I help writers finish what they started, and mean what they say.
My grandmother used to tell people I ate books. I didn’t literally eat them. But I did have a way of consuming the words from tomes that were too large and heavy for my small hands. I have always believed that stories are the oldest form of communication and transport we have, the way human beings have always carried each other across distance and time. I became an editor the way most people become what they were always supposed to be: by accident, then on purpose. I started as a reader. Then a writer. Then the person other writers kept handing their pages to because I had a way of seeing what a manuscript was trying to be before the writer could see it themselves. That gap, between the story in a writer’s body and the story on the page, is where I do my best work.
My practice covers developmental editing, line and copyediting, and ghostwriting across fiction and nonfiction, with deep roots in speculative fiction and the work of Black writers. But what I’m really doing, in every project I touch, at every altitude, is the same thing: helping writers stop writing for approval and start writing from truth. Their truth. Clients come to me stuck, performing, or disconnected from their own pages. They leave with manuscripts that sound fully like themselves.
The work landed differently for me the day one of my subscribers told me that an essay I’d written should be required reading in every secondary and college English classroom. I had spent years helping other writers find their reach. That moment was the first time I understood that the writing craft and the liberation were the same work. That an editor who can only touch the sentence is only doing half the job.
📍 Maryland · Available for remote projects worldwide
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Most editorial relationships are transactions. You submit pages. You get notes back. You revise alone, then start the cycle again with someone who has no memory of where you started.
The Arc means it’s always me reading your pages, month after month, already knowing your work from the inside.
This is a monthly editorial relationship for writers who are building something over time: a fiction series, a Substack practice, a manuscript that keeps growing before it gets finished, a body of work that needs tending over months, not just a one-time read.
Before anything is edited, we have a real conversation about your voice, your project, your audience, and what you’re trying to build. I take notes, and I keep them. They become a living voice document: a record of your register, your patterns, your recurring tendencies, what works for you, and what doesn’t. That context doesn’t disappear after the first month. It compounds.
Each month includes:
For writers who want it, I also work with what’s moving right now: the current transits, the lunar cycle, and the timing underneath your writing month. You don’t need to know anything about astrology for this to be useful. If a retrograde is why your revision keeps stalling, or a New Moon is the reason this is the right week to start the next chapter instead of the one after, I’ll say so. This part is offered, never assumed. Some writers want it woven in, while others just want the editorial letter. Either way, the work holds.
What The Arc doesn’t cover: agent submissions, publishing logistics, marketing, or social media strategy. This is editorial work, and that’s where it stays.
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$750/month · 3-month minimum · Limited to 3 clients at a time
Editorial progress doesn’t happen in a single pass. Three months is enough time to track real patterns, catch drift before it leads to a full revision, and build the kind of working relationship where I can hear what your writing is trying to do.
📬 To inquire: email [email protected], subject line: Editorial Inquiry, The Arc
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