Editing/Mentorship

Let’s work together to make your short stories or novel manuscript the best it can be!

I’m an award-winning novelist and my short stories have been published in literary magazines across Canada, in the United States, and in Ireland. For 19 years, I edited papers for APA 7th ed. style for the academic psychology journal Theory & Psychology . I currently work for Hansard in Victoria, B.C., editing transcripts from the Legislature, and I teach an essay-writing course at Royal Roads University. I’ve just completed Simon Fraser University’s EDIT 250: Grammar course (October, 2026). Concise sentences, nuanced characters, and snappy dialogue are my jam! If you’d like a taste of what my writing is like, please visit my Publications page for a sample of my published stories that exist online.

When we work together, you’ll send me your writing and I’ll do a substantive (or big-picture) edit for things like plot and character development as well as a few line edits (for nitpickier things like word choice, voice, and grammar). I’ll send my edits to you as track changes in your Word document, and I’ll detail the big-picture suggestions to you in a separate Word document.

I charge $60/hr CAD for my editing services. If we’re working on a large manuscript, I charge $1500 for a 200-page manuscript and $500 for every 100 pages after that point. Pages are double-spaced pages, app. 250 words/page so 200 pages would be 50,000 words.

If we haven’t worked together before, I will do an edit of one chapter or up to 10 double-spaced pages (2500 words) of your work for FREE to give you an idea of what working with me will be like.