APRIL DAVILA
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142 OSTRICHES
Set against the unexpected splendor of an ostrich ranch in the California desert, April Dávila’s beautifully written debut conjures an absorbing and compelling heroine in a story of courage, family and forgiveness.
“A vivid, uplifting debut...”
—Publishers Weekly
Recent Blog Posts
100 Days of Writing – Day 31
Well I’m officially a month into the 100 Days Of Writing Challenge. I’ve missed four days, for a grand total of 27 successful days. My goal was to write one […]
New Headshot
I am super excited for tomorrow morning. My friend, and amazing photographer, Paul Giunta is coming over early to take some family photos for us. As of right now – this […]
Ta-Dah!
Welcome to the new and improved Unfolding Tale. I spent the last few days transferring my blog posts from the old site (good ol Weebly didn’t have a way to […]
A Blind Woman Reading A Map In The Dark
In November my novel was 247 pages long. I still refer to that stack of paper as my first draft, but by January 11th I was back down to 35 […]
Happy Birthday, Unfolding Tale
How does one celebrate the second birthday of one’s blog? By taking it down, of course. HA! But seriously, though, I am taking the plunge and paying an actual web […]
More Support for Giving It Away
I was in San Francisco this weekend to help my mom out with her exhibition at the Ceramics Annual of America. It was a beautiful show, with many talented artists, […]
“Steve” the Pirate Makes His Case
I mentioned on Monday that my friend “Steve” sent me a full novel in a text file. Just as if he had handed it to me except that it came […]
The New IBC Site is Live
The new Innovative Business Content website is now live. Thank you all for your feedback on the logo. As you can see I settled on #8. Your votes were pretty […]
My Friend Steve, the Pirate.
A friend of mine, who I’ll call Steve, sent me an email this weekend about a piece he heard on NPR. It was a rebroadcast of an interview with Franzen […]
100 Days of Writing – Off to a great start!
Week one of the 100 days of writing challenge was a complete success! For seven days I wrote one page a day for my book about Northern California. I think […]