Carol Gaskin – Editor

I offer complete book editing services for fiction, nonfiction, and children’s/YA: general assessments and developmental editing for early-stage manuscripts; detailed, constructive critiques; and final line editing. I work with writers at all levels, from beginners to much-published veterans. For newer writers, my critiques serve as a mini-writing tutorial that is customized to your manuscript, but that you should also find helpful to your future projects. For all clients, I aim to take the fear out of the revision process by offering clear guidance on how to proceed, with a focus on preparing your book for the marketplace. I also help authors develop query letters and book proposals that consistently lead to agent requests.As the author of 15 books and countless articles, I know how much I have benefited from the many editors I have worked with; and I hope my clients learn to be better writers by working with me. I particularly love editing mysteries and thrillers, historical novels, children's/YA projects, and literary fiction; and nonfiction that teaches me something. But I work with manuscripts of all types. For me, every new project opens up a new world—one I always feel excited and honored to visit.