline for it and hopefully…

Follow the link for more information. My short story Riofest was published in a collection of short stories available via kindle and other avenues. Please check it out.

Neighborhood Watch             The sound of thunder raced across the street in the form of two moving trucks from Lopez furniture store. Sitting outside on his favorite swing was Santos Morelo. From his vantage point, it looked like someone was finally moving into the old Pecina house across the street. It had stood vacant for…

Like many manuscripts, mine started with a character and the need to tell his story. I put so much focus into writing for my main character that I neglected the rest of the manuscript. Setting, point of view, and dialogue just to name a few became casualties of my hyperfocus but in doing so, I…

What really excites me besides fiction writing is writing about food and more so being able to pass this skill along to others. This is why I want my expository writing course to be about food writing. The skills learned can of course be applied to any kind of nonfiction writing which is another benefit…

I was having a bad case of writers’ block during one of early attempts at writing my second novel when I decided I needed a break. I was particularly having a hard time thinking of where my character was going to spend their fictional vacation at: the made up Valley City Lake or some other…

Refugees in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley             It was a cold December morning and having arrived in downtown Mcallen, Texas to drop off my friend at the local greyhound station; I was stunned by what I encountered. The air was crisp and the weather had just dipped below 40 degrees forcing everyone…

            As funny as it sounds, the idea for my thesis novel Treasure Hills started on a Sunday morning back in November of 1993. I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas and part of our Sunday ritual, my dad would ask me to help him cook his weekly batch of frijoles…