Editor
You have a sense that someone other than your trusted loved ones should review your manuscript. But what kind of editing do you need?
Editing can mean:
- Developmental editing – refining the concept, organizing the material, clarifying the ideas being the words)
- Line editing – revising tone, sentence structure, word choice, grammar
- Copy editing – the final read-through for spelling, grammar and punctuation
As a writer, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s working in your manuscript and what’s not. Not only have you written a whole lot of words, you’ve likely been planning and/or writing for what seems like ages. So it’s easy to lose perspective.
That’s where Linden and her team of editors come in. They can bring you back to that big picture as well as helping with ideas, flow, language and more. Whether you have a full draft or a handful of chapters, Linden reads your pages and writes a detailed memo of what she thinks is working, what she thinks needs work and what she thinks needs to be done.
At that point, you can decide how best to proceed. Maybe you want to dive into the revision yourself. Linden’s writing coach services could be an option. Or you might want to just hand over your manuscript and let Linden’s team do the work.
How much does it cost to hire Linden as an editor? Check out her rates.
After writing half-a-dozen books, working as a book doctor on a number of others—including international bestseller Power Healing—and coaching dozens of writers, Linden can do more than find editorial flaws. She can fix them. And, under her oversight, so can her people.
Whether crafting life stories, non-fiction, novels, or web content, a talent for organization helps Linden and her editors give projects the structure they need. Personal accessibility and 25 years of national journalism experience help elicit content that is lacking. Writing and off- and online editing experience help them bring life and power (to say nothing of grammatical correctness) to flat, convoluted language.
When Linden was brought on as the book doctor for the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller Power Healing: The Four Keys to Energizing Your Body, Mind and Spirit, she faced a manuscript that lacked both organization and human interest. The writing was also a problem, since at the time author Zhi Gang Sha’s command of English was sketchy at best.
She produced an international bestseller that Dr. Wayne Dyer, bestselling author of There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem calls, “Practical, useful information and techniques for putting the body’s natural abilities to work on healing—a wonderful contribution.”
