Daniel J. Tortora – Editor

Let’s get you ready and excited to publish your book.🥳

Since my days as a fun and enthusiastic professor (trained by a Pulitzer Prize-winner!), I’ve been the secret weapon behind dozens of polished and publication-ready book manuscripts.🥷

I work with young solopreneurs, coaches, therapists, attorneys, comedians, historians, and others for whom creating a great book is an important goal.

🚀I’m here to help you get to the next level.

The best fit: a unique topic, approach, audience, or author background. 🤣 A book that aims to inform🤯, empower or inspire🤩, or make people laugh.

First-time authors and those in need of a quick turnaround: I got you!

📩Request a quote and let’s talk about your book project!

When you work with me, you will . . .

✅Receive dependable guidance—so you can write better, dazzle readers, and create a high-quality book manuscript.

✅Get actionable edits and comments based on industry standards and best practices, your genre, your goals, and your readers.

✅Know exactly what’s needed and how to fix it—with to-the-point, objective, at times maybe even humorous insight.

✅Be kept in the loop. (Regular updates = less stress.)

✅Feel motivated and inspired.

Recent author successes include: 200+ Amazon reviews within 2 weeks of publication, #1 New Release status, praise from the Wall Street Journal, doors opened personally and professionally, and a sense of pride and accomplishment. That can be you!

📩If you have a great book in you and need some expert assistance that is aligned with your goals and your readers . . . and that is precise, clear, and encouraging . . . tell me about your project and request a quote today!

📖Typical Genres📖

• Self-Help & Self-Improvement

• Dating; Sex & Relationships

• Health & Fitness

• Humor/Comedy

• US History, Biography, Local History

• Education & Reference

• Inspirational

• Psychology

• Travel (USA)

I do NOT work on memoirs, autobiographies, or family history.

Services

• Copy editing, line editing, editorial assessments, developmental editing

• Book proposal coaching and editing

• Book outlines and planning out new book projects

• Book publishing coaching and strategy

I love helping boost authors’ skills and confidence.

🇺🇸 Editing is done in American English using The Chicago Manual of Style, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, and the Oxford (aka serial) comma.

😁 Fun facts: Former DJ—’80s music. Broke my leg twice in a year—in sixth grade. I love Detroit pizza, potato chips, UConn basketball, and muscle cars. Outdoorsy. A twice-traditionally-published author—with a trade press and a university press. Have written ~90 articles on writing, publishing, and book marketing. Fav. musical instrument: the triangle.🤣