Daniel J. Tortora – Editor

Let’s get you ready and excited to publish your book in 2025.🥳

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 books with unique or creative topics, approaches, or intended readers—books by eager authors that inform😲, inspire🤩, or make people laugh😅.

Most projects take 2 to 6 weeks.

📩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—and with your genre, goals, and readers in mind.

✅Know-how. To-the-point, 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 & Personal Development

• Dating; Sex & Relationships

• Humor/Comedy

• US History, Biography, Politics

• Health & Fitness; Wellness; Lifestyle

• Mind, Body, Spirit

• Reference

• Popular Science

• Travel Guides (USA)

Services (7+ years of experience)

• Copy editing, line editing, developmental editing

• Book coaching, including book outlines, planning out new books (structure, organization, etc.), and writing check-ins

• Book proposal coaching and editing

• Traditional publishing strategy

• Self-publishing keywords and categories

Not a fit: Memoirs, autobiographies, essays, business books, family history

🇺🇸 Editing is in American English using The Chicago Manual of Style, Merriam-Webster’s 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: have written 100 articles on writing, publishing, and book marketing. Fav. musical instrument: the triangle.🤣