Samantha Ladwig

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I'm currently available for one-on-one essay consultations that involve writing, editing, and/or pitching. Below is a breakdown of services, rates, and a bit about my working style.

Connecting with a writer and their work is essential to a consultation. Before committing to a project, I will ask you a few questions to find out more about you, your work, and what you're hoping to gain from our time together. Depending on the type of consultation, I might also ask for a writing sample to get a better sense of the writer.
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SERVICES OFFERED

• Essay identification
• Developmental editing
• Pitching and submission guidance
• Career advice/motivation/accountability

Essay identification​ ($40 per half hour): Or, finding the essay within the experience. Our time together will be spent cracking open the experience(s) you'd like to write about to reveal the essay within it as well as your unique perspective.

Developmental editing ($80 per essay, up to 8 pages double spaced; $45 per half hour, one-on-one consultation to discuss feedback): Rates are flexible depending on needs. This consultation is for those with a work in progress, whatever stage it may be in. I will provide comments throughout your draft, a letter of feedback on the overall work, and if you'd like to add it, the half hour, one-on-one meeting.

Pitching and submission guidance ($35 per pitch; $40 per half hour, one-on-one consultation): Help with identifying publications and pitching your proposed or completed piece. We'll go over best practices, strategies, and how to write about your work.

Career advice/motivation/accountability ($40 per half hour): This consultation is for writers of all levels and can involve anything from how to write through a rut, how to break into publishing, general accountability work, reformatting your essay for different publications, maintaining motivation, etc.

Samantha Ladwig's work has been published by The Cut, Literary Hub, Vulture, Bustle, Vice, Real Simple, HuffPost, Vox, and others. She is a book reviewer for BUST magazine, writing instructor, and co-owner of Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, Washington. Find her at samanthaladwig.com.

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Sonya Lea

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Services Offered:

Book Proposal Development | Three to five meetings with assignments | Includes research assistance, notes on each section, recommendations.

Query Letters | One to three meetings with assignments | Includes examples, advice and support.

Manuscript Consultation | I read your manuscript and observe the work as a whole. My work is with the broad direction of your book, helping you form a vision for the book. Sometimes the writer prefers to work chapter by chapter to ensure that the vision is successfully executed. Our focus together is on your story’s perspective, narrative style, characterization, dialogue, language and style, and any other areas that call for attention. | Estimates provided.

Note: It’s important that I’m the right mentor for your work. I’ll often ask questions and read a brief sample of your work to determine whether I'm a good fit for you. I work mostly in creative nonfiction though I have edited fiction. I'm not a fit for humor, self-help, mystery or romance genres. I don't do line editing, copyediting, or proofreading.

Working Style:

After my partner forgot his life in a surgical accident, I moved toward writing as a form of being curious about his memoryless experience. I think narrative is liberatory. If you have a manuscript, an essay, or even notes to begin a project, I can meet your work where it is, protecting your vision and voice. Writers remark that my gift is looking deeply into the work, and then reflecting back what is moving through the piece. I believe in writing as mystery, a consciousness inseparable from the body and artmaking.

Availability:

I take on a limited number of full manuscripts each year, and book about three months in advance. I can schedule weekly, bi-weekly or monthly meetings. I can meet on zoom, or phone or in person in the Pacific Northwest, where mutually convenient. Prior to our initial consultation, I offer a free fifteen-minute phone or zoom conversation.

Rates: $125/hour

Sonya Lea’s memoir, Wondering Who You Are, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Wondering has won awards and garnered praise in a number of publications including Oprah Magazine, People, and the BBC, who named it a “top ten book.” Her essays have appeared in Salon, The Southern Review, Brevity, Guernica, Ms. Magazine, The Prentice Hall College Reader, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and more.
 
Lea’s forthcoming book, American Bloodlines: Reckoning With Lynch Culture, is a story about the last public execution in America, a legal lynching in Owensboro, Kentucky, where she was born. She’s also at work on a novel. Lea is the recipient of an Artist Trust Award, two Canada Council Awards, and a grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. As a writer and marketing professional, Lea has been working with clients as a mentor and a freelance developmental editor since 2016. She teaches nonfiction at Corporeal Writing, Hugo House, and Imprint Books, and she developed a pilot project to teach writing to women veterans through the Red Badge Project. Lea also offers writing retreats throughout the Pacific Northwest and western Canada.

