DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING & COACHING
If your manuscript is ambitious, layered, and asking more of you than you expected (don’t they always?)—this is where I come in. My job is to help you get your creative vision on the written page. I tell you the truth about what your words are actually doing. Real craft feedback delivered as in-depth editorial assessments. Because you came here for the honest version, and that's the only one I know how to give.
Welcome to Grace Editorial. You're in the right place.
Your story knows what it wants to become.
My job is to help you get it fully on the page.
THE WORK
The manuscripts that arrive here are usually doing several things at once and not all of them are working yet.
They're building worlds without understanding if they’re structural or decorative. They're carrying historical weight that's changing who the characters are allowed to be. They're navigating trauma, darkness, psychological complexity, sexuality—material that demands the reader feel something without be explained to. But it’s all asking more of the writer than the writer anticipated.
That's the work Grace Editorial digs into. Your creative ambition and the creative challenges that ambition creates on the page.
If your story is reaching for that—you’ve found the right place
Services
Grace Editorial offers six services across developmental editing and coaching—from a single chapter to a full manuscript to ongoing monthly work. The most common starting points are below.
Full Manuscript Developmental Edit
A deep structural read of your complete manuscript—what it's doing, where it still needs to go, and how to get it there without losing what makes it yours.
Your investment from $2,400 (Payment Plans available)
Partial Manuscript Diagnosis
Rigorous editorial feedback on the opening movement of your manuscript—where the story either earns its reader or loses them. Standalone or as a first step toward a full edit.
Your investment from $375
1:1 Coaching
For writers who want to think through their work in conversation. A specific problem, a structural knot, a chapter that refuses to behave. We work through it together.
Your investment from $135
Also available: revision passes, monthly retainer, and per-chapter review.
Find the right service for where you are.
Answer a few questions. Get a recommendation that fits your manuscript and your moment.
You have a complete draft and you're ready for the full picture. The Deep Read gives you a map of the manuscript's structural life — where it's working, where the pressure drops, and what might restore it. This is where the real editorial work happens.
The three-milestone payment structure spreads the investment across the engagement. Nothing is due in full upfront. Discuss the specifics on the discovery call — payment arrangements can be tailored to fit.
You're partway through a draft and you want to know what the pages are actually doing before you push on to the ending. A one-time read tells you where the work is strong, where it's losing pressure, and what to focus on as you finish.
You've done the work. You've revised. You want to know if it landed. The Second Look is for the manuscript that has already had a serious editorial conversation and needs confirmation rather than a first diagnosis.
You know what's wrong. You need a thinking partner, not a full editorial assessment. The Think Tank is the lowest-commitment way to experience working together — and the right service when the problem is specific and the manuscript needs a conversation, not a letter.
You have substantial material but no finished draft — and waiting until completion to get any support means working without a structural sounding board for months or years. The Odyssey gives you an editorial ally now, before the ending exists. By the time we're deep in Phase 2, I know your manuscript. That changes everything about the quality of the support.
You draft continuously and want feedback integrated into the process rather than delivered at the end. As You Go is built for the writer who wants editorial intelligence in the room while the manuscript is still being made.
You want accountability, structure, and a consistent editorial presence across the life of the project. The Long Game is for writers who are serious about finishing and want a thinking partner who knows the work over time — not just at specific intervention points.
You don't need a service yet. You need a conversation. The discovery call is where we figure out together whether Grace Editorial is the right fit — and if so, what that looks like for where you are right now.
You want to test the waters — to find out what a cold read reveals about your opening pages, or to get a real feel for working with Grace Editorial before committing to a larger service. This is the lowest-risk way in.
Not sure the finder got it right? Book a complimentary discovery call — 45 minutes, no pitch, no pressure. We'll figure it out together.
What I Look For In Your Book
Your manuscript is waiting.
So is the conversation.
Complimentary 45-minute discovery call—no pitch, no pressure.