Chris Roerden is a book editor best known for her award-winning books for writers: DON'T SABOTAGE YOUR SUBMISSION, Insider Information from a Career Editor to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A, and its original version, DON'T MURDER YOUR MYSTERY, 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A.
In 45 years of working in publishing, Chris has edited fiction and nonfiction for authors published by St. Martin's Press, Harlequin, Berkley Prime Crime, Walker & Co., Forge, Midnight Ink, Intrigue, Perseverance Press, Oceanview, Rodale, Viking, and numerous other presses. She's written 11 books and a game, ghostwriting all but four. Her books for writers won two national awards: the Agatha for Best Nonfiction (2006) and the Benjamin Franklin for Literary Criticism (2009); two regional awards: Florida Writer's Best Educational Book and its Royal Palm Book of the Year; and were shortlisted for the national Anthony, Macavity, and ForeWord Review's Writing Book of the Year.
A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maine, Chris taught writing there, also for SUNY, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and UNESCO in S. Korea. She's past president of a Midwest trade association of 250 commercial and university presses and now chairs the Mystery Writers of America/McCloy Scholarship Program for mystery writers. Most of all she enjoys sharing how publishing decisions are made and how to beat the odds with writing techniques that help develop each writer's unique voice. So far she's led 300+ workshops in 3 countries.
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