Stories have always fascinated me.

Not just the escape of them, but the experience of them. The feeling of being pulled through a world you didn’t expect to care about until suddenly you do. The surprise of a character revealing something true. The slow ache of tension building beneath the surface. The moment a sentence lands so precisely it changes the emotional temperature of an entire scene.

I spent years chasing that feeling as a reader, then as a writer.

What surprised me was realizing that editing was just as exciting.

Editing isn’t separate from storytelling—it’s storytelling in its most attentive form. It’s learning to recognize when a manuscript is almost becoming what it wants to become, and helping the writer close the distance between intention and execution.

I’m a book editor and author coach working with writers who know there’s something real in their manuscript—but can’t yet fully see it on the page. My role is part structural editor, part creative partner, part careful observer of what the story is already trying to do.

Alongside my client work, I’m a submissions reader for a UK publisher, a developmental editor with Greenleaf Book Group, and a mentor working one-on-one with writers inside a private writing community. I’m also certified in the Story Grid methodology, which means when I'm in your manuscript, I'm working at the scene level—every scene accountable to the five commandments that make a story actually work.

And lastly, l know what it feels like to be on the other side of the page. I’m currently querying my debut novel, which was named Runner-Up in the 2025 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition. The experience continues to deepen my understanding of craft, revision, and the vulnerability required to share creative work at all.