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  • I know—I’ve been the featured editorial advice columnist Ask Victoria on Writer Unboxed for months now, they’ve got my books on their beautiful site, and they even have me on their regular contributor list because I’m going to become a regular contributor to Writer Unboxed this coming January.

    And I am only now getting the time to combine our two logos into one so I can post it here on my sidebar. I know! Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware has already chastised me on Twitter (for something completely unrelated, but she was funny, and she would’ve been right if it had been about this).

    Part of this is because I am always swamped with work, and part of it is because my husband maintains my site and he has—ahem—a boss who expects him to spend his time on his real job, and part if it is because my son is learning computer graphics and I had to come up with a delectable-enough trade for his work on the logos.

    But then I did. So now I have.

    And here it is!

    You can see it right there in the place of honor on my left sidebar.

    Did you realize I write the monthly editorial advice column Ask Victoria for the Writer Unboxed newsletter? Opposite the agent advice column Ask Chuck by Chuck Sambuchino of Writer’s Digest?

    That you can submit any question you want about writing, and I’ll answer it?

    That we’ve got Donald Maass, literary agent extraordinaire, the adorable citrus-ist Jan O’Hara, and community manager Vaughn Croft in the newsletter with us?

    And that we all get together around the piano while we’re producing the newsletter every month and drink margaritas and sing old show tunes and Motown and (of course) “Bohemian Rhapsody” while Chuck plays?

    (I can hear Therese and Kathleen in chorus already: “WE WISH.”)

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2 Responses to “People, we have a logo: Ask Victoria on Writer Unboxed”

  1. Yes, we do wish! Cheers to you, Victoria. We’re so glad to have you with us.

  2. Victoria said on

    Hey, babe! I’m sorry it took me so long. But it’s there now, and it leads to the guest post I did for you first demonstrating Ask Victoria, so if you have a link on that post to the newsletter sign-up page then we’re all set.

    :)



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Authors


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.


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 Scott 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 WIP 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.