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STEP 1: CHOOSE YOUR Mentor

Rebecca Cantrell, Becca Black, historical fiction, James Rollins

Rebecca Cantrell

Rebecca Cantrell

Rebecca Cantrell

  • Historical Fiction (specializing in historical mystery)
  • Horror
  • Thriller


Rebecca Cantrell is a New York Times bestselling thriller author who has won the Macavity, the Bruce Alexander, and International Thriller Writer's Best Ebook Original awards, and been nominated for the Barry, the RT Best Historical, the APPY, the Mary Higgins Clark, and

  • Historical Fiction (specializing in historical mystery)
  • Horror
  • Thriller


Rebecca Cantrell is a New York Times bestselling thriller author who has won the Macavity, the Bruce Alexander, and International Thriller Writer's Best Ebook Original awards, and been nominated for the Barry, the RT Best Historical, the APPY, the Mary Higgins Clark, and the GoodReads Choice award. Her novels include the Order of Sanguines series [co-written with James Rollins], starting with THE BLOOD GOSPEL; the Hannah Vogel mystery series, starting with A TRACE OF SMOKE; and the Joe Tesla thrillers, starting with THE WORLD BENEATH. 


www.rebeccacantrell.com

Rob Hart, Ron Howard, Warehouse, Amazon, author

Rob Hart

Rebecca Cantrell

Rebecca Cantrell

  • Speculative Fiction/Sci-Fi
  • Crime Fiction/Thriller
  • Literary Fiction


Rob Hart is the author of THE WAREHOUSE, a speculative thriller that sold in more than 20 countries and was optioned for film by Ron Howard. He also wrote the Ash McKenna crime series, the food-noir collection TAKE-OUT, and SCOTT FREE with James Patterson. His work has been i

  • Speculative Fiction/Sci-Fi
  • Crime Fiction/Thriller
  • Literary Fiction


Rob Hart is the author of THE WAREHOUSE, a speculative thriller that sold in more than 20 countries and was optioned for film by Ron Howard. He also wrote the Ash McKenna crime series, the food-noir collection TAKE-OUT, and SCOTT FREE with James Patterson. His work has been included in Best American Mystery Stories and he was nominated for a Derringer Award for best flash fiction. He also runs the online writing program at LitReactor.com, and is a former editor and publisher for Mysterious Press.

www.robwhart.com

Gabino Iglesias,

Gabino Iglesias

Rebecca Cantrell

Gabino Iglesias

  • Horror
  • Crime Fiction/Noir
  • Poetry
  • Bizarro
  • Online Content


Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist and book reviewer living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of ZERO SAINTS and COYOTE SONGS, and editor of the anthology BOTH SIDES, dealing with border issues. He is the book review editor for Pank Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR, as

  • Horror
  • Crime Fiction/Noir
  • Poetry
  • Bizarro
  • Online Content


Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist and book reviewer living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of ZERO SAINTS and COYOTE SONGS, and editor of the anthology BOTH SIDES, dealing with border issues. He is the book review editor for Pank Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR, as well as a columnist at LitReactor. You can find him on Twitter at @Gabino_Iglesias

Alex Jay Lore

Chantelle Aimée Osman

Gabino Iglesias

  • Young Adult
  • Romance
  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy


Alex Harrow is a queer, trans, and non-binary author of adult science fiction and fantasy with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Alex's pronouns are he/him and they/them. When not writing queerness with a chance of explosions, Alex is a high school English teacher, waging epic battles against comma splices and misused a

  • Young Adult
  • Romance
  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy


Alex Harrow is a queer, trans, and non-binary author of adult science fiction and fantasy with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Alex's pronouns are he/him and they/them. When not writing queerness with a chance of explosions, Alex is a high school English teacher, waging epic battles against comma splices and misused apostrophes. His debut science fiction novel, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is out now from NineStar Press. Alex is an LGBTQ+ advocate and educator, specializing in the areas of bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and aromantic representation in addition to transgender and non-binary issues. As a sensitivity reader, Alex offers in-depth knowledge on current queer and trans/non-binary issues and representation, along with his own lived experience.


www.alexharrow.com

Kris Neri, Sisters in Crime, Cozy Mystery

Kris Neri

Chantelle Aimée Osman

Chantelle Aimée Osman

  • Traditional Mystery
  • Paranormal
  • Humor (Fiction)


Kris Neri is the award-winning author of the Tracy Eaton mysteries, featuring the daughter of eccentric Hollywood stars, and the Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty paranormal mysteries, starring a questionable psychic who teams up with a modern goddess/FBI agent. Her novels have been finalist

