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Edit Like an Expert

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Patricia Charpentier challenges all Scribblers:

If you want to be a better writer, improve your self-editing skills, or be a better editing professional, consider the Edit Like an Expert coaching program. This in-depth program offers you:

  • more than fifty videos
  • four group coaching calls
  • one-on-one coaching session
  • editorial review of one 2,000-word piece
  • worksheets, outlines, handouts, and other written materials

The program begins next Monday, November 2nd with a get-acquainted call at 7:00 p.m. EST. Now, I know we are coming in to a busy season, but here’s the deal. If you participate in this session, I’ll give you the option to re-take the course free of charge next time it’s offered. Plus, I’ll even throw in an extra twenty-minute coaching call to get you started on the right track.

But now is the time to act. Click here to sign up for the November session of Edit Like an Expert. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email Patricia Charpentier at patricia@writingyourlife.org or call 321-279-1791.

Myriad Congratulations to Linda Dunlap!

Rail Walking by Linda Dunlap

Linda Dunlap (a 2010 Pushcart Prize-nominated author) says she’s an overnight sensation thirty years in the making.  Well, Linda, it’s been worth the wait!

Recently, Twisted Road Publications announced that Linda’s short story would appear in the upcoming Southern Gothic anthology.  Now she’s gotten word that her short story, “A.J. and Crazy Woman,” won first place in a short story contest at New Southerner Magazine.

But the best news of all is that the ebook version of Linda’s short story collection, Rail Walking and Other Stories, is now available at Amazon.com.  Check it out!