What does an editor do?
Hiring a professional editor is an investment in the success of your manuscript. With an objective perspective, editors identify issues that have been overlooked and ensure your work meets industry-standards.
My editorial feedback helps an author execute on their artistic vision and grooms a manuscript to be sold in the traditional marketplace to one of the Big Five publishers or obtain the widest readership possible as a self-published work.
As an editor trained under a former agent at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, I am uniquely qualified to ensure a manuscript hits the markers top agents will expect to see when considering a book for representation.
A good editor will save you numerous drafts because they give you actionable feedback which effectively deals with developmental issues in story structure, character, worldbuilding, pacing, dialogue, theme and tone as well as in-line issues with literary style and point of view.
One key foundational aspect of my editorial approach is that if I find a problem, I find a solution.