I’m fortunate to be a member of two critique groups. The people in these groups have helped me tremendously with suggestions ranging from simple line edits to such major changes as deleting whole scenes, adding whole new chapters, and telling some of the story from a different POV. Three of these fellow writers have websites of their own, which are listed below.
Rodney Walther writes emotion-packed stories about dysfunctional families and ultimate redemption. He has just published “Broken Laces,” in which Little League baseball plays a catalytic role.
Another of my critique partners is Vanessa Leggett, an award-winning true-crime writer who became a national cause célèbre when she suffered six months in jail for refusing to divulge her sources to the FBI. She hopes the book on her battle with a murder-for-hire suspect and the federal government will be published in 2013, when that suspect is expected to finally face justice for the murder of his wife.