Welcome to the Website of Writer, Editor, Mentor Alton Gansky

“If you stacked the new books being published next to each other, at the present rate of production you have to move at ninety miles an hour just to keep up with the end of the line. (Steven Hawking, Big Questions, p. 153, Random House, 2018)

Over 300,000 books are published in the United States each year. (Wikipedia) Yours could be one of them.

Publishing is not easy, but possible.

Writing and publishing is a profession that requires skill, practice, and a bit of insider knowledge. Most writers fail to publish because no one has taught them how. We plan to change that.

Sailing in the fog is precarious.

You need a good compass and a great map to avoid disaster. Al’s Writing Studio gives a behind the scenes look at what it takes to write your book and write it well.

First Step: Get serious about writing.

Writing a book requires commitment, knowledge, and practice—lots of practice. The serious succeed. We’ll show you how to get serious about your writing. Being a a dream is where it starts, but being professional requires more than dreams. It requires commitment and a trust worthy guide.

All journeys begin with the first step.

It doesn’t matter WHY you start. It doesn’t matter WHEN your start. All that really matters is that you START. I’m here to help you do that.

I’m Alton Gansky, the author of over 50 books, mentor, editor, and fellow dreamer. I’ve spent several decades as a professional writer and I was able to do so because MENTORS helped me along the way. Now, I mentor others like you.

Writing/Editing Services.

  • Publisher Services

    Story rescue, author guidance, project review, line editing, macro editing, rewriting, and related work to help author and publisher.

  • Author Services

    Basic techniques for fiction and nonfiction, plotting, story development, editing, mentoring, education.

  • Author Mentoring

    Focus on author development and growth, planning, ideation, character development and other elements in fiction and nonfiction.

  • Freelance Work

    Freelance writing. Work-for-hire. Specialty projects.

About Alton Gansky

  • Alton L. Gansky is the author of 24 novels, 6 novellas, 1 screenplay, and 11 nonfiction works, as well as principal writer of 9 novels and 2 nonfiction books. He has been a Christy Award finalist (A Ship Possessed) and an Angel Award winner (Terminal Justice) and received the ACFW award for best suspense/thriller for his work on Fallen Angel with Jeff Struecker. He holds a BA and MA in biblical studies and was granted a Litt.D.

  • In addition to his own writing, Alton Gansky has consulted and provided editing/ writing services to several CBA publishers and written copy, video scripts, and other works for the general business market. He has consulted with publishers and agents, as well as provided editing services. He is “the go to guy” for co-writing having been selected by Penguin, Waterbrook, Broadman Holman, and other publishers to work with their top tier authors.

  • Gansky is in frequent demand at writers conferences having taught and keynoted in California, Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina, Delaware, Washington, and Canada. He has also been guest lecturer on suspense writing at Taylor University in Indiana.
     

Have a project, novel, nonfiction book? Drop me a line in the form below. Let’s talk.

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