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Editing
Your book deserves a professional editor
Skilled editing sharpens your writing, prevents embarrassing errors, and indicates you take your work seriously.
It can make the difference between a book that is well received and one that’s rejected by readers.
Give your manuscript the polish it deserves by delegating this important step to a professional editor.
I specialize in memoir and self-help books. I provide expert developmental editing, line editing, and copyediting that will bring out the best in your writing.
These are some of the memoirs I’ve edited:
Assembling a Life: Claiming the Artist in My Father (and Myself) by Martha Clark Scala. A psychotherapist/collage artist’s memoir about her enigmatic father. (My role: developmental editor, line editor, copyeditor, book production consultant)
Savoring the Olde Ways Series—Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table—Book One and Book Two and A September to Remember—Searching for Culinary Pleasures at the Italian Table—Book Three by Carole Bumpus. Travel and culinary memoirs that received a 2021 IPPY Gold Medal award for Best Series (nonfiction) and multiple international awards individually. Published by She Writes Press. (My role: developmental editor, line editor)
A Fierce Belief in Miracles: My Journey from Rape to Healing and Wholeness by Anne Heck, women’s empowerment coach. Published by She Writes Press. (My role: coach, developmental editor, line editor)
Tea with Mom: Spiritual Lessons on Life and Death, and Healing in Bali by Eddie L. Dobbins, Jr. Author’s story of caring for his mother during the final months of her life. (My role: line editor, copyeditor, book production consultant)
Losing Siggie: A Passage through Grief, in Poems and Photographs by Jenn Lyons. Created in memory of the author’s dearest dog. (My role: editor, book production consultant)
Autism’s Stepchild: A Mother’s Story by Phyllis Grilikhes. A psychologist’s story based on her PhD thesis. (My role: developmental editor, line editor)
Dr. Smilo: One Woman’s Remarkable Journey into Medicine by Renata P. Smilo, MD. (My role: editorial consultant in final book production)
In progress:
- A principal ballerina’s memoir about her career on the world stage and a debut into the third act of her life. (My role: coach, developmental editor)
- A cult expert’s memoir examining the history and motivation that led her to survive a cult experience and become a warrior in the battle against coercive influence and control. (My role: coach, developmental editor)
- An international adoption story involving red tape, jaded bureaucrats, jealous village elders, and scheming family members. (My role: developmental editor)
- A disability counselor’s story of overcoming barriers to career success despite being blind from birth. (My role: developmental editor)
My 30 years of editing also include workbooks and training materials, articles and essays, video and emcee scripts, product guides, speeches, newsletters, and more.
If you’d like to talk about how I might help you, please contact me. I love talking with writers!
“Darlene Frank is an astute and sensitive editor, with a keen eye and a high standard of excellence—qualities hard to find these days. She is professional, reliable, multitalented, and a joy to work with.”
~Janja Lalich, PhD, Professor of Sociology
“As a new writer on a mission to produce an instructive book on yoga, I had the good fortune to meet Darlene Frank. It changed everything . . . Thank you, Darlene. My book is what I hoped it would be because of you.”
~Thea Sawyer, author of Put Your Back at Ease: Pain-Free Posture for Fitness and Health
Services: Coaching | Book consulting | Workbook design | Editing
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