![]() ![]() The family moved to New Mexico when Dellaira was 3. I still consider myself a Burqueña, as we say.” ![]() “My dad still lives in Albuquerque, so I go back to visit as often as I can. “It’s great, but it feels shocking all the same,” Dellaira says in a recent phone interview from Santa Monica, where she lives now. Here I realized, was someone with a long literary career ahead of her. Her agent, Richard Florest, a book editor turned agent, says Dellaira’s writing is alive: “As the story unfolded, letter after letter revealed a startling depth of emotion and imagination driven by the heart. She’s also just learned that her second novel, “17 Years,” sold and has a publish date of 2018 by the same publishers, Farrah, Strauss Giroux, that published her first book. While Ava Dellaira, 32, was on a South American tour in October for the paperback release of her debut novel, “Love Letters to the Dead,” back in Los Angeles, producers and directors were considering how they will turn the book into a movie.ĭellaira’s been hired to write the screenplay. Like having your cake and eating it too, one Albuquerque writer has learned both are possible, but not always at the same time. ![]() How do you honor your dreams and still make a living in reality? Ava Dellaira says rewriting and rewriting some more are part of her journey to reaching her dreams. ![]()
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