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Thomas --I'd be willing. I've edited mainly nonfiction, but I also publish classic literature (19th century), so that's appropriate. Interesting to put your own anthology together. Are the pieces at all related?
Hi Sasha...Thanks so much - and you'd be most welcome :)
No, the stories are totally unrelated. I was in the process of going back and forth with my editor, working on the edits of my debut thriller "The Clearing", and I decided to do a bit of writing to fill in the time. These three stories are the result, so I decided to put them together in a little anthology.
I'd be happy to have you. It's going to take me another week or two to get them to the Beta stage, and I'll be in tough...is that ok?
Sasha wrote: "Thomas --I'd be willing. I've edited mainly nonfiction, but I also publish classic literature (19th century), so that's appropriate. Interesting to put your own anthology together. Are the pieces..."
By the way, did you want to beta one, two or all of them?
Whenever you're ready -- and, please, your latest draft as the anthology. Related or not, I need to see if the same readers for one are going to want to read the others. Or in what sequence.
Fair enough...I'll send all three after I'm finished the edits...and thank you :)
I'm about finished with my new ghost story anthology. It consists of two short stories (11,500 and 7,000 words), and a novella (25,000 words). I want to get 10 sets of eyes on each one, and I'm assembling a Beta team. My main concern is to spot problems in plot, characters, and so on. Not so much in grammatical and puncuation - although if those get spotted, that's fine too :)
I am looking for honest, objective looks, not gushing - trying to find problems and fix them, before it goes out, you know?
Message me if you're interested. I'll be ready to Beta in a week or two. And you don't have to do all of them. Any one or two of them is great - and of course, all is better :)
Thanks so much...
Thomas Rydder
Author of "The Clearing"
http://thomasrydder.wordpress.com/