Welcome to the form for the Editor Connection Program (ECP) for the 2027 online Atlanta Writers Club Atlanta Self-Publishing Conference.

Program Pricing: $50 to $100 (plus a payment processing fee).

This program connects authors looking for editors with editors looking for new clients. 

It provides an opportunity for attendees to get a sense of what working with an editor is like in the hopes that they will see the value in hiring a professional for each of their projects. 

By participating in this program, you are considered one of the ASPC's "Advertisers." This is is why our advertiser guidelines are included below. 

HOW IT WORKS

Please note that any professional editor around the world can participate in this program. 

You do not need to be a resident of Atlanta or Georgia in order to participate.

You do not have to attend the conference as a vendor in order to participate.

Macro (developmental / substantive) and micro (line / copy) editors are both welcome to participate. 

1. Your Business Email Address is Given Access to the Google Sheet(s) You Purchased

Within 1 - 2 weeks after registration, you will receive an email. This email will be an invitation to a Google Sheet. Sheet access will only be given to the email you use when registering below (business email). 

This email address will be the only one given access to however many category sheets you purchase. We highly recommend using an email address you check frequently or, for those of you working with a team, an email address that pertinent members of your team have ready access to. 

If you attempt to access the sheet from a different email account, you will not be able to access the sheet (requesting edit access will not change this, so please do not waste time by sending these requests). 

Each category sheet will contain the contact information and samples of anyone who decides to submit a sample to the ECP in the genre(s) you select on this registration page. 

EXAMPLE: You register with [email protected] and purchase the "Fantasy," "Historical Fiction," and "Other" categories. A week or two later, you receive an email giving [email protected] access to the Google Sheets for those categories ("Fantasy," "Historical Fiction," and "Other"). If you try to access the sheets from some other random email address ([email protected], for example) you won't be able to because that email address doesn't have permission to access the spreadsheets because you didn't register for this program with that email address. 

2. Registrants upload their submissions when they are ready for a sample edit. 

When a registrant signs up for the conference, they will be given access to forms that will allow them to upload their samples to the genre(s) in which they belong. Once submitted, their contact information and sample file will be populated in the corresponding Google Sheet (self-help samples will show up on the self-help spreadsheet, historical fiction samples will show up on the historical fiction sheet, etc.). 

EXAMPLE: Doba registers for the conference. She accesses the "Other" category form because she has a poetry book she's working on. Doba completes the form. Her submission will show up on the "Other" spreadsheet with her contact information and a link to the file she uploaded. 

3. Editors check their respective spreadsheets regularly

Upon checking the spreadsheet (we recommend doing so weekly), when you see a new addition, you simply do the following: 

1.  Download the sample (if you purchase the "Other" category, make sure the genre matches what you specialize in first).  
2.  Apply your skills to the sample. 
3. Draft (or copy-and-paste from a template to save time!) an email introducing yourself and your company and orienting the author to the kind of editing your provided and how it could be beneficial to their full manuscript. 
4. Attach the sample edit to the email and send it to the email address for that author. 
5. Move on to the next sample that you haven't worked on yet (or, for the "Other" category, the next available sample that fits your genre).  

4. Continue on as you would for anyone else you provided a sample edit for

At this point, it's up to the registrant whether or not they would like to interact with you further (including asking questions, scheduling a call, hiring you, etc.) and you're free to move on to the next sample that becomes available on the sheet(s) you purchased. We incentivize interaction with editors via the new Authorship Amplifier program, which provides additional prize drawing entries to any registrants who reply to your email. 

ASPC2026 Stats

The previous setup was markedly different from this iteration of the ASPC, so we're anticipating these numbers getting even better for the 2027 campaign! 

☼ Average number of referred writers: 8

☼ Average writer response rate: 60%

☼ Average number of paid clients secured after sample edit was completed: 2

☼ Average number of strong prospects ("warm leads") secured after sample edit was completed: 3

REGISTER NOW

1. Provide the requested information about your business, including which category spreadsheets you would like access to. 

2. Submit your fee(s). 

3. Await confirmation of your registration, which can take 1 - 2 calendar weeks in some cases. We will let you know if we need further information or have run into any problems with admitting you into the program. 

