I have never been able to read a book without a pencil nearby, not to mark favorite lines, but to catch the ones that don't quite work yet.
That habit turned into how I make a living. I go through manuscripts the way I read for myself, closely, stubbornly, unwilling to let something slide just because it's easy to miss, a repeated word, a timeline that quietly breaks, a paragraph doing too much work while a stronger one goes unnoticed nearby.
If your book has been sitting there, mostly finished, mostly right, send me the first few chapters. I will show you exactly what I catch.... Read more