Editing isn’t just fixing the commas and sending your work into the great beyond. It can include big picture changes, smoothing out continuity issues, eliminating repetitive words, reworking sentence structure, and more! Get actionable advice from three professional editors who will share concrete steps for taking your finished product to the next level.
Speakers: Athena Dixon, Lori Gold, and Sangeeta Mehta
Moderator: J.T. Glover
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern Time
Location: ONLINE, via Zoom
Cost: $12 Members | $17 Non-members
The Writing Show includes a social time from 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm. This portion of the evening is optional. If you choose to only attend the panel discussion, please sign in to Zoom by 6:25 pm to keep from interrupting the panel discussion once it begins at 6:30pm.
SPEAKERS
Lori Gold is the author of Romantic Friction (Harper Mira, 2025), book club fiction that questions the use of AI in the writing world. Under Lori Goldstein, she published the adult historical novel, Love, Theodosia (Arcade, 2021), and four novels for young adults: Sources Say (Penguin Random House, 2020); Screen Queens (Penguin Random House, 2019); and the Becoming Jinn series (Macmillan, 2015, 2016). She is also a creative writing instructor and founder of Think Write, which holds creative writing classes and writing retreats.
Sangeeta Mehta worked for two literary agents and was an acquiring editor at Little, Brown and Simon & Schuster before founding her own editorial services company, Mehta Book Editing. As a developmental editor, she focuses on middle grade, YA, and adult fiction. She also writes for Jane Friedman’s blog. Sangeeta has served on the board of the Editorial Freelancers Association and taught workshops with Inked Voices. She holds a master’s degree in comparative literature from UCLA.
MODERATOR
| J. T. Glover has published short fiction in Best New Horror, Pseudopod, and Nightscript, among other venues. His “The Song Between the Songs” appeared in The Dark Corners of the Old Dominion, a Virginia horror anthology supporting Scares That Care. His nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including The Silent Garden and Thinking Horror. By day he’s an academic librarian specializing in the humanities, and he lives in Central Virginia. |