Marlo Faulkner

Manuscript Consultant

A professional writer for over 35 years, Marlo Faulkner began her writing career as a by-lined weekly columnist for a San Francisco Bay area daily. As a result of an assignment covering the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she covered OSF for twenty-eight years with “back of the house” special interest pieces, as well as a reviewing stage productions. She was the publicist for the Inland Northwest Opera company for ten years and is a concert producer. Her interest in Craftsman Art and Architecture led her to freelancing for national niche publications. She writes short stories, film scripts, magazine and newspaper profiles, as well as fiction. Her historical fiction, The Other Mrs. London, is out on submission. Her domestic suspense novel is in the editorial stages and three other manuscripts are in the works.

 She holds a B.A. in English and History from the University of Idaho and did graduate work in English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Several times a speaker at the Jack London Society National Symposia, Marlo Faulkner is the former Director of the Jack London Writers Conference (San Francisco Bay area) and is a previous Manuscript Analyst at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference.

Message to my fellow writers

Keep your sense of humor. Be Curious. Listen—everywhere. Learn to respond to rejection with positive rewrites. Rejection isn’t personal. It goes with the writers’ territory. Join a writers’ group. Keep it small. Practice reading your work aloud to yourself and listen to others read it to you. When they falter, you edit. As my favorite SBWC tee shirt reads: Writing is not about writing. It is about rewriting.

 When you come for your appointment, you should have know the genre in which you write and be prepared to discuss your goal for the piece you bring. I keep the consultation positive. I hope to give you a sense of progress.