Looking for an experienced, supportive professional writer/editor to help transform your novel, memoir, or nonfiction book into publishable shape? Discouraged? Frustrated? Feeling insecure, incompetent, stuck? Need a rewrite? Ongoing tutoring and supportive advice? An objective, sympathetic eye? I've published fiction and nonfiction. I've rewritten, edited, tutored, taught. I'm reliable. Responsible. Fast. Professional.

Prescription: The Word Doc.*
Prognosis: A publisher-ready manuscript.

From the author of the nonfiction book Road to Ruin (his first book!), soon to be published by Praeger:

The Word Doc "has been superbly helpful in editing my very first book manuscript. With her guidance, I have learned an enormous number of things regarding book publishing (and what publishers expect in a book). She has been patient, reliable, understanding, generous, and available when I needed her. She substantially reorganized a manuscript that was poorly laid out. Most importantly, after reading her text revisions to my original manuscript, I am now a much better writer than I had been in the past."
-Dom Nozzi

From the author of the young adult novel My Sister's Wedding:

The Word Doc "is the doctor you want on-call when there's an emergency of the writing kind. The Doctor not only fixed what was broken and replaced what was ill, but she taught me how to examine the manuscript myself. I am a better writer and editor thanks to her. Now my manuscript has been transformed into a novel (and under consideration by two publishers)!"
-Hannah Goodman

The Word Doc
Bobbe Needham

EMail  bobbe@theworddoc.com

*Yes, a real doctor (of education).

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