You are...

• A writer who wants professional feedback on a draft, needs to break through a block, or wants to polish your work for submission
• A publisher who needs editorial support to develop a manuscript
• An academic who needs an editor in the arts and social sciences

Because I take on select projects only, you can be confident that you are the most important client I am working with now. Communications has been my business for more than a decade, and I know it starts with a strong client relationship. It's important to me that we work well together so that our partnership is productive, positive, and fun.

What I give my clients...

Skill. There are many facets to editing, including structure, style, copyediting, and proofreading. This partial list gives you an idea of the kind of analysis and detail I can help you with when I edit:

• Ensure your ideas stand up to scrutiny, in the context of fiction or nonfiction, and protect you from criticism further down the road of publication​
• If you work in fiction, I assess your plot, characters, dialogue, setting, point of view, tense, voice, and structure to make sure they work for your story
• For non-fiction writers, I make sure your ideas are consistent and logical, while chapters, paragraphs, and sentences are ordered effectively to convince readers that your message matters
• Draw out your characters, and your readers, to know what is at stake for them
• Identify ambiguities, redundancies, and jargon that could alienate you from your reader
• Identify gaps of information that need to be fleshed out
• Smooth transitions between ideas, paragraphs, and sentences
• Reduce word count when that is required
• Strengthen your sentences with active verbs and nouns
• Fix your dangling modifiers
• Make sure your spelling, punctuation, style, facts, and chronology are consistent and correct
• Check accuracy down to the letter

Perspective. Have you been looking at your writing for so long that the words, sentences, and ideas blur in your mind? I bring a fresh pair of eyes and greater clarity to your work.

Communication. This is my business. It is what I do best, whether that means a conversation to understand you and your project, or getting each word on the page right.

Accountability.  Every manuscript I edit is covered by a contract ahead of time, three close readings of your work, editorial notes on your pages, and a written summary of key comments. I want you to be happy with the results of my edit. I will follow up with you to answer any outstanding questions even after you have made your final payment.

Economy. Writing courses or monthly app fees add up. I work with you one-on-one to give you customized attention for your work and for you as an author.

Deadlines. I spent 10 years meeting high priority deadlines for charities that depended on the money raised by my proposals. You can be confident that I will meet your deadlines.

Turn-around. For a standard book-length manuscript (approx. 300 pages), I schedule 2-4 weeks.

Priority. I do not have a slush pile. I care about you as a writer and my purpose is to help you create your best work.
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