April Davila - Author
Monday was my birthday. It's funny how they keep rolling around. I'm 41. I didn't plan anything, because 41 is one of those kind of nothing birthdays, but as it turned out, my mom was in town this weekend to teach a sculpture seminar at the American … [Continue reading] about Switching Mediums for a Day t Work in Clay
A couple weeks ago I had the honor of attending the Pasadena Festival of Women Authors. If you follow along at all with my blog, you know I'm a big fan. This was my third year and each time I'm just aglow with bookish goodness for days afterwards. … [Continue reading] about Some Serious Wisdom From Author Hannah Tinti
Writers read. It is one of the defining characteristics of writers that we love books. Love 'em. Can't get enough. And those of us over a certain age have, in our lifetimes, witnessed a total transformation of how books arrive in the hands of happy … [Continue reading] about Independent Bookstores – Where the Booklovers Go
For some reason, I love reading self-help books when I travel. Whenever one of these get-your-shit-together kind of titles pops up I always hesitate to buy them because I don't want anyone to see me carrying it around (because - embarassing). But … [Continue reading] about Stop Being an Aspiring Writer
I came across this video recently and, even though I'm not a big fan of the title (I'm skeptical of anyone who touts easy steps to a bestselling novel), it has some really good advice for those who are struggling to get words on the page. I also like … [Continue reading] about Seven Steps to Writing a Novel
I recently had the pleasure of hearing the author Percival Everett talk about his work. The man has written 30 novels over the course of his career and he's still going strong. Anyway, one of the audience members asked him if he outlines. He … [Continue reading] about An Atlas, Not An Outline
A few weeks back I published a post about sending out a successful query, with a few thoughts on what I thought I did right. One of the main things on that list was spending time on my query letter synopsis to make it as good as it could be. Since … [Continue reading] about Writing the Query Letter Synopsis