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  • Last day: Free Edit of your novel’s CLIMAX

    This is it, guys! Our last day. If you’ve got a climax you could really use a professional editor’s advice on—not just Developmental Editing, but a Copy & Line Edit, as well—shoop it on over. After today, we go back to business as usual.

    Check out the rules, such as they are, here.

    Earlier Free Edits are posted further down in this blog. If you scroll, you’ll find them all—they’re not buried too deep. They’ll all be tidied up on a page unto themselves when it’s all over, like the Free Edits of HOOKS.

    Thank you to everyone who’s participated! You are brave souls and true. Thank you to everyone who’s stopped by the read! And thank you to you guys who are sitting there right this very minute thinking, “Should I? Shouldn’t I? Is it polished enough? [Yes.] Will it be worth it? [Yes.] Will I be glad I did?”

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Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.