Blue Pencil SessionsBrainstorm on Zoom with Gail!
About:
Not your average blue pencil session: Gail offers a full 45-minute long, one-on-one workshop!
Use your blue pencil session to sample Gail's fiction mentorship or get feedback on a short story or chapter, your novel outline or synopsis, a grant project proposal, pitch package or creative writing program application. Or ask those pressing questions about the business aspects of the publishing industry.
How it works:
Click on the green button to purchase. We'll email you right back to schedule your blue pencil session.
You'll submit up to 4,000 words of your project at least two days before your scheduled blue pencil session, to allow Gail time to critique your submission.
You have the option of meeting Gail on Zoom or by email. The blue pencil session is 45 minutes long.
Following the session, Gail will email detailed notes to you that will help you take your project and craft to the next level.
The blue pencil session works exactly like one session of a fiction mentorship. If you like what you see, you have the option of continuing your work with Gail through a four-month fiction mentorship. Mentorship sessions start up in January, May, and September, but if you'd like to start at a different time, contact our office and we'll do our best to fit you into Gail's schedule.
Blue pencil sessions with Gail make great gifts for writers.
When:
Purchase to register any time. We'll schedule your session right away! We can usually fit a blue pencil session into Gail's schedule within a week of purchase.
Cost:
One blue pencil session is $250 plus GST/HST (of your province).
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
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.