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él/he | Author ✍🏼 Casting Director 🗂️ Theatre Director 🎭 | 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 | Rep’d by Leah Pierre of Ladderbird Literary Agency

KINDNESS GROWS IN THE DARK-Barefoot Books-Spring 2026

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Some of the book I read in July!

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A grid showing the covers of some of the books I read in July 2025
August 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT - I’m excited to finally be able to share the news with all of you!

KINDNESS GLOWS IN THE DARK - Spring 2026

This special story is coming to life with the help of Barefoot Books’ fabulous team and thanks to Mrinali Álvarez Astacio’s artistry. What an immense honor!

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Deal announcement- Autumn Allen at Barefoot Books has acquired world rights to Kindness Glows in the Dark by Gama Valle (I.), illustrated by Mrinali Álvarez Astacio; Autumn Allen and Bree Reyes will edit. In rural Puerto Rico, Nube and Kamil are friends, but when Nube discovers that Kamil is stealing food from her family's garden and why, they both learn to be better neighbors. Publication is planned for spring 2026; Leah Pierre at Ladderbird Literary Agency represented the author, and Emily Keyes at Keyes Agency represented the illustrator. Selfie of Mrinali and myself at LEE Encuentro
July 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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It’s @broadwayworld.bsky.social official! We’re bringing LUCINE! OR BIRDSHIT: A HUMAN CONCERTO AND VOID to @joespub.bsky.social! I’m excited to be making my Joe’s Pub directorial debut with this insane piece.

One night only!
April 29 2025 - 7PM

#joespub #nyctheatre #concerto #newyork
Broadwayworld announcement: LUCINE! OR BIRDSHIT: A HUMAN CONCERTO WITH STRING & VOID Makes Joe's Pub Debut In April LUCINE! or birdshit: a human concerto with string & void will take place on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater. On Tuesday, April 29 at 7PM, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater will present LUCINE! or birdshit: a human concerto with string & void, an experimental new work by Christian De Gré Cárdenas, a theatrical provocateur whose hybrid operettas and human concertos challenge convention and sanity in equal measure. Directed by Gama Valle and performed by Bethany Geraghty with cellist Eric Eaton, the piece unfolds as a dark comedic concerto for voice and cello-part theatrical aria, part emotional autopsy. LUCINE! was awarded Best Play with Music at the 2024 New York City Fringe Festival where it was workshopped in April 2024. The story moves through memory, regret, satire, and surrender as Lucine transforms into the people who shaped-and shattered-her: her undying mother Luna, her infuriatingly supportive husband Elio, her tender lover Rahuil, her sharp-edged daughter Solana, her overworked attendant Tuba, and the ghost of a Confederate grandmother she never met. Each movement echoes a lunar phase, building a rhythm of renewal and disintegration. The cello-Lucine's only companion on stage-becomes a proxy for the emotions she cannot voice. All of it unfolds two years and two days before the apocalypse-a countdown as personal as it is planetary.
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Coco Jones keeps releasing bop after bop!

#CocoJones #Taste
Screenshot of Deezer’s music player on iOS. Playing Taste by Coco Jones.
February 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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This is such an honor! (Even when they misgendered me. But I fixed it for y’all!)

Thank you to the reviewing committee for selecting my book “Prohibido llorar” as one of the best children’s books published in Spanish in 2024.

Congrats to all the authors, illustrators and translators!

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EL COMITÉ DE LIBROS INFANTILES DE BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION LOS MEJORES LIBROS INFANTILES DEL AÑO 2025 PARA LIBROS TRADUCIDOS O PUBLICADOS EN 2024 THE CHILDREN'S BOOK COMMITTEE OF BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION THE BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN SPANISH 2025 EDITION Screenshot of a document listing four books with their publishing info. My book PROHIBIDO LLORAR is the last one and it’s framed by a blue line.
January 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Greetings from Puerto Rico!
Sunny, tropical landscape. Pictures a section of the Camuy River going into the Atlantic Ocean. There’s a person fishing in the distance.
December 16, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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A few of the books I read in November 2024.

