Skillbridge and Career Skills Internships
Do you want to work as a Freelance Editor or a Freelance Author?
The Career Skills Program (CSP) and Skillbridge Program are for transitioning Servicemembers. See my article about the CSP and Skillbridge programs.
At the end of this program, you will know:
- The basics of editing books for clients
- How to self-edit your own book
- How to write more compelling stories and scenes
- How to find editing clients
- How to invoice and accept payments from clients
- How to use other administration platforms to manage your business
- How to make money as a freelancer with multiple streams of income
You can apply to intern as a potential freelance author and/or freelance editor.
Who Am I?
Hi, I’m Randy Surles.
I’m one of only a small handful of Story Grid Certified Editors in the world. I trained as an editor under Shawn Coyne, who originated the Story Grid method based on his 25 years’ experience in New York publishing, and I’ve been using Shawn’s techniques to help make authors better, as well as to write my own books.
Over the last 10 years, I’ve edited a NYT bestseller (Operation Pineapple Express by Scott Mann), ghostwritten an Amazon bestseller (The Wise Investor by Rich Fettke), and worked on numerous other bestselling books.
Prior to working as an editor, I spent over 20 years in the U.S. Army as a Ranger and Green Beret, working in the Middle East, South America, and Africa. While in the Army, I earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso so I could pursue my dreams of writing and editing once I retired.
While I am open to editing all genres, because of my background I find I am a huge benefit to authors writing novels with a military flavor. I am a big fan of Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, and Fantasy novels. I love a good story, but I want my clients to become writers of great stories. To do that, I give them recommendations on how to move their projects forward, identify those parts that are ‘just not working’, and make them better writers overall.
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