The beginning date of the next self-editing course, Before You Hit Send is set for May 13, 2013 . You can also register for the August 2013 course.

Curious about the course? Here’s a description:

WHEN: Begins May 13, 2013 (following course begins August 5, 2013)

WHERE: Online forum.

This is a work-at-your-own-pace workshop, so participants don’t need to be available at a certain time of day.

Join Executive Editor Angela James, host of the Twitter monthly #editreport, for a 3 week workshop as she shares some of the common pitfalls she’s seen during her almost decade of experience working as an editor with hundreds of authors and sorting through thousands of submissions, contest entries and manuscripts.

What you’ll learn:

Concrete ideas, tips and tricks for polishing and self-editing your manuscript. Tips are delivered in daily individual lessons along with examples and assignments to help you get the most out of your workshop experience. Workshop participants will develop a checklist of techniques, tips, information and processes for enhancing their self-editing skills and polishing future manuscripts, as well as learn how to make the new knowledge a habit while writing future books.

Learn both the basics and advanced techniques of:

• Dialogue and dialogue tags
• Whether all forms of “to be” are really evil (the answer is no)
• Just what you’re doing to your life expectancy with your use of that exclamation point
• What is overwriting? How can you avoid it?
• Basic and advanced punctuation
• Passive voice vs active voice, how to tell the difference
• Point of view
• Pacing
• What we mean by show not tell. And how to do that!
• Formalizing and finalizing your manuscript before you hit send.
• …much, much more. Daily lessons–sometimes 3/lessons in a day!

The course, updated and enhanced with new material and information each time it’s offered, will guide you from the basics of self-editing and grammar in a clear, conversational manner with examples, to more advanced topics such as show versus tell and passive voice. Through it all, Angela will be available for clarification and questions in order to help you on your way to a cleaned-up manuscript and understanding the basics of editing your manuscript.

The course has been developed over the last 3 years, is continuously updated and refined, and has been given to over 700 satisfied participants, both online and in person, including aspiring authors, authors who’ve written dozens of books, editors and copy editors.

Who should attend?

• Aspiring authors
• Authors interested in polishing their craft
• Self-publishing authors
• Multi-published authors–you may be surprised by what there still is to learn!
• Freelance editors and copy editors looking to enhance their curriculum vitae.
• Anyone interested in learning to edit and copy edit.

This workshop takes place on a private forum, and one to three lessons a day are posted for the three week period. Participants work at their own pace and ask questions as they do the lessons, while Angela will read and respond daily. There is not regimented schedule for participants, so if you have other obligations, you can definitely work around it.

Cost: $55.00 (and people who’ve taken it say it’s worth far more than that!!)

Space is limited so register now! Next workshops will be held in August 2013 and October 2013.

Please note that Paypal is the only payment option accepted at this time, and payment needs to be completed at time of registration. Refunds are not offered. Thank you! Note: Throughout the years, I’ve had a number of people repeat the course. I offer a discount to those who are taking it for a second (or third!!) time, so please email B4YouHitSend at Gmail.com and we’ll provide you with a discount code.

For questions about registration or the Before You Hit Send Self-Editing Workshop, please email B4YouHitSend at Gmail.com. We suggest adding this email to your email system’s whitelist/safelist to ensure you receive all correspondence prior to the course. Approximately 5 days before the course begins, you will receive forum registration information. This is sent to everyone who has paid and registered, so if you think you haven’t received it, please check your spam first, and then email us at B4YouHitSend at Gmail.com.  My moderator sends multiple emails during the first week, to ensure everyone is receiving the information, tracking who hasn’t yet logged onto the forum, so we are careful about ensuring the information is received. We ask that you help us out so you get what you paid for, and do the same by adding us to your email safelist!

Registration for this event is at this page