Create Your Query Letter with Brandi Larsen

The key to a winning query letter is understanding and articulating your book and its audience. In this generative workshop, writer and publishing expert Brandi Larsen will give an introduction of how to create a query letter, focusing on your book's pitch.

Attendees will partner with each other to create, share, and receive feedback on their book's one sentence hook.

Join UNCULTURED: A Memoir co-writer and publishing expert Brandi Larsen for this special event!

Book Discussion | Lover Man by Alston Anderson on AADL.TV

In this part of our BLM discussion series we are highlighting books that explore how Black people move through the world. This discussion series celebrates Black authors and books, across genres, across time, and across the African diaspora.

This month, watch AADL staff and other community members for a discussion of Lover Man by Alston Anderson.

For more BLM Book discussions visit here.

The Unerased Book Club | We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama on AADL.TV

Watch AADL staff and other community members in a book discussion with The Unerased Book Club. This month, they'll discuss We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama.

Sheela Lal and Fatema Haque are co-facilitators of The Unerased Book Club, a project of Rising Voices of Asian American Families that reads, and builds community through, Asian American literature.

Author Spotlight | Victor LaValle on AADL.TV

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Victor LaValle.

Novelist and short fiction writer Victor LaValle has been the recipient of numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Shirley Jackson Award, American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.

Recipe Share | Taco 'Bout It

Each week, AADL staff members share recipes in a specific category – from “Unusual Veggies” to “Favorite Cookies” - whether tried and true or tried and failed. The recipes that are discussed in this episode are attached to this event page. Please join the conversation in the comments section! What are your favorite recipes from this week’s category?