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  • Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest

    Hey, everyone! I have a story to tell today.

    This time last year a reader notified me of a contest going on over on Write to Done. They were soliciting nominations for the Top 10 Blogs for Writers of 2010. I said, “You want to?” and you guys said, “Sure!” And a bunch of you stampeded over in what I like to think of as the greatest writers’ rave ever, and you nominated me!

    And I was overwhelmed and deeply moved. Awwww. You guys!

    Imagine then my surprise to learn during the December holidays that your nominations had placed me in the Top 20 Blogs for Writers.

    People! My chin wobbled a bit. I really hadn’t realized the power of this online community we’ve built, the spirit of giving you have in you, or thrill of being our own tribe. You’re all too darn sweet for words.

    And I was grateful and touched and filled with the zeal to do even better for you in the coming year, to earn the faith you’d shown in me. To really be what you need: the mouthpiece for the greatest writers’ rave ever.

    So imagine my total shock and amazement to learn a week later that your nominations had earned me a spot as one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. The top ten! That’s like the ninetieth percentile of the Writers Digest Top 101—with cherries!

    Yes, I cried a little. (No, I did not let my loved ones take pictures.)

    But I did hold myself to that promise to do even better in 2011 than I’d done in 2010, to work as hard as I could to teach you what it’s taken me thirty years in this art and craft to learn—how to create wonderful fiction—and to do it in a way that becomes so intuitive once you get it you can’t remember a time when you didn’t know this stuff.

    Also, I got the chance through the Top 10 Blogs for Writers to meet the most fantastic other folks out there today blogging for writers:

    Writer Unboxed, with the simply adorable Therese Walsh and Kathleen Bolton (where I now write the editorial column Ask Victoria on their monthly newsletter opposite agent column Ask Chuck with Writer’s Digest’s Chuck Sambuchino—and where I will be, as of January 2013, a Writer Unboxed regular contributor)

    The Creative Penn, with the self-marketing powerhouse Joanna Penn (who has interviewed me on video)

    Cats Eye Writer>, with the wise and kind blogging guru Judy Dunn (now my editing client for her up-coming memoir)

    Storyfix, with the long-time best seller Larry Brooks

    {Courage 2 Create}, with the idealistic Ollin Morales

    Renegade Writerwith the uber-professional Linda Formichelli

    Make a Living Writingr, with the savvy business writer Carole Tice

    Wordplaywith the young self-publishing novelist K.M. Weiland

    I brought them here to meet you and sent you over to their sites to meet them. And almost all of them have become permanent good friends of mine here in the online writing community, people I turn to again and again throughout the year to share our thoughts and ideas, interviews and book giveaways, the myriad aspects of our developing careers out here helping you do what you do best.

    You people are the very reason this blog exists. You keep me sane. Plus you bring me cherries.

    Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.

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6 Responses to “Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest”

  1. Sophia Chang said on November 23rd, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    I nominated! And I wanted to share what I said with you:

    Victoria Mixon’s content BLOWS MY MIND every single time, without fail. She gives us little tidbits that she puts into her books and professional work, but for free, so poor writers like me can soak it up like cocaine, but a really good cocaine. In any case, I’m an addict.

    Did I take that metaphor too far? Who cares, she rocks

  2. Victoria said on November 23rd, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Oh, Sophia, thank you! You are so sweet. I had to read this one out loud to my family.

    :)

  3. Tamara said on November 27th, 2011 at 8:01 am

    For the record, you’re our #1 :)

  4. Victoria said on November 28th, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Tamara, you’re so kind! You just made my Monday. :)

  5. Karen said on November 30th, 2011 at 5:07 am

    Congratulations! This is completely well deserved. I read your blog posts as often as possible!

  6. Victoria said on November 30th, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    Thanks, Karen! It’s a wonderful writing community.

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MILLLICENT G. DILLON, the world's expert on authors Jane and Paul Bowles, has won five O. Henry Awards and been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner. I worked with Dillon on her memoir, The Absolute Elsewhere, in which she describes in luminous prose her private meeting with Albert Einstein to discuss the ethics of the atomic bomb.

BHAICHAND PATEL, retired after an illustrious career with the United Nations, is now a journalist based out of New Dehli and Bombay, an expert on Bollywood, and author of three non-fiction books published by Penguin. I edited Patel’s debut novel, Mothers, Lovers, and Other Strangers, published by PanMacmillan.

LUCIA ORTH is the author of the debut novel, Baby Jesus Pawn Shop, which received critical acclaim from Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, Booklist, Library Journal and Small Press Reviews. I have edited a number of essays and articles for Orth.

SCOTT WARRENDER is a professional musician and Annie Award-nominated lyricist specializing in musical theater. I work with Warrender regularly on his short stories and debut novel, Putaway.

STUART WAKEFIELD is the #1 Kindle Best Selling author of Body of Water, the first novel in his Orcadian Trilogy. Body of Water was 1 of 10 books long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize. I edited his second novel, Memory of Water and look forward to editing the final novel of his Orcadian Trilogy, Spirit of Water.

ANIA VESENNY is a recipient of the Evelyn Sullivan Gilbertson Award for Emerging Artist in Literature and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. I edited Vesenny's debut novel, Swearing in Russian at the Northern Lights.

TERISA GREEN is widely considered the foremost American authority on tattooing through her tattoo books published by Simon & Schuster, which have sold over 45,000 copies. Under the name M. TERRY GREEN, she writes her techno-shaman sci-fi/fantasy series. I am working with her to develop a new speculative fiction series.

CHRIS RYAN drew acclaim from the New Yorker for the hook to his novel Heliophobia. He is the author of poetry collection The Bible of Animal Feet from Farfalla Press. I edited Ryan’s debut novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him to develop Heliophobia and his work-in-progress Pogue.

JUDY LEE DUNN is an award-winning marketing blogger. I am working with her to develop and edit her memoir of reconciling her liberal activism with her emotional difficulty accepting the lesbianism of her beloved daughter, Tonight Show comedienne Kellye Rowland.

In addition, I work with dozens of aspiring writers in their apprenticeship to this literary art and craft.


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