Want to Work With Me?
My approach is all about empathy, accuracy, and finding the heart of your story. My mission is to:
- Help writers see their talents (and blocks) through a coaching approach
- Connect writers to the core of their creative works, then find the right structure to make the words come alive
- Share opportunities for funding, book promotion, platform building, and community connection
I am a compassionate, kind, and thorough reviewer of works-in-progress, ranging from children’s picture books to memoir, nonfiction, and commercial fiction. I’m the author of seven published books with another picture book slated for publication by Acorn in Spring/Summer 2026. I run several supportive writing groups, freelance edit for publishers, and was the general / structural editor for the critically-acclaimed and bestselling anthology of personal essays In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation (Brindle & Glass). My picture book, Freddie the Flyer, has won several awards and was selected by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. As a trained historian and compulsive reader of spiritual, self-help, narrative nonfiction / memoir, picture books, book club fiction, and romantic comedies, I am particularly drawn to these kinds of manuscripts.
AI Statement: no part of my own editorial feedback uses AI in any fashion, nor do I feed any authors’ work, story summary, or any other information into it. If you get in touch about my editing services, we will discuss if you have used AI in your writing process to ascertain scope of work and pricing structure.
Writing & Publishing Coach
I LOVE sharing my 15 years of hard-won knowledge around writing, editing and publishing to help people take big leaps forward in their own careers. I often work with mentors and coaches myself and know how valuable they have been. My coaching rate is $100/hour CAD (I offer discounts to Indigenous, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized individuals and communities). Or, if you’re a member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, you can access subsidized 30-minute consults through their Coffee Chats program.
Ghostwriter & Personal Historian
I love hearing people’s stories and helping to shape them into compelling narratives. I have spent thousands of hours interviewing people of all ages and backgrounds to write magazine and newspaper profiles, include them in books, or co-write picture books. I have also ghostwritten book-length projects that people have self-published. Please contact me for a free chat to discuss options and fees.
Manuscript Reviewer
I offer manuscript reviews through the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Writers’ Union of Canada, as well as independently. If you’re a member of those organizations, please visit the sites above for more details. If not, please contact me! In general, my rates are as follows for manuscript reviews/evaluations:
Prose (fiction or nonfiction): $150 for up to 2500 words (approximately ten pages) + $0.02 per word after 2500 words.
Children’s books under 2000 words: $150
This service includes two pages of targeted, helpful and supportive editorial feedback.
Developmental & Structural Editor
This level of editing is appropriate for a full manuscript that needs some work on big picture issues (like plot, pacing, character development, etc.) before it is ready to move on to the later stages of editing. Developmental editing does not cover grammar or other sentence-level issues, as those fixes happen at later stages in the process.
Price starts at $0.03 per word. Manuscripts of 2000 words or fewer will have a flat fee of $150. Free sample edit up to 250 words for manuscripts over 5,000 words
Copyeditor
Copyediting includes corrections for grammar and punctuation, but also smoothing sentences and catching redundancies, inconsistencies, and factual errors.
Price starts at $0.025 per word. Manuscripts of 2000 words or fewer will have a flat fee of $150. Free sample edit up to 250 words for manuscripts over 5,000 words.
Proofreader
Is your manuscript copyedited but you need one last pass to catch those pesky errors that slipped through? Proofreading is the step for you! Price starts at $0.015 per word. Minimum price of $150.
Send me a note through my contact page and book a free 15-minute discovery call to see if we’re a good fit!
