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About The Writeous Brothers

We're a pair of award-winning authors and lifelong BFFs whose goal is to help you become a more trenchant and honest critic of your work, which is the key to improving it for publication. Bryan Denson is the author of The Spy’s Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia, an Atlantic Monthly Press bestseller now in production as a TV series. Denson also penned the nonfiction FBI Files series for younger readers (Macmillan). He was a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting as an investigative reporter for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland. (As the drummer in a middle school rock band, he spectacularly blew the solo in a the middle of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and burned his drumsticks.) Stephen Kelly is the author of the Inspector Thomas Lamb mystery novels, published by Pegasus Books, and a long-time journalist for such publications as The Baltimore Sun. Kelly holds an MA in nonfiction from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He has managed staffs of reporters, taught creative writing and journalism at several colleges, and won awards for his long-form stories. (He chose for his musical instrument the kazoo, but found he lacked the talent to master it.) Our novels and nonfiction books have been applauded by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. Revision is a matter of asking the right questions, which can be daunting. But, hey, the darkest hour is before the dawn, so that’s when you put your pants on one leg at a time, hitch your horse to that wagon, and set out on the road less traveled – while absolutely avoiding the use of clichés. Give us a holler to so we can help you recapture that lovin' feelin' for your manuscript.

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