INTERVIEW WITH LORI WINDSOR MOHR, AUTHOR OF THE DEBUT NOVEL, ‘THE ROAD AT MY DOOR’
“The Road at my Door” synopsis A secret has the power to kill. Reese Cavanaugh is about to find that out the hard way. Her family is...
LORI WINDSOR MOHR’S DEBUT NOVEL ‘THE ROAD AT MY DOOR’
Full disclosure: Lori Windsor Mohr is my mother. We have the Mother/Son Writer Thing going on. Her debut novel was recently released...
THE TWO PILLARS OF NOVEL STRUCTURE ACCORDING TO JAMES SCOTT BELL
I want to talk briefly about novel structure because, as a novel editor, I see all kinds of basic issues from the majority of the...
THE WRITER/EDITOR RELATIONSHIP: PATIENCE
I’d say 95 percent of the clients I work with on book editing projects are filled with impatience. As a writer as well as a book editor,...
NEED A GHOSTWRITER?
I want to talk about ghostwriting. I am considering getting in on the practice of doing it. It is far more lucrative than book editing,...
THE PRACTICE OF WRITING
I think one of the hardest things for a writer is discipline. If you’re serious about writing—like I am—then you’ll set a schedule for...
MY BOOK EDITING PROCESS
I want to talk about my book editing style and process. First off, here’s my background. In a sense, I have been writing my whole life....
DAVID CORBETT’S “FIVE CORNERSTONES OF DRAMATIC CHARACTERIZATION” FROM “THE ART OF CHARACTER”
I want to talk about David Corbett’s “Five Cornerstones of Dramatic Characterization” written about and described in detail in his...
FINDING AN EDITOR IN 2015
I was thinking recently about editors out there in the stratosphere. It’s tough—in 2015—to be an aspiring writer who’s trying to track...
THE FIRST FIVE PAGES
It’s a funny thing, the first five pages of a manuscript. They say—I’m referring to agents, editors, and publishers here—that the first...
