I will developmentally edit your gothic or horror manuscript

Your story knows what it wants to be. A developmental edit helps you find it.

I work at manuscript level with writers of dark, gothic, horror, and queer fiction, helping you find the shape of the story you're trying to tell.

Developmental editing is not proofreading or line editing. It's a deep structural conversation about your manuscript, what's working, what's working against you, and what your story needs to become the best version of itself. You'll receive a detailed editorial letter covering the big-picture elements, plus in-line notes throughout the manuscript so you can see exactly where and why things land the way they do.

I bring a writer's instinct to this work, not just a reader's eye. I understand atmosphere, dread, pacing, and the particular demands of dark fiction from the inside. I have deep knowledge of queer fiction and historical fiction, period authenticity, material culture, the texture of lives history tends to overlook. If your manuscript is strange, difficult to categorise, or pushing at the edges of its genre, that's exactly the kind of work I'm here for.