Julie Gray – Editor

I am a Substantive and Developmental editor and multiply published essayist and fiction writer. My short fiction has appeared in the Sanskrit Literary Journal, Hip Mama Magazine, Moviemaker Magazine, Script Magazine and the Times of Israel. I am a long time Huffington Post contributor.

I have taught storytelling technique at Warner Bros. Studios and the London Screenwriter's Festival.
I am the author of Just Effing Entertain Me: A Screenwriter's Atlas and my essay The Freaking Autumn of my life was featured in Ageing, an Apprenticeship, with fellow contributors Gloria Steinem, Judy Blume and Ellen Gilchrist.

I focus on working with fiction and creative non-fiction writers whether from an idea, a work-in-progress, manuscript evaluation or full substantive editing. I provide guidance, feedback, and suggestions about narrative style, dramatic structure, plot and character development, consistency, syntax and logic. I help ensure that your manuscript is an immersive, page-turning experience for readers.

My background as a Hollywood story analyst gives me a sharp eye toward the overall "entertainment factor" of your work.

Films I have story consulted on are:

*The Blue Dress *Oriented
*Five Hour Friends *The Last Hurrah
*(Holiday) Baggage
*The End Again

Films I have provided pre-production story analysis for:

*The Strangers
*Freedom Writers
*City of Ember