It’s Formichelli Week on A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with a guest post from Linda Formichelli of the Renegade Writer Blog. I first met Linda two years ago when I was a member of an online critique group (scoping out the current state of peer critiquing among fiction writers—ye gods!) and… Read more“How to Break Up With Your Writing”
Beyond the Most Common Fiction Mistakes: guest post on The Creative Penn
In keeping with Penn Week, today I’m going to send you all on over to my guest post on Joanna’s site, The Creative Penn. You all read The 4 Most Common Mistakes Fiction Editors See, yes? Well, today learn the mistakes we see even from the pros: Beyond the Most… Read more“Beyond the Most Common Fiction Mistakes: guest post on The Creative Penn”
7 Ways to Attract Attention to Your Book Sales Page
It’s Penn Week at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with Joanna Penn from TheCreativePenn: Adventures in Writing, Publishing and Book Marketing, one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. Joanna is the author and self-marketer of her self-published thriller, Pentacost. GUEST POST BY JOANNA PENN Writing and publishing your book is… Read more“7 Ways to Attract Attention to Your Book Sales Page”
7 Surprising Things About Blogging
So, I’ve been writing this blog for two years now, and I thought it was about time I shared with you all a few of the unexpected things I’ve learned during the course of it. There have been some real eye-openers! To wit: Big numbers don’t always mean quality readers… Read more“7 Surprising Things About Blogging”
The 4 Most Common Mistakes Fiction Editors See: guest post on Wordplay
In keeping with Wieland Week, today I’m guest posting on Katie’s site, Wordplay. Save money! Save time! Hoodee-hoo! Learn the very first things I look for in new client manuscripts: The 4 Most Common Mistakes Fiction Editors See
5 Writing Rules You Should Break
It’s Weiland Week at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with K.M. Weiland, owner of Wordplay, one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. She is the author of historical and speculative fiction, including her latest, Behold the Dawn, and she recently released her instructional CD, Conquering Writer’s Block and Summoning Inspiration…. Read more“5 Writing Rules You Should Break”
We can’t leave fiction alone—the Roz Morris interview
After-Dinner Wine-Induced
Fiction Editors’ Wrestling Match
Part II
In case you didn’t see last week’s post, I’ve been trying to interview Roz Morris, aka @dirtywhitecandy. She’s the author of eleven ghostwritten novels, eight of them best sellers, owner of Nail Your Novel fiction-writing blog and author of her own self-published book on fiction techniques, Nail Your Novel. She… Read more“<em>We can’t leave fiction alone</em>—the Roz Morris <del datetime="2011-01-17T22:41:19+00:00">interview</del> <br>After-Dinner Wine-Induced <br>Fiction Editors’ Wrestling Match <br><em>Part II</em>”
3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction: guest post on Writer Unboxed
Welcome to Sunday! This is a special one. For those of you late to the Top 10 Blogs for Writers game of 2010/2011, let me summarize: Someone mentioned this contest to me one day back in December 2010, and I called upon my legions of beloved readers and clients to… Read more“3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction: guest post on Writer Unboxed”
Designing or not designing your books
for publishing trends
Dear A. Victoria Mixon, Editor: Quick question (this one’s been plaguing me for years!)— How much consideration do we writers put toward the length of each work? I’m currently refreshing my intensive outline (for a young adult serious fantasy saga). The more I work on this, the more I realize… Read more“Designing or not designing your books <br>for publishing trends”
Still Interviewing Independent Editor & Critiquer
Roz Morris aka @dirtywhitecandy
I know. She’s absolutely hilarious, isn’t she? And she’s got even more value-add than that! She’s also a ghostwriter, and on Monday she’s going to tell us how she got into that line of work, plus what she’s working on now, plus why she’s not going to have herself frozen… Read more“Still Interviewing Independent Editor & Critiquer <br>Roz Morris aka @dirtywhitecandy”