If you have something to say but can’t find the words or are simply too busy to write, I can distill your thoughts and opinions into clear, powerful, persuasive prose.
If you have words down on the page but can’t quite make all the elements gel, I can help you find the hidden narrative or the best way to organize your information.
If you are almost ready to send your writing out to the world, I can help you polish it to the standards set by major publishing houses.
Books
- Ghostwriting: Your memoir, story, or nonfiction book written for you according to your brief, in your voice, under your name
- Book doctoring: Large-scale rewriting and restructuring in which I reshape the plot or the way chapters are organized, and enhance style, readability, and clarity
- Mentoring: Ongoing feedback, advice, and coaching to guide you as you write
- Developmental editing: Big-picture editing in which I provide suggestions on ways you can tighten the plot or the way information is organized, content that you should omit or add, and any rewrites that you should consider undertaking
- Line editing: Fine-detail polishing in which I go through line by line to enhance style, tone, flow, and word choice, and to perfect grammar, punctuation, spelling, and consistency
- Copyediting: Fine-detail polishing in which I go through line by line to perfect grammar, punctuation, spelling, and consistency
- Manuscript assessment: A report on the strengths and weaknesses of your manuscript and whether you should do further editing or rewriting before making it public
- Writing query letters and publishing proposals
Websites and blogs
- Ghost blogging: Your blog written to your brief, in your voice, under your name
- Website copywriting
- Copyediting and proofing of blogs and websites
Promotions and marketing
- Writing direct mail and other promotional and marketing material, such as brochures and e-newsletters
Types of clients I work with
- Major trade publishing houses
- Smaller trade publishers
- Specialty publishers
- Authors preparing to self-publish
- Authors preparing manuscripts for submission to agents or publishers
- Professionals, entrepreneurs, and small businesses