Jacoba Lawson – Editor

I believe mutual respect and trust are the keys to successful collaboration, whether I'm helping writers develop their ideas or giving a completed manuscript the final polish that really makes it sparkle.

Are you an expert in your field with knowledge to share but limited experience writing for a general audience? I specialize in ensuring readers connect with your work. I've helped radio hosts capture their voices on the page, herpetologists write warmly about their cold-blooded subjects, and trial lawyers communicate in plain English.

I also delight in working with fiction writers to create the same grounded sense of sure-handed expertise expected from nonfiction, but in service of amazing stories. My first career was in television writing and film production, and I never tire of applying the principles of narrative, structure, and character it taught me to a medium free from budgets, casting, and other production constraints. The thing that has always been most important to me is working with writers to get their stories told, and told well.

And now, a word from some past clients regarding what it’s like to work with me:

"Jacoba has a fine sense of how to make me better, challenge me when I need it but don’t want to admit it, and make creative suggestions that I would never have considered. Real test is would I ask for her in the future? She would be my first choice." Roger Dodd, The Art of Cross-Examination