All services include one 1-hour session to discuss the edit after you receive the returned, edited manuscript.

Identify weaknesses in the manuscript and make suggestions for remedies to those weaknesses.
Comments in the margins throughout your manuscript address aspects of plot, character development, setting, dialogue, theme, genre, flow, and beyond.
An accompanying letter summarises and clarifies the edits suggested throughout the manuscript.
(Note: In a developmental edit I do not alter the sentences, paragraphs or chapters in your manuscript directly. See substantive editing for this service.)
The key focus for this service is to offer suggestions that will enhance the reader’s experience.

Perform edits to the sentences, paragraphs and chapters in your manuscript directly in order to address issues in such aspects as character development, setting, and dialogue, as well as to improve clarity of meaning and flow of reading.
A brief letter summarises key aspects of the revisions suggested in the manuscript where required.
The key focus for this service is to make suggested revisions in-line to the text that allow your voice and vision to shine.

With careful attention to my subjective experience as a reader, I provide constructive comments on lines that soar and lines that falter.
In many cases, I’ll suggest specifically tailored processes for the poet to consider when approaching revision.
Specific in-line suggestions to adjust a poem may be made as representative of possibilities, but the poem always remains that of the poet.
This service is suitable for any length or number of works, from a single poem to a book of poems.