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Lila Guzmán is the award-winning author of Lorenzo and the Pirate (Blooming Tree Press), the 4th novel in the Lorenzo series about
Spanish participation in the American Revolution. It is available in audio book from Colonial Radio. Her series of biographies from Enslow Publishing features George Lopez, Cesar Chavez, Ellen Ochoa, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Roberto Clemente. She lives in Austin , Texas , with her co-author husband.
"Lorenzo and the Pirate" was a finalist for Children's/YA Book with the Oklahoma Writers Federation. The first chapter of a YA time travel novel garnered first place in its category.
Visit www.lilaguzman.com to read first chapters of her books.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, Lila! Do you consider yourself to be a born writer?Yes, this is what I was born to do. Every experience I’ve had—from being an officer in the U.S. Navy to getting a Ph.D. in Spanish has prepared me for this. Luck and persistence play a role in this business, but a natural talent for writing and an active imagination are crucial.
Did you always want to be a writer?As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to write. When I was a little girl sitting under the apple tree, I dreamed up stories.
Tell us about your recent release. What was your inspiration for it?Lorenzo and the Pirate is the 4th book in a young adult series set in the American Revolution. Lorenzo is fictional, but all the events surrounding him actually happened. For example, he gets caught in a storm surge during the 1779 New Orleans hurricane in Lorenzo and the Turncoat. There was a Katrina-style hurricane that went through New Orleans in August of that year.
Tell us about your other children's books.I write both fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. My non-fiction books include the
Famous Latinos series for Enslow. The subjects are George Lopez, Cesar Chavez, Frida Kahlo, Ellen Ochoa, Diego Rivera, and Roberto Clemente.
In fiction, I write about th
Armed with a long knife, flint-lock musket, and his father’s medical bag, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister sets off to fulfill his father’s deathbed wish. Lorenzo joins a secret flathoat operation delivering much-needed medicine and gunpowder to George Washington’s army, leading the reader on a romping ride from the docks of New Orleans to the battlefields of the American Revolution. This action-packed historical novel for young people tells the story of Gibson’s Lambs and the Spaniards, forgotten heroes of the struggle for independence.
Wow! How’s that for an exciting plot?
If you’d like to learn how to plot YOUR novel, become a member of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club today, then join us Friday afternoon at 3:00 central time when Lila Guzman will use her book Lorenzo’s Secret Mission as the basis for this week’s teleclass for club members.
How do you plot a book? What methods can you use to organize your thoughts? When do you introduce characters? How do you avoid the sagging middle? How do you bring the book to a satisfying conclusion. What are the special problems in writing a sequel?
Lila will answer these questions, plus many more during this LIVE 55-minute teleclass.
Don’t miss out!
Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club right now and receive an email invitation to this fun and informative event, plus the study guide to use during the live teleclass on Friday!
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Listen to Book Bites for Kids, LIVE this afternoon at 2:00 central time on blogtalkradio. Lila Guzman, an instructor for the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club, will talk about her upcoming teleclass for the club.
We’ll also discuss the way the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club works, and what every member gets for their monthly membership fee of only $27.00.
Call in during the LIVE show to ask a question or make a comment at 1-646-716-9239. You can also call if you have an upcoming book signing, writers’ conference, or other event to promote.
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August is a busy month for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club. Just look at all the informative and fun teleclasses that are scheduled for this month.
Creating a Picture Book That Features a Main Character with a Problem to Solve
Thursday - August 14th - 4:00 Central Time
Instructor - Margot Finke
The Hero’s Journey - Part 3
Tuesday, August 19th - 7:00 Central Time
Instructor - Lila Guzman
The Importance of Editing and Revising Your Manuscript
Thursday - August 21st - 7:00 Central Time
Instructor - Simon Rose
Query Letters and Cover Letters: What to Do and What Not to Do to Capture an Editor’s Interest
Thursday - August 28th - 7:00 central time
Instructor - Rita Milios
In addition to these teleclasses, members of the club may submit one manuscript per week for professional critique.
All this for ONLY $27.00 per month!
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This week’s teleclass for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club will take place Thursday night, April 3, at 8:00 central time.
Children’s author Lila Guzman will present Red Flags: Mistakes That Doom Your Manuscripts.
