ACCLAIMED AUTHOR helping writers for more than 20 years: I have published 5 highly acclaimed books and offer services in developmental, content, and copyediting of fiction and nonfiction (including academic, legal, and medical texts). I can also provide contacts to agents, publishers, and publishing consultants. Reasonable rates. Contact me at christopherwb@msn.com.
ACCLAIMED POETRY EDITOR, former executive director of Alice James Books, 20 years of editing experience. Provides professional manuscript evaluation, comprehensive editing. Edits to suit various budgets. Workshops, tutorials, publishing, publicity advice. Author of Event Boundaries and Anxious Music (Four Way Books). CW MFA faculty editor at SNC. Details: www.aprilossmann.com. E-mail: aprilossmann@hotmail.com.
ACCOMPLISHED EDITOR Wyn Cooper seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. I help writers revise and perfect their manuscripts, and offer publishing advice.Thirty-six books I edited have been published in the last 4 years; 7 have won awards. Free consultation. Sliding scale fees. See website for details: www.wyncooper.com. E-mail: wyncooper@gmail.com.
ADEPT EDITOR, experienced in multiple genres, prizewinning author of poetry and literary fiction, is looking to assist you. Respectful. Thorough. Together, we can raise your novel, poetry manuscript, short story, memoir, query, or application letter to the next level. Free initial consultation. E-mail: dmgordon@comcast.net. Website: www.dmgordoneditorial.com.
AFFORDABLE, POWERFUL, and comprehensive editorial services give your manuscript an edge. Unlock the potential of your manuscript within-depth evaluation, plot/character development, line editing, revisions. Benefit from years of editorial experience at Big 5 publishers. Want to write a good book? Let me help! Helga Schier, PhD, helga@withpenandpaper.com. Website: www.withpenandpaper.com, telephone: (310) 828-8421.
ARE WE THERE YET? Award-winning poet, teacher, workshop leader, editor, and author of 5 books of poetry available for manuscript consultations—what to include, what to revise, what to abandon, how to structure the manuscript, and where to send. Editing of individual poems offered as well. www.cwpotterverse.net/index.html. Contact: carilpo@gmail.com.
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AWARD-WINNING fiction writer, graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, creative writing teacher of 35 years, provides personalized manuscript editing. I offer detailed editing, honest evaluation, and sensitive critique. I work with new and experienced writers, fiction and nonfiction. Contact Hugh Cook. E-mail: hughcook212@gmail.com. Website: hugh-cook.ca.
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EDITOR AND STORY Developer. Thaisa Frank (Enchantment; Heidegger’s Glasses, trans. into 10 languages). Improve your work without compromising your voice. I accept literary and mainstream, including novels, short-stories, literary fabulist fiction, and select novels-in-flash. Macro-read (story arc), micro-read (line arc). Hybrid-read (scene arc). Written critiques and Skype sessions. E-mail: thaisa@thaisafrank.com. Website: www.thaisafrank.com.
EDITOR. ACCLAIMED author Marcy Dermansky (Bad Marie) will help you improve your novel, short story, or memoir. I provide a detailed rewriting plan, including big-picture structural suggestions and line edits on the manuscript. E-mail: mdermansky@gmail.com. Website: www.marcydermansky.com/editing-services.
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FROM CONCEPT to Completion. Writing coach. I offer one-on-one story development and manuscript editing and revision services. I work with people who want to write a book and don’t know where to begin. I help them refine their authentic voice. Supportive, quick turnaround, 30 years experience. MFA, Creative Writing. E-mail: tina.demarco@gmail.com.
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MANUSCRIPT CONSULTANT for poets. Reasonable fees to arrange orphan poems into a publishable sequence, turnaround time 3 weeks. Former clients include Pamela Porter, Ulrike Narwani, and Barb Pelman, who recently received contracts from Ronsdale Press, in British Columbia. Contact Russell Thorburn, NEA Fellow, poet laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. E-mail: thorburn.russell@gmail.com.
POETRY, HELP IS on the way. Widely published, award-winning poet and experienced educator will give critiques and detailed line editing of your MS with big-picture feedback and book publication as the goal. Inquiries and rates at susansonde@msn.com.
POETRY, POETRY MS. Expand your range, syntax, facility with language. Close editing, attention to big picture, phone or Skype conferences—U.S. or international. Experienced poet/teacher, award-winning author of 11 collections, 5 with Godine and Knopf. I founded and taught in the MFA and postgraduate conference at Vermont College. E-mail: rogerweingarten12@gmail.com. Website: www.rogerweingarten.com.
PROFESSIONAL WRITING COACHING: Blocked? Struggling? I’ll help you finish that project! Break through blocks with published author, skilled editor, experienced teacher, compassionate mentor. Plays, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, dissertations, children’s books—I can help you get it done right! Carol Burbank, MA, PhD. Free 30-minute consultation. E-mail: cburbank@carolburbank.com. Website: www.carolburbank.com.
A WELL-EDITED manuscript can make all the difference between your writing being accepted and being passed over. As a published author and professional editor, I will help make your manuscript shine. Contact me at susan@storywell.ca or storywell.ca.