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" Ready to write your book? Jill Dearman is the savvy coach and good friend every writer needs. With warmth, tough-love, and humor she provides the inspiration, information, practical tips, exercises, advice, and motivation to get you started and to sustain your writing practice for a lifetime.""
—-Deborah Landau, Director, Creative Writing Program, New York University and author of the poetry collection, Orchidelirium (winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry)
Description of Services
Nurturing but whip-cracking, well-connected, energetic author of “Bang the Keys” (Penguin) will help you unleash the true fabulosity in your projects and bring them to fruition in the real world before depression or drink destroy your nerve! Feeling too skittish to contact? DOWNLOAD HER WRITING EXERCISE APP. Jill offers editing help –– both in depth analysis, line editing and help with query letters. She also offers her services as a writing coach and as a book marketing consultant. Finally, although the fault may not lie in the stars, she also offers astrological consultations.
Jill is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
About Jill Dearman
Writing Coach and editor Jill Dearman is the author of Bang the Keys: Four Steps to a Lifelong Writing Practice (Penguin/2009). She has been teaching her Bang the Keys philosophy of writing to new scribes and published professionals since 2003. She is a part-time Professor of Journalism at New York University where she has been teaching “The Art of Editing” since 2001. Jill also helped develop an editorial style guide for Simon and Schuster Online. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and is an award-winning fiction writer. Her prose has been published in numerous publications including North Atlantic Review, The Portland Review, Lilith, New York Stories, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. As a journalist, she has written for The Writer, New York Daily News, Time Out New York, and other publications. She writes a weekly interview column for Barnes & Noble.com called “Writer to Writer.” Jill is also a Jungian Astrologist whose books Queer Astrology for Men and Queer Astrology for Women were published by St. Martins. And for fun she hula hoops and plays piano (sometimes simultaneously). She lives with her wife and daughter in Brooklyn.
For more: www.bangthekeys.com
To get a feel for Jill’s style check out her book trailer on YouTube.
Contact: jilldearman [at] gmail [dot] com
"Kristen is knowledgeable, helpful, and knows how to zero in on your writing. She helped me stay on course with my first YA novel that's near completion. I recommend this class to anyone."
—Elizabeth Martinez, novelist
"I have already had one pitch accepted and two others have had interest from large consumer magazines."
—Erinn Morgan, founding editor, SoHo Style
Description of Services
Kristen Kemp offers editing and advice at every stage of the writing process. She can help formulate magazine ideas or entire novels or non-fiction projects. She has written 15 books for young adults and two non-fiction books for women along with hundreds of magazine articles. She can comment on whole projects or give advice for smaller pieces of work. She can help you draft, write, rewrite and formulate your ideas to bring them to life on the page. She can help you get published. She also has extensive experience in the blogosphere if you're interested in writing for the web.
Kristen is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
About Kristen Kemp
Kristen Kemp is the author of 16 books, fiction and non-fiction. Her latest release is a co-authored memoir called Redemption (Random House) and hits shelves in March, 2011. Her recent young adult titles include Breakfast at Bloomingdale's (Scholastic Press, 2007) and This is Push: New Stories from the Edge (Push, 2007). She has been an editor at Cosmopolitan and Girls' Life magazines. Her articles have appeared in Self, Glamour, Ladies' Home Journal, CosmoGIRL!, Seventeen, Marie Claire, The New York Daily News, Men's Health and many other publications. On the internet, she was the health editor at CafeMom.com before founding her own hyperlocal website called BaristaKids.com. Kristen also teaches young adult novel writing and magazine writing for Mediabistro and The Woodhull Institute. She just finished a piece about Boosting Your Brainpower for All You magazine. She lives in the New York City area with her husband, three children and pets named Toast and Hello.
Contact: kristen [at] kristenkemp [dot] com
WYLIE O'SULLIVAN
"Wylie is an editor with a remarkable combination of talents: she can lower your blood pressure at the same time that she's smartly suggesting you retool an entire chapter. This is invaluable and unusual alchemy. She was the only part of the process of writing my book that I found calming, and she worked with steady hand and eye to make the arguments stronger and the structure stable. Working with her was a pleasure from start to finish, and my book was far better for her."
—Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Don't Cry
Description of Services
Wylie edits narrative non-fiction and fiction. She offers big-picture, structural suggestions, detailed line edits, and everything in between. She’s interested in helping writers cultivate their voice and craft strong, precise prose in order to tell a fluid and absorbing story. After a decade acquiring and editing books at a major house, Wylie has a clear sense of what publishers are looking for and finds enormous satisfaction in helping people ready their manuscripts to go out into the world.
