Kate Juniper

Kate Juniper – Editor

Intersectionally feminist, trauma-trained somatic book coach & editor of 15 years, empowering women+ to write their 🔥 novels, NF & memoirs.

Overview

1️⃣ BOOK EDITING: 📝 1 spot available!

👉🏻 Inviting mystery novelists & memoirists to apply!

2️⃣ BOOK COACHING: 2 spots available starting January 2026.

✨ It's time to write the book your soul came here to create. ✨

Please read carefully to ensure we're a good potential fit:

I support serious female-id'ing writers to write the book that's alive inside of them—whether memoir, fiction, or nonfiction—in just 6 months—with ease, peace, & power through my 1:1 somatic book writing journey, HEROINE.

*HEROINE has a 100% completion rate and past clients have landed agents & even secured a multi-6-figure, multi-national book deal (see Portia Elan's Homebound).*

HEROINE is the book coaching experience for you if you're:

• Wanting to write the story of your life in a memoir that's honest, potent, & powerful medicine for its future readers—without the past coming back to terrorize you.

• Trying to write your novel, which grapples with deeply personal yet universal themes, but feeling overwhelmed by the task.

• A published author feeling stifled by the pressure to write the next equally (or even more) brilliant book.

• Serving your clients as a coach &/or change maker & ready to put what you've created into a book that will serve your mission & spread your message.

Yes, you want accountability, feedback, direction, & motivation—but more than that, you want someone to help you bring forth your most honest, articulate, & powerful work.

You want to create the book that will:

• Heal you & free you just by writing it — because it's so honest and true to you, heart & soul

• Profoundly impact the people who read it — because that honesty cracks them wide open

• Create ripples of change that become part of your legacy — because you are here at this time to be part of co-creating our collective future.

Let's create magic & medicine together!

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"I wanted to share a little of my own news—in January I finished revisions on my novel & started querying! In mid-April, I received an offer of representation, & nudged the other agents — I ended up receiving 6 offers of representation (!!!!). In early May, I signed with ***! I feel so deeply, deeply grateful for every step of this process, & for how much "becoming a writer who can finish books" was also a process of learning to be kind & good to myself." — Portia Elan, Homebound (2026)

"Working with Kate was a gentle & smooth experience. She really understood me & guided my work in the direction it craved. I can't wait to work with her further, she is very passionate & inspiring." —Amy Mattes, Late September (2024)

"Writing my book with Kate was a healing experience. She built up my confidence & her attention to my work far exceeded my expectations. I didn't know editors could care so much! My memoir is outstanding & it embodies me. I couldn't have done it without Kate." —DW McKinney

Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs Psychology Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Fiction
Cozy Mysteries LGBTQ Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
Languages
English (CAN) English (UK) English (US)
Awards
  • Master's Degree Fellowship in English Literature
Certifications
  • Copy Editing
  • Substantive Editing
  • Somatic Coaching
  • MindBody Coaching
  • Trauma Healing w Dr. Peter Levine
  • Healing Ancestral Trauma

Work experience

Self-employed

Apr, 2020 — Aug, 2024 (over 4 years)
Perform proofreading and copy editing for the foremost Canadian independent publisher.

Self-employed

May, 2016 — Present
I'm Kate, and I'm a Somatic Book, Business, Life & Leadership Coach Leo Sun | Virgo Moon | Virgo Rising (translation: heart-led leader and perfectionist) I help creative women and non-binary femmes come home to themselves to bring their soul-led visions to life—whether it's a book, a business, or a whole social movement—via the magic & wisdom of their brilliant bodies while protecting & prioritizing their mental health. My greatest passion is helping people translate those immaterial entities we call thoughts and feelings and dreams into the kind of words, books, actions, and missions that make real and lasting impact in the world. It's great to meet you!

Self-employed

Nov, 2018 — Aug, 2024 (almost 6 years)
Perform substantive, stylistic, and copy editing for this Atlantic Canadian traditional publishing house.

Self-employed

Jul, 2017 — Sep, 2018 (about 1 year)
Performed developmental, substantive, and copy edits to manuscripts, primarily region-specific history books that required a high level of attention to detail, accuracy, and consistency.

FriesenPress

Mar, 2015 — Sep, 2016 (over 1 year)
Managed team of over seventy international freelance editors to ensure high level of editorial excellence at all times. Acted as in-house editor for web content, marketing copy, large-scale client-facing correspondence and company guides and catalogues.

Self-employed

Oct, 2014 — Mar, 2015 (5 months)
Copy edited hundreds of entries for the Routledge Online Encyclopedia of Modernism.

