Writers are mavericks who dare themselves and readers to be adventurers, to take chances, to better themselves through language and stories.
All writers need supporters and I am here to champion your work, cheer you on, guide you through your developmental and sentence structure challenges, and help you find the perfect spots for those pesky punctuation marks.
I am a big fan of all forms of creative storytelling—fiction and nonfiction. Digging into sentence structure, character development, pacing, world-building, dialogue, plot, point of view, and a writer’s unique voice is exciting to me. I also love helping writers use grammar and mechanics in ways that serve their stories.
I’ve been fortunate to work with wonderful writers and on fascinating projects, including BORROWED TIME: SURVIVORS OF NAZI TEREZÍN REMEMBER by Dennis Carlyle Darling, HARWOOD CENTENNIAL: 100 WORKS FOR 100 YEARS by Nicole Dial-Kay and Emily Santhanam, and CURRENT OF DARKNESS: DESIRE AND DECEIT IN THE GILDED AGE by Robert Brighton.
I also love making photographs and being out in nature.
Services:
Coaching
Manuscript Evaluation
Developmental Editing
Line Editing
Copyediting
Proofreading
Specialties:
Contemporary Fiction
Fictionalized Memoir
Literary Fiction
Memoir
Mystery, Crime, and Thriller
Personal and Academic Essays
Select Nonfiction (blogs, history, personal profiles, travel writing, true crime)
WWII Historical Fiction
Memberships: ACES, Club Ed Freelancers, EFA, PEN
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