Wylie is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
About Wylie O'Sullivan
Wylie spent nine years at Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, where she was a Senior Editor by the time she left. She’s primarily worked on narrative non-fiction—including memoir, social history, current events, social justice, women’s issues, biography, the environment, pop culture, and travel—and fiction. At Free Press she acquired and edited dozens of books, among them Rebecca Traister’s Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women; The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—And How We Can Make It Better by Annie Leonard; Elyssa East’s Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town; and The Longshot: A Novel by Katie Kitamura.
Contact: wylie.osullivan [at] gmail [dot] com
"Barbara brings a skilled eye to the work of editing, along with encouragement and insight. Her analysis of a chapter I had written cut through to understanding the main character -- at a point in which I doubted how I was doing. She offered ideas on how to keep going and moving in the right direction, along with endorsement that my writing wasn't taking place in an isolated space."
—Peter Eisner, Author published by Random House, William Morrow, Harper Perennial and Rodale Press, Former Deputy Foreign Editor Washington Post, Former Foreign Editor Newsday
Description of Services
Barbara will draw on her eclectic experiences as a writer of journalism, fiction and narrative nonfiction to edit and help you formulate articles and all types of nonfiction, as well as novels and short stories. She can suggest how to organize life experiences into memoirs that flow. She understands the challenges faced by journalists who want to transition into fiction writers, often by using material from their reporting. Alternately, she also teaches the use of fictional techniques to write nonfiction that has a narrative edge while remaining true to the facts -- and ethical. She is delighted to work with new writers, as well as experienced ones.
About Barbara Fischkin
Barbara Fischkin is the author of three books published by Scribner and Bantam Dell at Random House. Her first book: Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America is recognized as a landmark work of narrative nonfiction on immigration to New York City from the Dominican Republic. In her satiric novels about the world of journalism and foreign correspondence – Exclusive and Confidential Sources – she imagined her family and a few of her friends and editors – as fictional alter egos. (Everyone is still speaking to her). Her books have been reviewed nationally and “blurbed” by Meg Wolitzer, Julia Alvarez, Luanne Rice, William Kennedy and Ken Auletta. As a journalist she received the Livingston Award for International Reporting, lived in and/or reported from Dublin, Belfast, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Guatemala City, the countryside and cities of the Dominican Republic – and New York. Her work has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines including the New Yorker, the New York Times and Newsday, where she was a staffer for many years. Currently she is (slowly) working on another novel, another book of narrative nonfiction about autism which affects her older son and – because she likes to try new ventures –a television pilot for a dramatic series. She also writes in-depth magazine articles for Salute to Scholars, a glossy and online magazine published by the Chancellor’s office of the City University of New York and distributed throughout the region. Barbara has taught journalism at New York University and Hofstra and Adelphi Universities. She co-chairs the PEN Writer’s Roundtable and has mentored from afar -- and hosted -- a young writer from the Afghan Women’s Writing Project. In the process she learned an enormous amount about a courageous life. She also tries as hard as she can to be a good Hockey Mom. Both of her sons, now young men, play. She is married to Jim Mulvaney, a Pulitzer-prize winning former editor and reporter. For more see http://barbarafischkin.com.
Barbara is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
Contact: barbarafischkin [at] aol [dot] com
Description of Services
Brooke’s area of expertise is twofold, with services that involve both writing coaching and publishing consulting. She works with authors to develop ideas and platform. More specifically, she works with authors to develop their angle or hook, as well as their book proposals, guiding them toward creating projects that agents and editors will respond to and identifying the best route to getting published.
About Brooke Warner
Brooke Warner is the founder of Warner Coaching Inc. and former Executive Editor at Seal Press. Brooke has been in the publishing industry for thirteen years and has been coaching and consulting individual writers for the past three years. Brooke works with writers across many genres, including writers of nonfiction, from women’s issues to mind/body/spirit, novelists, memoirists, poets, and essayists. Read more about Brooke on her website at www.warnercoaching.com and see her list of acquisitions from her time at Seal Press.
Brooke is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
Contact: brooke [at] warnercoaching [dot] com
"If it weren't for Christina, I simply would not have sold my book proposal. Of course, I knew the material and what needed to be said -- but Christina understood how to shape it so publishers would buy it. She was such a good partner, in fact, I hired her to edit the actual book as well. And I'd do it again. Working with her was an absolute pleasure."
