Fiction Editing Boot Camp with Alice Osborn 

This half-day intensive workshop is designed especially for aspiring fiction editors and/or fiction writers who want to break into the fiction editing field either with a publishing house or on a freelance basis. Novelists: learn how to boost your own editing skills via this workshop so you can win an agent and get published!  Alice Osborn is an experienced freelance fiction editor who is also a writing teacher and published poet and columnist.

The seminar covers the following topics (and more!):

• Overview of the publishing process; style and reference guides
• Fiction-specific editing concerns: timelines, characters, point of view, revision and more
• Copyediting: spelling, punctuation, grammar, style, fact checking, queries, author voice, timelines, and fact-checking
• Work practices: tips and tricks, time management, communication, dealing with problems.
• Business practices: Getting and keeping clients, rates and billing, follow-up options, networking, professionalism, and deadlines.

Mentorship
As part of your tuition, you are entitled to have your instructor review your first paying project before turning it in to the client.

LinkedIn Group
Participation in a members-only editors’ group on LinkedIn for added communication, networking, and materials. Discussions and job leads also come in through this group.

Fiction Editing Boot Camp with Alice Osborn
Location: Center for Excellence, 3803B Computer Dr. Ste. 106 Raleigh NC 27609
Saturday, April 9th             from 1-5 pm
Cost $150

Alice Osborn Bio:

Alice Osborn, M.A. is the author of two books of poetry, Unfinished Projects (Main Street Rag, 2010) and Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006); she is a manuscript editor, freelance writer and storyteller. A former Raleigh Charter High School English teacher, Alice has served as a Writer-in-Residence in the United Arts Artists in the Schools program since 2009 and has taught creativity, poetry, memoir and blogging workshops to Triangle residents for five years. Her work has appeared in Raleigh’s News and Observer, Soundings Review, and in numerous journals and anthologies. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and two children. Visit her website: http://aliceosborn.com.