MENTORING SERVICES

Advice, pep-talks, hand-holding and personal consultations on everything from understanding rejections to navigating revision requests. I've guided 38 people to publication. Let me help you, too.

MANUSCRIPT CRITIQUE

I offer a complete line edit and detailed overview of your work for a very competitive fee. All genres of writing are welcome.

PICTURES

Celebrating my students. 38 of the people I've worked with have become published authors.

ONLINE CLASSES

Comprehensive, easy-to-understand 10-week writing course.

Workshops

Joyce offers one-day workshops, called Cafe Classes, in Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and St. Augustine. Topics range from plotting, to voice, to revision, to marketing, and much more.

If you're a beginner or just looking for that final polish, her combination of lecture, exercises and hands on training will sharpen up your skills and give you the tools you need.

Contact Joyce for current schedules and pricing..

What do writers say about Joyce's workshops?

"You have given me a lot to absorb. I didn’t realize that, while you “can’t teach someone to write,” you can teach them how to construct a novel."
Stephanie

"It has been my pleasure to attend a few of your dynamic workshops over the past year. All I can say is WOW! The information, the individual attention, the atmosphere and the fellow writers in attendance all combine to make each one an extremely memorable and in some cases a life changing experience. I leave each one smarter, more electrically charged and more determined that – yes I can!  Thanks for your talent, your patience, your encouragement and your faith."
Jim Shipley

INVITATION-ONLY CRITIQUE GROUPS

From a pool of writers who have either recently submitted work for her critique and/or who have participated in workshops, Joyce Sweeney hand-selects students to participate in one of her weekly, on-going workshop groups. These groups are focused on aiming participants for (traditional) publication. So far, under Joyce's mentor-ship, 38 of her students have obtained book contracts, publishing in such genres as main-stream fiction, young adult and middle-grade fiction, memoir, poetry, and mystery.

Contact Joyce Sweeney for more information.