Midsummer Mentoring Sale

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I've cleared the backlog of mss., I'm practicing revision avoidance (two in a row--that's just cruel), and I need to pay the utility bills, so I've decided to have a sale. What I do as a Writing Mentor is described fairly generally here. I do R&D and Mad Plotting as well as the usual editing and proofreading. The hourly rate for 2009 is $40; I'm offering $10 off four hours of mentoring, for a total of $150.

That's just about the right amount of time to have some solid plotting sessions, read and comment on a couple of short stories, OR review the first 30,000 words of your novel. I'll also look at submission packages, synopses (and the art of writing thereof), and query letters. Unless Life seriously intervenes, I usually get to a ms. within a week or two. If your project isn't quite ready for review, you can book yourself some distance out; I had a client book at the Christmas sale for July.

Offer applies until midnight PDT on June 21st. Previous and current clients can play, too. Email capriole at gmail dot com and we'll set you up.

Also available, one of my favorite things to do:

Commission-A-Story

Give me a theme, let me know if you want to be Tuckerized (or if you want someone else written into the story), and I'll write you a story. It may be in one of my published worlds, or you can ask for something different. You get an electronic copy of the story, a signed and inscribed hardcopy, and a glowing acknowledgment if and when it sells to the general public. Deadline to be agreed on. This is a great birthday or special-event gift.

Rates are:

$100 for a drabblezoid: up to 1000 words

$350 for up to 6000 words

Want something longer? Let's talk. Same email as above.

Thank you one and all!

Lo! An Actual Entry!

After all the Twittering and the blatant self-promotion, I owe everybody an actual entry. Keeping the farm afloat in this economy has taken all of my energy and then some, and I don't seem to have anything left over. What little brain is left, most days, has just about 140 characters' worth of things to say.

Yes, birdhousefrog did fly out when I hit nuclear meltdown, held down the fort, fed me, and nursed me through the end of The Revision That Ate My Brain (also my liver, my lights, my sanity...). She is a hero of the revolution.

Now I have another revision to do, before I tackle new material. I am still working on various projects and lining up the brain cells to do the subscription version of the fourth Caitlin Brennan novel. I also have been working hard getting set up at Book View Cafe, which involves a great deal of scanning and formatting of hardcopy too old to exist in electronic format. Seriously, some of it was written in longhand and submitted in typescript. That was back during the Cretaceous.

It's all been tremendously time-consuming and exhausting, but it's also tremendously exciting. Publishing is changing rapidly and profoundly. Rules of thumb that were the done thing a year ago have become very slippery or even counterproductive, and modes of publishing that once were minor or marginal are looking more and more like the face of the future.

( Further Reflections, and Horses, Who Are Most Excellent Well )

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