Christa Yelich-Koth

Christa Yelich-Koth – Editor

Editor and writer with a particular focus on science fiction/fantasy, both YA and adult. I want to help make your story shine.

Overview

I have been a freelance editor since 2013. I've worked with published (several B&N and Amazon bestsellers) and first-time authors and love working with both new and veteran writers. My main focus is science fiction and fantasy, both YA and adult. I also enjoy working on memoirs and mysteries. My goal as an editor is to help enhance the beauty of your voice/style while working through anything that bogs the story down. I want you to feel uplifted as a writer and encouraged to make changes to tell your story the best way possible.

My published works as an author include Amazon Bestselling novels, ILLUSION (also the winner of the 2016 Novel of Excellence Award in Science Fiction) and IDENTITY, and internationally bestselling books, detective thriller SPIDER'S TRUTH and YA fantasy novel, THE JADE CASTLE, so I understand how incredibly important it is to find a competent editor who will give you individual attention–this is what I strive to do for my clients.
Services
Fiction
Action & Adventure Dystopian Epic Fantasy Space Opera Urban Fantasy Women's Fiction Young Adult
Languages
English (US)
Awards
  • Amazon Bestselling Author
  • Winner of the 2016 Novel of Excellence Award for Science Fiction from Author's Circle Awards for ILLUSION
  • B&N Bestselling Author
  • Silver Medalist from Reader’s Favorite Awards in Thriller-Conspiracy

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2013 — Present

As a contract/freelance editor I've worked with Acorn Publishing and book publishing coach, Christine Gail, and have worked with published (several bestsellers and award-winners, including Lorena Angell and Kat Ross) and first-time authors alike. I love working with both new and veteran writers.

My main focus is science fiction and fantasy, both YA and adult. I also enjoy working on memoirs and mysteries.

My goal as an editor is to help enhance the beauty of your voice/style while working through anything that bogs the story down. I want you to feel uplifted as a writer and encouraged to make changes to tell your story the best way possible. Let's make your book shine...

Lincoln City Cultural Center

Aug, 2018 — Oct, 2018 (2 months)

Led three different workshops at the Cultural Center, half lecture-half writing based. Covered writing topics Keeping Tension in your Novels, Show don't Tell, and Knowing Your Characters.

REDSHIFT

Dec, 2016 — Jul, 2018 (over 1 year)

Co-editor for Season 3 and 4 of REDSHIFT programs (affiliated with FancyPants Gangsters) which is an audio science fiction program. My job entails reading and reviewing short stories for submission and co-editing those stories for transference to an audio medium.

MInicon

Mar, 2015 — Mar, 2015 (less than a minute)

Panelist at Minicon Science Fiction Convention. Topics were "Artistic Bravery" and "Publishing after the Big 5". Focus was discussing ways to push forward through your writing fears, which also reflects knowing when your ms is ready for publication and how to continue moving forward if you were rejected by the "Big 5" publishers, including making sure your ms is edited, formatted, and polished.

Southern California Writers Conference

Feb, 2015 — Present

Staff and workshop leader in 2015, 2017, and 2019. Main focus was on comic book writing, mixing genres in novels, and Read and Critique sessions.

Portfolio

Princess Ekaterina Cvetlovski flees captivity in the dead of night amid a raging blizzard, hoping for escape, but accepting she may die. Either outcome is preferable to the trapped life she currently lives—kept inside a castle, punished if she steps out of lin... read more
Seventeen-year-old Sarah is a Sensor, gifted with the ability to survive within the sentient Ecosystem that swept away human civilization centuries ago. While the remnants of humankind huddle in small villages of stone, Sarah uses her psychic connection to the... read more
From birth, Prince Jameson has been groomed to reign. On the heels of a victory against a barbarian force, he is welcomed home as a savior. His father toasts his impending marriage to the daughter of a key ally. Everything is in place for the young monarch-in-... read more
Book six in The Unaltered series. Calli is assigned to help rescue imprisoned scientists from a facility eerily similar to General Harding’s. Even with Brand’s help, this will prove to be difficult at best. The task reveals a new, man-made, power-removing subs... read more
Marta and Jayme are childhood friends. The story opens with them locked in a heated debate over Marta's soul and their different world views (nature based vs. religion based). They part, Marta to attend her initiation, Jayme to report the upcoming event to the... read more
Cassandra Wind's book, Ancient Teachings - New Traditions, shares her thoughts, struggles, pain, and wisdom she discovered raising her daughter. Her writings reveal the teachings from many wise women of tribal lineage, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, and other... read more
Choosing Hope

Holly Kammier

Choosing Hope is a harrowing story of passion and deceit, the things we do for love and the rabbit holes we tumble into chasing elusive fairy-tale endings. Dark around the edges with a shocking twist I didn’t see coming, this is the kind of book you’ll be pass... read more
Persepolae has fallen.Karnopolis has burned.As the dark forces of the Undead sweep across what remains of the empire, Nazafareen must obey the summons of a demon queen to save Darius's father, Victor. Burdened with a power she doesn't understand and can barely... read more
Visionary. Alchemist. Savior. Saint.The Prophet Zarathustra has been called many things. Now he spends his time drawing pictures of weird-looking goats. That's what happens when you've been stuck in a prison cell for two hundred years. But the man who might be... read more
They are the light against the darkness.The steel against the necromancy of the Druj.And they use demons to hunt demons….Nazafareen lives for revenge. A girl of the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she knows about the King's elite Water Dogs is that they bind wick... read more
Lead Council member, Christoph, is dead by Elyse’s hand, and Descendants have begun to emerge, exposing their secret to the world. Some see this as the prophecy come to fruition, but the prophecy caries a heavy consequence. It was never meant to be as peaceful... read more
Elyse has done everything she can to protect her friends from The Council's reach. As long as they believe she's dead, she has time to rest and train for war. And war is inevitable. When Kara arrives with the news that Anna and Chloe have been captured, Elyse ... read more
Elyse knows what it means to keep a secret. She's been keeping secrets her whole life. Two, actually. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that while she looks eighteen years old, she's closer to eighty. Second, that her blood has a m... read more

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