204: Five hours of manuscript editing and an email critique worth $500

ITEM: Manuscript editing and an email critique worth $500

DETAILS: I will do five hours of editing time on a manuscript. Four reading and one hour writing an email critique. My usual rate is $100 an hour. So this would be worth $500 or more to the effort.

BIO: Barbara Fischkin is the author of the novel Confidential Sources (Bantam/Dell Random House, 2006), a satire of journalism, love, war, marriage, parenting, autism and ice hockey. Her earlier books include the novel Exclusive (Bantam Dell, 2005) and Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America, (Scribner, 1997), a landmark work of narrative nonfiction on immigration to the United States. She is currently writing a historical novel inspired by her elder son, Daniel Mulvaney, 26, who has severe autism. As an award-winning journalist, Fischkin, a former Newsday staffer, has reported from the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. She has taught journalism at three universities. In the international Autism community she is known as an advocate, speaker, writer and radio host. She lives on Long Island with her husband Jim Mulvaney, a private investigator and Pulitzer-prize winning former investigative editor and reporter. Their younger son Jack, graduated with honors from college and now teaches inner city schoolchildren in Philadelphia. Barbara has edited fiction and nonfiction manuscripts for professional women interested in telling their stories – an architect, a psychologist and a videographer – and for other writers as well. For more please see http://barbarafischkin.com or Barbara Fischkin on Linked in

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