Date: Saturday, June 8th & Sunday June 9th
Time: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Location: BBC Regional Service Center
Large Meeting Room
Address: 4805 Edgemoor Lane Bethesda, MD 20814
Speaker: Tiffany Yates Martin
Topic: “Edit Like an Editor: How to Assess, Revise, and Polish Your Manuscript on Every Level”
Tiffany Yates Martin is privileged to help authors tell their stories as effectively, compellingly, and truthfully as possible. In more than 25 years in the publishing industry she’s worked both with major publishing houses and directly with authors (through her company FoxPrint Editorial), on titles by New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestsellers and award winners as well as newer authors. She presents editing and writing workshops for writers’ groups, organizations, and conferences and writes for numerous writers’ sites and publications.
***Attendees to the June Workshop will have an opportunity for blind live edits to a page of their work. Items to bring along: Something to work on for exercises–laptop, pen and paper, etc.A WIP, if available–electronic file is fine but it may be useful for them to have a copy handy–not necessary, thoughA printed page of their manuscript–either page 1, or from a midpoint–or both (I’m bringing a projector for “live edits”)
