Overview
If you’re here looking for developmental editing, a writing coach, or someone to help hone your writing craft, you’ve ended up in the right place! I am passionate about sharing with others the skills I’ve developed over the past fifteen years of studying writing craft. I work hard to communicate clearly, kindly, and with candor, helping the writers I work with to improve and deepen their understanding of writing and novel construction. I’m a teacher by trade, and I strongly believe that the work I do with authors should always be applicable to future writing—I focus on teaching skills, rather than only trying to “fix” a current project.
I’m open to working with you on your specific needs.
I specialize in two areas for manuscripts:
-sentence level feedback and helping writers become stronger at the sentence level
-global feedback, specifically in the areas of theme, character arc, and plot
I also work closely with submission packages for agents:
-queries
-synopsis
-opening chapters
Testimonials:
“Juliana is a brilliant writer and editor. I’m a literary agent, and she still teaches me things about craft every time we talk.”
— Lauren Spieller, Author and Literary Agent
“Juliana’s editorial insights are fantastic; she never fails to leave my manuscripts stronger than when I started.”
— Jessica Vitalis, author of The Wolf’s Curse
“Juliana’s editing skills were exactly what my book needed to tie it all together. I easily saved hundreds of hours of stumbling about with her help. Critique partners and readers are great, but there’s nothing like the work of a true editor.”
— Konstantinos Kalofonos
“I’ve just had a crash course MFA in creative writing… what a bargain!”
— Anna McCallie
Services
Fiction
Languages
Work experience
Lit Reactor
This four week class focused on giving authors the skills to prepare material and be successful during the month of NaNoWriMo.
Self-employed
Before becoming published, I worked as a freelance editor with a specialty in honing querying materials: the query letter, the synopsis, and opening chapters.
After becoming published in 2020, I broadened my business to editing novels in the middle grade and young adult category and teaching workshops with a focus on how to plot novels before drafting.
Pitchwars
Pitch Wars was a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors, or industry interns coached an unaccented author over the course of three months. During this time, writers would revise manuscripts. A culminating agent showcase would take place, during which agents would read a pitch and request pages.
Throughout my time working in this program, I worked closely with many authors, several of whom went on to be published.
In my last year with Pitch Wars, I shifted from working with individual authors to helping assist the lead team that ran the program.
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