editing services
Get your manuscript ready for publication. Our in-house editors review your novel or memoir with a fine-tooth comb to catch inconsistent character behavior or speech, style, and readability issues. They can check the grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word usage of your manuscript, and also assist with rewriting/rewording sections that may need help to ensure that the story stays true to itself.
If this is your first time working with us, an editor will go over the first five pages free of charge for manuscripts of 200 pages or more as a sample, then get back to you with notes and schedule a brief phone interview to discuss your work. (For shorter manuscripts or poetry chapbooks, please inquire at info@alanwatt.com.)
meet our editors
Cynthia Bond – Content Editing
Cynthia Bond is a New York Times bestselling author whose debut novel Ruby was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and went on to appear on more than thirty bestseller lists worldwide. A PEN Rosenthal Fellow, Bond studied at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and comes from a family of educators—a lineage that informs her belief that writing is both a craft and a transformative practice. For over thirty years, she has worked closely with writers in classrooms, one-on-one, and as a content editor, helping them deepen, refine, and fully realize their work.
Katharine Chezum – Copy Editing
Katharine Chezum graduated with a Creative Writing degree from Biola University in 2011. She first started working with Alan Watt as an intern, and over the years has enjoyed helping multiple writers of different genres find the clearest, truest version of their story.
“When my publisher sent me the proofed galleys of my latest novel, I was floored by what a great job the copy editor had done. They were some of the best edits of my writing career. I cannot recommend Katharine highly enough.”
Alison Burnett, Author of Undiscovered Gyrl and The Escape of Malcolm Poe
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