#kidlit #books
Collage of book covers summarizing my November 2024 reading list. Graphic generated by StoryGraph.
December 3, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp. So good!
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Picture of a copy of early reader graphic novel Bog Myrtle laying on a light brown table
November 22, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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Picture books I read on 11.22.24!

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Screenshot of my reading list on StoryGraph. It shows the three picture books I read on November 22 2024. From top to bottom: ALOHA EVERYTHING, GWENDOLYN AND THE LIGHT, THE STAR IN YOU
November 22, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Picture books I read on 11/21/24.
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Screenshot of my StoryGraph read books section listing the picture books I read on November 21st. From top to bottom: Giddy Up, Unicorn!, The Goblin Twins: Too Hard to Scare and House Held Up by Trees.
November 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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4) LEO’S FIRST VOTE! written by Christina Soontornvat and illustrated by Isabel Roxas.

Dragonfly Books
Cover art for the picture books LEO’S FIRST VOTE!
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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3) NIEBLA escrito por Micaela Chirif e ilustrado por Carmen Cardemil.

Editorial Amanuta
Cover art for the picture book in Spanish, NIEBLA (FOG)
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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2) MISSING MOMMA written by Winsome Bingham and illustrated Rahele Jomepour Bell.

Abrams Books for Young Readers
Cover art for the picture book MISSING MOMMA.
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Picture books read on 11.20.24!

1) TAMALES FOR CHRISTMAS written by @stephenbriseno.bsky.social and illustrated by Sonia Sánchez.

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Cover art for the picture book TAMALES FOR CHRISTMAS.
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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This topic has really jogged my memory! Other books I loved as a kid were Mafalda’s and Tintín’s. #kidlitchat
An illustration of Quino’s famous character MAFALDA Cover for a Spanish translation of the Adventures of Tintín
November 20, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Oh, wow, it’s really hard to think that far back, but I do remember these two books left a mark in me when I was a kid. To this day, I treasure them. They lit up my imagination. #kidlitchat
Cover for LOS CUENTOS DE JUAN BOBO Cover for the Torre de Papel edition of LA TARDE DE LOS ELFOS
November 20, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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We’re bringing the #MerryChristmas30 festivities to Bluesky as well!

#MariahCarey #TheQueenOfChristmas
A picture of me framed by a profile picture frame celebrating the 30 Year Anniversary of Mariah Carey’s album Merry Christmas
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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BRB

Watching MEET ME NEXT CHRISTMAS!
Movie poster for Netflix’s Christmas romcom Meet Me Next Christmas
November 17, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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BRB

Watching HOT FROSTY on Netflix!
Poster for Netflix’s Christmas movie HOT FROSTY
November 16, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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I love that @bsky.app gives you options to customize your app appearance! Hope they add more (free 😉) options in the future.

Have you explore this section of the app?
screenshot of my Bluesky appearance settings
November 16, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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Some of the books I read or finished reading in October 2024!

I really like this @thestorygraph.com feature!
Collage generated by the app Story Graph that shows the covers for some of the books I read in October 2024
November 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Ready to read I WANT TO READ ALL THE BOOKS by @debbieohi.com 🤩 #kidlit
Picture of an e-book copy of the picture book I Want to Read All the Books. Trees and buildings in the background.
October 20, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Thank you to the Junior Library Guild for mailing my certificate! This is an enormous honor. 🥳 PROHIBIDO LLORAR is a JLG Gold Standard Selection.

This wouldn’t have been possible without the endless support of Editorial Destellos & Lorenzo Sangiò’s heartwarming illustrations.

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Me holding the JLG certificate beside a stack of books places in front of lilac and yellow mums A stack of books and the JLG certificate standing in front of lilac and yellow mums
October 2, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Ohhh look at that number!

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #885,948!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #885,948, Gama Valle | KidLit Author - is out on sub ‪@gamavalle.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 6, 2023"
September 19, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Book launch/signing in Puerto Rico! A dream come true.
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Me signing a copy of my picture book PROHIBIDO LLORAR.
July 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM