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Online Conversation – Lori DeBoer

We’ve added another exclusive professional membership perk. Each month, we’ll feature an author, editor, agent or other industry expert in our Online Conversation series. The conversations will be held in our new Virtual Salon chat room and members will be able to interact with our featured guests and ask them their most pressing writing and publishing questions.

We’ll kick things off on March 31 with a Q & A with Writing Coach Lori DeBoer. Her clients have won many awards, including: Finalist, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction’ The Glyph Award; First Place, North American Travel Journalists Association; Salon Editor’s Pick; Finalist, Tin House Literary Award; Finalist, Southwest Writers Contest; Colorado Book Award finalist; First Place, Society of Professional Journalists.  She is the founder of Associated Writing Coaches and the Flatirons Literary Review.  She has written both creative nonfiction and fiction. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The New York Times, Arizona Highways, America West Airlines Magazine, Working Woman, Black Enterprise, Phoenix Magazine and elsewhere. Her short story was a Top-25 Finalist in the 2010 December Glimmer Train Fiction Open. She has taught at Arizona State University’s journalism school, Phoenix College’s creative writing program and at the Virginia C. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU.

 

“Lori’s magic words of writing wisdom came at just the right time in the development of my memoir.  She helped me see where the story had been hiding all along!  Lori understands narrative structure and helped me bring that alive in my book.”  

Linda Tate, Ph.D.
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative

“With Lori DeBoer as my writing coach, I landed an assistant editor job at a local magazine, which turned into a managing editor position, and have been getting freelance feature assignments at major national magazines. Whether you’re working on a memoir, or doing more journalistic work like me, she can help you construct a compelling, salable story.” 

Jayme Moye
Managing Editor, Elevation Outdoors
“I’ve known Lori DeBoer for about a dozen years, since I was managing editor at Phoenix magazine. I always knew a story was in good hands when I assigned it to Lori. Even then, she was a talented writer and a consummate professional. Since then, Lori has never stopped working on her craft. She is particularly skilled at narrative non-fiction, writing true stories using fiction techniques like dialog, setting and dramatic tension—an approach that is both demanding and hard to do well. She has honed the equally difficult skill of drawing out those qualities in other people.”
Kathy Montgomery

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