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Tamagotchis and the joy of making things

About a month ago I sent in the final pages for the sequel to The Do-Over. I still have to finish the cover and some final details, but we’re mostly done with book work!! 🎉 Time to…do something else? catch up with things? rest…??

In that context, me and my friend Gaby decided to go to a local Tamagotchi fan meetup! When I told Rodrigo about it, he said “what if you make a zine to bring to the meetup?”, and I was like…what IF I make a zine to bring to the meetup?? And so, in a little under a week, I came up with this one-page zine about my Tamagotchi collection:

A year of The Do-Over


It’s wild to see that a whole year has passed since our book The Do-Over was released! We got to table with it at 2 shows last year, and even participate on a panel with other incredible middle-grade authors 😎👉👉 but by far the best part is knowing that there are real kids out there who have read our book and enjoyed it!! that’s the main goal!!

Right now I’m coloring the sequel to The Do-Over, which should be done this year and released sometime in 2025…? Books take a long time! I’ll let you know as soon as we have more info on that!

Catching up with travel journaling

When Rodrigo and I went to SPX/CXC back in September I was really excited to try and keep a travel journal during the trip! I had already been keeping a daily journal during the year, and the idea of having an illustrated travel journal as a memory of our trip was so cool…

Anyway, I finished catching up on my travel journal pages this morning—almost 3 months later. Whoops…?

Book Release Day

(last updated on May 29, 2023)

After nearly 3 years of work, our debut middle-grade graphic novel The Do-Over is finally out in the world! …or at least in North America, so we didn’t really get to see it happen in person. Over here it was just a regular, cloudy day, but it still felt like a fun little holiday 🙂