Whatever
your questions or concerns about writing, whatever writing problem you want to solve, you’ve come to the right place.
Whether it’s help with writing fiction, breaking through writer’s block, crafting articles that sell, or the all-important art of editing and revising, Donna Ippolito offers the guidance and tips you can only get from a pro.
Ippolito knows how editors
think. She has edited the books of well-known writers like novelist Anais Nin and literary critic
Allen Tate as well as those of first-timers who went on to become best-selling novelists. She was the editor of every
single novel in the Classic BattleTech series, a publishing phenomenon consisting of 75 interwoven novels set in the 31st
century. These novels were published between 1986 and 2002, first by FASA and later by Roc Books.
She
also edited the complete set of 40 Shadowrun novels, another group of interwoven novels set in the cyberpunk-urban fantasy
world of 2050 and beyond. The Shadowrun novels were published by Roc Books between 1991 and 2001.
Ippolito
has also acquired and edited just about every kind of fiction and nonfiction material, from self-help classics like the
Creative Journal and The Wounded Woman to the true-life adventure of finding the Loch Ness monster.
She has also worked for magazines like Consumer Guide and Consumers Digest, teaches business writing, and has
edited medical, technical, and legal material.
Based on the millions of words
she has edited, Ippolito knows that editing (revising) is the true art of writing. She believes that anyone with enough passion,
persistence, and determination can learn to write well. Yes, you need talent. Yes, you need imagination. Yes, you need to
love language for its own sake. But you also need to know your craft, because writing is both a skill and
