Daniel J. Tortora – Editor

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

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

I’m drawn to unique or creative topics, approaches, readers, or authors. Books that inform🤯, empower or inspire🤩, or make people laugh😅.

Most projects take 2 to 6 weeks.

Yes, I work with new authors. I got you!

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

When you work with me, you get . . .

✅Reliable and helpful guidance, edits, and comments based on industry standards/best practices—and with your genre, goals, and readers in mind.

✅Know-how. To-the-point, objective, sometimes humorous, but ultimately encouraging, feedback.

✅Regular updates.

✅A well-written, high-quality book manuscript that you can be proud of.

Recent author successes: 200+ Amazon reviews within 2 weeks of publication, #1 New Release status, praise from the Wall Street Journal, speaking gigs and opportunities galore, pride and accomplishment.

📖Nonfiction Genres📖

• Self-Help & Self-Improvement

• Dating; Sex & Relationships; Masculinity; Femininity

• Humor/Comedy

• US History, Biography, Local History

• Health & Fitness

• Reference

• Legal

• Popular science

• Travel (USA)

Services (7+ years of experience)

• Copy editing, line editing, developmental editing

• Book coaching for book outlines and planning out new book projects (structure, organization, elements, etc.)

• Book proposal coaching and editing

• Traditional publishing strategy

• Self-publishing keywords and categories

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

🇺🇸 Editing is 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. Blogger with ~95 articles on writing, publishing, and book marketing. Fav. musical instrument: the triangle.🤣