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Author of El Puente/The Bridge and The Border Is Burning. Professor of English Language and Literature. Texas Institute of Letters
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More self-care: real agua de jamaica / hibiscus tea. Almost Friday! Hold your people close. ❤️

Wild: on two covers in one month. Who’d have ever guessed (none of my junior high teachers).

Self-care: real agua de tamarindo. Happy weekend. ❤️ Hold your people close.

sabookfest 📚 Get ready, book lovers! The San Antonio Book Festival is thrilled to announce its 2025 author lineup, featuring nearly 100 incredible local, regional, and national authors! @sgj.bsky.social

San Antonio Book Festival author list is up! Start making your list! Can't wait to see you, @sgj.bsky.social @tvayyyy.bsky.social @gabino.bsky.social

April 6th at Lark and Owl Books in Georgetown, TX! I'll be leading a horror workshop. Have you always wanted to write horror? Have a few ideas but don’t know where to start? Sign up now! www.larkandowlbooksellers.com/products/hor...

Enter a giveaway for an advance review copy of THE BEWITCHING, out this July 2025. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved. Open worldwide. ⁠ gleam.io/Dk4kA/the-be...

I'm in this anthology inspired by cool music. My story, "Superstition," was penned while I lay in bed after surgery last year and because of the painkillers I misheard the lyrics of a Garbage song. I write for you even under the weirdest circumstances, people.

So cool!

Big news! I am extremely proud to announce that my debut picture book The Fib will be out October 7th from @gloobooks.bsky.social with some amazing art by the sensational Nathan Kwan @nathankwan.bsky.social I can't wait for everyone to check this out!!! gloobooks.com/collections/...

T minus . . . not long:

Happy birthday, Amelie Quesada. Twenty-two years old today. Beautiful baby girl. Laredo, 2003. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your people close.

¡Bravo, amigo, bravo! ❤️👊🏼❤️

Happy Birthday to my baby brother Rodrigo. ❤️🎂❤️ Love you, manito.

Hey, Indigo's got The Buffalo Hunter Hunter in their most anticipated books of 2025. 30% off for a bit. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/b...

Con mi madre. ❤️

Taquitos de choriqueso before my brother Rodrigo’s famous smash burgers. Gracias, Jamee and Rodrigo for hosting us. ❤️

Look at this beautiful mammoth avocado we can still get in Texas . . . just wait until the tariffs kick in.

So sad that season 6 of *What We Do in the Shadows* is its last season. 😢

“The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America.”—Cesar Chavez from Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Showed Us the Way, Maryknoll, 1978, 52-55.

Sharing Ray Santisteban’s 2006 documentary of my grandmother, Sofia G. Villarreal, and the amazing nativity scene she created for over 60 years at her home in Laredo, TX. Remember those who came before you. ❤️ Hold your people close. youtu.be/NP8_MAseV5Y?...

Signed up a lot of the books at Boulder Bookstore. Not pictured: many Teenage Slashers, Good Indians, Mappings, Mannequins, Ones, and of course the Indian Lake books. All to go under trees for people.

In Laredo visiting family and we experienced a dog rebellion. They were stopped in the middle of the road and would not let us through. Only in Laredo. Dogs are perfect.

With the best brothers and sisters anybody could ever ask for. w/ Ricardo, Rafael, Anissa, Carlota, y Rodrigo. ❤️

THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU is on sale today (November 29) for only $2.99 via ebook retailers in the USA. Check Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and other venues for this offer. This novel mashes historical drama and science fiction together. Link leads to Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

My 5-star review of THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by Stephen Graham Jones (@sgj.bsky.social). Preorder here from Saga Press: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Bu... On shelves March 18, 2025 #Indigenous #Horror #Books

When your babies are all grown up . . . w/Cati and Diego Romo.

My latest novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome (one of the best books of the year according to NPR) is $6.99 via ebook retailers today (US only). That includes Amazon, B&N, etc. Historical novel that mashes together 1950s Hollywood & Biblical narrative. Link to Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

wow, honored for Tolly and Ambs to have made it to the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards. in horror, of course. thanks for getting them there, all. I believe voting closes Dec 5th.

Knee report, please, homeslice. @sgj.bsky.social

My speculative/sci-fi/gay short story 'Mexico City, November 2, 2076' is included in this Day of the Dead anthology. 24 Mexican and Mexican American authors. Paperback available December 10, now available for download on Kindle. Trinity University Press www.amazon.com/Los-Muertos-...

Twelve hours and one minute from now, here in Austin:

Wherein cool people say generous things about my latest (thanks, @sgj.bsky.social). There’s a couple signed copies left at @powells.bsky.social on Burnside. Unsigned available everywhere.