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Author • Editor • Illustrator
Editing Services
15+
TITLES WORKED ON
10+
WRITERS
1
EXCITED EDITOR!
Want to see if I'll be a good fit for your story?
Have me edit the first chapter (up to 5,000 words) for free!
The genres I specialize in include, but are not limited to:
Dystopia
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Science Fiction
I've worked with all age ranges from picture books to adult.
(Optional Step)
Book Coaching
Have an idea for a story but you don't know where to start? Or maybe you've already started, but you need help figuring out how all of your ideas should fit together? Schedule a meeting with me to talk about your story in a brainstorming session and I will give you my insight to help you reach a completed first draft. I can be a board to bounce your ideas off of and help organize what you already have.
Pricing
60 minute consultation - $125
Step #1
Manuscript Review
Completing the first draft of a story is a major accomplishment. Now it's time for an outside perspective with some insight into the industry standards for your genre and target audience. The manuscript review is a written review of your manuscript, analyzing what works and what doesn't work. This report will include a developmental review of your manuscript's themes, characters, writing style, and the effectiveness of the plot from a big-picture perspective and offer a roadmap for revisions.
Step #2
Developmental Edit
The developmental edit gets into the weeds of your manuscript with in-line comments and an editorial letter. It will identify your book’s strengths and weaknesses and help you devise a revision strategy that dramatically improves the execution of your idea. This edit will look at the larger elements of your story: pacing, stakes, character arcs, world building, etc. When carrying out developmental edits, expect significant changes to be made: cuts, additions, total restructuring, and other hard truths.
Step #3
Line Edit
The line edit looks at the story in a bit more detail. Though this stage won't likely have as major of alterations as the developmental edit, you should still expect to be revising heavily. I will edit for sentence structure, dialogue choice, and ensure the narrative style is fitting to the story and consistent in tone. This is the stage where I will undoubtedly beg you to "show, not tell."
Step #4
Copy Edit
Now that you've gone through a few rounds of edits to iron out the details of your story, this is the time for a more polished edit, looking at clarity, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and tense consistency. This stage will also make sure you don't have any inconsistencies such as a sudden unexplained costume change from jeans to khakis in a single scene.
IMPORTANT NOTE: if self-publishing, you will still want to hire a separate proofreader after copy edits.
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