How Can We Help

Do you stare at a blank screen, not sure where your characters need to take your storyline? Do you need help:

Overcoming Manuscript Blahs?
Finishing the never-ending manuscript?
Resolving point of view issues?
Understanding why your dialogue doesnt work?
Identifying what your plot is lacking?
Overcoming writers block?
Thinking of places to go for research?

Do you need help with these and other stumbling blocks hindering your writing? Jo Wilkins, partner and the Chief Operations Officer of Mystic Publishers, can advise, discuss and coach you until your writing muses return.

What allows her the ability to do this?  Though Jo has written all her life, she has
been a full time writer since 1991.  Over that time she has developed from an award winning poet to a published author of short stories, essays, science fiction novels,  and a soon to be published mystery.

Writing accomplishments:

Top placement in 1973 Citywide Poetry contest, judged by professors from Orange
Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA.

Publication of poetry in local Henderson magazines and pamphlets in the mid1980s.

Founder and President of Henderson Writers Group 2001. (see www.hendersonwritersgroup.com)

Leading force in bringing successful writers conferences to the Las Vegas area
since 2003. (see www.lasvegaswritersconference.com)

Essays aired on KNPR (still available at www.knpr.org  in the Making Nevada
Home archives) 2001.

Since 1991 Jo has worked with Richard R. Draude on the Tyranny Series:
Tyrannys Outpost  Published in 2003. Audio rights purchased by Books in
Motion and released in February of 2006.
Tyrannys Prisoner  Published in 2004.  Released in audio format by Books in Motion in  March of 2006.
Tyrannys Alliance  Published in 2007. Books in Motion Audio version came out in September of 2008.
Short Stories and poetry in half a dozen anthologies.

Following are the best of the collections in which she appears:
1. Writers Block  Henderson Writers Group Collection, Henderson, NV.
2. Mother  to Daughters CD Anthology  Quills Writers Group, Las Vegas, NV.
3. Writing Teacher  Beginning & Intermediate writing classes for the City of Henderson,  Henderson, Nevada
4. Completed her 1st mystery, based on real life experiences, which will be coming into publication soon.

Pricing:
Evaluation is $50 per 100 pages

(This service is not editing.  It is an evaluation of how to improve your manuscript or how to remedy the problems keeping your manuscript from being taken seriously)