Editor · Writing Coach · Writer
Someone to read your manuscript closely, and tell you the truth about it.
I'm Ann Wicker. I spent years as a writer and editor in newspapers and magazines, and I've worked with dozens of writers on novels, memoirs, mysteries, and business books — some headed to agents, some to small presses, some self-published.
Ways we can work together
Most manuscripts need more than one kind of attention. We'll talk first about where yours actually is.
Grammar, spelling, and the formatting a publisher expects — indentation, spacing, consistency, line by line.
Line edits plus fact checking, so nothing in the book trips up a reader who knows the subject.
My honest read on the ideas and their execution: flow, chapter order, plot, characters, tone.
The big picture only: structure, form, characters, plot, pacing — usually before the sentences get polished.
“Any editor or reader who looks at your work may have a different opinion. It is up to you, the writer, to use or discard these opinions.”
Ann Wicker
A few from the shelf
