The COLOUR of WORDS
Hire Your Own Writing, Editing and Marketing Coach
Bernice Lever will listen to your needs and wishes, then offer advice with constructive comments on what you can improve to make your words reach a wider audience. Your unique voice and style is what you have to offer the world. You are an individual with your own story and views to share with others: words no one else can express in just your way.
Testimonials
Conference Highlights
My rates are reasonable and negotiable for whatever type of writing project you are undertaking. Now Writer-in-Residence for the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Authors Association. www.canauthorsvancouver.org
Basic fee for reading, editing and suggesting markets for a 20 page double spaced typed example is $25.00. Please include a one page of who you are and what your writer's goals are with a SASE.
Over the decades, I have aided many writers in getting their words: in poems, letters, short stories, articles, novels and more into print or broadcast.
Whether you want to develop some simmering ideas or ideals into an outline, then to choose a genre or format; to create an effective query letter or fascinating synopsis; to revise and hone a fiction or non-fiction manuscript; to decide if your poems are for a literary or mass market publication; to find an agent or suitable publisher when you have a finished product; to reach a reading or listening public for your writing; or to grow as an accomplished writer in your job or personal life.
For individuals or groups, I am available as a workshop leader for business, commercial or literary topics; private tutor; ghostwriter; manuscript evaluator; editor; reading tours and marketing advice.
Bernice Lever, RR 1, B69, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0
Testimonials:
Thelma Orchard, author of "My Sad Is All Gone, A Family's Triumph Over Violent Autism", Lucky Press, 2004:
"I am deeply grateful to Bernice Lever for her fine editing and insight. She helped me prepare my successful MS by encouraging me to retain many lively scenes rather than over-cut, allowing the flow of the story to evolve. She suggested I move one particular scene to the beginning of the book to form a gripping opening chapter. She noted within a quotation by the main protagonist, Dr Huggins, a unifying thematic phrase: Life On Hold, which is clarified in MY SAD IS ALL GONE. Bernice also has good instinct in recognising and correcting fuzzy time-sequences here and there in the text and encouraged me to re-shape Part One as a 'flash-back', a technique which has worked well for the book and gave it movement."
HIGHLIGHTS of Bernice Lever's
Academic Conference Talks and/or Workshops
1990 onwards
"Teachers of Excellence" - university & college teachers from across USA and Canada at Austin, Texas.
National English Teachers Association - teachers from across USA at Indianapolis, Ind.
Grammar Teachers of America - Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
National English Teachers of Canada - Moncton, New Brunswick.
Annual "Show & Tell" Conference at Guelph University, Ontario.
Ontario Community College Teachers - several times, at various cities , and High School English and ESL Teacher meetings in the Toronto area.
Workshops and talks at many Writer Association meetings - across Canada.
Sometimes, I demonstrated "The Colour of Words" and explained how to get students interested in improving their spoken and written communications.
Other times, I spoke on how to encourage creativity in ourselves (teachers) as well as our students.
National Creative Writing Events
For three decades, I have attended various annual meetings of the Canadian Authors Association and The League of Canadian Poets - from Halifax to Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria - as well as Ontario meetings of the Canadian Poetry Association. At these gatherings, I have led panel discussions, given talks and workshops, and/or given poetry readings.
September 25, 2005, co-host with Ariadne Sawyer for workshop: "Harnessing Your Critics" during 'Word on the Street' celebrations in Vancouver Public Library.
May 5, 2007, co-host with Anthony Dalton, workshop "Writing- A Successful Business", for CAA Victoria, BC.
May 26, 2007, Shuswap Lake International Writers' Festival, my workshop, "Memories & Memoirs", Salmon Arm, BC.
October 26-28, Surrey International Writers' Conference, annual poetry judge, and on a Poetry Marketing panel and Future of the Novel panel, Surrey, BC. www.siwc.ca