Second stop on my Speculative Fiction Book Tour (in which I tour my unpublished, un-represented novel until folks begin to speculate when the heck my fiction will finally be published) is San Diego Beyond the Pale, an all Writers of Color story event I organized in collaboration with Marc Chery at the San Diego Public Library, and Joseph Ruanto Ramirez of SPACES at UC San Diego. Five writers of color telling stories about immigration, racism, resilience and life as minorities in this fraught times.

And in between our stories, my 14-year-old sang songs of social justice. Gotta start them young with good habits.