  • Traditional Mystery
  • Paranormal
  • Humor (Fiction)


Kris Neri is the award-winning author of the Tracy Eaton mysteries, featuring the daughter of eccentric Hollywood stars, and the Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty paranormal mysteries, starring a questionable psychic who teams up with a modern goddess/FBI agent. Her novels have been finalists for the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity awards, to name a few. She has received three Lefty Award nominations for Best Humorous Mystery Novel. Kris has also had some sixty-plus short stories published in the US and overseas, her short fiction has been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize and won two Derringer Awards. Kris also teaches writing for the Writers’ Program of the UCLA Extension School and is a popular freelance editor. 


www.krisneri.com

Chantelle Osman, Chantelle Aimée Osman, Editor, Writer, Agora, Polis RT Book Reviews, Left Coast Cr

Chantelle Aimée Osman

Chantelle Aimée Osman

Chantelle Aimée Osman

  • All Fiction Genres
  • Crime Fiction (Mystery, Suspense, Thriller)
  • Screenplay


Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) is the editor of Agora Books, an award-winning imprint focusing on socially and culturally unique crime fiction and horror from publisher Polis Books. Since its founding in 2019, Agora titles have won three International Latino Book Awar

  • All Fiction Genres
  • Crime Fiction (Mystery, Suspense, Thriller)
  • Screenplay


Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) is the editor of Agora Books, an award-winning imprint focusing on socially and culturally unique crime fiction and horror from publisher Polis Books. Since its founding in 2019, Agora titles have won three International Latino Book Award medals, been nominated for Edgar, Stoker, Dagger, Anthony, Strand Critics, Macavity and Lefty awards, and been featured in NPR, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune and Entertainment Weekly. She was named a Publishers Weekly Rising Star honoree in 2020, she is also a professor at the LIU Brooklyn Polk School of Communication MFA in Writing and Publishing, an instructor at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Authors at Large and LitReactor. The former editor-in-chief of RT Book Reviews Magazine and a freelance editor for over 10 years, and has been a judge for the Phoenix Film Festival, International Thriller Awards and the National Association of Hispanic Publication’s José Martí Awards. Chantelle is the author of the non-fiction series on writing The Quick and Dirty Guides To…, has published numerous works of short fiction, and served as the editor of multiple anthologies, including the upcoming Jewish Noir, Volume 2 from PM Press. Chantelle serves as creative consultant for The Awakened, a graphic novel series through Zestworld Comics and co-writes Interpop's The Rejects with comic veteran Alex Segura. She hosts the Words of Prey podcast on the Pipeline Artists Network. Find her on Twitter @SuspenseSiren.


chantelleaimee.com

Jen Rabe, USA Today, IW award

Jean Rabe

Michael A. Stackpole

Alex Segura

  • Young Adult
  • Urban Fantasy


Jean Rabe is a USA Today bestselling author with more than 30 novels and nearly 100 short stories to her credit. She's published in the fantasy, science fiction, adventure, urban fantasy, and mystery genres; has edited several dozen anthologies; and edited more magazine issues than she cares to count. She lives in 

  • Young Adult
  • Urban Fantasy


Jean Rabe is a USA Today bestselling author with more than 30 novels and nearly 100 short stories to her credit. She's published in the fantasy, science fiction, adventure, urban fantasy, and mystery genres; has edited several dozen anthologies; and edited more magazine issues than she cares to count. She lives in a tiny town in the middle of Illinois surrounded by farm fields and train tracks. The sky is huge, the yard is just the right size for her cadre of dogs, and the back porch is perfect for writing. She is a WWI buff, gamer, and a devotee of warm weather. Her urban fantasy POCKETS OF DARKNESS was recently nominated for an ITW award.


www.jeanrabe.com

Alex Segura, Archie, Comics

Alex Segura

Michael A. Stackpole

Alex Segura

  • Comic Books/Graphic Novels
  • Crime Fiction


Alex Segura is an acclaimed writer of novels, comic books, and podcasts. He is the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Pete Fernandez Mystery series(including the the Anthony Award-nominated crime novels Dangerous Ends, Blackout. and Miami Midnight), and the upcoming Secret Identity (Flat

