Jodie Renner is a highly respected, in-demand freelance fiction editor, who specializes in thrillers, romantic suspense, mysteries, and other crime fiction, as well as YA, mainstream, and historical fiction. Visit Jodie's editing website at www.JodieRennerEditing.com. Also, Facebook and Twitter: @JodieRennerEdJodie's articles on writing compelling fiction appear regularly on several blogs, including her own, and this one, Crime Fiction Collective.
Jodie's popular craft-of fiction books on sale on Amazon to date in her series, An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Fiction, are Writing a Killer Thriller and Style that Sizzles & Pacing for Power. She is hard at work on three more short books in the series, Those Critical First Five Pages, Powerful Point of View, and Immerse the Readers in Your Story World.
Please visit Jodie's author website at www.JodieRenner.com.
Jodie is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime.
When she's not reading intriguing novels or books on writing fiction that sells, Jodie loves photography and traveling. She has traveled extensively throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East. In fact, Jodie loves traveling so much, she's thinking of changing her tagline from "Let's work together to enhance and empower your writing" to "Have laptop, will travel."
Jodie has had many varied life experiences, including a career as an English teacher and two years as a school librarian. She has a master's degree in literature and has enjoyed a lifelong passion for reading, especially fast-paced fiction.
Jodie's editing services range from deep content and stylistic editing to final copyediting, as well as critiquing manuscripts.
JODIE'S BOOKS:
Style that Sizzles & Pacing for Power
Fiction writers – if you want a concise, to-the-point guidebook with great tips for honing your style, bringing your scenes to life, tightening up your writing, picking up the pace, writing more natural dialogue, and developing a more authentic, appealing voice, Style that Sizzles & Pacing for Power is the perfect choice.
Topics include: style blunders to avoid, showing instead of telling, streamlining cluttery sentence structures, avoiding repetitions, choosing words that nail it, pacing for power, avoiding info dumps and awkward structures, writing natural-sounding dialogue, expressing thoughts, showing character reactions, avoiding melodrama, finding your authentic voice, and more.
“This book is packed with good
advice on how to spot and fix weaknesses in your fiction writing. It summarizes
the combined wisdom of the last century or so of fiction teachers into one
handy volume.”
~
Randy Ingermanson, bestselling author of Writing
Fiction for Dummies
“A handy checklist and self-editing guide that will get any fiction writer to a
stronger, well-told tale.”
– James Scott Bell, bestselling author of Revision and Self-Editing, Plot and Structure,
and The Art of War for Writers
Writing a Killer Thriller
- An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Fiction
Topics in this booklet: Thrillers versus Mysteries; Characteristics of a Thriller Hero; Writing a Thrilling Opening, Tension on Every Page; Every Scene Needs Conflict and a Change; Writing Action Scenes; Heightening the Suspense; Writing a Killer Thriller; and Essential Elements of a Bestselling Thriller.
Upcoming e-books in this series: Those Critical First Five Pages, Powerful Point of View, and Immerse the Reader in Your Story World.
