April Davila - Author
I know a lot of you will be shopping this weekend. I will not. I will be doing my holiday shopping like a sane person, in my pajamas, on cyber Monday. That said, I think everyone, shoppers and enochlophobics alike, should all plan to stop by their … [Continue reading] about Shop Indies First
In August, my dear friend Alexandra texted me with a proposal that we finish our novels and start sending them to agents in March. To be clear, these are the novels we started back in grad school, going on eight years ago. They've been close to done … [Continue reading] about Compiling a Wish List of Agents
For a long time I knew about the public library online portal, but I never used it. In truth, it's not the most intuitive system, and I kind of like the ritual of actually going down to the library in person. But once I bit the bullet and got my … [Continue reading] about Your Public Library Online (and How to Check Books Out Digitally)
I recently signed up for a 10K trail race with my friend Cindy (aka The Sweet Nerd) and her husband. His company is sponsoring a team. Since joining up, I've gone with them on two training runs and get this - they train on the actual trail marked out … [Continue reading] about Knowing the Course Ahead, in Running as in Writing
It's National Author's Day! What a perfect way to kick off NaNoWriMo. And since I'm participating myself this year, I'm going to keep today's post short and sweet, sharing a few tips and tricks to help us all on our way toward becoming published … [Continue reading] about National Author’s Day NaNoWriMo-style
Last night I crawled the streets of North Hollywood with a few hundred other book fiends for the Lit Crawl LA 2016. Last year I heard about it two days after it was over, so this year I planned ahead. (By the way, if you missed it, consider signing … [Continue reading] about Lit Crawl LA 2016
In a recent post, John Fox, of the BookFox blog, wrote about the challenges of self-editing. His very first bit of advice is to isolate the various elements of your manuscript and address each one in turn. In other words, do a pass looking only at … [Continue reading] about Keep Focused with a Writing Punch List