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Renee Roberson

Storyteller. Journalist. True Crime Addict.

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Flash fiction, short stories and magazine articles
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A podcast highlighting missing people in North and South Carolina
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    True Crime Wednesday: Was Lavinia Fisher Really a Murderess?

    October 28, 2020 / No Comments

    She was young, beautiful, beguiling and liked to poison the guests at her boarding house in Charleston, S.C. with oleander tea. For centuries, legend had it that Lavinia Fisher was one of America’s first female serial killers, but have the misdeeds of Mrs. Fisher been greatly embellished over time? If you take a tour of Charleston’s Old City Jail, you…

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  • writing advice

    Do You Suffer from Imposter Syndrome?

    October 26, 2020 / No Comments

    My name is Renee, and I have Imposter Syndrome. It applies to a lot of areas in my life, but stands out the most when I discuss my writing. While on vacation a few years ago, I was telling a friend that I had applied to be a judge for a book publishing competition. The conversation went something like this.…

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    True Crime Wednesday: The Mystery of the Boy under the Billboard

    October 21, 2020 / No Comments

    It was a mystery that perplexed investigators in Orange County, North Carolina for years. In September of 1998, a grass-cutting crew discovered skeletal remains under a billboard off Interstate 85 in Mebane. The clothing found with the remains offered clues that the body belonged to that of a young boy who had not yet reached puberty. He had dark, straight…

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  • Travel

    A Weekend Itinerary for Charleston, S.C.

    October 9, 2020 / No Comments

    My husband Daniel and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary last month. Originally, we had big plans to finally get away somewhere tropical for this milestone and had settled on St. Lucia. Then COVID-19 hit, the resort shut down and we were unable get on an airplane this summer. We put off the trip and decided to do something a…

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    True Crime Wednesday: The Murder of Grace Brown

    October 7, 2020 / No Comments

    Does the ghost of Grace Brown haunt the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York? The murder of this young woman was a scandal that rocked the country in the early 1900s. Grace, who hailed from Chenango County, met Chester Gillette while working at a skirt factory his family owned. She was immediately taken with the attractive and athletic young man…

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  • freelance writing,  writing advice

    What Does an Editor Do?

    October 5, 2020 / No Comments

    The role of an editor is constantly changing, as technology enables us to complete tasks and perform our jobs remotely. As a freelance magazine editor, I wanted to offer an inside look on what this particular role looks like on a monthly basis for anyone curious about what takes place behind the scenes. I work as the editor for two…

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    True Crime Wednesday: Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Child Trafficking Scam

    September 23, 2020 / No Comments

    As a parent, it’s an unimaginable scenario. You send your children out to play in the front yard of your rural home in the country, and they are never seen again. Because you are poor with no money and limited resources, no one seems to care that your children are missing. In fact, a social worker is sent to tell…

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  • freelance writing,  Lifestyle

    Writing Rituals

    September 21, 2020 / No Comments

    Writers sometimes talk about writing rituals. While I can’t say I have that many besides grinding away at deadlines, I do have a few post-deadline rituals I thought I’d share. Since April of this year, I’ve been editing two monthly magazines. Both go to the printer around the same time, causing a whole lot of frenzy on my part about…

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    True Crime Wednesday: Lesley Eugene Warren

    September 2, 2020 / No Comments

    He was incredibly young and he had the face to match. But underneath his youthful demeanor lay  the heart of a killer. Lesley Eugene Warren murdered four women in three different states before finally being apprehended in July 1990. Although this all took place in my home state of North Carolina, I somehow had never heard of the man until…

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    True Crime Wednesday: The Unsolved Murder of Virginia Olson in North Carolina

    August 5, 2020 / No Comments

    The University of North Carolina at Asheville will always have a special place in my heart, because it was at that small college that I came into my own as a journalist. The small class sizes afforded me the ability to work closely with other students and talented professors who wanted me to succeed. For three years I worked on…

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Here’s a cooking hack for you. Two nights ago I Here’s a cooking hack for you. Two nights ago I made chicken in the Instant Pot with a cup of salsa, taco seasoning and a bit of chicken broth. We ate it in taco shells. Tonight, I took that remaining chicken and put it in a pot with chicken broth, minced garlic, frozen cilantro cubes, a can of corn, a can of black beans and a sprinkle of taco seasoning. Throw in some diced avocado and crushed blue corn tortilla chips and dinner was served! #mealprep #cookingtips #easymeals
I’ve been on a journey to challenge myself with I’ve been on a journey to challenge myself with new and different reading material than what I would normally select. Over the break I read “The Nickel Boys,” a historical fiction about the atrocities that occurred at the Dozier School for Boys in Florida set in the 1960s, “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter,” about a fiesty daughter of Mexican immigrant parents who dreams of going to college and becoming a writer, and “Last Act,” one of my favorite books from high school about a murder that occurs during a theatre production that may not have been an accident. My daughter found the paperback for me on a bookseller website, knew I had been looking for it for Christmas, and gifted it to me. I can’t wait to make my next selections! #amreading #yabooks #diversereads
This is the face of rejection. I’ve been rejecte This is the face of rejection. I’ve been rejected by at least a dozen literary agents and magazine editors over the years. In my 30s, I was rejected by two very prestigious MFA programs in creative writing.

But guess what? I’ve held editorial positions at four different magazines. I’ve written hundreds of magazine articles and blog posts for pay. I’ve won writing awards in both fiction and non-fiction. If I had stopped at the first rejection, I would have sold myself short. Instead, I kept going. I kept writing, reading and learning. And I won’t let anyone tell me I’m not good enough. Neither should you.
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