Are you writing a book? Do you have a story to tell, but don’t know where to start? Imagine how you could flourish with a Consulting Editor or private coach guiding you from drafting to publication. I am here for you!
You can hire me for any stage of your writing project. I can edit your work substantively, proofread it mildly, guide you through elements of your academic writing, train you in the rigors of creative genres, brainstorm new directions in your nonfiction, consult with you on stylistic or grammatical topics, or help you perfect your MLA citations.
JOURNEY TOGETHER: Wherever your project exists on its adventure from idea to publication, I would love to help you! Perhaps you need a beta reader for the draft of a novel or a rigorous reviser of an academic book project. Maybe you’d like to streamline your syntax or up your grammar game. Do you want a Virgilian guide in the dark forest of distribution? I’ll walk you through those woods.
Here are some books I’ve edited, either in a consulting capacity or as primary academic/creative editor:
Hope for a Faithful Sinner
These Reflections for Your Spiritual Journey by Joseph B. Porter provide inspiration to sustain your devotional commitment through this fallen world to a bright future in the Lord. If you are experiencing spiritual hunger, curious about the Christian faith, trying to find a way back to God, or seeing new insights, these prayers and reflections can guide you and give you new hope. Recently released from Lenext Press.
Planet Thulcandra
Planet Thulcandra: Magic and Science in C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength is a is a scholarly yet accessible study by Joseph Weigel. Lewis believed that the human quest to become immortal and create the god-man is a deception of devils that uses both technology and spiritual power to pursue the desired goal. Forthcoming from Apocryphile Press with a chapter I’m contributing about Lewis’s modern occult context and his response to it.
The Ingredients of God’s Story
Exploring how cultural contextualization shapes our Biblical understanding. This approachable non-fiction work by John Farwell helps young people learn how to read the Bible in historical context. Forthcoming from Wootton Major Publishing.
Quilt of Dreams
In this Transformative Jungian Journey, author Ursula Daniels explores her personal psychoanalytic process, sharing significant dreams that brought archetypal images to the surface of her consciousness, leading to the recovery of long-lost memories and finally to healing from decades-old trauma.
Panoramic Theatre:
Classical Performance for the iPhone Generation. A guide for directors, by Stephen Burdman of New York Classical Theatre, for implementing his innovative outdoor, moving, place-based productions of Shakespeare and other classic works of drama.
A Holiday by the Sea
C.S. Lewis, Lizzie Endicott, and the Magical Land of Castlerock by Reggie Weems explores how Lewis’s childhood in Ireland and the folktales told by his nanny influenced his highly place-based fiction, its gorgeous landscapes, and its fantastical creatures.
The Inklings and King Arthur
Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has. In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature.
The Chapel of the Thorn
The Chapel of the Thorn is an early play by Charles Williams (written in 1912 and published for the first time in 2014 by Apocryphile Press), edited and introduced by Sørina Higgins, with a preface by Grevel Lindop (Charles Williams’ official biographer, author of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling (OUP 2015), and an essay by David Llewellyn Dodds (editor of the Charles Williams volume in Boydell & Brewer’s Arthurian Poets series).
The Soul of Wit
Here is a collection of flash fiction and short-form poetry from Signum University’s “Almost an Inkling” Creative Writing Contest in 2016. The Soul of Wit is a rich and varied body of short works of literature from tweet-length pieces to 1,000-word myths that create whole secondary worlds.