I designed and started to write The Ancestor in the Mirror as a cross-curricular material while I was working as a Earth Space Science and Biology teacher in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. The main point was to provide support to a group of ELL students who were struggling with different subjects. I started to gather information in 2012 and finished my research when I moved to Boston, Massachusetts. I finished the novel in Colorado, in 2016. However, it took me two additional years to complete both the proofreading and the editorial process. The Ancestor in the Mirror was then published in 2018 as a standalone historical-fiction novel.

The book is not related to any school of educational system. This is an independent work that may be used in the classroom to connect subjects. I am an educational researcher and consultant graduated from the University of Nebraska at Kerney, U.S.A. I have no links to any educational institutions in Colorado or Utah. I don't work for any other publishing companies in the U.S. but exclusively for PORTAL PUBLISHING SERVICES, LLC. You can find most of my musical and literary works recorded in The Library of Congress under my U.S. name 'Noel Mendez', my Cuban name "Noel Mendez Machin", and my pen name 'Mendez Machin". If you are interested in my work as a journalist, please visit Benn's Media Directory, Spanish Editor.