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12 Responses to “About”

  1. Carol Kean said on August 3rd, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    Victoria, I read your critique at the online workshop and thought, “This woman is too good to be one of us,” so I checked out your blog. You’re a real pro! I’m one of the not-yet-published. Your critique was startling good. I read the same chapter without being able to write with such insight and authority.

    I’ve improved a lot since I first joined in April, and I plan to be as accomplished as you are — one of these days. Thanks for a great website. Mystery is not my genre, but you’ve made me think I should try it sometime.
    Carol

  2. gotheca said on August 4th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Thank you, Carol! Yes, I do this for a living. It’s wonderful, fun work, and I get to meet a lot of very talented writers.

    I love the mystery genre. I’m on a mission right now to read everyone writing mysteries out there. . .I spend my whole life thinking up excuses to cruise the local thrift shop for old paperbacks.

    Please feel free to hang around the blog and join in the comments. They’re fun people!

    Victoria

  3. This week: Victoria Mixon on Exposition! | The #StoryCraft Blog said on May 14th, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    [...] for us, writer and editor Victoria Mixon has offered to join #storycraft as guest expert, this week, to help us discuss exposition. Victoria [...]

  4. David M Goodman Sr. said on September 27th, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Character’s thoughts? Italics, quotes, or depends on the publisher? I’m in revision of my first novel, and have read different views about craft. You are magnificent, and have an inspiring site. Thank you for all your time and dedication to the craft of the greatest profession in the world, being a writer.

  5. Victoria said on September 27th, 2010 at 10:37 am

    Thank you, David! You’re very kind.

    Common standard is italics for characters’ thoughts. Quotations marks are for speech. Still, some writers and publishers will play with conventions just for the sake of being. . .unconventional.

  6. Heather Todd said on April 16th, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Nice to meet you Victoria,you have wonderful website

    Victoria Reply:
    October 20th, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    Thank you, Heather!

  7. oscar said on June 6th, 2011 at 12:40 am

    Dear Victoria.
    my name is oscar, I came across your contact when l was searching for an editing agent, who will help me to edit and publish my new book. kindly contact me by email for further information if your interested on the editing job.
    Thanks. oscar

    Victoria Reply:
    June 10th, 2011 at 10:58 am

    I’ll send you email, oscar

  8. Suanne Schafer said on September 12th, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    Dear Ms. Mixon,

    I am a family practice doctor, who, upon reaching the burnt-out stage, decided to write to save my sanity. I have almost finished my first novel, am about 1/3 of the way through the second, and have finished a short story.

    I am considering self publishing, starting with the short story, to see how things go. Would you be interested in a developmental edit of the short story?

    It is titled SHIFTING HEAT, 9500 words. Just back from Africa, watched lions mating on the Serengeti, and decided a short story about shape shifters blurring the lines between animal and human sex would be cool. So it’s a rather hot little book.

    Victoria Reply:
    September 12th, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    Suanne, feel free to email me—you can reach me through the Contact button on my banner.

  9. NaNoWriMo Debriefing « BULLISH INK said on December 2nd, 2011 at 12:19 am

    [...] Victoria Mixon – her NaNo posts were encouraging and insightful (my fave is here) so when I saw that she’d slashed the price on her books The Art and Craft of Fiction and The Art and Craft of Story specifically for the benefit of NaNoer’s, I couldn’t get to Amazon.com fast enough and you can be sure I snapped them both up lickety-split! [...]

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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.