This teleclass was originally scheduled for last month, but we had some technical problems, so you’ve got another chance now to take part in this class.
Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club and receive an email invitation to this event. You’ll also receive a link to the recording of this event on Thursday, just in case you can’t make it to the LIVE class.
As a club member, you are invited to take part in FOUR 55-minute teleclasses about children’s writing every month, plus you have the opportunity to submit a manuscript for professional critique every week, and you can choose to complete a weekly assignment and have it reviewed as well.
Find out why members love the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club by listening to Book Bites for Kids, LIVE on blogtalkradio.com this Wednesday at 2:00 central time when members will call in to promote the club.
And, if you have something you’d like to promote on the show tomorrow, call 1-646-716-9239 between 2:00 and 2:15 central time tomorrow.
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Tonight’s the night!
Children’s author Lila Guzman will present a special teleclass for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club called “Avoiding Red Flags”!
Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes in your manuscript that send up red flags to editors!
The teleclass starts at 7:00 central time and will last for 55 minutes.
Members are invited to attend this LIVE teleclass, but the teleclass will also be recorded and members will receive a link to the recording tomorrow.
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Do you know how to avoid the most common writing mistakes in your manuscripts?
Do you even know what the most common mistakes are?
Children’s author Lila Guzman will talk about these common mistakes (which are “red flags” for editors) and how to avoid making them this Thursday night in a special teleclass for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club.
Join the club and receive an email invitation to this event.
Manuscript Red Flags
What mistakes do bad manuscripts contain? Here are some of the most common ones:
1. No hook on page 1
2. No hook at the end of Chapter One to compel me to read on.
3. No clear goal. (X wants to ____ because ______)
4. It starts too slow
5. It’s unoriginal.
6. Wrong facts.
7. No redeeming qualities in the antagonist
8. A protagonist who is too unlikeable
9. No overriding theme/no book goal
10. Lack of goal, conflict, disaster
11. too many characters
12. too many characters introduced too soon.
13. telling vs. showing
14. starting with someone other than the protagonist (unless it starts with a prologue)
15. not having the protagonist carry the action
16. POV switches from paragraph to paragraph. (One of my favorite western authors does this and it works for him, but he’s written more books than I can count).
17. keeping secrets from the reader.
18. characters doing things apparently unrelated to what other characters are doing.
19. Plot glitches. (Example: A Moslem mother is not going to take her newborn to the Catholic Church for baptism.)
20. Straining belief.
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Writing stories--and how one learns to do it--is so elusive.
Can anyone explain the actual process of learning to write... or fully understand how a child--how anyone, really--finds words and manages to put them down on paper?
If you followed the postings at Wordswimmer over the summer, you know that I spent part of July and August at the local library teaching children (ages 7 to 12) how to
During the last two sessions of the Young Writers Workshop that I taught at our local library, I introduced a simple exercise to help the children distinguish between an idea and a story.
I wanted the children to understand on a deep level--way down in their guts, not just in their minds--how a story evolves from idea to story.
So, we spent a few minutes after introductions talking about where
A small crowd of children is gathered in a semi-circle on the floor around me as we begin the second session of the Young Writers Workshop at our local library.
After brief introductions, I talk about how a writer always notices details about where he or she lives and ask the children to share some of their observations about living in Florida.
Sometimes if you look closely enough, I tell them,
On my first night teaching a young writers' workshop at our local library, I stand in front of a roomful of twenty children and try to describe my writing process.
Writing, I tell the children after a brief discussion about where writers find ideas, can often feel as frustrating as trying to untangle a mass of knotted string.
You take a thread--an idea, perhaps, or an image, or a feeling, or
Over the next five weeks I'll be teaching a writing workshop at the local library to help young swimmers find their way into the water.
The plan is for us to meet each week in the children's room and talk for an hour about writing and stories in the hope that the children--more than 100 have registered for the free summer program--will eventually embark on their own story-writing adventures.
Spanish participation in the American Revolution. It is available in audio book from Colonial Radio. Her series of biographies from Enslow Publishing features George Lopez, Cesar Chavez, Ellen Ochoa, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Roberto Clemente. She lives in Austin , Texas , with her co-author husband.
Lila, I've known you through the internet on various writing boards, but it was great getting to know more about you and your new book in your series.