A+ ACCLAIMED POETRY EDITOR, former executive director of Alice James Books, 25+ years editing experience. Professional manuscript evaluation, comprehensive editing. Edits for various budgets. Workshops, tutorials, publishing, publicity advice. Author of Event Boundaries and Anxious Music (Four Way Books). Former CW MFA faculty editor at SNU. Details: www.aprilossmann.com. E-mail: aprilossmann@hotmail.com.
ABLE AND EXPERIENCED EDITOR for poetry and prose. Respectful. Thorough. Prize-winning author in multiple genres. As a team, we can raise your work—poems, flash, short stories, novel, memoir, query, or application letter—to the next level. Publication advice available. E-mail: dmgordon@comcast.net. Website: www.dmgordoneditorial.com.
ABLE AND WELL-KNOWN WRITER, teacher, editor, (Scribner, Random House, Bantam, Dell, Oxford University Press, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Narrative, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The American Scholar, Esquire, GQ, Ploughshares) offers manuscript critique, editing, private tutorials on short stories, novels, and literary nonfiction. Authors edited include Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, T. C. Boyle, Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Anthony Marra, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Joyce Carol Oates, James Salter, Robert Stone, and many others. Contact: editor@tomjenks.com. Website: www.tomjenks.com.
ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE SERVICES: Visit my website for budget-sensitive options. Marcia Trahan, memoirist (Mercy, Barrelhouse Books) and editor with 18 years’ experience, offers critique, copyediting, and help with queries and proposals. Specializing in memoir; also handles wide range of fiction. Traditional and indie authors welcome. Patient, supportive approach. E-mail: info@marciatrahan.com. Website: www.marciatrahan.com.
ACCOMPLISHED EDITOR Wyn Cooper works with writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. I help you revise and perfect your manuscript, and offer publishing advice. Sixty-five books I edited have been published in the last nine years; ten have won awards. Free consultation. See website for details: www.wyncooper.com. E-mail: wyncooper@gmail.com.
AFFORDABLE, POWERFUL, AND COMPREHENSIVE editorial services can give your manuscript an edge. Helga Schier, PhD, publishing executive, professional editor, and published author offers in-depth evaluation, line editing, revisions. Want to write a good book? Let me help you unlock the potential of your manuscript. Contact me at helga@withpenandpaper.com; website: www.withpenandpaper.com; phone: (310) 828-8421.
AFFORDABLE, SENSITIVE, PRACTICAL EVALUATION of novel manuscripts by author of The Last Draft. Editor has extensive experience with first-time novelists. $150 plus $1.75/page. Provides assessment of story and structural elements in Editorial Letter, with recommendations for revision. Line editing of late-stage manuscripts, $45/hour, free sample. Confidential. For more information contact writingmentor@yahoo.com.
AGENT QUERY & SUBMISSIONS EDITS: Looking for a literary agent? Or are you submitting and not hearing back? As a traditionally published author and former literary agent, I’ve helped many writers land agents and book deals. I can help you too. Website: www.virginialloyd.com.
ART OF THE NOVEL: I work with published and unpublished novelists in all phases of development, both privately and through UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, where I teach the Master Course in Novel Writing. I seek to combine the best of an experienced editor and inspiring teacher, helping writers revise their manuscripts. For testimonials, visit www.robert-eversz.com.
AUTHOR, AUTHOR! Professional editor, literary midwife, award-winning author (Bantam, Avon, Scholastic, Berkley/Ace, others) offers extensive critiques, tutorials, revisions, support. Upgrade your writing skills; solve problems with plot, character development, pacing. Specialties include literary and mainstream fiction, mystery/thriller, juvenile/YA, general nonfiction, psychology, spirituality. Carol Gaskin. Phone: (941) 377-7640. E-mail: carol@editorialalchemy.com. Website: www.editorialalchemy.com.
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.
BLOCKED? STRUGGLING? I’ll help you finish that project! Break through blocks with professional writing mentoring from published journalist, poet, playwright, researcher. Skilled editor, experienced teacher, compassionate coach. New genre? Creative transition? Unearthed manuscript? Personal dream?—I can help you write, edit, publish! Carol Burbank, MA, PhD. Free 30-minute consultation. E-mail: cburbank@storyweaving.com. Website: www.storyweaving.com.
BOOK HELPLINE EDITING SERVICES. Friendly, personal, and affordable services to help get your book out there! We offer developmental editing, copy editing, proofreading, coaching in all genres. After editing your book, we’re happy to help you with your query letter or with formatting, cover creation, and uploading to Amazon and IngramSpark. Contact Judith at Book Helpline (info@bookhelpline.com) or visit www.bookhelpline.com.
