How to Break Up With Your Writing

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”

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”

We can’t leave fiction alone—the Roz Morris interview
After-Dinner Wine-Induced
Fiction Editors’ Wrestling Match
Part I

Roz Morris goes by the online moniker @dirtywhitecandy, which all by itself is reason enough to interview her. But on top of that she’s also a ghostwriter with eleven novels under her belt, eight of them best sellers, a critiquer for a London manuscript-critiquing agency, owner of the fiction-writing blog… 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 <em><br>Part I</em>”

Interviewing Independent Editor & Critiquer Roz Morris, aka @dirtywhitecandy

Roz Morris of Nail Your Novel and I have been bouncing nonsense tweets off each others’ foreheads on Twitter, while sharing behind-the-scenes fellowship in this wonderful craft of editing fiction, for some time now. So when we both turned up as finalists for the Top 10 Blogs for Writers a… Read more“Interviewing Independent Editor & Critiquer Roz Morris, aka @dirtywhitecandy”

The 2 Guaranteed Ways to Ruin Your Novel

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around No time for dancing, or lovey dovey. I ain’t got time for that now— —“Life During Wartime” David Byrne, Talking Heads So. . .I just had a disturbing week. Way back in December, right before my vacation,… Read more“The 2 Guaranteed Ways to Ruin Your Novel”