Here's a sampling of how we have helped some of our clients. Can you find yourself on this list?
* A memoir writer had an incredible story to tell but needed a professional story teller’s guidance on how to tell it in a way that kept the reader turning the page. After we worked with her for a few chapters, she caught on and re-worked the manuscript with splendid results.
* A fiction writer knew his 183,000 word novel was too long, but didn’t know what to do about it. We showed him how to cut 80,000 words, enhancing the plot line, speeding up the pace, and transforming the book into a suspenseful thriller.
* A medical doctor and subject matter expert wanted to write about his specialty for a broader audience sought our help translating scientific concepts into simpler terms.
* We guided a children’s book writer who wanted to be sure she was reaching her intended primary grade audience and not using vocabulary or concepts that went over the heads of her young readers.
* Detail troubled a short story writer. We were able to show where it enhanced the story and where too much information began to drag the narrative down.
* A neophyte fiction writer felt she needed feedback, and rather than take a creative writing course, she decided to submit her novel to us for suggestions, a few chapters at time. She has now completed the book and found an agent.
* A non fiction writer had a great deal of expertise but a very thin book and sought our help to expand it. In addition to editing the chapters, we provided him with questions to answer and suggestions of topics that could be dealt with in greater detail. In little time the manuscript had doubled in size.
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* A mystery writer needed suggestions for tightening her plot lines and heightening suspense.
* A gourmet cook immigrated to this country with many recipes from her exotic homeland, but had trouble translating them into a vernacular Americans could grasp. We helped her put together a cookbook and book proposal.
* The mother of a disabled child wanted to tell his story in an uplifting way that would offer both inspiration and useful tips to other parents coping with similar situations. We helped her do so, editing her manuscript and creating a book proposal.
* We helped an economist transform his Ph.D thesis into a book that could be easily understood by a broad commercial audience.
* A reporter working on an exposé of a political figure had researched his subject so long and so intensively that he couldn’t see the forest for the trees; he had too many extraneous details that clouded the larger points he wanted to make. We re-wrote his manuscript for him – reorganizing the presentation and clarifying the charges.
* A college professor came up with a great idea for a book on a subject he had researched exhaustively. As a non-native English speaker, he needed a ghostwriter. We transformed his ideas into a book and helped him get an agent and publisher.
* A bestselling author who felt her publisher was not giving her adequate book doctoring sought us out for substantive editing and critiquing before her book went to press.
* A woman had been trying to sell her "how to" book for years but had been unable to attract an agent. We wrote her a book proposal and query letters. This time several agents have expressed interest.
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