Ok, so, I'm writing this blog post ahead of time and scheduling it to post tomorrow (yay, technology! It's like Back to the Future 2 over here! Where's my hoverboard?!), because tomorrow I will be busy driving to Racine to see my dad, and then back to Madison to stay over at my mom's, and eating lots of cookies and snack foods and pork roast and pie along the way. Unless the ice storm of the century arrives tonight as predicted, in which case it'll be like that one part of Dr. Zhivago and I'll get out my balalaika and pile on the furs and play "Lara's Theme".
(Note to self: Go to the video store today and rent Dr. Zhivago and The Ice Storm and maybe The Day After Tomorrow and then stop by the liquor store to buy ingredients for glögg and perhaps snow jobs [I just googled snow-themed drinks and that sounds delicious!] and then buy a big tub of holiday popcorn and hunker down to wait out the thaw.)
BUT! This isn't what I wanted to blog about today. Instead of jabbering on and on about my holiday festivities, I wanted to give you a present!
Well, if you want it. It's an opt-in present.
I would love to give you some red ink for Christmas. If you'd like, I'll take an editorial pass through the first fifteen pages of your WIP (well, actually, any fifteen pages of your WIP, just so long as they're contiguous).
There's some fine print, of course: This doesn't count as a submission to Tyrus Books, this is me wearing my leisure-time editorial hat, not my day job editorial hat. I only have time to do this for five people, so call dibs in the comments and leave an email address where I can reach you. This is for manuscript pages only, not query letters nor outlines nor character studies. I'll happily edit non-crime/mystery pages, if that's what you've got -- but again, leisure-hat is on, so this does not reflect a change in the Tyrus Books submissions guidelines. I'll be using track changes in Word, so it'll all be electronic.
Merry Christmas, Dead Guy readers! I hope your holiday season is wonderful.
