Self-Editing for Fiction Writers Renni Browne and Dave King William Morrow, 2004 A Review by the Authors Themselves Amazon.com Review by Ralph WhiteThis is a verbatim handout in a clinic...

Characters, Emotion, and Viewpoint Nancy Kress Writers’ Digest, 2005   "Improving Your Chances" Amazon.com Review by Ralph WhiteYour first highly selective handful of query letters to literary agents resulted in...

Hillary Jordan, CU MFA, is the bestselling author of the Bellwether Prize-winning novel, Mudbound.   She and Professor Ellis Avery, of Columbia’s Writing Program, addressed the Fiction Foundry in December of...

Poets & Writers puts out tools for writers.  One such tool is an entry level guide to literary agents.  Link to the article here.

Hellfighter is a contemporary historical fiction novel that explores and shows the tension in the US at the end of WWI when the soldiers returned home, resulting in Red Summer.  The protagonist,...