With freelance editor Ann Paden commenting on the work of writer Amy Auer

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Welcome to our second writing makeover. In this fascinating and fun hands-on set of programs, our editors will critique and help you polish your work while The Writing Show community looks on. Everyone wins: writers get professional advice and encouragement; the community gets to see how it’s done, one step at a time.

This time, Ann tackles the first chapter of Amy Auer's novel Suspicion of Evil.

Ann Paden is a writer and editor who worked as a manuscript editor for academic and commercial presses before becoming a feature writer for a national newspaper chain and later account manager for a Chicago-based advertising agency.

Since 1990 Ann has worked as an independent writer specializing in business histories and as-told-to biographies and as an editor specializing in manuscript analysis and critique.

Amy Auer's first chapter of Suspicion of Evil

Ann Paden's critique

Interviewee: Ann Paden
Host: Paula B.
Date: September 14, 2008
Running time: 40:09
File size: 19 megabytes
Rating: G