Feel free to cross-post this. I'm one of the organisers of the
workshop and I can tell you that two of lesfics best editors are
practically giving of themselves for free.
Evecho

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Editing, Self-editing, and Beta-reading: Taking your skills to the
next level

Join us for a month-long educational experience where you'll learn:

* Tools to help writers craft better stories
* Ways for writers to get the best from their beta readers
* Storycrafting tips and research techniques
* What red flags editors look out for, serious enough to defeat a
manuscript
* Insights into the publishing process



This unique learning experience will not only give you important
feedback and new insights, but it will also take you steps beyond what
other beta readers and beginner editors can do.

In addition, you'll also learn:

* How real editors use style sheets to keep stories consistent
(and you'll learn more about these powerful tools that well-known
authors find essential in their work)
* How to avoid editorial pet peeves that can work against your
manuscript
* How to do research that'll take your art and work to the next level
* How to avoid the genre trap: make the formula work for you
* And more!


Don't think you know the beginning of what real editors do? This
interactive workshop will use real-life examples and exercises to get
you ahead of the game. It'll take the guesswork out of many steps of
beta reading and will give you an insider's grasp of important editing
techniques.

It'll take the mystery out of professional editing, answer your
questions, and give you an insider's perspective on how to make
stories and novels more coherent, easily read, and ultimately, more
sellable!

This is a can't miss opportunity!

Brought to You By:

Stacia Seaman is an editor who has worked with New York Times and USA
Today best-selling authors. She has edited numerous award-winning
titles, and with co-editor Radclyffe has won a Lammy for Erotic
Interludes 2: Stolen Moments and an Independent Publishers Awards
silver medal and a Golden Crown Literary Award for Erotic Interludes
4: Extreme Passions. Stacia edits everything from textbooks to popular
nonfiction to mysteries and romance novels. Visit her on the Web at
www.staciaseaman.com.

An Alice B. Reader's Choice Award winner, Therese Szymanski has been
short-listed for a Spectrum and a few Lammies and Goldies, and made
the Publishing Triangle's list of notable lesbian books in 2004. She's
written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing
Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil
Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When
It's All Relative); It's All Smoke & Mirrors (the First Chronicles of
Shawn Donelly), edited Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights,
Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine; has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke,
Stake through the Heart, Tall in the Saddle and Bell, Book and Dyke
and has a few dozen published short stories. Every single book she's
edited has been shortlisted for—or won—an award. You can check her out
on the Web at www.BigBadButch.com.

This workshop facilitated by Evecho.
Evecho is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of ReadTheseLips.com, an
e-publisher of lesbian short writings, and a Bibliographic resource of
lesbian and lesbian-friendly anthologies. For more information, see
www.ReadTheseLips.com and http://readtheselips.wordpress.com/


Details of this fantastic workshop.

When: 5 weeks, from 5 May to 10 June 2008.

Where: Online at YahooGroups

Fee: USD $25 per participant

How to register: Payments via PayPal to editingworkshop@....
After payment is confirmed, send an email to editingworkshop@...
with your name and YahooID to be invited to the Workshop on YahooGroups.

Spaces limited! All invites on first-come, first-served basis.




Regards
Evecho

www.ReadTheseLips.com