Twitter: @Gero_Delgadillo
Website: https://gerardowrites.wordpress.com/
Published books:
Summerlypse, Whole Enchilada Press, June 2016.
Bacon Pie, Evernight Teen Press, April 2018. Genre: YA contemporary
Bio: Originally from San Francisco and raised in Mexico, Gerardo Delgadillo lives in the Dallas metropolitan area, which means, his house is somewhere in a distant suburb nobody’s heard of. Gerardo’s stories gravitate around fifteen-to-seventeen-year-olds, venturing into Mexico, or living in Mexico. He considers his writing contemporary and realistic. Well, as realistic as it can be. Truth to be told, real life can be quite boring. He spends his days writing, either at his day job coding high-tech software, OR typing YA novels surrounded by lots of caffeine.
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Experience: Ten years of experience writing. Written ten complete YA novels, plus some incomplete ones and a bunch of short stories I managed to get published. Agents and publishers are considering three of my unpublished novels right now.
Mentoring style: Lots of communication! I use e-mail, Google Drive, and of course, direct messaging. I use Word so we can exchange notes/changes in the docs.
Mentee style: I like a writer who listens and thinks before reacting. Someone who can figure out comments or discuss them without getting too defensive. This depends on the writer’s experience and personality.
What you’d love to see in a novel? Characters! I love character-driven novels with strong, unique voices. The plot is important, too, but voice is king in YA contemporary. Also, the characters must be multiple-dimensional, not caricatures of characters.
Favourite novels: Everything from John Green or John Scalzi.
Mentoring package offered:
Query package (synopsis, query letter, 1st 3 chapters) First 10k/20k of manuscript *** Note: Either one is fine.
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