By Erin Wood
For the writer on your gift list this holiday season, you might consider an editing or publishing consultation. While publishing consultations are a bit more difficult to come by, there are many professional and responsible editors in every genre who can help writers transform and polish their manuscripts. The best advice in finding the right editorial match is to ask for references.
If your gift recipient is a nonfiction or children’s book author, I personally offer services related to both. For example, is someone on your gift list early in their nonfiction or children’s book project and need help planning its focus and structure? Has the writer in your life mentioned needing help editing and placing their nonfiction writing with literary magazines and other outlets?
Have they completed a draft of their book and are searching for the editorial support necessary to prepare it to submit to publishers or help it become a self-publishing success? Perhaps they’re lost or overwhelmed in the publishing process and need trusted guidance?
If any of these sound like the writer you know, you might consider a gift certificate for a one- or two-hour consultation ($65 or $125 respectively).
As I work with writers, I draw on more than a decade in publishing as owner and director of Et Alia Press, past editing and coaching for hundreds of writers at all levels of experience, and my own experience as an award-winning nonfiction writer. Find me at www.etaliapress.com and reach out to me at etaliapressbooks@gmail.com.
A Hot Springs native, Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs Et Alia Press (www.etaliapress.com). Wood is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives.
