Editorial Services For Authors Who Want To Get Published
Have a story you want to tell? I can help you tell it—and sell it.
Whether your book is a memoir, fiction, or nonfiction, you need a query letter written, a book proposal developed or a target list of literary agents, I offer professional editorial support designed to help authors polish their manuscripts and succeed in the publishing world. With decades of experience as a journalist, author, editor and educator, I know what it takes to catch a literary agent’s (or acquisition editor’s) eye as well as hold a reader’s attention.
Turning Ideas Into Manuscripts and Manuscripts Into Books
From a reader’s report to a commercial assessment, from editorial consultation to manuscript development, from proofreading and line-editing to a query letter, book proposal, literary agent outreach, or how to create an author’s platform, I provide a comprehensive set of editorial services backed by 30 years of professional writing, editing and publishing experience.
Why Work With Me?
Proven Publishing Success
My four non-fiction books (with a fifth under contract) have been commercially published by major houses like Random House and featured on NPR, CNN, C-Span, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and at the Smithsonian.
Industry Expertise
In addition to being an author, I’ve served as a Special Correspondent for the New York Times, worked for the Doubleday Publishing Group in New York City, been employed as an editor in the magazine and newspaper businesses, and have published well over a hundred magazine and newspaper articles. For the past five years, I’ve also taught a class, How to Get Your Book Published, sponsored by Book Passage, northern California’s leading independent bookstore.
Client-Focused Collaboration
I meet you where you are—whether you’re polishing a final draft or still mapping out your ideas-and provide personal, hands-on editorial services to help you achieve your writing goals.
Here’s Just a Few of the Books I’ve Recently Worked On
I had the pleasure of reading and commenting on an early version of Lee's powerful memoir, which went on to become an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection.
I helped edit Molly's enjoyable book about her James Beard Award-winning restaurant, Chai Pani.
I not only provided editorial advice to first-time author Rachel Zemach, I placed her remarkable memoir with a literary agent.
I assisted Tom, CBS' Chief Foreign Correspondent for 32 years, with the ghostwriting of his globe-trotting memoir.
I placed national radio-show host Jim Campbell's expose with a literary agent who sold it to McGraw Hill within a week.