CONTACT INFORMATION
Tel. 440.954.4039 • Email: Fill out CONTACT link, above
Description: Depending on my availability and schedule, I will perform editorial consultation, including line-editing (includes copy-editing and word-change suggestions) the following: novels, essays, short stories, nonfiction book manuscripts, stage plays and screen plays and suggest possible changes in plot, character development, setting, pacing, dialogue; or, where appropriate, leave it alone and let you know what works and why.
• Rate: $50/hr. reading, analyzing, and consulting. Two-hour minimum.
• Sample rates for 12 pt. font, double-spaced work:
• Short story 15 pages or fewer: 1 hour read and 1 hour meeting - $100
• Novel 250 pages: 20 hours. $1000. Includes detailed notes via MS Word on e-copy (preferable for both client and me) or hand-written on hard copy. Also includes, when appropriate, a written summary or one hour meeting.
Quote will be based on format and length submitted material. I will provide a quote prior to the commencement of any work. Payment is 50% to begin work; 50% at final consultation. The last 50% may be adjusted up or down as per actual work involved and mutual agreement.
Before you commit to a manuscript edit and/or consultation - whatever your genre may be, please understand that your work may be subject to criticism and comment, as well as praise and suggestions. My job is not to simply make you feel better about your work, but to make your work better. (Then you'll feel better.) It's to help you get it in the best shape possible for your purposes, be they commercial publication or personal gratification, and everything in between (such as self-publishing).
Finally, I reserve the right to reject a manuscript consultation and/or edit for any reason, such as subject matter, scheduling, or if I think I am not the best person to help you with your manuscript. Thank you. -- Scott Lax
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
FICTION
February 14, 2010 - Scott Lax's short story, "Sales Call," won 2nd Place for Fiction in Muse Magazine 2010 Literary Competition.
March 2009 - The Hub City Writers Project announces "The Scott Lax Prize." The full-ride scholarship to the Wildacres Writers Conference was established in 2008 and is underwritten by Hillcrest Publications of Spartanburg, SC to honor novelist Scott Lax of Ohio."
1999 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel named Vermont Book of the Year, Runner-Up.
Dec. 1998 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel, named of of 1998’s “Milestones in Fiction by Denver Post.
1998 - Awarded Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Univ. of the South), Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Fiction for The Year That Trembled.
NON-FICTION
March 1, 2010 – Second place for “Original Columns, General,” Ohio Professional Writers 2010 Communication Contest
May 16, 2009 - In the Ohio Professional Writers 2009 Communication Contest, Scott Lax was awarded:
1. First Place for "Original Columns, General"
2. First Place for "Feature Story, Magazine"
3. Second Place for "Special Series, Print Media."
June 2008: Ohio Excellence in Journalism Award, statewide competition, sponsored by The Cleveland Press Club, Honorable Mention, Best Single Essay, Open Print
1993 - Bread Loaf Writer’ Conference (Middlebury College), Bernard J. O’Keefe Scholarship in Nonfiction
1994, 1995 - Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Staff Scholarship
FILM
2002 - Midwest Filmmaker of the Year, Cleveland International Film Festival
2002 - Producer’s Award, Winner, People’s Choice, Cincinnati International Film Festival
2002 - Producer’s Award, Winner, Best Regional Feature, Cincinnati International Film Festival
2002 - Bessie’s People’s Choice Award, Burlington, VT City Arts, Favorite Film
OTHERS
2002 - City of Cleveland Certificate of Congratulations for body of work
1999 - Named to fourteen-person list of Hiram College’s “Most Illustrious Alumni"
