Transformational Writing/Editing & Personal Mythmaking

My specialties:

I’m a writer and editor with twenty years of experience in a variety of fields, from the performing arts to space science to the human potential movement to ecology and sustainability. Dependability, a critical eye for details in tandem with an understanding of the bigger picture, and an unflagging devotion to the written word are the north stars that guide me throughout my work.

I’m resourceful, versatile, and full of ideas for how you can make your writing taut, fascinating, intelligible, and accessible to a variety of audiences. Unlike other editors who work at standard rates for their projects, I assess my client’s budget and specific needs, then work with them to negotiate a final fee. My clients have ranged from students to researchers to 1,000+ employee organizations to Big 5 publishers and literary agents. I can work with anybody and everybody, and accordingly customize my talents to suit your needs.

I specialize in transformational storytelling and soul-rooted authorship across disciplines. My work lives at the intersection of structure and spirit, craft and calling. I bring deep editorial skill, sensitivity, and a rare ability to hold complexity and clarity.

If you’re interested in short, snappy, non-context-specific copy,
you’ll probably find yourself more satisfied with a run-of-the-mill copywriter who specializes in producing short-form content.

If you’re specifically attuned to the nuances of storytelling,
there’s a strong possibility that we’ll work well together. I never sacrifice substance on the altar of style, and my interests and talents are most strongly aligned with large, multifaceted projects tying back to a single theme or set of themes.

My most rewarding work centers around crafting a unique story: your story.
This isn’t solely about making sure you’ve eliminated dangling modifiers or split infinitives or sloppy run-on sentences; in fact, it goes well past technical considerations and into the terrain of getting in touch with your distinctive voice—the special message you have to offer the world, gift-wrapped and presented with care.

You don’t have to be a writer to spin a compelling narrative.
My job is to make sure that you have an outstanding piece of writing that reflects who you are on levels both clear and subtle. Through extensive interviews and a series of collaborative meetings, we can begin to weave the raw fabric of your book and align you with your target audience.
Wherever you are in your manuscript, I can help you determine your greatest strengths, and assist you in mobilizing those qualities to tell your story in a voice that's true to you.

My offerings include:

• Book proposals and full-length manuscript development for debut and established authors
• Collaborative writing for visionary fiction and nonfiction projects with emotional and intellectual depth
• Oracular writing and voice reclamation, guiding clients into deeper purpose, creative alignment, and expression that feels both wild and true
• Narrative synthesis and comprehensive research, distilling complexity into coherent form
• Exhibition and program development, with a focus on large-scale, multidisciplinary projects that integrate the arts with education, storytelling, and cultural memory
• Movement-aligned editorial and creative strategy, supporting organizers, educators, and cultural workers in shaping work that nourishes collective liberation

I'm especially passionate about working with:

• Conductors of collective liberation
• Stewards of sustainability
• Social-change artists and activists
• Systems thinkers
• Rabble rousers with a conscience
• Artists with a penchant for troublemaking of the good kind
• Scientists with a knack for poetic metaphors
• Mythologists with a passion for bridging times and geographies
• Keepers of sacred schools and indigenous wisdom lineages
• Healers and magic makers who are soothing nervous systems in an era of collapse
• Anyone who has devoted their life to priestessing a way of being that is compassionate, inclusive, and bridges healing justice with the spiritual arts

Why work with a human being, and not a large language model?

There are some people who might be able to churn out a book using a large language model like Claude or ChatGPT (though I find this a dubious premise for reasons that abound on the internet—please find them if you haven’t already). But that means they've never actually gone through the deliberate experience of facing their own inner material—their own psyche, their own connection to what's important to them, how they actually think and feel independent of what a neat and tidy bowtie-maker like a large language model (despite its many hallucinations and where it gets things laughably wrong) will try to give you. And all of that is necessary alchemy for any creative process…especially one that invites highly specific language.

Writing a book is not just an act of clarifying your ideas. It is an act of ultimate surrender. I'm interested in writing as a practice of devotion, not writing as an act of content creation.

This is why the work asks for another human being with mirror neurons and a sensitively attuned nervous system: someone who has the capacity to hold you in your creative process. So much of what I do is mirroring, and mirroring requires a living presence on the other side of it. A machine can produce a manuscript. It will not walk you through the deliberate experience of meeting your own depths, sans any nifty shortcuts. This is the very experience that makes a book worth writing.

Whether you're crafting a book, building an exhibition, or writing from the raw edge of becoming, I offer more than editing—I offer creative companionship rooted in clarity, myth, and the courage to tell the truth only you can tell.

If you have a book or project you are working on that could use the skills of a magical word witch, please use this Transformational Writing and Editing Services form 》