BOOKGARDAN: Mentorship & Book Cultivation Program for Women Writers. Realize your vision with a mentor as invested as you are in your story & growth. A year of companionship with a small intimate cohort, individual mentorship, advanced craft curriculum, professional development. For writers of literary fiction & nonfiction. Applications: www.birdsandmuses.com.
DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING, with 50+ books sold to traditional publishers. Malone Editorial helps turn manuscripts into traditionally published books and writers into successful, award-winning authors. In-depth and personal website: www.maloneeditorial.com. E-mail: maloneeditorial@hotmail.com.
DON’T HAVE TIME to submit your creative writing? We can help. Submission leads and cover/query letter guidelines. Join 60,000+ writers who subscribe to Submit Write Now! In our 27th year! Writer’s Relief, Inc., 18766 John J. Williams Hwy., Unit 4, P.O. Box 335, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971. Phone: (866) 405-3003. Website: www.writersrelief.com.
AN EDITOR, FACT-CHECKER, PROOFREADER, writing coach, and writing teacher with over 20 years’ experience—Colleen Shoshana McKee, MFA. Author of 6 books. Experience working for publishers, universities, and individual authors. Check out my services, and poetry and memoir workshops, including “Writing, Illness, and Healing,” at www.colleenshoshanamckee.com. Competitive rates. References available.
EDITORIAL SERVICES from a nurturing but whip-cracking, well-connected author (Bang the Keys, The Great Bravura) who will help you unleash the true fabulosity in your projects and bring them to fruition in the real world before depression or drink destroy your nerve! Fiction, nonfiction, scripts, poetry, theses. Ten percent discount if you mention PW ad. E-mail: jilldearman@gmail.com. Website: www.jilldearman.com.
FREE COACHING/STRATEGY SESSIONS on writing, editing, and publishing for committed writers working on a book project—with internationally published award-winning writer & veteran teacher Albert Flynn DeSilver. Limited spots available. Exclusive resources for writers, workshops, classes, and retreats are also available. Go to www.albertflynndesilver.com/contact.
FREE SESSION WITH WRITER WELLNESS CONSULTANT and Mentor. Have writing begging to get on the page, revised, and moved on to publishing? Want to find out what’s in the way? Give yourself the gift of a free consultation and get started. Contact: Andrea R. Canaan, MSW, MFA. E-mail: andreacanaan@gmail.com; website: www.andreacanaan.blog.
A NEW WEEKLY SERVICE for poets delivered straight to your inbox to help you on your creative journey from inspiration to publication! Introducing—Two Sylvias’ Weekly Muse. This subscription features 2 poetry prompts (1 long writing exercise & 1 shorter one), Q&A with editors answering *your* questions, exclusive interviews with poets, suggestions on where to submit your work, an online community, & more! Learn more and/or subscribe at: www.twosylviaspress.com/newslettersubscription.html.
PARIS PRESS FOUNDER and former director Jan Freeman provides coaching, manuscript consultations and development, editing services to writers and poets. Let’s map out a project or tackle a fresh revision to prepare for final submissions. Works in progress, finished manuscripts, chapbooks, new and selected collections. Forty years of experience. E-mail: janfreemaneditorial@gmail.com; website: www.janfreeman.net/editing-services.
PATTY SHANNON (formerly Wordstation). When you don’t need an editor, just good typing and professional proofreading—grammar, spelling, punctuation, consistency corrections included. Friendly service since 1989. MS Word, typewriter, handwritten, audio accepted. Medical terminology specialty. Free brochure. Will type sample pages of your manuscript free. Phone: (732) 477-4800. E-mail: wordstation@comcast.net.
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. For further details, please visit website: www.rogerweingarten.com.
PUBLISH YOUR NOVEL OR MEMOIRS. College writing instructor, with MFA in writing from the University of Virginia and 30 years’ experience, has helped hundreds of clients edit and publish their memoirs and novels. Specializes in enhancing style, word choice, and dialogue, and reducing ambiguity and redundancies. Can also design book covers and author bios, format for Amazon. Will edit a sample of your work for free. Website: www.theeditauthority.com.
RESPECTFUL, AFFORDABLE FEEDBACK in fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and poetry. Award-winning writer with over 15 years’ college teaching experience. From line edits to global revisions, character work to creative coaching, brainstorming to final draft, I’m here for what you need. MFA, PhD in CW. Initial consultations are free. Website: adamprinceauthor.com.