The Real Deal — feedback on your draft manuscript.
Post or email your manuscript to Jan. Make sure it is 12pt font, double spaced, single sided with page numbers. After a thorough reading Jan will contact you for your in-person or skype feedback session.
Real Deal Session Prices
Includes reading fee plus a one hour skype/phone/ in person session (For sessions longer than an hour add $50 per extra hour)
Prices are in Australian dollars
- 0 – 1000 words, + $150
- 1000- 3000, + $250
- 3,000 – 6,000, +$300
- 6,000-10,000,+$350
- 10,000 – 30,000, +$450
- 30,000 – 60,000, +$550
- 60,000 – 90,000, +$700
- 90,000 -120,000 +$800
Contact Jan to arrange postage and session time.

OTHER OPTIONS
Writer’s Journey can design a coaching/mentoring package to suit your needs. Contact Jan to discuss a program that suits you best.
Join the ranks of published writers!
Every year a number of Jan’s first time writers have gone on to publish with major publishing houses. They include:
- Marguerite Van Geldermalsen, Married To A Bedouin (Virago);
- Margaret Wilcox, Gone (Penguin);
- Anne Lovell, Connie’s Secret (Allen & Unwin)
- Margaret Stephenson -Meere, The Child Within The Lotus ( Rockpool)
- Catherine Therese, The Weight Of Silence (Hachette Livre);
- Walter Mason, Destination Saigon (Allen & Unwin);
- Yvonne Louis, Brush with Mondrian (Murdoch) and Public Life Private Grief,
- Mary Delahunty (Hardie Grant), Jennifer Smart, The Wardrobe Girl (Random House); Biff Ward In My Mother’s Hands (Allen & Unwin).
Established writers like Margo Lanagan and AD Scott have received support from Jan’s workshops.
Margo’s fantasy novels, Tender Morsels and Sea Hearts, are published by Allen & Unwin in Australia, Knopf – USA, David Fickling Books, UK. AD Scott’s murder mysteries: A Small Death in the Great Glen and Tales From The Highland Gazette are published by Simon and Schuster in the US. See more here.