Portfolio

Goddess

Hemming, Deborah

Copy Editing
Late September

Amy Mattes

Harbour Publishing

Late September is an intimate queer coming-of-age tale exploring the nuances of love, trauma and mental health. A compelling literary fiction pick for readers of Heather O’Neill and Zoe Whitta... read more
Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment Query Letter Review
Homebound

Portia Elan

Simon and Schuster

Five interlocking lives. One beloved story. A dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together. “A joy—at once a gripping mystery that confident... read more
Book Coaching
No Stars in the Sky

Bátiz, Martha

Proofreading
The Lost Sister

Andrea Gunraj

Proofreading
“Don’t waste your conflict.”Grateful for the Fight goes beyond resolving conflict to using conflict to transform lives. Neufeld cautions that the urgency in today’s society to resolve conflict... read more
Copy Editing
Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment Proofreading Query Letter Review Book Coaching
When Alana and Roland, a spirited Canadian couple with an insatiable desire to live life to the fullest, embark on an epic yearlong travel adventure around the world with their newborn son and... read more
Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment Query Letter Review
Made with Reedsy
More Practical Dharma: More Pragmatic Strategies for Everyday Challenges

Fracher, Ph.D., Jeffrey C.

Dr. Jeffrey C. Fracher, PLLC

Developmental Editing Proofreading Indexing Book Coaching
White Resin

Wilhelmy, Audrée

Proofreading
The Crooked Knife

Morrison, Jan

Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment Query Letter Review
The History of Rain

Malone, Stephens Gerard

Developmental Editing Copy Editing
Lay Figures

Blagrave, Mark

Copy Editing
The Codfish Dream

David Giblin

A colourful portrait of life in an eccentric fishing village on the BC coast.After spending fifteen years as a fishing guide on the BC coast, David Giblin decided that the offbeat people and p... read more
Copy Editing
Although refugees have been pushed into the spotlight over the past few years, particularly as a result of the Syrian crisis, they are never far from public consciousness or policy debates. Ba... read more
Copy Editing
"My nurse hands once did more useful things. They immunized the fat, healthy thighs of infants, they carefully measured cardiac drugs to administer to young heart patients, they bathed both th... read more
Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment
Being Bertha

Fran Genereux

The Ekelund family moved to Canada in 1903 and settled in what is now Southern Alberta when Bertha, their sixth child was only five years old. Growing up in a family that was torn apart by the... read more
Copy Editing
Color Up

Karen A. Foss

Today’s world is stuck in black-and-white thinking that limits creative possibilities. We all need fresh ways to move forward beyond constraints that insist on only two possibilities—one right... read more
Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment
A Mill Behind Every Stump

Marianne Van Osch

The story of one family's settlement in the Cariboo and the culture of early sawmills that developed around them.In 1922, the Judson family arrived in the Cariboo by covered wagon. The stories... read more
Proofreading
Morrison

Susan Raby-Dunne

The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada... read more
Copy Editing
This book has approximately forty thousand words in it. These words are separated into dozens and dozens of short stories, vignettes, and poems. These dozens and dozens of short stories, vigne... read more
Copy Editing

Kate has 7 reviews

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Lie L.

Lie L.

Aug, 2019

Pinned
I am so grateful for Kate’s attention to my novel. She has done what a truly great editor does: point out what is working well and encourage me to look at what isn’t from a new angle. Her insight is broad and her generosity such a kindness in the solitary experience of writing. She provided co...
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Kate J.
Thank you, Lie. It's been such a pleasure. —K.
Verde A.

Verde A.

Jun, 2019

Pinned
(It gives me great pleasure to write this review for Kate! I was so nervous and unsure of what to expect and what I would ultimately get from randomly picking an editor. I feel tremendously blessed, and that also our connection was meant to be. The universe and my ancestors ROCK!) My experience ...
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Kate J.
Thank you for these wonderful words, Sharae! It's been such a pleasure to work with you and your stories. Long may our collaboration continue, Future Published Indie Author Verde Arzu!
Jeffrey F.

Jeffrey F.

Mar, 2025

Rarely does the universe gift us with someone who enriches one’s life in many ways. Such a person is Kate. In the course of considering a second book, I was fortunate to find Kate and her partner and co-founder, Nic Vandergugten. Kate, with assistance from Nic, has been my guide from the beginnin...
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Kate J.
Thank you so much for your trust and your collaboration, Jeff!
Julie C.

Julie C.

Apr, 2024

Kate was fantastic at helping me get unstuck from the middle of my writing, when I wasn't sure if what I was writing was making any sense to anyone but me. Her feedback was so helpful - encouraging while being genuinely helpful. I would work with her again in a heartbeat.
Kate J.
It was such a pleasure to work with you, Julie! Till next time! —K.
Kate S.

Kate S.

Apr, 2020

I was at a stand still with my manuscript and could not have progressed any further without Kate's help. She was very thorough and communicative. She has been a pleasure to work with!
Kate J.
Thanks Kate! Looking forward to the next stage!

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