Writing

Join Maria E. Andreu on the eve of her launch of LOVE IN ENGLISH in conversation with BECKY ALBERTALLI, #1 New York Times bestselling SIMON VS. THE HOMOSAPIENS AGENDA, LOVE, CREEKWOOD, the [...]

Join the Books of Wonder launch event for Maria E. Andreu’s LOVE IN ENGLISH in conversation with KIMBERLY JONES and GILLY SEGAL (authors of New York Times bestseller I’M NOT DYING [...]

I was so excited this morning when I received a package… and my hardcovers were inside! Love in English will be out in the world two weeks from today, and here’s a sneak peek. Check [...]

Today I was so excited to hear this audio excerpt of the LOVE IN ENGLISH audio book. Take a listen! Click on the picture below (it opens in a separate tab).

I’m so excited… just 28 days until LOVE IN ENGLISH is out in the world! Don’t forget to pre-order yours at your preferred retailer. Every book ordered prior to the publication [...]

I’m so grateful and thrilled to kick off 2021 with news of a great review from Publishers Weekly. Here are a few quotes: “The teen love triangle at the center of this warm and [...]

Plenty has been written about why 2020 sucked as a year for all of us collectively, and I don’t have much of substance to add. I’ve experienced all the things you have: isolation, [...]

Just a few days left to enter to win one of five copies of LOVE IN ENGLISH being given away by my publisher on Goodreads. Click on this link to enter (you’ll need to be logged in to [...]

It’s that time of year to start turning my attention to what new books are on the horizon, and what my most anticipated YA books of 2021 are. One of the best things about writing young [...]

There are milestones in a writer’s life that one never forgets. The first time a teacher tells you you have a knack for this writing thing, and that you should explore that. The first time [...]

I was honored to be invited to participate in the anthology Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home. As the subtitle suggests, it’s full of wonderful, creative and [...]

I’m so excited that the publication date for LOVE IN ENGLISH is drawing near. Here’s the press release with more details. Click here. To read more news about Love in English and other [...]

An early reader of LOVE IN ENGLISH came back with some astute observations. Altagracia, the main character’s fabulous new friend in LOVE IN ENGLISH, a Afro-Caribbean Latinx character, is [...]

LOVE IN ENGLISH, the young adult novel by Maria E. Andreu, tells the story of 16-year-old Ana as she integrates into the U.S. in her first year here. It’s a love story and an ode to Spanish [...]

Curious about upcoming 2021 young adult books? If you want your to-read pile to grow by a bajillion books, check out this great list of Harper Collins’ young adult winter 2021 new [...]

On Thursday, I went on a date. It happened like this: the week before, something happened that made me sad about my romantic life. I broke up with someone last year, and while I’d dabbled [...]

Welcome to Come On In Anthology: Misa Sugiura Interview. I was honored to be invited to participate in the anthology Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home. As the subtitle [...]

If you want your to-read pile to grow a hundred-fold, hop on over to the new Publishers Weekly list of upcoming Spring 2021 titles… and check out LOVE IN ENGLISH in the section for [...]

I read this McSweeney’s post this morning. It is told from the point of view of an anonymous (fictitious) person lamenting how boring quarantine is. It begins, “I can’t believe [...]

Someone recently reached out to me to share this interesting piece, called “Dreamers: Living Undocumented in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction” written by Dr. Amy Cummings,  an [...]

With all that’s going on in the world, I am so excited to have a bit of good news to share: my upcoming novel, LOVE IN ENGLISH, has just been announced today and will be out in the world [...]

I was not a Dreamer, since my immigration status was resolved prior to the 2012 Obama executive order which brought the term into common usage. But I wear the term like a badge, like a memory. A [...]

The quarantine has reached the point where there is nothing new to say, not to myself in the gray, filtered light, not to you. And yet I want to offer some sign of life: here I am. I am well. I [...]

When everyone is flooding my local stores the day before a snowstorm to stock up on tuna fish and toilet paper, I mostly laugh. When people are leaving shelves bare before the rare hurricane up [...]

I walk with deliberate step Each a prayer     Find me     Find me Show me where to excavate Where the well springs clear. Where the setting sun hits the grotto Where my voice rings truest In all [...]

“Ma, what’s the name of that picture book you used to like when you were little?” I’m used to out-of-the-blue queries from my daughter, a sophomore at a college two hours [...]

Hello, lovies! It’s been a bit since I’ve written. I’ve been busy at work on that Project Which Can Not Yet Be Spoken About, plus another fun treat I’m hoping will also [...]

My fabulous publisher has just put THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY on sale, just in time for holiday gifting (on the ebook edition). Pay just $1.99 and gift to anyone on your list who loves books (best [...]

Bumble, one of the dating apps I use, recently introduced a new feature, “Bumble BFF.” When I get bored of swiping for men, or when I run out of men (there’s a limited supply, [...]

In May I went to a writing retreat that was truly life-changing. Just eight of us, led by two award-winning authors at the top of their field, along with an awesome adjunct and visiting editors [...]