Noticing Newbies

by The StoryMistress

Rated: 13+ · Message Forum · Writing.Com · #126963

A warm welcome to our newbies; come meet new and not-so-new members of Writing.Com!

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Jan 24, 2026 at 3:57pm

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Re: Newbie from Arizona

by Amethyst Angel ♡

Greetings, Lillian! We're glad you're here. That whodunnit looks like it has a lot of potential. I think I'll tag some people here to join the conversation, and maybe they can take the time to offer advice/coaching/reviews.

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

runs a small magazine and is a splendid editor who mentors me quite patiently and published one of my short stories. He loves longform works, but his time is valuable and I believe he also prefers generally secular work.

Carol St. Ann 20yrs (06-26)

adores mysteries. She's Max's sidekick, a frequent newsletter author around here, and she has an open request for anyone who has a Work in Progress to share it with her for advice.

LightinMind

is a Christian who takes worldview seriously and has been mentoring me in both fiction and nonfiction for about a year now. He can review your opening chapter and offer thoughts, though I'm not sure how open he is to longer ongoing works or mysteries.

And while we're talking about mysteries, I have the closest thing I've written to a novel, my pride and joy, which you might be interested in reading for your own enjoyment.