—Allison Gilbert, author of Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents and the forthcoming Parentless Parents (Hyperion)
Description of Services
Christina offers a variety of services for nonfiction and fiction writers, including manuscript evaluation, line editing, consultation on book proposals and concept development, and writing coaching. Every one of the 23 book proposals she has written or edited has sold to a major publisher; she has also edited more than 75 book-length manuscripts.
Christina also offers pitch advisement and manuscript consulting -- click here for more on those services.
About Christina Baker Kline
Christina is the author of four novels, including, most recently, Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be. She has edited four anthologies, including About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror, Room to Grow, and Child of Mine, and is co-author of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism. She is Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University. Her blog is Writing/Life: Notes on Craft & the Creative Process.
Christina is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
Contact: bakerkline [at] gmail [dot] com
"In editing any given chapter from my memoir-in-progress, Sarah not only suggests ways for me to sharpen the language in the chapter, but encourages me to consider how the chapter functions within the larger story. As a memoirist and journalist, she has a keen sense of how to tell a compelling story precisely, to make every word count. I count Sarah as a blessing."
—Sarah Burkman
Description of Services
Sarah offers individual consultation at every stage of the creative process. Have a completed or partial manuscript on which you’d like thorough written comments? An outline that needs shaping? Amorphous ideas that you’re eager to explore one- on-one? A hankering for a private tutorial in memoir or journalism? C’mon down!
About Sarah Saffian
Sarah is the author of the memoir Ithaka, which was widely reviewed and is a decade in print. Sarah has written and edited for publications including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Daily News, and Slate, and has taught memoir and journalism at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the New School, and elsewhere. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Millay Colony and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and is currently working on a novel.
Sarah is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
Contact: sarah [at] saffian [dot] com
"I have worked with some very fine editors, but never have I had the pleasure of working—more like collaborating, really—with an editor as brilliant as Jean Casella. She is empathic, insightful, informed, and a word wizard. Perhaps most importantly for me, her comments always inspired me and gave me enormous energy to go back into the material and give it my very best. She is truly an extraordinary and rare phenomenon."
—Eunice Lipton, author of French Seduction and Alias Olympia
Description of Services
Jean provides the following services to both new and experienced authors: editorial strategy and project development from idea to book proposal to first draft; manuscript evaluation and rewriting advice; hands-on substantive editing and line editing; and transitioning to trade for academic and professional writers.
About Jean Casella
Jean brings more than twenty years of experience as an in-house editor and publisher to her editing and consulting business. Since she began freelancing in 2005, she has worked with both authors and publishers on some 50 book-length manuscripts, as well as print and online articles, web sites, book proposals, and promotional materials. During her two decades in independent publishing, Jean served as publisher of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York and managed the editorial programs at Thunder’s Mouth Press and the Fiction Collective. She is also co-editor of two anthologies. She is on the web at www.jeancasella.wordpress.com.
Jean is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
Contact: casellaj4 [at] gmail [dot] com
"Without Molly Lyons and Joelle Delbourgo Associates, I would not have a writing career. Truly, they are not only incredibly professional, but also personal. They have provided me with a tremendous amount of insight and encouragement. They make me believe that anything is possible."
—Abby Sher, young adult novelist and memoirist
MOLLY LYONS
Please note that a consultation does not guarantee that Molly will represent your work, but she’ll treat you as she does all her clients—with warm humor and honest advice.
Molly is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
Description of Services
Have just a glimmer of an idea? A full-formed manuscript? Molly can help guide you through each stage of your project’s life. She will help you develop and focus your concept and help shape your proposals and manuscripts. She can give you pointers on how to best market your work and yourself to agents, and can assist you in starting to build up a bit of a platform before you do.
About Molly Lyons
Molly Lyons began her career as a magazine editor and writer before joining Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, Inc. where she represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. Her background allows her to bring a well-rounded and unique approach to agenting—from developing her clients’ manuscripts and proposals, to positioning them in the marketplace, to helping shape their literary careers.
Molly has a particular interest in young adult and middle grade projects as well as adult fiction and non-fiction.Please note that a consultation does not guarantee that Molly will represent your work, but she’ll treat you as she does all her clients—with warm humor and honest advice.
Molly is available for a She Writes Virtual Lunch—
a comprehensive hour-long phone consultation for 100 bucks!
Contact: mollylyons [at] hotmail [dot] com
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