Pick My Brain

PICK MY BRAIN Yuck. I’ve always hated that phrase. But due to my good associates at Writer’s Digest, there’s now a straightforward, easy, anybody-can-use approach to get me on the phone for a substantive discuss your work in progress, questions on publishing, writing, the writing process . . . all kinds of stuff. Here’s the textual content from the Writer’s Digest Consultants Center net page: Philip Athans: Consultation Session Format: One-on-One Consultation Service Philip Athans is the New York Times greatest-promoting author of Annihilation and more than a dozen different books together with The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction and Writing Monsters. He teaches artistic writing and appears at quite a few conferences and conventions, as well as working as a freelance editor, ghostwriter, and publishing marketing consultant. He can be the previous senior managing editor for TSR/Wizards of the Coast. His weblog, Fantasy Author’s Handbook, is up to date every Tuesday, and you can follow him on Twitter @PhilAthans. Consultation Time: 30/60 minutes Connection Method: Phone/Skype Philip will provide you with detailed recommendation on storytelling (characters, story construction, pacing, and so on.) and the one component that really units these genres apart: worldbuilding. Learn what the publishing business is on the lookout for from an SF, fantasy, or horror creator. Philip can help you place your e-book and work with you to create the best pitch materials to help get it noticed. Get detailed recommendation on when and tips on how to self-publish, together with working with freelance editors, artists and designers, typesetters, and e-e-book and POD services, with a watch toward the genre blogger and fan communities. That sounds like lots to cowl in an hour or much less, but the level isn’t to listen to a recorded monologue from me but for me to hearken to you, and provide recommendation, reply questions, toss around concepts . . . This is the type of on e-on-one (or at least very small-group) interactions that make me love educating, while on the identical time, I’m at all times getting people telling me they’d like to take a category only they don’t stay within the Seattle space. This isn’t exactly the identical factor, however it’s pretty close, and Writer’s Digest has supplied us both with a mechanism to make that happen. Thanks Writer’s Digest! â€"Philip Athans About Philip Athans Reblogged this on Alison J. McKenzie and commented: Best-promoting author Philip Athans, who taught an amazing class I took on writing science fiction and fantasy, has a one-on-one session service via Writer’s Digest. Fill in your particulars beneath or click an icon to log in: You are commenting utilizing your WordPress.com account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting using your Google account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting using your Twitter account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting utilizing your Facebook account. (Log Out/ Change) Connecting to %s Notify me of latest comments through e-mail. Notify me of new posts via e-mail. Enter your email tackle to subscribe to Fantasy Author's Handbook and receive notifications of recent posts by e-mail. Join 4,779 other followers Sign me up! RSS - Posts RSS - Comments