2025 Madrina Mentor
Diana López
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Coming May 07, 2024!
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Learn more about your mentor:
Preferred Age Category: Middle Grade
Preferred Genre or Sub-Genres: Realistic Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Legends and Lore
As a mentor I love working on: I love working with mentees who are in the revision stage of the process. Whether we are looking at a few chapters or a whole book, let's "get in the weeds" as they say.
Areas of expertise/strengths as a mentor: Elements of craft like character development, point of view, plot, and sentence structure!
Areas of weakness as a mentor: Not great at marketing, especially via social media; also not a good fit if you are writing a novel in verse or a graphic novel.
Preferred Age Category: Middle Grade
Preferred Genre or Sub-Genres: Realistic Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Legends and Lore
As a mentor I love working on: I love working with mentees who are in the revision stage of the process. Whether we are looking at a few chapters or a whole book, let's "get in the weeds" as they say.
Areas of expertise/strengths as a mentor: Elements of craft like character development, point of view, plot, and sentence structure!
Areas of weakness as a mentor: Not great at marketing, especially via social media; also not a good fit if you are writing a novel in verse or a graphic novel.
DIANA LÓPEZ...
Diana López is the author of the adult novella, Sofia's Saints, and numerous middle grade novels, including Confetti Girl, Nothing Up My Sleeve, and Lucky Luna. Her debut picture book is now available and is called Sing With Me: The Story of Selena Quintanilla. She also wrote the novel adaptation for the Disney/Pixar film, Coco. Diana retired after a 28-year career in education at both the middle grade and college levels. Her "second act" day job is helping her husband in his physical therapy clinic, FYZICAL Therapy & Balance Center, located in her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas, but she still enjoys meeting with students when she visits schools to chat about books and writing.
http://dianalopezbooks.com/
Diana López is the author of the adult novella, Sofia's Saints, and numerous middle grade novels, including Confetti Girl, Nothing Up My Sleeve, and Lucky Luna. Her debut picture book is now available and is called Sing With Me: The Story of Selena Quintanilla. She also wrote the novel adaptation for the Disney/Pixar film, Coco. Diana retired after a 28-year career in education at both the middle grade and college levels. Her "second act" day job is helping her husband in his physical therapy clinic, FYZICAL Therapy & Balance Center, located in her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas, but she still enjoys meeting with students when she visits schools to chat about books and writing.
http://dianalopezbooks.com/