Editor
My enthusiasm in supporting writers goes beyond those in a classroom setting. Whether you are writing your first or tenth creative work, I’m here to support idea development, draft completion, and genre-specific elements for your writing project.
My strengths are in supporting the vision you have for your project. Not only do I have ten years of experience teaching creative writing courses, but I have also been an early critique partner and beta reader for numerous published authors.
What to Expect
For over a decade, I shared ideas and insights about writing, covering topics including craft, creative living, self-care, and techniques to get started or improve on stories in the process. Reading them can share insights into what you may experience in working with me.
To save you time, I’ve moved them all here.
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What People Are Saying
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Tasha's close reading of my writing has resulted in more fleshed out and believable characters, stronger plots, and tighter prose. She has a knack for helping me see the larger potential in my work. I would not be the writer I am today without her keen eye and big heart.
— Rosalyn Eves
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Tasha has been my guide along the trail of teaching and writing for years! She’s both kind and tough, personal and professional—absolutely the best of the best.
— Elaine/E.B. Vickers
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Tasha is a talented editor who has a fantastic eye for detail and nuance. She edited chapters of my novels and also collaborated with me to edit and publish a scholarly journal article. Her editorial comments made my writing stronger and more authentic, and I’ll always be grateful for her support.
— Helen Chuang Boswell
Work With Me
This time is perfect for someone looking to:
{Re}discover your writing process
Decide which of several new ideas is best
Get unstuck from a current WIP
Talk through ideas for a project
$75 per call. This is designed to be your hour to discuss whatever writing-focused questions or ideas you have. The more information you include before our meeting, the better we can use your time.
QUICK CHAT
SIMPLE STORY EDIT
$50 per 10K words
Includes a full read of your manuscript focusing on:
story
plot
pacing
characterization
overall character
story arcs.
Notes returned to you in one of the following ways (author’s choice):
A full edit letter OR a 60-minute phone/zoom chat. Edit letter will include strengths and weaknesses of overall plot, story/character arc, tension, and characterization.
One round of questions within two weeks of finalized edit.
MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATION
PLOT CONSULTATION
Getting ready to start a new fiction project?
Have an idea percolating but can’t get started?
Feeling lost in the middle of a fiction project?
Finished a project and feel like something isn’t right?
Staring at your list of ideas wondering which, if any, work?
This call is to help you talk through a plot regardless of how much you’ve written.
$125-250 per call. Includes pre-session reading & feedback (cost is dependent on amount of pre-session work), one 60-minute call, and if you find you have questions within the next two weeks, one follow-up email.
DEVELOPMENTAL STORY EDIT
$60 per 10K words
Includes a full read of your manuscript focusing on:
story
plot
pacing
characterization
overall character
story arcs.
Includes in-manuscript notes, as well as one of the following (author’s choice):
A full edit letter OR a 60-minute phone/zoom chat. Edit letter will generally go chapter by chapter.
One round of questions within two weeks of finalized edit.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
For Chats and Plot Consults:
Payment is expected at booking. (Unless you’re booking multiple sessions, or other payment arrangements are made)
Payment is forfeit if you cancel within 72 hours of appointment.
Any re-scheduling of session must be done at least 24 hours before appointment or payment is forfeit.
You are welcome to record our session for your own personal use.
For Full Manuscript Consultations:
A $50 deposit is required to hold your spot for any full manuscript consults or edits.
If the manuscript is turned in more than 5 business days late, your deposit is forfeit.
Your full manuscript will be returned with the agreed-upon edits within 3-6 weeks. If you’d like your manuscript sooner than 3 weeks, there’s a $100.00 rush fee + $5 per 10K words.
You will be billed for the manuscript when I’ve started editing.
If payment is not received within 48 hrs, editing will pause.
If a pause occurs due to payment delay, the 3-6 week timeline is adjusted.
If payment is not received within one week, the deposit is forfeited. Resuming work on the same project at a later date will require a new deposit.
A Note about Artificial Intelligence
I have been passionate about helping people share their experiences and stories for nearly twenty years. I have absolutely no desire to support work created by generative artificial intelligence, LLMs, or similar automated tools to create, manipulate, or substantively contribute to your work.
You will be asked to agree to an artificial intelligence & AI-generated service agreement attesting to your efforts. If you hope to find an editor to “humanize” work primarily created by something that is not your own brilliant mind and creativity and imagination and research and life, I’m not the editor for you.