Editorial Inspirations Blog
From the first word to well beyond the end.
April Michelle Davis is a professional indexer who has studied the skill, written the technical book A Guide for the Freelance Indexer (Editorial Freelancers Association, 2012), and created indexes for all genres of books. On Faye Roberts’ website, Roberts says that she is very aware that there is merit to a well-designed index because it is an […]
April Michelle Davis wrote her book A Princess in Disguise because of her fascination with princesses. She wrote this fiction book using descriptions of many 1700 and 1800 places and things. In August 2017, Geri Walton asked April Michelle to guest blog on the boats of this era because Princess Margaret and Huntley, the main female and […]
April Michelle Davis’s young adult book A Princess in Disguise was reviewed by Kathleen Lance of One Stop Fiction. And this review led to A Princess in Disguise receiving an award: The One Stop Fiction Book Award! Lance’s interpretations were very similar to April Michelle’s, just expressed in different words, such as how Lance described […]
April Michelle Davis was selected as the local author from the northern Virginia area to have a portion of her young adult book A Princess in Disguise read to an audience of elementary school age children and their parents. The event, Reading ROCKS the Red Carpet, hosted by the faculty of Marshall Elementary School, was held at the […]
A Princess in Disguise by April Michelle Davis was Tina Glasneck’s Book of the Day on September 15, 2017. April Michelle wrote about a princess because since she was fascinated with them, and in middle school she began to write A Princess in Disguise. To fast forward to today, April Michele is thrilled to share her book […]
April Michelle Davis and A Princess in Disguise were highlighted for NEA’s Read Across America in The Bridge, Messiah College Alumni Magazine. “April Michelle is a ’01 English graduate who relies on the education she received at Messiah College in her profession as an author when writing her recently published young adult book A Princess in Disguise.”
Typos can keep editors up at night because they know that just one too many missed typos and their reputation becomes tarnished. In the July 2017 edition of the Christian Editor Network’s Network News, April Michelle Davis talks about the ramifications of typos, understanding typos, and how to catch them. Excerpt: “Sometimes, despite an editor’s […]
A Princess in Disguise and April Michelle Davis were center stage at Book People, a good old-fashion bookstore where the smell of books, new and old, add to the casual atmosphere that greeted them and others on July 1, 2017. What is A Princess in Disguise? It is April Michelle’s young adult book written as a fairy tale about a princess, but it […]
April Michelle Davis taught her self-designed course, Indexing 101, via Google groups July 10 through August 14, 2017 for the Pen Institute. April Michelle took the mystery out of indexing and instead showed it the respect and importance it deserved. In this course, April Michelle started from scratch and moved toward writing and organizing the […]
A Princess in Disguise is a delightfully written book by April Michelle Davis with references to young adult development. April Michelle’s book was reviewed by The Old Schoolhouse in June 2017. Excerpt: “A Princess in Disguise is the tale of a young princess who must discover her identity and is compelled to unravel the mysteries surrounding her […]
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