Science fiction and fantasy, edited by someone who reads it.
Developmental editing for writers who’d rather hear the hard things from me than from a one-star review.
You’ve taken your book as far as you can.
You’ve spent a year on this book, or ten. It’s finished, or finished enough. Your beta readers disagree with each other, and you can’t tell which of them is right. Or they all loved it, but you still know something’s off.
Maybe you’ve spent a career being precise about something else—code, engineering, medicine, the military—and you want to work with an editor who’ll be just as precise about your story.
How can I help you?
Each of my services answers a different question.
How do I get started? How do I finally finish? → Origin to Outline
What actually made it onto the page? → Manuscript Assessment
Is the story good? → Developmental Edit
Is the prose good? → Line Edit
Is it ready to send? → Copy Edit
What authors say
“I’m glad that I found an editor like you who can steamroll my work and make me feel good about it.”
I read, and I know things
And I tell you about what I know.
Before I edited fiction, I was a programmer and a program manager—which turns out to be excellent training for debugging a plot.
How we start
Book a complimentary half-hour call. Tell me where you are with your book, and I’ll tell you what I think it needs—even if that’s nothing from me yet.
I respond within one business day.