Work with Gail
Gail works with writers at all levels, from newbies to pros. Choose the course that best suits your project.
Meet and Greet
Meet Gail for a 15-minute Zoom session to find out which one of Gail's services is right for you.
Fiction Mentorships
Gail's flagship course. In this one-on-one, private, four-month online mentorship, Gail will guide you as you build your fiction project.
Manuscript Evaluations
Looking for an editor’s perspective on your fiction project, but not yet ready for an in-depth developmental edit? A manuscript evaluation is the affordable next step between a beta reading and a developmental edit.
The Clean Sweep
Writing is messy. Clean it up! Get a detailed edit of your story, pitch package, grant application or fiction project of any length.
Blue Pencil Sessions
Not your average blue pencil session, this 45-minute consultation with Gail is a full workshop. Book at any time.
Alpha and Beta Reading Service
Alpha and beta readers give feedback on a manuscript from a reader’s perspective. Move your project forward with this affordable service.
Developmental Edits
Gail digs deep into your manuscript's big picture story elements - themes, story goals, conflicts and structure, character arcs, pacing, point of view, and dialogue - to help you develop your project to the fullest.
Writing Retreat
A perfect writing getaway in the beautiful Shuswap landscape found in so much of Gail's writing
Resource Categories
Blogs on Craft
On the Building Blocks of Fiction
Tips on how to craft vivid scene that allows the reader to experience events right along with the characters.
On Finding Your Big Idea
Insights into the writing process and what a writer's day really looks like, as well as perspectives on research and writing from real life.
On Getting to Know Your Characters
Advice on the many ways you can make your characters come alive on the page for both you and your reader.
On Deciding on Point of View
What is the best perspective from which to tell your story? Writers discuss how they made choices on point of view and voice.
On Choosing Your Situation and Setting
Writers talk about how they use situation and setting to build story and convey emotion.
On Developing Conflict and Structure
From how to work in different genres to finding the real story, writers offer good advice on building conflict and structure.
On Revising
Tips on how to gain distance from your work and to how to re-imagine your next draft.
On Publishing
Writers offer practical advice on the business of writing and promotion, and on the importance of finding a writing community.
On Making a Living as a Writer
Writers offer words of wisdom on living on less.
On The Writer's Life
Writers talk about their life as a writer.
About Gail
Gail's novels have been national and international bestsellers and two have been short-listed for the Giller Prize, among other awards. She works as a developmental editor and mentors writers from around the world.