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Work with a Pro
Experience counts when you want to find an editor for the book you’ve written. For the past twenty years I have worked in the world of New York publishing. For fifteen of those years I worked for Penguin Group USA as a manuscript editor, commonly known in the trade as a “book doctor.” I have edited numerous New York Times bestselling authors of fiction and nonfiction: John Jakes, Barbara Parker, Peter Straub, Sylvia Browne, Ariel Dorfman, and Eric Jerome Dickey, to name just a few.
Many other authors I’ve worked with are first-timers with talent to burn. They have a terrific idea for a thriller, or an exciting new health regimen, but need help making all of the ideas come together. I’ve edited veteran authors who need to get their careers back on track. I’ve helped magazine writers expand feature articles into books. Specialists in fields such as history and psychology have come for help with their book proposals.
Editing, like writing, is a subjective business. A person’s ideas on what you should do with your book can—with all the best intentions—turn into the worst advice you’ve ever taken. In the course of editing more than 500 manuscripts, I’ve had an extremely high positive response rate from authors. There is a simple reason for this fact. I give suggestions that help the book to go where it’s going, not where I want it to go. Authors request me book after book. Editors and agents come and ask, “Can you work some of your magic on this one?”
I have years of experience in the real world of publishing. I have helped hundreds of authors achieve success, in some cases bestseller stardom. So if you feel you need help, why not hire someone who really knows how to help?
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Season of Betrayal
Margaret Lowrie Robertson |
Waking with Enemies
Eric Jerome Dickey |
Desert Memories
Ariel Dorfman |
The Gospel of Judas
Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer,
Gregor Wurst |
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