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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: #p2p16 Editing Deals
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As a thank-you to all the writers who made the October Pitch to Publication contest such an amazing experience, I hereby announce that I'm offering the following editing deals! For the entire #p2p16 community. If you submitted to the contest (to any editor, not just me) or even just participated in the conversations, you are eligible to take advantage of these offers. P2P Partial MS Query Critique - $200 USD. Edit letter summarizing the developmental feedback (2-3 pages). The following offers are availab...
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: Happy Holidays
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Tomorrow I'm driving about four hours to my family's Christmas celebration. Whenever I travel long-ish distances by car, bus, or airplane, I think about the fact that I could die. I'm not sure why it never occurs to me to think about dying when I zip to the grocery store or across town for brunch, but it doesn't. Only long-ish distances. It's only recently I've really started to work on.not being comfortable. Yes, that's the word. I've tried to resign myself to the idea - no, the fact. God, it's hard....
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: Editing Services
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A writer of YA, NA, or adult fiction or creative nonfiction who has written the thing. Now you need a kick-ass editor - intelligent, honest, articulate, "gets" what you're doing - to help you bring it to the next level. In work that's a little off-center from the mainstream, such as trans-genre work and work that challenges societal norms and/or the conventions of a genre. 8211; Kristin, PhD, writer of literary fiction and poetry. Soramimi Hanarejima, writer of short speculative fiction. A full re-read o...
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: Your novel's structure
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My current thinking about structure - which I use both for my own novels and for working with clients' books - is influenced primarily by the three-act structure as explained to me by my friend Diane Gilman, who wrote screenplays for many years, and by Viki King's description of the nine plot points in her book How to Write a Movie in 21 Days. Act I: The Beginning. And the one that heralds the end of Act I, around page 50. Yes, that's right: Act I is only 50 pages long. If that. The Wizard of Oz. 2nd inc...
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: Your book's Darkest Moment
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Your book's Darkest Moment. Back in March, when I requested partials from ten #P2P16 authors, I asked them to include the 5 pages that included their book's Darkest Moment and also to tell me where in book the DM landed. Why? I wanted to get a sense of the book's pacing, to make sure that the DM was dark enough, and that it was in alignment with the expectations set up in the first fifty pages. Illustration: "Pay's good" by TPA. What is the Darkest Moment? Let's take the movie The Wizard of Oz. As a gene...
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: Pitch to Publication: An Editor's Perspective
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Pitch to Publication: An Editor's Perspective. Last month I participated for the first time in Pitch to Publication. Not as a writer but as an editor. I had no idea what to expect, but I'm so glad I did it. In this post I reveal the work I did during the week of March 6th and how I made my decisions. I hope it will be helpful (or at least interesting) to writers who are thinking of submitting to P2P in the future. I took notes on all 33 of the Maybes, and the authors of the 23 I passed on each received a...
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: My Writing
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I am a world creator. I am a truth teller. I am a voice finder.". Selected Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction and Poetry. Unborn." Flash fiction. Ugly Babies, Vol. 2. 10 Jan. 2014. Ebook and print. The Usual." Short story (speculative fiction). Inaccurate Realities. 22 Oct. 2013. Ebook and print. Zombie." Short story (speculative fiction). The Darker Half. Web Published in three parts on 1-7 Oct. 2013. Website now defunct. Like a Woman in Love." Poem. A Beginning, An End, and All That Lies Inbetween. Http:/ w...
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: The Work Conference 2017
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The Work Conference 2017. On Oct. 1, the submission window opens for The Work Conference, a boutique writers' conference in New York City that's suited to hardworking, unagented authors of YA or adult literary or upmarket fiction who are serious about publishing traditionally. I had the extreme good fortune to attend the inaugural, 2016 conference as a faculty member, and although I won't be there in 2017, I highly recommend that you check it out. Becca, that's who.). Activities designed to share and cel...
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: Artists
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Pays Good" by TPA. This page is intended to be a resource for me as well as for other writers who are interested in collaborating with, hiring, and/or being inspired by artists. I will add to it as time goes on. Although I have not worked with all of these fine human beings, I am at least acquainted with their work and know that they're interested in collaborating with writers. Ben Bittner (aka Surly Ben). Style: flat, colorful, loose, and surly. Ben (at) benhard (dot) com. By Cara Christine Hubbell.
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Sione Aeschliman, LLC: Interview with author Bill Cameron
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Interview with author Bill Cameron. The news is all good: I survived the Christmas holiday (specifically, the trip to and from the family gathering) - yay! And today on the blog I bring you an interview with mystery author Bill Cameron - hip, hip, hooray! Photo by Jill Cameron. I first met Bill, an award-winning mystery writer, a few years ago when my genre fiction writing class (taught by Chuck Caruso. Went to his reading of Day One. Ran into him at Wordstock. On to the interview! But seriously, in the ...
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