If you're an author who has gotten stuck in developing your manuscript, I can help you discern what's really valuable for your target audience, get you excited about sharing your ideas again, and prune away the excess so your ideas can be deeply and widely received. If you just need help getting it done, I can do the writing, research, editing, and publisher liaison work for you. And if you're not sure what publishing option is right for you, I can do market research, publisher and agent research, and a manuscript critique so you know just where you fit in the constantly changing world of publishing. If you decide to self-publish - an exciting and profitable option for those who already have a strong client base - we can design a tailored package of editorial and design services to get your inspired outline into a polished, published book.

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“I have recently completed a very lengthy linguistic research project which has yielded three relatively complex manuscripts. I chose Ms. Rooker as my editor after a long review process of various publishing options. Ms. Rooker’s work is so superior to anything that I could have expected that I have already contracted her as my editor for the second two manuscripts. She has an exceptional ability to quickly translate the technicalities of intricate analysis into succinct and illuminating conclusions. Ms. Rooker’s work goes far beyond the fitting out of approved styles and formats. She knows what I want to say and she knows how to say it – not just in her language, but in my own idiomatic venue, yet making it accessible to a broadly diverse readership. She aggressively pursues excellency of expression, yet she somehow maintains a complete passivity in imposing her own aesthetic values. This is an extraordinarily rare editorial virtue. She has it. I am entirely pleased with her work and I am looking forward to working with her in the future on subsequent manuscripts.”

--Paul Hubbard, author, The Jonas Genre (self-published, 2009)