{"id":4473,"date":"2011-01-27T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2011-01-22T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T22:52:59","slug":"interview-with-five-star-mystery-editor-deni-dietz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/interview-with-five-star-mystery-editor-deni-dietz\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Five Star Mystery Editor Deni Dietz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I interviewed Five Star Mystery Associate Editor, Deni Dietz. You can find the interview on my Articles <\/a>page. My previous interview with agent Laura Bradford can now be found in Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deni is my first editor interview. Deni was also my editor for WHERE SHE BELONGS<\/strong>, my December 2011 Five Star Expressions release. As I’ve mentioned before, the Expressions line will close with the publication of my novel. However, Deni, who publishes under two names as well as\u00a0being\u00a0an editor,\u00a0has also edited the Five Star Mystery line all along.\u00a0 She will continue to do so. Some romantic suspense and romantic mysteries will qualify for the Five Star Mystery line. Deni says:<\/p>\n

We have no \u201cofficial\u201d romance-to-mystery\/suspense ratio. But as a crime fiction author since 1992, I know my audience. If there\u2019s too much romance, the book won\u2019t fly. If the romance is integral to the plot, the book will have wings as well as legs. Example: I was 50,000 words into a new Mary Ellen Dennis historical romance, The Midnight Bridge, when the Expressions line went belly-up. \u201cBridge\u201d even has my favorite opening lines: \u201cThe solicitor smelled a rat. Twenty minutes later he didn\u2019t smell anything at all.\u201d I call my Mary Ellen Dennis novels \u201chistory-mystery-romances,\u201d and Five Star said they\u2019d consider Midnight Bridge for their mystery line. I thought about it, and decided that I, as an acquiring editor, would turn it down. The ratio was askew\u2014more romance than mystery. So I guess what I\u2019m saying is that I\u2019ll know if the ratio works, and every submission comes to me before it\u2019s reviewed for publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deni also shares Five Star Mystery formatting tips in the interview and describes where you can find Five Star\/Cengage books. Other delicious tidbits can be found in the interview. So hie thee over to the Articles<\/a> page and lap it up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I interviewed Five Star Mystery Associate Editor, Deni Dietz. You can find the interview on my Articles page. My previous interview with agent Laura Bradford can now be found in Archives. Deni is my first editor interview. Deni was also my editor for WHERE SHE BELONGS, my December 2011 Five Star Expressions release. As… Continue reading Interview with Five Star Mystery Editor Deni Dietz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-agents","category-publishers-and-publishing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}