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  • THE ART & CRAFT OF FICTION:
    A PRACTITIONER’S MANUAL

    Please welcome into the world, folks, my first book in fourteen years: The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual.

    Pretty much everything that went into the first eight months of this blog is here, organized, edited, and shaped into a single all-encompassing volume on creating this wonderful thing we call literature.

    That’s it there, at the top of the page on the right.

    Click on the cover to read the Table of Contents and Introduction. Check out the introductory price (which we’ll be raising to a regular price when we go on Smashwords). We’ll make the manual available in print through POD, as well, and you’ll also be able to buy both ebook and print book together for a special bundled price, reflecting the introductory rate.

    All that will be happening sometime in the next few weeks.

    I’ll be developing companion workbooks on the different sections of “Book II: Writing,” which you’ll be able to buy either separately or bundled with the manual. They’re going to take a little longer, though, so don’t be on the edge of your seat.

    I want to thank all of you—readers and clients—from the bottom of my heart, for your feedback and support throughout the writing and publishing of this book.

    You guys have been amazing.

    6 Comments

6 Responses to “THE ART & CRAFT OF FICTION:
A PRACTITIONER’S MANUAL”

  1. chris ryan said on March 31st, 2010 at 11:18 pm

    awesome! congrats!

  2. Kathryn said on April 1st, 2010 at 5:27 am

    You’ve made us all very proud with this beautiful book. La Favorita is gorgeous beneath your title. Your table of contents is intriguing.

    Thank you for sharing the experience of writing and publishing it with us.

    K

  3. Ania said on April 1st, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Congratulations, Victoria! I can’t wait to get the print version. Sounds delicious. I’ve learned so much from you as you edited my work, and having it all in a book form is fantastic!

  4. Lady Glamis said on April 1st, 2010 at 4:51 pm

    I can’t wait to get this! Congrats!

  5. Beagle Board Presentation at OSCON, Demo at ELC « Jeff's Open Source Resource said on April 2nd, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    [...] OSCON I have been very busy the last couple of weeks, using my spare time to help produce a a fantastic book about writing fiction. But I wanted to chime in with an announcement about an upcoming [...]

  6. Sue Z Smith said on April 3rd, 2010 at 5:45 am

    Congratulations! I love your blog. I look forward to getting your book when it’s out in print!

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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.

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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.