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About this item: A couple hour marketing consultation, which can include advice on building audience for website, SEO, website usability, and email marketing.  Donated by … Poirier Pages Dee Poirier Website | Twitter I’m an internet and email marketing professional located in the Orlando, Florida area. Above all else, I have a passion for email marketing — Weird right? Second to that, ecommerce. Improving conversions, following trends, forecasting, these are the things that make me Read more…

About this item: A query and first chapter critique of manuscript. Donated by … Wendy Spinale Website | Twitter Wendy is the author of EVERLAND coming 2016. She’s a Pitch Wars mentor. Represented by Thao Le with Sandra Dijkstra Agency. Published by Scholastic.   STARTING BID: $10 TURNAROUND TIME allow two weeks for query critiques + 1st chapters, four weeks for partials, and six weeks for full critiques. Donors will discuss turnaround times with winners. Read more…

About this item: A query and first fifty pages of a young adult manuscript critique. Donated by … Jodie Andrefski Website | Twitter Jodie’s been passionate about reading ever since she was a little girl, when she used to climb trees to escape with a favorite book. She now lives and writes in a small town in Pennsylvania with her teenage daughter. Though still an avid reader, she now prefers a comfy chair over the Read more…

About this item: A full manuscript diagnosis redeemable in September. Donated by … Lara Edits Website | Twitter Hailing from the arid highlands of Colorado, Lara Willard graduated with highest honors in Interdisciplinary Studies (Literature, Writing, Editing, and Design) from the University of Northwestern. She writes poetry, contemporary short fiction, and fantasy novels. Lara lives in Minnesota with her husband, sons, and dog-show dropout Havanese. See her editor bio here. Will not edit certain scenes or genres. No Read more…

About this item: a 50 page middle grade manuscript critique. Donated by … Jen Malone Website | Twitter | Jen Malone Consults Website Jen writes books for tweens and teens, including At Your Service and the You’re Invited series with Simon & Schuster, and Map to the Stars and the forthcoming Wanderlost with HarperCollins. She is a former Hollywood marketing exec who once spent a year traveling the world solo, met her husband on the highway (literally), and went into labor with her identical Read more…