50 page Copyediting service (Editorial Intern Shannon Davis)

Editorial Intern Shannon Davis has offered services for editing. The highest bidder will win the following package:

• Services for editing, copyediting, and proofreading of 50 pages

Opening Bid: 25$

Round bid up to the nearest $5 amount. For ex: if you want to bid 33$, pleases bid 35$. It make sit easier for us. :) Include your bid in the comments below. The auction will start Tuesday (Dec 18th) at 9 AM EST (6 AM EST) and end Friday, Dec 21st at 11:59 PM EST (9 PM PT).

Auction Procedures:

If you’d like to bid on this auction, check the current high bid in the comments and place a higher bid by leaving your name and bid amount in the comments, along with some way to contact you (email).

Winners will be notified when the auction ends and should be prepared to make an online donation withing 48 hours of winning  After you’ve made your donation, you’ll forward your receipt to me, and I’ll put you in touch with the person who donated the service you won so that the two of you can work out the details about how and when.   

All services will be provided at the convenience of both the person making the donation and the auction winner, but this should happen within three months of the auction’s end unless something else is agreed upon by both parties.

Good luck!

Editor/Intern Shannon Davis 

I am a graduate student in Publishing & Writing at Emerson College and an Editorial Intern at Beacon Press in Boston. I have developmentally edited creative nonfiction manuscripts and copyedited for a Public Health nursing project. I have experience with eBook development. I live in Waltham, MA with my husband and 8 month old son. My heart goes out to those in Newtown. It's all I can think about.

Query Critique/Signed copy of Sea Change (Scholastic Editor/Bestselling Author Aimee Friedman)

Scholastic Editor/Author Aimee Friedman has offered a query critique and a signed copy of Sea Change. The highest bidder will win the
following package:

• A one-page Query Critique
• Signed hardback of her book, Sea Change

Opening Bid: 25$

Round bid up to the nearest $5 amount. For ex: if you want to bid 33$, pleases bid 35$. It make sit easier for us. :) Include your bid in the comments below. The auction will start Tuesday (Dec 18th) at 9 AM EST (6 AM EST) and end Friday, Dec 21st at 11:59 PM EST (9 PM PT).

Auction Procedures:

If you’d like to bid on this auction, check the current high bid in the comments and place a higher bid by leaving your name and bid amount in the comments, along with some way to contact you (email) 

Winners will be notified when the auction ends and should be prepared to make an online donation withing 48 hours of winning  After you’ve made your donation, you’ll forward your receipt to me, and I’ll put you in touch with the person who donated the service you won so that the two of you can work out the details about how and when.   

All services will be provided at the convenience of both the person making the donation and the auction winner, but this should happen within three months of the auction’s end unless something else is agreed upon by both parties.

Good luck!

Scholastic Editor/Bestselling Author Aimee Friedman

New York native Aimee Friedman is a senior book editor and noted author of teen novels. Her first work, theNew York Times bestseller South Beach, described a topsy-turvy spring break for two high school juniors, Holly and Alexa, who, though contrast in personality, experience a trip of a lifetime together. South Beachwas followed up by French Kiss, in which the characters travel to Paris, and Hollywood Hills, which takes the girls to L.A. Aimee is also the author of Breaking Up: A Fashion High Graphic Novel, which was illustrated by Christine Norrie, and examines what happens to friendships when boys come into the picture. Aimee's other work for teens includes the romantic comedy, A Novel Idea, and short stories in the collections Mistletoe and21 Proms.

Aimee's latest book, The Year My Sister Got Lucky, is her first hardcover novel, and her most personal book yet. It explores the relationship between two sisters, who are best friends, bona fide city girls, and students at a prestigious ballet school (much like Aimee and her older sister). Everything changes, though, when the sisters move to a small, rural town, and the younger sister finds her older sister drifting away from her. Will things ever be the same?

Aimee currently resides in Manhattan, and when she is not writing or editing manuscripts, she is spending time with her friends and family, exploring small bookstores and museums, or shoe-shopping

50 Page critique & 30 min phone call (S&S Editor Ruta Rimes)

S&S Editor Ruta Rimas has offered a 50 Page manuscript critique and 30 minute follow up phone call. The highest bidder will win the following package:

• 50 page manuscript critique
• 30 minute follow up call to discuss comments and WIP

Opening Bid: 50$

Round bid up to the nearest $5 amount. For ex: if you want to bid 33$, pleases bid 35$. It make sit easier for us. :) Include your bid in the comments below. The auction will start Monday (Dec 17th) at 9 AM EST (6 AM EST) and end Friday, Dec 21st at 11:59 PM EST (9 PM PT).

Auction Procedures:

If you’d like to bid on this auction, check the current high bid in the comments and place a higher bid by leaving your name and bid amount in the comments, along with some way to contact you (email) 

Winners will be notified when the auction ends and should be prepared to make an online donation withing 48 hours of winning  After you’ve made your donation, you’ll forward your receipt to me, and I’ll put you in touch with the person who donated the service you won so that the two of you can work out the details about how and when.   

All services will be provided at the convenience of both the person making the donation and the auction winner, but this should happen within three months of the auction’s end unless something else is agreed upon by both parties.

Good luck!

Editor Ruta Rimas

Ruta Rimas joined Simon & Schuster in July 2011. She edits and acquires picture books, middle-grade novels, and teen novels for both the Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry imprints. Prior to S&S, Ruta worked for the Balzer + Bray imprint at HarperCollins. She’s had the honor and privilege of working with some of the most talented authors and illustrators in the industry, including Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond, Kadir Nelson, Heidi Ayarbe, Dan Wells, Maryrose Wood, Elissa Brent Weissman, Melissa Wiley, Janet Ruth Young, and many others. Ruta loves characters that come to life on the pages, stories that resonate long after the last page is read, and fiction that challenges our preconceived notions of the world.

Package of awesome YA ARCS from Penguin Young Readers (Editor Jill Santopolo)

Editor Jill Santopolo has offered a package of YA ARCs that will be released by Philomel, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, between January and June of 2013. The highest bidder will win the following package:

RISE by Andrea Cremer
BELLADONNA by Fiona Paul
ASHES ON THE WAVES by Mary Lindsey
HOW (NOT) TO FIND A BOYFRIEND by Allyson Valentine
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING by Kari Luna
INVISIBILITY by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan

Opening Bid: $30

Round bid up to the nearest $5 amount. For ex: if you want to bid 33$, pleases bid 35$. It make sit easier for us. :) Include your bid in the comments below. The auction will start Monday (Dec 17th) at 9 AM EST (6 AM EST) and end Friday, Dec 21st at 11:59 PM EST (9 PM PT).

Auction Procedures:

If you’d like to bid on this auction, check the current high bid in the comments and place a higher bid by leaving your name and bid amount in the comments, along with some way to contact you (email).

Winners will be notified when the auction ends and should be prepared to make an online donation withing 48 hours of winning  After you’ve made your donation, you’ll forward your receipt to me, and I’ll put you in touch with the person who donated the service you won so that the two of you can work out the details about how and when.   

All services will be provided at the convenience of both the person making the donation and the auction winner, but this should happen within three months of the auction’s end unless something else is agreed upon by both parties.

Good luck!

Executive Editor Jill Santopolo

Jill Santopolo is an Executive Editor at Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group. In addition to her editorial duties, she's a published author (Alec Flint, Super Sleuth: The Nina, the Pinta and the Vanishing Treasure, Scholastic 2008), a graduate of Vermont College's MFA program, and a writing teacher.