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5 Responses to “2009 August Free Edit HOOKS”

  1. Jeanette Bennett said on August 24th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    The link to “My guitar case bounced” doesn’t work.

  2. gotheca said on August 24th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    How very bizarre. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll fix it!

    Victoria

  3. gotheca said on August 24th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Got it! Thanks, Jeannette. And I’m sorry, Marie! I hope everyone who wants to read it can get to it now.

    Victoria

  4. Sean O'Mordha said on August 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    The uninhabited island lay thirty meters to port, and somewhere beyond the white sand beach an ambush. In the star-filled blackness of night neither were visible to the man standing alone on the bow of the ship, but the sound of the waves rolling across the wide, shallow reef placed the island, and the Captain had warned of Fuentes’ presence. Unfortunately, both were more apparent than the family’s destiny the old woman on Haiti had seen when she threw the bones.

  5. gotheca said on September 1st, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    You can see Sean O’Mordha’s novel hook in the final week’s free edits.

    Victoria

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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.