  • Comic Books/Graphic Novels
  • Crime Fiction


Alex Segura is an acclaimed writer of novels, comic books, and podcasts. He is the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Pete Fernandez Mystery series(including the the Anthony Award-nominated crime novels Dangerous Ends, Blackout. and Miami Midnight), and the upcoming Secret Identity (Flatiron Books). He has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black Ghost, the YA music series The Archies, and the “Archie Meets” collection of crossovers, featuring real-life cameos from the Ramones, B-52s, and more. He is also the co-creator/co-writer of the Lethal Lit crime/YA podcast from iHeart Radio, which was named one of the best podcasts of 2015 by The New York Times. By day he is Co-President of Archie Comics. A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife and children


www.alexsegura.com

Michael A. Stackpole, I Jedi, Star Wars, Pathfinder, World of Warcraft

Michael A. Stackpole

Michael A. Stackpole

Michael A. Stackpole

  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Media Tie-In


Michael A. Stackpole is the multiple New York Times bestselling author of over forty fantasy and science fiction novels, his best known books written in the Star Wars® universe, including I, JEDI and ROGUE SQUADRON, as well as the X-Wing graphic novel series. He has also written in the Conan, Pathfinder a

  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Media Tie-In


Michael A. Stackpole is the multiple New York Times bestselling author of over forty fantasy and science fiction novels, his best known books written in the Star Wars® universe, including I, JEDI and ROGUE SQUADRON, as well as the X-Wing graphic novel series. He has also written in the Conan, Pathfinder and World of Warcraft universes, among others. A former the Virginia G. Piper Center Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Stackpole’s other honors include: Induction into the Academy Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame, a Parsec Award for “Best Podcast Short Story,” and a Topps’s selection as Best Star Wars® Comic Book Writer. Stackpole is the first author to sell work in Apple’s App Store, and he’s been an advocate for authors taking advantage of the digital revolution.


www.michaelastackpole.com

Robert Vardeman, Bob Vardeman

Robert E. Vardeman

Robert E. Vardeman

Michael A. Stackpole

  • Western
  • High Tech (Fiction)
  • Sports (Non-Fiction)
  • Media Tie-In


Robert E Vardeman has published 150 westerns and more than 100 science fiction, fantasy, mystery and high tech thrillers. He has worked as editor for My Family Magazine, the SFWA Forum, and still works on the editorial staff for four magazines, including the 2013 FSTA award-winning

  • Western
  • High Tech (Fiction)
  • Sports (Non-Fiction)
  • Media Tie-In


Robert E Vardeman has published 150 westerns and more than 100 science fiction, fantasy, mystery and high tech thrillers. He has worked as editor for My Family Magazine, the SFWA Forum, and still works on the editorial staff for four magazines, including the 2013 FSTA award-winning Fantasy Football ProForecast and the 2016 FSWA award-winning Fantasy Sports Diehards. Vardeman's awards nominations include five Arizona-New Mexico Book Awards nods, in addition to Scribe, Peacemaker and World Science Fiction Convention Hugo fan writer nominations.He has taught at Longridge Writers Institute and has served as judge for the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and awards chairman for the Western Fictioneers. He holds a BS in physics and an MS in materials engineering, and worked at Sandia National Laboratories in solid state physics research before becoming a full-time writer.


www.cenotaphroad.com

Jon Vercher, THREE-FIFTHS, biracial

John Vercher

Robert E. Vardeman

John Vercher

  • Literary Fiction
  • Narrative Non-Fiction
  • Memoir


John Vercher is the author of the novels THREE-FIFTHS (Agora Books, 2019) and ATER THE LIGHTS GO OUT (Soho Press, 2022). THREE-FIFTHS has been nominated for an Edgar award for Best Debut Novel, an Anthony award for Best First Novel, a Strand Critics’ award,  a Lefty award for Best First Novel, an

  • Literary Fiction
  • Narrative Non-Fiction
  • Memoir


John Vercher is the author of the novels THREE-FIFTHS (Agora Books, 2019) and ATER THE LIGHTS GO OUT (Soho Press, 2022). THREE-FIFTHS has been nominated for an Edgar award for Best Debut Novel, an Anthony award for Best First Novel, a Strand Critics’ award,  a Lefty award for Best First Novel, and named a Best Book of 2019 by The Chicago Tribune, a Best Book of the Week by the New York Post, a Top 10 Crime Fiction Debut by Booklist, and has sold internationally, including France, Japan, and the U.K. The novel also received starred reviews from Booklist and the Library Journal, and a cover reveal in Entertainment Weekly online.  John is a contributing writer for Cognoscenti, through NPR affiliate WBUR Boston. Two of his personal essays on race, identity, and parenting were picked up by NPR. His non-fiction work has also appeared in Entropy Magazine and Booklist. As a ghostwriter, he's worked for: former NFL executives, social change agents, retired Navy Seals, former hostage negotiators, CEOs, television personalities, physicians and other health care providers.


