The first hour by phone or in-person is free. If we find we have a mutual affinity and decide to work together,
I charge $50 per hour for my time, editing and mentoring, and $80 per hour for writing.
The first reading of a manuscript
is $3 per page.
Send a summary of your writing project, and,
if applicable, include a 300-word writing sample
as an MS Word attachment or pdf, to
Summer at summersyntax.com
And as regards the word “art,” I fear it as merchants’ wives fear a Sodom rain of brimstone. When people talk to me of the artistic and the anti-artistic, of that which is theatric, of tendency, realism, etc., I become confused, consent irresolutely, and answer with platitudinous half-truths that are not worth a penny. I divide all literary works into two classes:
those that I like and those that I do not like.
—Anton Chekhov