Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Announcement from Stacia Seaman

Tonight something different. Take it away, Stacia!
Editing, Self-editing, and Beta-reading:
Taking your skills to the next level

Join us for a month-long educational experience where you'll learn:
o Tools to help writers craft better stories
o Ways for writers to get the best from their beta readers
o Storycrafting tips and research techniques
o What red flags editors look out for, serious enough to defeat a manuscript
o Insights into the publishing process

This unique learning experience will not only give you important feedback and new insights, but it will also take you steps beyond what other beta readers and beginner editors can do.

You'll also learn:
o How real editors use style sheets to keep stories consistent (and you'll learn more about these powerful tools that well-known authors find essential in their work)
o How to avoid editorial pet peeves that can work against your manuscript
o How to do research that'll take your art and work to the next level
o How to avoid the genre trap: make the formula work for you
o And more!

Don't think you know the beginning of what real editors do? This interactive workshop will use real-life examples and exercises to get you ahead of the game. It'll take the guesswork out of many steps of beta reading and will give you an insider's grasp of important editing techniques.

It'll take the mystery out of professional editing, answer your questions, and give you an insider's perspective on how to make stories and novels more coherent, easily read, and ultimately, more sellable!

This is a can't miss opportunity!

Brought to You By:

Stacia Seaman is an editor who has worked with New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors. She has edited numerous award-winning titles, and with co-editor Radclyffe has won a Lammy for Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments and an Independent Publishers Awards silver medal and a Golden Crown Literary Award for Erotic Interludes 4: Extreme Passions. Stacia edits everything from textbooks to popular nonfiction to mysteries and romance novels. Visit her on the Web at www.staciaseaman.com.

An Alice B. Reader's Choice Award winner, Therese Szymanski has been short-listed for a Spectrum and a few Lammies and Goldies, and made the Publishing Triangle's list of notable lesbian books in 2004. She's written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When It's All Relative); It's All Smoke & Mirrors (the First Chronicles of Shawn Donnelly), edited Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights, Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine; has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke, Stake through the Heart, Tall in the Saddle and Bell, Book and Dyke and has a few dozen published short stories. Every single book she's edited has been shortlisted for-or won-an award. You can check her out on the Web at www.BigBadButch.com.

This workshop facilitated by Evecho.
Evecho is the publisher and editor-in-chief of ReadTheseLips.com, an e-publisher of lesbian short writings and a bibliographic resource of lesbian and lesbian-friendly anthologies. For more information, see www.ReadTheseLips.com and the Read These Lips blog.

Details of this fantastic workshop:

When: 5 weeks, from 5 May to 10 June 2008.
Where: Online at YahooGroups
Fee: USD $25 per participant
How to register: Payments via PayPal to editingworkshop@gmail.com. After payment is confirmed, send an e-mail to editingworkshop@gmail.com with your name and YahooID to be invited to the Workshop on YahooGroups.

Spaces limited! All invites on first-come, first-served basis.


Okay...there you have it. Editing is a hugely important part of any well-written story. Hence all you authors or wannabe authors consider this workshop as something that may be worth your time.

Elisa

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