Rooted in Writing

Exciting news! A new podcast co-hosted by yours truly will be dropping later this year. I'm so excited to sit down with my dear friend and fellow editor Carrie and discuss how to turn good but messy scenes into great, memorable stories. 🖤

The writing struggle is real (especially when you’re stuck in revisions)! 😆

What if your editorial workflow worked like a story instead of a scramble? 📚✨

In my upcoming 90-minute webinar with the EFA, I’m teaching editors how to map their services onto a three-act structure—sales, onboarding/project management, and offboarding—using story beats, administrative archetypes, and repeatable systems that flex with each manuscript instead of being rebuilt from scratch.

If your admin feels scattered, your processes reinvent themselves every project, or your boundaries keep getting tested by surprise side quests… this class is for you. You’ll walk away with practical tools to forecast income, manage your schedule with confidence, and deliver consistent client experiences—beat by beat.

🗓️ March 12 at 5:00 p.m. ET
🔗 Link in bio to register!
✍️ Bring your business. We’ll give it a story arc.
🏷️ Take $10 off in checkout with "AH-uUEtE3f7RV".

🌱 The Garden Shed is officially open.

At a certain point, line editing stops being about fixing sentences—and starts being about control.

Control over rhythm.
Control over emphasis.
Control over how a reader experiences a page.

My Advanced Line Editing course is for editors who already know the rules and are ready to work at the level of voice, syntactic strategy, and market-aware decision-making.

This isn’t about rewriting authors. It’s about strengthening what’s already there—intentionally, repeatably, and with confidence.

Enrollment is open with a few remaining seats: https://community.the-efa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=2002668

It's that time of year again! Advanced line editing starts January 21. Come join us!