Lunch Hour -- Elizabeth Lyon on manuscript evaluations -- NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION

Meet other area professional editors at this casual and congenial lunchtime gathering. We present an educational 20- to 30-minute talk, followed by Q&A/discussion, info-sharing, advice, and community-building. Bring business cards to share.

This month's featured guest is our esteemed member Elizabeth Lyon, who has been a book editor in Eugene since 1988 (elizabethlyon.com). She will tell us about the many different types of evaluations that book editors can write — different lengths, headings she uses within evaluations for fiction and nonfiction & for nonfiction book proposals, and much more. She will also discuss the pros and cons of short letters, a few pages, and gigantic tomes.

Elizabeth is the author of six books on writing plus a first-of-its-kind national directory of freelance editors and writers (elizabethlyon.com/books.html). Published in 2005, it featured the profiles of 520 editors and writers in 48 states.

We'll be meeting at her lovely home on the westside (1980 Cleveland Street, Eugene). She'll provide coffee and tea; feel free to bring your lunch.

Also bring a small donation to reimburse Elizabeth for printing costs if you would like copies of the info-packed handouts she will be generously offering.

If folks would like to carpool/offer rides from various neighborhoods, feel free to use the comments to do that. I'll start...

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A note on changes at SEE: We're bidding a fond farewell to Le Cafe Maison in favor of a space that offers more privacy and quietude. We're researching options & will present the proposed new location at this lunch hour.

Thirteen of us met in August to plan the next year of speakers, and generated plenty of ideas and (bonus!) a volunteer Speaker Coordinator who will arrange them. The talks will likely be longer this year, more toward 20-30 minutes, but we'll strive to maintain time for socializing and information-sharing as well.