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Sugar Sun series glossary term #18: sipa
In Under the Sugar Sun, Javier lamented his cousin Allegra’s wild side. At colegio the nuns claimed that she: …refused to observe silence at meals, faked illnesses to get out of classes, and had a...
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Sugar Sun series location #7: Balangiga
My upcoming book, Sugar Moon, will be firmly rooted in history that I believe every American should know: the ambush of a company of American soldiers on September 28, 1901, in Balangiga, Philippines....
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The Writer’s Toolbox: Character Development
Do you need to name a hero or heroine? Plan your heroine’s pregnancy? Determine the color of a child’s eyes? I do, too! Let’s go misuse the interwebs, shall we? I suppose most people use naming sites...
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Sugar Moon teasers for the impatient
My writing process involves about ten set of revisions, and I am hopefully doing the last set now. Then it’s full-on editing time, and inevitably I have to rewrite something. My best guess for the...
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Update on Sugar Moon (Book Four of the Sugar Sun series)
The very good news: the first draft of my major revision of Sugar Moon is done. (I basically cut out and rewrote the middle. Yikes!) More good news: The book is so much better, I promise. And there is...
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Madison Chock and Evan Bates: Sugar Moon on Ice?
I was watching the replay of the US Figure Skating Championships at San Jose, and I looked up to see my characters Ben and Allegra ice dancing! Well, okay, Ben and Allie don’t skate because, ahem, my...
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#ThursdayBookTease for Sugar Moon
From my blog, it would appear that all I have been doing is taking care of puppy and plugging along on my academic research. And, yes, those things are getting done—especially the puppy playtime...
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Baseball teaser from Sugar Moon
In the Sugar Sun series, I have attempted to combine the authenticism of well-researched historical fiction with the emotional payoff (the feels) of romance. The more tragic the history in the book,...
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Introducing Allegra Alazas
Do you ever make imaginary friends with a character from a book? I do all the time. These are often characters I have made up in my own mind—and yet I still need to get to get acquainted with them from...
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Ben Potter of the Ninth
A week ago, I re-introduced you to Allegra Alazas, the heroine of the upcoming Sugar Moon. She already has a fan club because she stole every scene she could in Under the Sugar Sun. Her hero (or...
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#RomBkLove Dommes Day
[Edited to add: This whole post became somewhat irrelevant when the Day 30 changed from Dommes to Hidden Gems—which is another great topic, of course. I’ve been sorta busy with end of term stuff, so I...
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Sugar Sun series glossary term #18: sipa
In Under the Sugar Sun, Javier lamented his cousin Allegra’s wild side. At colegio the nuns claimed that she: …refused to observe silence at meals, faked illnesses to get out of classes, and had a...
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Sugar Sun series location #7: Balangiga
My upcoming book, Sugar Moon, will be firmly rooted in history that I believe every American should know: the ambush of a company of American soldiers on September 28, 1901, in Balangiga, Philippines....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Writer’s Toolbox: Character Development
Do you need to name a hero or heroine? Plan your heroine’s pregnancy? Determine the color of a child’s eyes? I do, too! Let’s go misuse the interwebs, shall we? I suppose most people use naming sites...
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Sugar Moon teasers for the impatient
My writing process involves about ten sets of revisions, and I am hopefully doing the last set now. [Edited five months later to add: hahahaha…I was not even close.] Then it’s full-on editing time, and...
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Introducing Allegra Alazas
Do you ever make imaginary friends with a character from a book? I do all the time. These are often characters I have made up in my own mind—and yet I still need to get to get acquainted with them from...
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Ben Potter of the Ninth
A week ago, I re-introduced you to Allegra Alazas, the heroine of the upcoming Sugar Moon. She already has a fan club because she stole every scene she could in Under the Sugar Sun. Her hero (or...
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Essential History for Sugar Moon
I began writing Sugar Moon in 2013. I began writing this blog in 2016. In both cases, that’s a long time ago. It includes years of writing about the Philippine-American War, and in particular the...
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Sugar Moon is here!
The nights were their secret… The papers back home call Ben Potter a hero of the Philippine-American War, but he knows the truth. When his estranged brother-in-law offers him work slashing sugarcane,...
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People are talking about Sugar Moon!
The live tweeting has begun! Thank you to author Mina V. Esguerra and book blogger/podcaster Kat from BookThingo for sharing their reactions to Sugar Moon: Mina’s Live tweet thread on Sugar Moon Kat’s...
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