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My co-host for the series on Editing Essentials, the great Jennia D’Lima, is back for another episode. Our topic is contracts, that is, the editing agreements that editors generally sign with their writer-clients. Are they necessary? Who do they serve? What should they contain?
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Jennia's Website
https://jenniaedits.com/

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My guest today is Liz Mugavero. Her writing career, and finding her creative niche, have been interesting. She wrote from an early age, studied writing at college, and ultimately wrote a mystery novel. But somewhere along the path of trying to get it published, she lost her “mojo,” as she puts it. It took her years to get it back, but now she writes several mystery series, some under her own name and some under the name Cate Conte. The cosy mystery is her specialty, but I also talk to her about a course she is developing for aspiring mystery writers. Again, as she puts it, “helping other writers fulfill their creative dreams with a touch of woo woo.”
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Liz as Cate Conte
https://cateconte.com/

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My guest today is Alex Sanfilippo. Alex is an entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of PodPros, a software company focused on the podcasting industry. He is also a podcast host of the top-rated podcast called Podcasting Made Simple. I invited Alex on the show to talk a bit about those things, but mostly to talk about the various kinds of writing he needs to do in order to carry out the numerous lines of his business. Does he plan and make notes? Does he just make lists? Does he just let the text stream out of him, so to speak? This is “Podcasting Requires a Lot of Writing,” episode 220 of the podcast.

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Alex’s Website
https://alexsanfilippo.com/

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My co-host for the series on Editing Essentials, the great Jennia D’Lima, is back for another episode. Our topic is the author’s voice and we talk about the care and attention that an editor has to devote in order to recognize it and (mostly) not interfere with it. In both fiction and non-fiction.
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Jennia's Website
https://jenniaedits.com/

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My guest today is Miles Tritle. He is the writer and narrator of The Warning Woods, a podcast of horror stories. He’s also published two novels. We talk mostly about horror, though, not only examples of it but also how he defines it and what are its characteristics. Spoiler alert: he comes up with a pretty succinct definition of the genre.

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Miles's Podcast
https://linktr.ee/thewarningwoods

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Miles's Books
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Miles-Thomas-Tritle/author/B09DW2T7VY

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My guest today is Ashton Rodenhiser. Ashton sometimes describes herself as a professional doodler, and she has published a book called The Beginner's Guide to Sketchnoting. She’s a consultant who uses drawing or visual note-taking as a tool to inspire thinking. She’s helped everyone from students in the classroom to executives in the boardroom.
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Ashton's Website
https://www.mindseyecreative.ca/

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My guest today is Stephanie Cansian. She runs a small copywriting agency called Say It Simply, but along the line she had an epiphany that affected both her work and her personal life, notably her emotional eating habits. She lost weight, became re-engaged in her work, wrote a book, and is now working on another book. It’s a fascinating and very open discussion.
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Stephanie's Website
http://www.stephaniecansian.com/

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My guest today is Charles Johnston, who is a writer and blogger with an interest in anything tech. He’s also got years of experience working in IT in the corporate world. I asked him to come on the podcast to talk about writer’ and editors’ and anyone’s website: what they should look like on the web, and what tools are used these days to create and manage them.
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Charles's Website
https://heartwireddigital.com/

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My guest today is Amy J. Schneider. Amy is a copy editor and proofreader, and most recently an author as well: her book is The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction, one of the guides in the series by the University of Chicago Press. We talk about her career and mostly delve into and discuss some of the details in the book. This is “How to Copy Edit Fiction the Chicago Way,” episode 214 of the podcast.
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Amy’s Website
https://www.featherschneider.com/

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hi, I’m Wayne Jones. Welcome to Writing & Editing, the podcast about books and language, for people who write, edit, read, or listen. My guest today is Tyler Schwanke, who’s a writer and filmmaker based in Minneapolis in the US. His debut novel Breaking In, which he calls a “comedic crime thriller,” was published earlier this year. In it, a young filmmaker uses her heist movie knowledge to pull off a real-life heist after a crooked Hollywood director steals her script. We talk about that, as well as about how he manages to write when he already has a full-time job, and also about the influence of film on his writing.
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Tyler's Website
https://www.tylerschwanke.com/