AFTER REGISTRATION

Once you are confirmed: 

1. We will announce your participation in the program across our social media profiles and attendee newsletter. 

2. You will be given access to the referral sheet(s) you've purchased. 

3. As attendees begin to register for the conference, you will begin receiving samples of manuscripts to do sample edits for, including the names and email addresses of their authors. 

Referrals are sent as people register for the program in real time. This means there is no set schedule on which you will receive new referrals (every Tuesday, the first of the month, etc.). 

We recommend that you check your referral spreadsheet at least once each week to see if any new registrants have been assigned to your sheet (i.e., every Monday morning, every Tuesday and Friday night, etc.). 

Participants are not told when they will receive their edited samples, so there's no rush even if you sign up for a category after it already has multiple attendees' samples in it. Just get started with providing your sample edits and submitting those to the authors as soon as you can. This means there's no such thing as being "too late" to provide a sample and show an author what you have to offer. 

FORM COMPLETION

Please complete the form as fully and accurately as possible. Leaving out or not having information that we're looking for can lead to your registration confirmation being delayed if we have to contact you to ask further questions. 

A payment processing fee will be calculated and added at checkout. Please check the amount you will be charged BEFORE submitting your payment. It's much easier to prevent a payment issue than to correct one after the fact. 

ADVERTISER GENERAL GUIDELINES

• Advertiser agrees to pay the sum of their selected options in full before any advertisements are placed. 
• Advertiser agrees to only promote companies, products, or services they have the authority to promote. 
• Advertiser agrees to behave in a safe, ethical, and legal manner with any attendees who contact them for services or products. 
• Advertiser understands that they will not be provided any attendee contact information as part of their advertising purchase beyond a first name and email address. Attendees must voluntarily reach out to the Advertiser as they are comfortable doing so in order to provide any further identification details (phone number, social media handle, etc.).  
• Advertiser shall indemnify Atlanta Writers Club (AWC) from all claims of loss or liability caused by Advertiser or Advertiser team members. 

 If you have read, fully understand, and agree to abide by all of the terms above, please check the box below before continuing with your purchase.

Please select the from the following options based on where you have the most expertise with your particular editing type (developmental editor of fantasy, copyeditor of mystery, line editor of horror, etc.). 

Each category will have its own spreadsheet and as attendees submit their samples, their submissions will show up on the spreadsheet that you pay to have access to. 

Each category is priced based on its popularity with our attendees in the previous years of the conference. The more expensive categories have been more popular, while the less expensive categories have been less popular. 

We can't guarantee that you will receive a set amount of referrals or that we will get any registrants at all in your particular category. 

CONTENT NOTE: We do not discriminate based on target audience age group, niches, or triggers. So you may see samples in your category meant for children, teens, young adults, adults, or the elderly. You may see content that contains explicit sex or violence. You may see content that involves things like clowns, monsters, organized religion, insects, or the occult. You only need to interact with submissions that match what you normally work on, or pieces that reflect projects you are interested in working on. 

You do not need to respond to every single author. 

You do not need to do a sample edit for every single submission. 

If you won't be completing a sample edit for someone, simply skip their entry and move on to the next one that suits your preferences. 

Attendees should only be receiving emails from people who have completed a sample edit for them.

EDITOR CHECK-IN

The next 3 questions help us better understand how we can improve this program year after year. Please just provide your best estimates related to how your editing business normally operates.

This is the logo that you use to represent your business visually. This is not your headshot (we've got another spot for that below!). 

EXAMPLE

This is a picture of your wonderful face! For firms, feel free to use the headshot of your main point of contact or your owner. 

EXAMPLE

Once you complete your billing information and submit your payment, your application will be completed. If for someone reason we need more information, we will reach out to you via email. 

Your final total will show up here under "Total." 

Be sure to double-check it before submitting your payment (scroll back up after you've entered your billing information) so you know how much you'll be charged. 

This number will be adjusted based on factors such as where you live, how many categories you purchase, and what kind of card you use (Amex users may be charged higher fees, for example).