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Faith Pray

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Services offered (customized to your goals & timeline):

• Creativity coaching 
• Picture book writing critique (1 picture book text, up to 600 words)  
• Illustration / portfolio critique 
• Picture book writing + illustrating critique (for 1 picture book with text + illustrations)

I’m happy to meet with you about your children’s book writing, illustrating, or just about your creative journey. After we connect about your needs, I will offer advice, critique, helpful tools, or ideas to help you work on your creative goals. 

​Working Style:

As an art maker, tactile learner, and mom of four, I take a playful approach to writing. I want to be a voice of courage and creativity for writers, and for illustrators, especially those interested in making children’s books. Thanks to my own experience of finding a way through post-traumatic writer’s block, I can offer tools and creative ideas to hopefully help you break through stagnant writing spaces. I am available to meet with you at any stage of a project, especially related to picture books - early-stage ideas, drafting, revisions, and preparing for submission. 

Before we get started, I’ll ask for information on what you are hoping to receive, and depending on what you need,  I'll ask you to assemble text, or art, a list of goals, etc, and we will go from there.   

Rates: 

• $50 per critique (via email)     
  
• $90 per 1 hour meeting (in person, zoom, or phone) 

Faith Pray (yes, that’s her name, by marriage) is an award-winning children’s book author-illustrator from Port Townsend, Washington. After a stroke left her struggling to find her writing self again, Faith set out to tell stories through art as a form of therapy, and has since written and illustrated six books, plus more in the works. Faith is the author-illustrator of PERFECTLY IMPERFECT MIRA, THE STARKEEPER, THE DAY WE GOT LOST, and the illustrator of FINDING GRATEFUL by Dianne White, ONE DAY by Joanna Ho, and ONCE UPON A TIMELY by Lynn Parrish Sutton. Faith’s latest book THE DAY WE GOT LOST is set in the Pacific Northwest woods and is an ode to free spirits and adventure lovers everywhere.

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Anna Quinn

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Services offered:
 
Step-by-step guidance in writing a novel or memoir from start to finish.
 
Techniques to:

• shape and structure your novel or memoir.
• layer and deepen the elements of voice, emotion, point of view, exposition, dialogue, setting, sensory imagery, theme exploration.  
• self-edit and revise

           
Coaching to navigate doubt and uncertainty and become a more confident writer.
 
Strategies to:

• navigate doubt, imposter syndrome, rejection and perfectionism.
• build self-trust, self-confidence and risk-taking.
• encourage writing from a loose, unrestrained, joyous place.

 
Working Style:
 
I deeply understand the exciting, messy, absorbing, confusing, vulnerable, fascinating journey of writing—it’s extremely emotional and intellectual work. My whole intention in working with writers is to encourage their unique voice and style, draw out the essence and strength of their writing, and to offer compassionate, constructive feedback to further deepen their writing skills and experiences.
 
Availability:

I’m available year-round, for either weekly, bi-weekly or monthly meetings. I can meet in-person, on zoom, phone or email. Prior to our or our initial consultation, I offer a free fifteen-minute phone or zoom conversation.

Rates: $90/hr

Anna Quinn is the author of The Night Child, (Blackstone, 2018) listed as #1 Best Real Psychological Fiction on Goodreads, and Ingram’s 2018 Best Book Group Book. Her second novel, Angeline, (Blackstone 2023) is a 2024 Foreword Review Winner and was nominated for a Washington State Book Award. Her work has garnered blurbs from Meg Waite Clayton, Luis Alberto Urrea, Elizabeth George, Pam Houston, Melissa Febos, Lidia Yuknavitch, Library Journal, and more. Quinn’s writing has appeared in Psychology Today, New York Times Book Review, Medium, Writer’s Digest, and the Alone Together Anthology. She’s been a writing instructor for three decades and is the former co-founder of The Writers’ Workshoppe.

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