I’ve been working increasingly with creative professionals and organizations on the promotional side of art and commerce. After managing the marketing functions for Writing Workshops Los Angeles for years, I took a position as the Library Communication Coordinator for the California Institute of Technology. I’ve also developed a robust web design business and completed a certificate in graphic design from CalArts. In August of 2022, I launched the Submission Sunday newsletter, which now has over 3000 subscribers.

Recently, I’ve been consulting with clients on using social media for promotion, setting up Substack newsletters, designing graphics, writing copy, and other necessary components of building a platform in 2023. I charge $250 for a one-hour marketing consultation, and often, that’s all you’ll need.

Sometimes a writer may have a great idea but not know exactly how to proceed. Other times, a writer knows exactly where she wants to go with a concept, but motivation and time management are standing in her way. Hiring a writing coach can remove both of these obstacles to a completed manuscript, whether it be a short essay or story or a book-length project. I will custom design a coaching program for you—based on your aspirations and writing practice—to help you get where you want to be.

We can meet on Zoom to help you make significant progress toward completion of a project. A single one-hour consultation is $200 and I offer a ten-session package for $1600. Packages can be customized but ten sessions might look like this: You and I would meet five times for one hour to discuss strategy, revision, outlining, etc., and you would receive feedback five times via email on up to 2500 words (or another mutually agreed upon arrangement). Clients also often use coaching sessions to prepare a query or book proposal on the journey to publication.

The Publish-Your-Book Package: Purchased either individually or with another service, this package provides two rounds of feedback on your query letter (or a one-hour consultation and one round of feedback) for $250 or one round of edits on your query and book proposal (up to 10,000 words) for $500. Additional words priced accordingly. Get your book out there!

How to Write a Book Proposal Independent Study: I now offer my nonfiction book proposal workshop as a six-session independent study for $900. We’ll work through the standard elements of the book proposal week by week so that you’ll be in a position to have a complete proposal at the end.

I offer editing and critique services for writers of fiction and nonfiction, both shorter pieces and book-length projects. I especially enjoy working with memoirists and authors drafting book proposals and query letters, and I have extensive experience editing academic journal articles for economists.

If you wanted feedback on work you’ve already written, the cost for critique services (aka developmental editing) is $200 for the first 10 pages (2500 words) and $8 per additional page. In return, you would receive your choice of a written critique (500-2000 words, depending on the length of the manuscript, outlining what’s successful and what can be improved) or a one-hour in-person meeting to discuss the feedback. The industry standard of 250 words per page is used to calculate the final cost.

Line editing or proofreading would be calculated using the Editorial Freelancer Association’s rates. Rush fees may apply.

If I’m currently offering any workshops, they can be found here. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, please feel free to follow Writing Los Angeles on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook for classes in LA and online (taught by other instructors) or reach out for a recommendation. Make sure to include the type of class you’d like to take (genre, length, etc.).

You can also arrange individual coaching to generate new work if you’d prefer (see coaching card).

One of my strengths as an editor is trimming excess text and still leaving the writer’s vision intact. I enjoy taking a document or manuscript from overlong to a specified word count, so let me help!

If you’re looking for help that doesn’t fit these parameters—e.g., you want help finding a place to submit a short story, you’d like to know about the LA literary landscape, or you want to brainstorm teaching strategies—I can work with you to customize some assistance.

As part of the writing consultant collective WordCraft LA and as director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles, I have worked on novels, nonfiction manuscripts, dissertations, book proposals, screenplays, web copy, product pitches, and marketing materials.

My previous clients include the Caltech Library, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, PEN America, literary journals Air/Light and The Rattling Wall, Circa Interactive, the New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation, CMH Records, ScriptShark (a subsidiary of The New York Times), Roxbury Publishing, and graduate students and faculty around the world. I am always interested in new types of projects.

It's been ten years since I first started Submission Sunday as part of WordCraft LA: eight curated literary submission opportunities every other Sunday for all genres. Over the years, Submission Sunday migrated to Writing Workshops LA and then was shut down in early 2020. I've been asked about whether it was coming back ever since, and I’m delighted to say Yes! Now!

Subscribe now to start receiving Submission Sunday in your inbox for free. In addition to eight submission opportunities every other Sunday, paid subscribers will receive interviews with published authors about submission and rejection, interviews with editors about what they’re looking for, and round-ups of articles about submitting and writing in general every other “other” Sunday.