Comments on: Doing what I can for you guys

By: Victoria

Victoria — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:41:56 +0000

Thank you, Michelle! I would love to work on Monarch. I remember the hook you submitted for the Free Edit last fall and the butterfly wings image. So startling and gripping.

Someday.

By: Lady Glamis

Lady Glamis — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:41:47 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this, Victoria – it shows how we all strive for the same professionalism even if we don’t have the means to always get there. I think it can happen for anyone if it becomes a priority.

I have a feeling you would really turn my work around and make it something amazing. I hope one day I can get that chance! In the meantime, I’m enjoying all you have to say on your blogs.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:49:18 +0000

Why, thank you, Kathryn! You’re one of the best clients ever. Because you ask questions, you argue back, you remember stuff, you take an agent’s rejection in stride, do your griping, and go right on writing and rewriting—you work your heinie off. You have an amazing writer’s work ethic. Plus you’ve got a fabulous sense of humor. My husband loves it when he hears me laughing hysterically at one of your emails.

And you’re very welcome, Eric. Glad I could be here for you.

By: Eric Bailey

Eric Bailey — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:23:48 +0000

Well, then on behalf of both aspiring and now-I-made-it authors everywhere, I must say:

Thanks.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:22:59 +0000

I think it is worth mentioning that you edit in phases very effectively. Gosh, I can hardly remember the details, but I think I sent you my first forty pages (when you were having a special last summer), and from your copy and line edit, I was able to see the grammatical mistakes I was making. It’s no surprise that I was making them throughout the next 200 pages. On the next fifty (cleaner) pages, I went for a developmental edit. I really liked that because it was so wonderful to have you discuss my characters, not just my punctuation.

It is great to read your blogs, but they have meant more after seeing you apply your art and craft to my particular story. Your general advice became much more concrete, and best of all, important developmental changes that you recommended in the first chapters of the book, rippled throughout the rest of the story.

I want to also add that you give a lot of homework with your edits. I consider that part of the value of using your service. Sometimes, people just need to be pointed in the right direction.