Overview
To date, Robyn has edited, written, and/or co-written more than 150 manuscripts and nonfiction book proposals. Her clients have secured leading literary representation, gone on to receive critical and commercial acclaim, become national bestsellers, won awards, and scored ink in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. One of the more recent projects she's worked on, David A. Treleaven’s Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing, was praised as a “rare combination of solid scholarship, clinically useful methods, and passionate advocacy for those who have suffered trauma” by the author of Hardwiring Happiness Dr. Rick Hanson. Robyn, who has worked with the New York Times bestselling author Cara Black and Pushcart Prize Winner Frances Lefkowitz, among many others, holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Hawaii.
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- MFA, Writing
Work experience
Working Title Editorial
Editors are vital to a book’s success. As the Founder of Working Title Editorial, I work closely with authors to help them create the best project possible. While I edit across categories, I specialize in fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction. As a developmental editor, I provide writers with comprehensive, critical feedback in the form of extensive editorial letters and follow-up emails and teleconferences. I address style and voice, language, characterization, point of view, plot and structure, setting, theme, and dramatic tension. I ask questions throughout the editing and revision process with the hope of sparking lively discussions about the book’s possibilities, and offer writers ideas on how to constructively and creatively approach problems. My clients’ ambitions and aesthetics always guide my process and my feedback. I also offer line-edits, proofreading, doctoring, ghostwriting, query letter development, and assistance with nonfiction book proposals.
Self-employed
- Provides comprehensive evaluations on fiction and narrative nonfiction manuscripts.
- Offers co-writing, book doctoring, and ghostwriting services.
- Consults on cover and query letters, publishing options, book design, jacket copy, and platform-building.
- Writes content (blog posts, evergreen content, press releases, website copy, and emails) for corporate and private clients. Specialties range from health and wellness to psychology, and from finance to travel.
The Amy Rennert Agency, Inc.
As an associate at The Amy Rennert Agency, Inc.—a boutique literary agency located in the San Francisco Bay Area that represents a select group of fiction and nonfiction writers—I facilitated personalized, hands-on attention to authors and their books, evaluated manuscripts with an eye towards representation, provided critical feedback to authors prior to submission to publishers, wrote pitch letters, jacket copy, and marketing materials, managed submissions to publishers, secured media coverage for authors and their titles, assisted with contract negotiations, handled basic clerical work, and presented and participated at national writers’ conferences.