Jodie Renner

Before retiring recently due to chronic fatigue syndrome and shutting down her website, Jodie Renner was a sought-after freelance fiction editor and respected nonfiction writer.

Jodie's latest book, LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE WITH LIMITED ENERGY -- Successfully Manage ME/ CFS, Long COVID, and Other Chronic Fatigue Conditions, was released on July 28, 2023.

Jodie Renner is also the award-winning author of three Editor's Guides to Writing Compelling Fiction, WRITING A KILLER THRILLER, FIRE UP YOUR FICTION, and CAPTIVATE YOUR READERS; as well as two QUICK CLICKS e-resources for writers and editors, SPELLING LIST and WORD USAGE.

She has also organized and edited two anthologies for charity, VOICES FROM THE VALLEYS - Stories & Poems about Life in BC's Interior, and CHILDHOOD REGAINED - Stories of Hope for Asian Child Workers.

FIRE UP YOUR FICTION offers concrete tips to tighten your prose and take your writing skills up several levels and has won three awards (two silver medals - Readers' Favorite Awards, FAPA President's Book Awards - and an Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest E-Book Awards).

CAPTIVATE YOUR READERS is all about engaging readers, bonding them with your protagonist, and drawing them into your story world through techniques like deep point of view, showing instead of telling, avoiding author intrusions, writing dialogue that zings, and generally letting the characters tell the story. It has won a silver medal in the FAPA Book Awards and is a finalist in two other book awards.

WRITING A KILLER THRILLER, her most popular book, provides concrete tips for adding tension, suspense, and intrigue to any novel.

Also check out Jodie's handy, time-saving, clickable e-resources, QUICK CLICKS: WORD USAGE - PRECISE WORD CHOICES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, and QUICK CLICKS: SPELLING - COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, both of which you can also read on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Jodie has also organized and edited two anthologies, both for charity: VOICES FROM THE VALLEYS - STORIES & POEMS ABOUT LIFE IN BC'S INTERIOR, with all net proceeds to Doctors Without Borders Canada; and CHILDHOOD REGAINED - Stories of Hope for Asian Child Workers.

Visit www.JodieRenner.com.

Jodie is also a well-known blogger, and her craft-of-writing articles and other resources for writers appear on various blogs, as well as her own blog, Resources for Writers, at https://jodierennerediting.blogspot.com/ .

Jodie has also judged novels and short stories for various organizations, including several times for Writer's Digest. She has also presented workshops at writers' conferences and to writers'

As a freelance fiction manuscript editor, Jodie specialized in thrillers, romantic suspense, mysteries, and other fast-paced, suspenseful fiction.

When she's not editing, writing, or reading novels or books on writing compelling fiction, Jodie loves to pursue her three other passions, dancing, photography and traveling. She has traveled extensively throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, and continues to sneak away whenever she gets the chance.