Rent my brain!

After more than twenty years in the book-publishing business in NYC, I transplanted myself in beautiful western North Carolina. I love the Asheville area, but you better bring your livelihood with you if you move here. And I brought my skills with me: developmental/content editing, copy editing, and manuscript analysis.     

 

 

      Editing a hard copy using a good old red pen on paper or on-line using Microsoft Word track changes, I work with fiction and nonfiction writers from all around the United States and in countries around the world including Canada, Nova Scotia, Greece, France, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, India, Japan and New Zealand.    

     Sometimes I start working with a fiction client in the earliest stages, pointing out inconsistencies, plotting possibilities,  the need for further character development and other pivotal issues to nurture a writer's imagintion while solidifying their storytelling.

      Other times I meet a writer after he’s worked with other editors, done many drafts or wants a new set of eyes to examine his work from a different perspective.

       

      I work with each person to develop the most helpful and comfortable approach for them.

      

      After the editing is done, if my client wishes, I can use my knowledge and experience from many years in the book-publishing industry to help select some appropriate agents to query with a well-polished letter and synopsis.

     

     And, over the past few years, as the industry has changed to include focused self-publishers as a very viable and widely-distributed method of well-received publishing, I’ve had a number of clients publish, either on their own or through one of the professional responsible companies available.