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Kirkus  calls THE SECRET SIDE OF  EMPTY, “empathetic yet  gritty.” Read the full review here.

Waiting for reviews of your book to come in is like sending your baby off to kindergarten and then waiting all day to find out if she cried and was miserable or made friends and had fun. [...]

Are you following me on Twitter yet?  No?  Don’t worry, neither is anyone else.  I have an anemic 136 followers (way better than the  50-something I had a few weeks  ago) but I definitely [...]

Color me happy!  I just got word that The Secret Side of Empty was chosen as a Junior Library Guild book, which is a big honor.  Junior Library Guild gets books into libraries and has an amazing [...]

  M.T. – M.T., or Monserrat Thalia (her “real” name she wants everyone to forget) is smart, popular and something else nobody knows… undocumented.  Learn more about [...]

1.  I have a cat named Hermione and another one named Katniss.  Katniss = my all-time favorite name for a cat. 2.  I was once on my high school modeling club, although I am only five foot six [...]

I often find myself frustrated that I don’t write more.  Words swirl inside my head constantly, wanting to be written down, stories, plots, insights, ideas.  I’m sure they’re [...]

Reasons to add The Secret Side of Empty to your Goodreads shelf: 1.  Goodreads is awesome. 2. It’s always fun to read what other people think of a book. 3.  All the cool kids are doing it! [...]