www.johnvercherauthor.com

Bryan Young, Carrie Fisher, Star Wars, Screenwriting, Independent Films

Bryan Young

Robert E. Vardeman

John Vercher

  • Screenplay
  • Science-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Comics/Graphic Novels
  • Media Tie-In


Bryan Young (he/they) works across many different media. His work as a writer and producer has been called "filmmaking gold" by The New York Times. He's also published comic books with Slave Labor Graphics and Image Comics. He's been a regular contributor for the Huffing

  • Screenplay
  • Science-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Comics/Graphic Novels
  • Media Tie-In


Bryan Young (he/they) works across many different media. His work as a writer and producer has been called "filmmaking gold" by The New York Times. He's also published comic books with Slave Labor Graphics and Image Comics. He's been a regular contributor for the Huffington Post, StarWars.com, Star Wars Insider magazine, SYFY, /Film, and was the founder and editor in chief of the geek news and review site Big Shiny Robot! IN 2014, he wrote the critically acclaimed history book, A Children’s Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination. He co-authored Robotech: The Macross Saga RPG in 2019 and in 2020 he wrote a novel in the BattleTech Universe called Honor's Gauntlet. He teaches writing for Writer’s Digest, Script Magazine, and at the University of Utah. 


www.swankmotron.com

STEP 2: ChOOSE YOUR SERVICES

CONSULTATIONS

Accountability E-Mails - General

75

Every week (or 4 times at your discretion)  22 Literary will send you an email to check in on your progress, give  encouragement, and provide tips on how to improve.

Accountability E-Mails - Mentor

150

Every week (or 4 times at your discretion) your chosen mentor will send you an email to check in on your progress, give  encouragement, and provide tips on how to improve.

Practice Pitch Call 30 min

199

Going to a conference (virtual or in person) and nervous about your pitch? Have a coaching session and be prepared for anything that comes along.

Brainstorming Call 30 min

199

Talk to your mentor for a half an hour about the topic of your choice, brainstorming about your work, your platform, how and where to query, are just a few examples.

Brainstorming Call 60 min

250

Talk to your mentor fof an hour about the topic of your choice, brainstorming about your work, your platform, how and where to query, are just a few examples.

Consulting Call 30 min

75

This service is only available as an add-on when another service has been purchased. Can be added to any service to discuss review/edit or next steps.


ReviewS

Submission Package Review

550

Includes review of query letter, synopsis and first 50 pages.

Outline or Proposal Review

750

Review and advice regarding outline or proposal.

Full Manuscript Review (-70k Words)

990

Read-only-report/editorial letter of 5+ pages with overall notes. Perfect for new writers and as a diagnostic tool to spot overall issues prior to doing a line edit.

Full Manuscript Review (+75k Words)

1999

Read-only-report/editorial letter of 5+ pages with overall notes. Perfect for new writers and as a diagnostic tool to spot overall issues prior to doing a line edit.

Full Manuscript Review (+125k Words)

2750

Read-only-report/editorial letter of 5+ pages with overall notes. Perfect for new writers and as a diagnostic tool to spot overall issues prior to doing a line edit.


sensitivity reads

Available Upon Request

We are proud to have Mentors able to provide sensitivity reads on a variety of topics. Sensitivity reads are subject to the  availability of the appropriate Mentor. Other topics may be available upon request. Please inquire.

Sensitivity Read (-70k Words)

990

Sensitivity Read (+75K Words)

1999

Sensitivity Read (+125k)

2750

Available Topics

  • LGBTQ+ Issues:  bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and aromantic identities
  • Non-binary issues and representation
  • Transgender issues and representation,  transmasculine and transmale identities
  • Mental Illness: depression, anxiety, PTSD
  • Neurodivergence (ADHD, synesthesia, autism)
  • Immigrant Issues: multilingual backgrounds, bilingualism, non-native speakers, undocumented immigrants
  • Cultural/Racial Issues: Latinx, Black/African American, Caribbean, European, mixed-race/biracial, "otherness"


EDITS

Submission Package Edit

750

Includes edit of query letter, synopsis and first 50 pages.

Full Manuscript Edit

$0.08

Full manuscript line edit, charged per word.

100 Page Edit

1999

One hundred page edit, any portion of the manuscript.

Full Manuscript Edit (Add-On)

$0.06

Full manuscript edit, charged per word, discounted if purchased with an additional service.

STEP 3: LET US KNOW

E-Mail Us With:

  1. Your name
  2. Your title, genre and word count
  3. Your top two preferred mentors
  4. Any proposed deadlines


* 10% of proceeds will be donated to literacy charities.

* Please note, not all mentors are available for all services, and contracting is at their discretion.

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