Looking for someone who can help you push your work further while cheering you on and supporting you? You’re in the right place.
I work with writers who want to share their personal stories with the world. I have a special place in my heart for multicultural and LGBTQIA+ stories, and speculative memoir. I work on linear stories, collections of short pieces, works in verse, multimedia projects, and graphic memoirs.
I’m here to support you and help you amplify your vision.
What can I help you with?
Coaching and Custom Support
Get customized support to help you with your specific challenges and to make your work stronger.
Don’t know what you’re looking for or what you need? Want something custom? Email me and we can figure it out together!
Help with Your Story
Want help pushing your story further? I can give you feedback on your how you share and define your story, the way you represent others, structure, narration, illustrations, other story elements, and how they all work together to deliver the story you want to tell to the readers you want to share it with.
Two services that can help you with that are manuscript critiques and developmental editing.
I also have processes that I can walk you through that can help you gain perspective on your own work.
Manuscript Critiques
Get feedback on your story and clear direction on what to do next.
With a manuscript critique, I read your entire manuscript analytically and provide you with a report that takes into consideration how all your story elements work together to shape the story you want to create. I also consider the current market, your target reader’s perspective, and your goals for your memoir. My critiques will tell you what works, why it works, and what needs more work and why.
I throw in an hour of my time for free after you get the critique to either discuss my suggestions or workshop them.
Developmental Editing
Get feedback on your story, clear direction on what to do next, and comments guiding you through revision.
A developmental edit is like a critique with even more help.
I read your entire manuscript analytically and provide you with a report that takes into consideration how all your story elements work together to shape the story you want to create. I also consider the current market, your target reader’s perspective, and your goals for your memoir. My critiques will tell you what works, why it works, and what needs more work and why.
I also provide focused feedback within the manuscript itself. I provide a clear direction, mark up your manuscript with notes about what works and what could use more work, and provide detailed suggestions showing where and how you could make improvements.
I throw in an hour of my time for free after you get the edit to either discuss my suggestions or workshop them.
Coaching and Custom Support
Looking for some support or tools to help you gain perspective on your work? Check out my coaching and custom support.
Help with Your Prose
Looking to ensure your prose reflects your story and works to provide an immersive reader experience? I can help with that. I can also work with you to highlight the strengths of your voice, tighten your sentences, and further develop your style.
I have three services that can help with your prose: line editing, copyediting, and workshopping.
Line Editing
Make your prose work better for your story and your voice shine brighter.
A line edit helps you ensure that your prose works with and for your story in a way that gives the reader the experience you want to deliver all while highlighting your voice and making it shine brighter.
I throw in an hour of my time for free after you get the edit to either discuss my suggestions or workshop them.
Copy Editing
Make your prose polished and consistent, and ensure continuity of details.
A copy edit will help you ensure that your prose is polished and clean. It can help create consistency and continuity in your writing, keeping your reader focused on your story.
I currently only offer copyediting for graphic novels and other multimedia projects.
Workshopping
Looking to push your writing skills further through workshopping? Check out my coaching and custom support.
Coaching and Custom Support
Take your writing to the next level with custom guidance and support.
Looking for some coaching, support, or tools to help you gain perspective on your work? I have all sorts of systems that can help. Want someone to guide you through drafting or revisions? I can help with that too. Want to workshop some shorter pieces together to help you build your skills and amplify your voice? Let’s talk! I create custom packages for every writer I work with.
What Others Have to Say
I knew Tanya was the right editor for me before we even began the official work of editing. The insightful questions they asked about my work in the get-to-know-me stage shifted my focus and made my manuscripts so much stronger. At every step of the editing process, they were a guiding angel, always offering genuine encouragement and support, even as they asked me to dig deeper and work harder. My writing was safe in their talented, creative hands, as was I.
I had been working on my memoir for so long that I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. Tanya gently took charge, immersed themself in the manuscript and surfaced with a compelling plan to make the book work. Without Tanya, I would have continued chipping away at what I had been doing for years. They provided me with a vision of the big picture.
Tanya is more than an editor. Tanya digested and examined the work’s primary theme. They helped me amplify my message—my voice—in a manner I had not thought possible. With Tanya’s editing and structural suggestions the book is now included in the personal libraries of two former United States Presidents as well as the libraries of multiple military, legal and Congressional leaders.
In a nutshell, Tanya makes writers out of story-tellers.
As a novice author with a story I had developed on my own, I knew that I needed a skilled, honest and insightful editor to guide me in choosing which material to develop further, and what to prune away. Tanya helped me turn the advanced draft that I brought to them into a disciplined and readable finished product. Their analysis helped me find the core themes of my work, and keep the focus there — or go back to work and try harder at bringing my tangents into some useful role.
The happy part — which I didn’t expect — was that from their observations I discovered new things about a story I thought I already knew. It was wonderful to see my story mature as much as it did, and it simply would not have come so far without Tanya’s thoughtful advice and encouragement.