Our mission is to improve your writing. Our editors are careful, caring, and conscientious. We want to develop the author’s voice, not insert our own.
We have experts in fiction, non-fiction, and technical writing at market-beating rates.
In the course of operating the Coffee House Fiction site, we've found a number of very talented authors who needed help to make their writing the kind of art that you find published in literary reviews, displayed in the endcaps of a Borders or Barnes & Noble. We know from experience that behind every great author – from Dickens to Fitzgerald to Faulkner – there was a talented editor.
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Sherri Cook Woosley earned her M.A. in English Language and Literature from University of Maryland, College Park. She taught high school English before accepting graduate funding to teach classes in academic writing and world mythology at University of Maryland. Academically Sherri has published "Mythological and Archetypal Images in The Peach Thief" and presented an excerpt from her Master's research, "Women in the Shadow" at a Rutgers Conference entitled Disciplinary Boundaries. Her fiction has been published by Mount Zion Fiction Review and her story "The Man with the Patchwork Soul" is included in the Maryland Writers' Association anthology: New Lines from the Old Line State.
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Ami Spencer earned her B.S. in Psychology and Biology from St. Lawrence University and her M.S. in Professional Writing from Towson University. She has almost a decade of professional writing and editing experience, with nearly half those years spent creating and editing technical documentation and manuals.
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May Kuroiwa began reading and critiquing the work of other writers in 2004, after acceptance to Kate Gerard's Write Craft Critique Group (voted one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Web-sites). In 2005, she founded one of the Maryland Writers Association's (MWA) critique groups and then served as MWA's Critique Group Coordinator in 2006. She is an active member of the Zoetrope.com review website and served as a judge for the 2005 Harford County Future Writers Scholarship Program. A veteran of three Gotham Writers Workshops, she's also taken the on-line Editing and Grammar courses offered by Harford Community College.
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Michele Hartlove earned her B.A. in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana with a concentration in communications. She worked in journalism for five years as a news reporter at various publications including The News Journal in Delaware and the Evening Sun, Salisbury Daily Times and Aegis newspapers in Maryland.
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Emma Morgan brings a journalistic writing background to the editorial staff. Earning an income by writing product descriptions and stock newspaper pieces, Ms. Morgan cut her teeth attending writing courses at the local community college.
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We've been supplying editing services to promising authors for over two years.
All of our editors have at least five years of editing experience, and the talent and skill to make thoughtful comments and highlight those gaps and inconsistencies an author inevitably misses in his or her own work. Several of our editors are listed below. We have additional editors available on a rotating basis with various specialties, including marketing copy, science, and technical writing. Most are sourced from among the best authors of the Maryland Writers' Association.
Our mode is to work within your guidance. We can focus on grammar, punctuation, and basic elements of style, readability, sentence structure. We can also provide you with content editing, a more involved holistic reading of the fiction, and work with you on overall style, theme, complexity, and structure of a story.
While fiction is a passion, we've worked with a number of authors of non-fiction: and we happily and meticulously edit documents of all types:
- Short Stories;
- Fiction Manuscripts;
- Non-fiction Manuscripts;
- Business and Advertsing Copy;
- Letters and Speeches;
- Theses and Dissertations; and
- Articles and Technical Documents.
Our pricing is modest - generally running 1.25¢ per word. Other editorial services and assistance are available upon request. To submit a document for editing or make an inquiry, please contact Coffee House Fiction by email. References are available upon request.
Thank you.
