Florida Writer Podcast

Book Doctor Bobbie Christmas has been a professional editor for 45 years. She founded Zebra Communications in 1992 specifically to edit books, and her company is still going strong. She's the author of an award-winning book on creative writing titled Write In Style and has also written other helpful books for writers. Her "Ask the Book Doctor" column appears in many periodicals for writers. The Zebra Communications website is www.zebraeditor.com, and Bobbie's email address is [email protected].

Bobbie Christmas

#Editing #Manuscript

0:20 About Bobbie Christmas

0:43 How the Book Doctor Began

1:23 Origin of the Name

3:00 What to Know About Being an Editor

4:15 Who Needs Editing?

5:03 Editor Horror Story

7:03 How Long It Takes

8:20 Multiple Rounds of Edits?

9:20 What to put in Reports

10:23 How to Make a How-To Page Turner

11:08 Pet Peeve

13:00 Words to Avoid

14:12 Rapid Fire

Book Doctor Bobbie Christmas has been a professional editor for 45 years. For more information on Bobbie visit Zebra Communications @ www.zebraeditor.com.

Patricia Charpentier, multi-award-winning author of Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time, teaches, writes, coaches, edits, ghostwrites, and publishes personal and family history and life-based stories. She is a popular speaker who, since 1999, has helped hundreds of people write and publish the most important stories of their lives. She offers live workshops and ongoing courses, including programs that utilize videos, one-on-one coaching, group Q&A calls, and more.

Visit Patricia at WritingYourLife.org.

0:38 About Charpentier

2:47 Clients by Phone and Life Story

4:24 Family Work

5:30 Writing Your Life One Bite at a Time

7:57 First Book

10:30 Too Much Information

10:54 Personal Memoir

13:20 Rapid Fire

Patricia Charpentier, multi-award-winning author of Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time, teaches, writes, coaches, edits, ghostwrites, and publishes personal and family history and life-based stories. Visit Patricia at WritingYourLife.org.

Dan Alatorre is the author of numerous bestsellers, host of Writers Off Task With Friends, speaker, presenter, story doctor, blogger… and father to a hilarious and precocious daughter, "Savvy" of the bestselling book series Savvy Stories.

His novels, short stories, illustrated children's books and other works have been translated into 12 different languages and read in more than 112 countries around the world. Dan and his family live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. (If it's Friday, he's making pizza.)

His newest novel, Double Blind, is a fast-paced murder mystery where nothing is what it seems.

Visit Dan at danalatorre.com

"I get most creative when I am about to step on the treadmill."

0:34 About Alatorre

1:42 Planning

4:27 Murder Mystery

6:01 Other Writings

7:40 Selling Online

8:51 Time Spent Marketing

10:02 What Most Authors Mess Up

12:50 Best Tip for a New Writer

14:12 Most Important Part of an Interview

16:06 Rapid Fire

Dan Alatorre is the author of numerous bestsellers, host of Writers Off Task With Friends, speaker, presenter, story doctor, blogger… and father to a hilarious and precocious daughter, “Savvy” of the bestselling book series Savvy Stories.

www.newshelves.com

Amy Collins is the President of New Shelves Books, one of the best-known book sales and marketing agencies in the US. Amy is a trusted expert, speaker, and recommended sales consultant for some of the largest book and library retailers and wholesalers in the publishing industry. In the last 20 years, Amy and her team have sold over 40 Million books into the bookstore, library, and Chain store market for small and midsized publishers. She is on the national advisory board for IngramSpark, is a featured columnist for THEBOOKDESIGNER, BookWorks, and a trusted teacher in the world of small press publishers.

#education #marketing

0:23 About Amy

2:53 Social Media Promotion

5:11 How to find readers

9:52 Amazon, Kindle, and CreateSpace

15:28 New York Post

17:15 Rapid Fire

Amy Collins is the President of New Shelves Books

www.newshelves.com

Author and journalist Joni M. Fisher taught at a Fortune 500 company and a police academy. An active member of the Florida Writers Association, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America, she writes for aviation magazines and her Compass Crimes Series has garnered attention in Publisher's Weekly and earned recognition in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the RPLA, and other national contests.

www.jonimfisher.com

0:26 About Fisher

2:02 Journalist Writings

2:39 Freelancing

4:25 Crime Fiction

5:07 How to get People to Turn the Page

5:48 Plot Twists

6:50 Favorite Types of Characters

8:31 Romances & Sub Plots

9:50 How to Measure Success

10:34 Editing Process

11:38 Writing Dialogue

13:40 Rapid Fire

Author and journalist Joni M. Fisher taught at a Fortune 500 company and a police academy. An active member of the Florida Writers Association, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America, she writes for aviation magazines and her Compass Crimes Series has garnered attention in Publisher’s Weekly and earned recognition in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the RPLA, and other national contests.

www.jonimfisher.com

0:26 About Fisher

2:02 Journalist Writings

2:39 Freelancing

4:25 Crime Fiction

5:07 How to get People to Turn the Page

5:48 Plot Twists

6:50 Favorite Types of Characters

8:31 Romances & Sub Plots

9:50 How to Measure Success

10:34 Editing Process

11:38 Writing Dialogue

13:40 Rapid Fire