Welcome to My 5:30 AM Super Secret Writing Sessions…
It’s quiet. The kind of quiet where thoughts rise to the surface unbothered, where truth bubbles up with the steam of morning cafecito. It’s in these sacred hours before the world wakes up that I find myself face to face with the deepest parts of me—and the stories that demand to be told.
One of those stories is The Ordinary Bruja.
This novel has been a long time coming. Not just because it blends magical realism, psychological horror, and Dominican ancestral memory, but because it finally gave me the space to write about something I’ve carried quietly for so long: the complicated relationship between Christianity and Brujería. And how, despite what many have been told, they can coexist.
Kia, Marisol, and the Argument I’ve Always Wanted to Have
For years, I’ve felt this inner tug-of-war. I was raised with Christian values, but my soul has always whispered to the spirits of my ancestors. I’ve pulled cards for clarity. I’ve lit candles for strength. I’ve spoken to energies older than scripture. And still, I find myself saying amen. Still, I find peace in both paths.
But I never had the words, the room, or the character to show that contradiction—until Kia.
Kia is Marisol’s best friend in The Ordinary Bruja, and she represents what I’ve always hoped to portray: a belief system grounded in Christianity, yet open enough to sit at the same table with Brujería. Through Kia, I was finally able to hold a conversation between two worlds that people often treat like they have to be at war.
She doesn’t practice brujería, but she respects that Marisol does. That’s the coexistence. That’s the magic. Not in forced agreeance or conversion, but in the sacred art of acknowledgement. Of recognizing someone else’s truth without diminishing your own.
Faith Doesn’t Have to Be a Battlefield
So many spiritual practices rooted in Indigenous, African, and diasporic cultures have been demonized by organized religion. We see it all the time—the way Christian spaces turn their back on brujas, curanderas, espiritistas. But what if we shifted the conversation?
What if spirituality, like identity, isn’t a binary?
The Ordinary Bruja is my love letter to that idea. It’s a novel about reclaiming what’s been lost or shamed. About realizing that magic—whether it comes from prayer or spellwork—has always been within you. Marisol doesn’t just wake up to her ancestral power. She wakes up to herself.
And I want you to witness that journey.
Request an ARC. Read it. Share it. Let’s Start the Conversation.
If you’re drawn to stories that:
- Blend #LatineFiction with ancestral memory and magical realism
- Tackle identity, belonging, and intergenerational trauma
- Explore the sacred tension between Christianity and Brujería
- Center strong female friendship and cultural reclamation
- Ask what it really means to come home to yourself
Then The Ordinary Bruja was written with you in mind.
ARC requests are open. Early readers are already calling it one of the Must-Read Books of 2025. And I believe that, with your help, we can create the kind of word-of-mouth momentum that helps stories like this reach the people who need them most.
This is more than a novel. It’s a return to self.
Don’t forget to ask for it. Don’t forget to read it. And please, help me spread the word.
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