$297.00 USD

          Live Edits: Mindful Self-Editing - Enjoy Strengthening Your Story

          Discover the 30 rules of self-editing (that all agents and acquisitions editors know!)

          AND

          The simple mindset shift that makes self-editing satisfying and deeply joyful.

          What you'll get:

          • 6 x Bi-weekly LIVE EDITS workshops ON ZOOM (recorded)
          • 6 x Bi-weekly video lessons on the 30 rules of self-editing  
          • 6 x Bi-weekly video analyses of the typical prose of top markets
          • Lifetime access 

          Top markets include:

          The New York Times' Modern Love and Tiny Love Stories, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker.

          Top speculative fiction literary markets including: Asimov’s, Apex, Lightspeed, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.

          The Big Five publishers: Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Penguin Random House.

          Independent Publishers including Algonquin Books, Akashic Books, Greywolf Press, and Hay House.

          Small Presses including Alice James Books, Brooklyn Arts Press, and Codhill Press.

          Classic Authors including Chekhov, Zora Neale Thurston, Katherine Mansfield, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Hemingway, and Virginia Woolf.

          Modern classic authors including Ann Patchett, Toni Morrison, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, Kenzaburō Ōe, Shirley Jackson, Junot Diaz, Joan Didion.

          Modern speculative fiction authors including Alice Hoffman, N.K.Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Kelly Link.

          Pulitzer Prize-Winners (Fiction): The Netanyahus 2022 Joshua Cohen, The Night Watchman 2021 Louise Erdrich, The Nickel Boys 2020 Colson Whitehead, The Overstory 2019 Richard Powers, Less 2018 Andrew Sean Greer, The Underground Railroad 2017 Colson Whitehead, The Sympathizer 2016 Viet Thanh Nguyen, All the Light We Cannot See 2015 Anthony Doerr, The Goldfinch 2014 · Donna Tartt.

          Popular authors including John Le Carre, P.D.James, Nora Roberts, Dean Koontz, Danielle Steele, Dan Brown, David Balducci, John Grisham, and J K Rowling.

          New York Times Bestsellers including Colleen Hoover, Nora Roberts, James Patterson, Danielle Steele, and Dean Koontz.

          This is a comprehensive guide you can refer to any time in the future before you submit your work.

          That way, if your work isn't accepted, you'll have peace of mind knowing it was because the story didn't fit their needs, NOT because the writing wasn't good enough.

          If you use the self-editing checklist at the end of this course, you'll transform from a casual writer into a published author.

          If you memorize the five simple rules every two weeks, your first draft writing will automatically upgrade

          You'll have the confidence of knowing you KNOW the rules and that will allow you to relax and feel the deep joy and satisfaction of making your stories shine.