A Word Stylist with a Mission to Help Words Take Flight

I am an author and award-winning playwright with two fiction works, six journals and 8 plays to my credit. My plays have been staged in Memphis, TN, Richmond, VA and South Florida.

I am a literary coach who works with you one on one and will help you define what you are writing, help you focus your works intent, assist in developing the work including character descriptions/purposes, scene definitions, story transitions, dialogue, personality, ministry/therapy component, fact presentation and other areas dependent upon what you are writing. Sometimes a coach’s role may be to help an author take a poetry collection and weave it into a cohesive book; take teaching, preaching or workshop notes and mold them into a book, or take journal entries and help the writer weave them into a testimony or self-help journal. I can work with a writer from the idea stage up to publication, or may jump in mid-stream (at the writers block stage) and take you through completion. Or, I may just help in the development of the outline and project summary or in critiquing/editing a completed project. Perhaps your need is to just have me analyze and assess your work from a literary instructive angle and from the angle of a reader.

My Developmental Editing offers concentration with the intent, structure, focus and content of your book or play. It also involves looking for inconsistent tone, character development, storyline progression, or an unclear audience. It also incorporates line editing services, where attention is paid to sentence structure, paragraph building, the use of proper or substantive words and phrases. I also keep an eye on the proper use of attribution, source identification and related matters. While it does involve some spelling and grammatical checking – proofreading is not in the scope of my services.

I am able to work in fiction, non-fiction, Christian, inspirational and playwriting.

Work Terms

Flexible with hours, like to interview clients to assure I get the desire of the work, some projects may require deposits depending on the scope of work