Blue Pencil Sessions
About:
Not your average blue pencil session. Gail offers a full hour-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 CW 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 one hour 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 Gail's 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).
Don't like paying online? No problem. Let us know and we'll set you up.
Work with Gail
Gail works with writers at all levels, from newbies to pros. Choose the course that best suits your project.
Creative Writing Course
Work independently and at your own pace as you learn how to put together the building blocks of fiction. Great for newbies and emerging writers.
Blue Pencil Sessions
Not your average blue pencil session, this consultation with Gail is a full workshop. Book at any time.
Fiction Mentorships
Gail's flagship course. In this one-on-one, private, four-month online mentorship, Gail will guide you as you put together your fiction project.
Developmental Edits
For writers with a complete draft. This manuscript evaluation focuses on the big picture but also includes notes on the finer elements of craft.
Writing Retreat
This week-long writing retreat in the Shuswap region of BC is timed to coincide with the sockeye run on the Adams River, a natural wonder.
Gail's Classroom
Already registered for one of Gail's courses? Click here to enter Gail's online teaching forums.
Blogs on Craft
Check out these resources for writers from Gail and many of Canada's best established and emerging writers.
Events and Workshops for Groups
Gail offers library and bookclub reading events as well as writing workshops for organizations and private groups.
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 with writers from around the world on her online teaching forums.