Post by Jeff Gerke on Jun 18, 2009 9:39:49 GMT -5
Ooh, all caps in the title. What's Jeff on about now?
Guys, as I said in the "Where's Jeff?" thread, I'm incredibly busy right now.
Even if it weren't for the freelance editing that is my day job (and which, incidentally, hasn't been paying the bills lately, so I'm doing more and more to try to get more work, which leaves even less time for other things--I'm even considering second jobs or new first jobs...), I'd be stretched thin.
We've got our new adoptive baby girl who is scheduled to go to Chicago for her first cleft lip/palate repair surgeries on July 15.
I'm teaching the continuing fiction track at two more Christian writer's conferences in July and August (Oregon and Philly, respectively).
We're driving to Oregon during July to visit family. (Coordinated with the Oregon Christian Writer's Conference.)
I'm a judge for a well-known Christian writing contest--scores due the day of Sophie's surgery.
And Marcher Lord Press's third set of novels needs to be well on its way toward completion by now already--and yet I'm way behind schedule on it.
That's where I need your help.
I currently have 30 full-length manuscripts that need to be read and evaluated for possible publication by MLP. I culled through the hundreds of proposals and found these 30 that deserved a closer look.
But I don't have time to read them all right now.
What I'd love is if one or maybe dozens of you guys could be volunteer acquisitions readers for me.
You'd read the ms., fill out a little score sheet, and send it to me. If you wanted to be done then, that would be fine. But if you wanted to read another--or even all 30--I'd be happy to oblige you. And if you can't make it all the way through a ms., don't! That tells me something big about whether or not I should acquire it, after all.
I'd take all the scores that come in and concentrate my attention on those that you guys think are best.
So what do you think? Interested in having a voice in what gets published with Marcher Lord Press?
If so, drop me a note at jeff[at]marcherlordpress[dot]com.
Thank you!
Jeff
Guys, as I said in the "Where's Jeff?" thread, I'm incredibly busy right now.
Even if it weren't for the freelance editing that is my day job (and which, incidentally, hasn't been paying the bills lately, so I'm doing more and more to try to get more work, which leaves even less time for other things--I'm even considering second jobs or new first jobs...), I'd be stretched thin.
We've got our new adoptive baby girl who is scheduled to go to Chicago for her first cleft lip/palate repair surgeries on July 15.
I'm teaching the continuing fiction track at two more Christian writer's conferences in July and August (Oregon and Philly, respectively).
We're driving to Oregon during July to visit family. (Coordinated with the Oregon Christian Writer's Conference.)
I'm a judge for a well-known Christian writing contest--scores due the day of Sophie's surgery.
And Marcher Lord Press's third set of novels needs to be well on its way toward completion by now already--and yet I'm way behind schedule on it.
That's where I need your help.
I currently have 30 full-length manuscripts that need to be read and evaluated for possible publication by MLP. I culled through the hundreds of proposals and found these 30 that deserved a closer look.
But I don't have time to read them all right now.
What I'd love is if one or maybe dozens of you guys could be volunteer acquisitions readers for me.
You'd read the ms., fill out a little score sheet, and send it to me. If you wanted to be done then, that would be fine. But if you wanted to read another--or even all 30--I'd be happy to oblige you. And if you can't make it all the way through a ms., don't! That tells me something big about whether or not I should acquire it, after all.
I'd take all the scores that come in and concentrate my attention on those that you guys think are best.
So what do you think? Interested in having a voice in what gets published with Marcher Lord Press?
If so, drop me a note at jeff[at]marcherlordpress[dot]com.
Thank you!
Jeff