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  • We are hustling like crazy to get the ebook of THE ART & CRAFT OF FICTION: A PRACTITIONER’S MANUAL released tomorrow.

    Will we make it? What do you think? I’m taking bets.

    5 Comments

5 Responses to “Almost publishing”

  1. A million bucks you’ll get it done!

  2. Kathryn said on

    I don’t invest in wimps.

    K

  3. Of course you’ll make it!

  4. Ngoc Hatley said on

    Hello, you used to write excellent, but the last several posts have been kinda boring¡K I miss your great writings. Past few posts are just a little bit out of track! come on!

    Victoria Reply:

    Screw you, Ngoc.

    HA HA Just kidding! I only say that because you’re a spammer from an apartment-rental site.




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Clients’ Successes

Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

Clients’ Books


Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.


I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)


The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.