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”
Tag: Fiction Writing Advice
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”
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”
Top 10 Blog for Writers
Remember when I asked you guys whom you’d like to see in the Top 10 Blogs for Writers of 2010/2011 at Write to Done? And some of you said, “Justin Bieber”? Just kidding. I don’t even know who Justin Bieber is (only that his name crops up everywhere). No—many of… Read more“Top 10 Blog for Writers”
11 New Year’s Resolutions for Writers in 2011
I will watch the world every day with the eyes of a fly. I’m assuming you know what flies’ eyes look like. But in case you don’t, think of disco balls with independent locomotion. You, personally, are walking through this incredibly vivid, visual, aural, tactile universe all day long every… Read more“11 New Year’s Resolutions for Writers in 2011”