Editing & Writing

When you need help finishing, polishing, pitching. For more information, inquire here.

Full Manuscript Edit

Developmental Edit

Comments, corrections and suggestions on every page.*

Today’s agents and publishers don’t have time for anything but heat ‘n’ serve, and you’ve lost all sense of what’s not working. For manuscripts that “still need work.”

What You Get

  • Developmental Edit (in-depth analysis)
  • Options/Recommendations
  • Blueprint for vital revisions, changes, improvements in every area

Final Polish

Turnkey solution for energizing and finishing manuscripts that are at or near Final Draft stage. Because even a “finished” manuscript may still lack the final polish necessary to get the best (or any) deal.*

What You Get

  • Polished, publication-ready manuscript
  • Attractive, industry-standard formatting
  • Rewrite/restructure as needed, in consultation with author

* For qualified candidates/manuscripts < 80,000 words

Book Proposal Package

Pitch-perfect book proposal for memoir and non-fiction includes Overview, Author Bio, Audience/Competition, Marketing. Available with or without Chapter Breakdown and Sample Chapters. (Also available: Fiction Proposal Package, whose elements differ.)

The book proposal is a highly specialized marketing document that contains seven specific sections; even the wrong formatting can give you away as a newbie. Written in the kind of “business-speak” most writers spend their careers avoiding.

What You Get

  • Book Proposal Package
  • Blueprint for revisions, if any
  • Attractive, industry-standard formatting

Pitch letter

One-page sales letter hits all the right notes in a limited space; call it “marketing haiku.” This is often your first contact with the publishing world, so it needs to be pitch-perfect to whet an agent’s or editor’s appetite for more.

Other

When the struggle to write an article, craft a speech or make your website sing (or at least hum) is eating into other facets of your life, who ya gonna call?

Hourly and project rates available for editing, shaping and developing most types of writing, including Web copy, op-eds, first-person essays, satire, and PowerPoint or Keynote presentations.