Writing outside your background

Coming from a multicultural background myself, I decided to write about this topic (and about writing outside your group). I'm essentially Latina, but in Brazil, for example, we rarely use this termination. We are all brazilians, but our culture has a pride on saying where your ancestors come from or who they were. Brazil is…

Writing Brazilian Fiction

A couple of weeks ago, my friend/CP/Brazilian fellow YA writer Debbie spurred on an interesting conversation in twitter about Brazilian representation in fiction and how often we see it misrepresented in our own niche -- YA and MG. She put it up on storify in some eloquent twitter words, but I thought I might expand…