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Our Services

EXCEPTIONAL

EDITING

Editing entails far more than just catching mistakes.  We edit documents line by line to refine for flow and clarity of meaning.  We transform vague, awkward, and passive sentences to make sure that your meaning is crystal clear and your prose is convincing and punchy. 

 

In this capacity we have worked for poets and fiction and nonfiction writers; for prominent Jungian writers and clinicians; and for MA and PhD candidates.  We have edited dissertations for clients for whom English is a second language. 

 

With our strong combined backgrounds in the humanities and fine arts we are able to copyedit and substantively edit writing that covers an exceptionally wide range of subjects.  Articles, books, and dissertations that we have edited have been published by Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and Psychological Perspectives.  Our most recent project was a substantive edit of a prominent virologist's memoir.

THOUGHTFUL

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW

We perform manuscript reviews of short stories, poetry collections, literary fiction, and non-fiction, in advance of agent submission or at earlier stages of the work's progress.  We will give a concise response to your manuscript which will address such things as structure, plot, continuity, consistency, pacing, transitions, tone, audience, rhythm, and dialogue.  

 

We have reviewed manuscripts for submission to Tin House, Red Hen Press, Persea Books, Perugia Press, Louisiana State University Press, Academy of American Poets, and Yale University Press.  

COACHING

One-on-one coaching sessions are designed to harness and hone your voice as a writer.  Many of our clients include occasional coaching as part of the editing process.  

DAZZLING

COPYWRITING

Stellar copy is essential for impact, whether you are writing a blog, selling a product or service, or creating a personal or professional profile.  Let us create the content that will make your ideas pop.  

Our largest website copy project to date has been for a multi-faceted environmental non-profit organization.

FLAWLESS

PROOFREADING

Professional proofreading fine-tunes a document, making certain that no embarrassing errors remain.  We will catch every last little mistake so that you don’t have to.  In this capacity we have worked for clients of all kinds. 

OUTSTANDING GRANT WRITING

We have written successful grant proposals for individuals and institutions which have been awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and the New York State Council for the Arts.

UNDETECTABLE GHOSTWRITING

After a series of conversations, we will put your thoughts and ideas into words in a polished but faithful version of your voice, and then deliver a draft for your review.  We can then work together to refine it further.  In this capacity we have written gallery catalogs for a curator in Manhattan, a letter to a lost love, and a wedding toast for a tongue-tied best man.  

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