August Highlights + Personal Life
Hi friend!
Welcome back to my bimonthly newsletter (although there might be a special edition one next month 😉). This month I’ve been working on revising some PB manuscripts and touched my novel in verse for the first time in months! I started revising at Highlights at a client retreat with my agent and agent siblings:
Writing things I’ll be applying from the retreat: using the big picture revision chart and isolating dialogue / narration to create a better scene (working on this).
Book related news:
My books come out in 18 days (September 5th)! I’m so excited for these three board books to be out in the world. What I could use some help with are reviews. Here’s the electronic copies if you could pretty please leave a (hopefully positive) review on Goodreads and Barnes and Noble. Reviews help the books get noticed so I would SO appreciate it ❤️ Please let me know if I can return the favor too!
P.S. If you pre-ordered the books back in March, they’re going to be shipped out starting this weekend! Please tag me (@aventuras.en.esl) and @SoaringKiteBooks if you share them online. We’d love to see 🎉
Upcoming Events (Save the date for Sept 9!)
I’m having my launch party for my 3 board books at Casita Bookstore in Long Beach, CA. If you’re local to the L.A. area, I invite you to come and support me and this Latina owned bookstore ❤️. For now, save the date for September 9 at 12pm PST (more info coming soon).
Personal life:
In three bullet points:
I visited my family in Alabama in July & ate the BEST homemade food
I got Covid (dodged it for 3 years and it got me)
I got to see my baby recently and wow, he can kick:
We’re so excited to welcome this bundle of joy into our home soon! Since our families are so far away (Alabama & Puerto Rico), we won’t be having an in person baby shower with our families as I hoped. If you’d like to get baby Ruiz a book or gift, here’s our registry (linked here).
ETC:
What I’m reading: Save the Cat Writes a YA Novel
What I’m watching: Lolis’s TikTok Novel series here
What I have on repeat:
Picture book release I’m looking forward to: An Ofrenda for Perro
By Judith Valdés B.
Until next time 💛
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Baby registry can be found here 🍼
P.S. Excuse the typos, I promise there’s a human behind the screen and not a 🤖.
-Delia Ruiz @Aventuras.En.ESL