Stephanie offers the following editorial services:

-- Phone consultations on all aspects of the publishing business, from query letters to book proposals, agents, marketing, and promotion

-- Copy editing, line editing, and conceptual editing of manuscripts, proposals, and query letters

-- Private, 10-week, online memoir writing classes. Here is the format:

CLASS STRUCTURE: ONLINE MEMOIR WRITING CLASS

Each week, Stephanie will email you a PDF of a lecture on one of the following topics:

-- Mining your memories
-- Ethics in Memoir
-- Plot & Theme
-- Character
-- Description
-- Dialogue
-- Point of View/Voice
-- Setting/Pacing
-- Revision
-- The Publishing Business (Agents, Book Proposals, Query Letters, etc)

Stephanie will read and critique up to 6 pages of your work each week, for a total of 60 pages by the end of the course. These pages can either be from a memoir that you are working on, and/or the optional writing exercises she will include with each lecture. Should any questions arise about the lecture, you may email them to Stephanie, and she will address them in the next week's lecture. She will also be available for one 60-minute phone consultation whenever you'd like, to discuss your work.

INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafiya, polished Chinese propaganda, and belly danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoirs "Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana" (Random House, 2004); "Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines" (Simon & Schuster, 2008); and the guidebook "100 Places Every Woman Should Go" (Travelers' Tales, 2007). She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Texas Monthly Magazine, Latina Magazine, and the Associated Press. Her many accolades include a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton University, a Richard Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize. Visit her website at www.aroundthebloc.com.

For prices and scheduling, drop her a line.