Writing Books/Expert Profile

Expertise

I can assist writers in developing their stories and novels or screenplays and enjoy story-development(esp. very much. I can lead writers to information on the Web that will help them write, find an editor, agent or publisher; though I can't(and nobody can) guarantee that they will find one. I know other writers seeking to publish with whom I can connect aspiring writers who may be able to help them and places online seeking writers to publish. I most prefer helping writers develop(primarily humorous) stories employing techniques that editors/agents/publishers expect. Thank you very much, JB - tutorjb1

Experience in the area

Was ranked #1 in Fiction Writing when AskMe.com ended its free Q&A service in spite of a late start, having only discovered AskMe.com when it had 3 years left of its free Q&A service so many others had a tremendous head-start. I have worked at an NBC affiliate as a News, Public Affairs and Promotions consultant and wrote copy that was broadcast in advertisements, on news programs and in Special Productions. I have assisted writers in finding publishers and getting out of unfair contracts and have been sending much information useful to writers of all sorts at all stages in their careers to my open Yahoo! group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bookdoctorsandeditors that anyone may join, leave and rejoin whenever it pleases them. I enjoy helping writers in any way I can. There are brief samples of my writing in my Bookdoctorsandeditors Yahoo! group, at my(JB's) Yahoo! blog and formerly in the archives at http://www.humdingerzine.com. It is intended to be humorous so please keep that in mind while reading it. I have helped launch literary Zines by finding them online hosts and contributing to their first editions Thank you very much, tutorjb1

Publications

http://groups.ysahoo.com/group/bookdoctorsandeditors http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tutorjb JB's blog at Yahoo.com http://www.Humdingerzine.com Broadcast by WXII-TV the NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem,N.C.

Education/Credentials

B.A. in English from U.N.C., Chapel Hill,N.C. where I did library research and collation work(using the first American edition and first two English editions) of J. Fenimore Cooper's _The Pathfinder_ leading to publication of the first approved edition. I did well enough at U.N.C. to later attend graduate Advertising Journalism school there. I participated in the Georgetown University Writers' Conference. Thanks to much library research at U.N.C., I am an expert at finding resources for writers on the Web. I also studied design at UNC-Charlotte's Architecture school and that translates well to book-cover design and on-line and off-line book promotions. I have studied every issue of Writer's Digest magazine from cover to cover for 15 years and corresponded with its former long-time Fiction columnist, Larry Block, and have studied his writing by reading most of LB's novels. I learned to critique by being critiqued by Max Steele of U.N.C.'s Creative writing Dept. Thank you very much, Jefferson Bales - tutorjb1

Past/Present Clients

Chris, publisher and editor in chief of http://www.Humdingerzine.com WXII-TV(NBC-Winston-Salem,N.C.

What do you like about this subject?

Answering others' questions helps me(when I follow my own advice) I love fiction and fiction techniques that make stories come to life.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

Publish more and become rich and famous, of course.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

I'm not a big fan of reading or writing books in the first person,but have recently discovered that when I write in the first-person Plural(We instead of I), that it lends an aura of humor to my writing that's lacking in the third person(Her, Her, They, etc.)