Why should I trust you?
As a ghostwriter and editor specializing in memoir, true crime, creative nonfiction, and nonfiction books, I partner with clients seeking a trusted collaborator for book-length endeavors. Thanks to the international scope of my clients, I have structured complex narratives and crafted stories that traverse countries, cultures, and generations.
I have seasoned experience with supporting new authors and structuring and developing content, with many hours under my belt revising existing manuscripts and writing from interviews, transcripts, and outlines. With my background in journalism, I’m able to distill research and complex ideas into clear, plain language.
What have you written?
With more than five years of writing and editing for my book clients, our manuscripts have encompassed a wide range of subjects from addiction, ADHD, autism, cancer, the criminal justice system, democracy, depression, faith, forensic science, gangs, grief, homicide, immigration, infectious disease, integration and segregation, neurodivergence, organized crime, poverty, PTSD, racism, sexual abuse, special needs, suicide, war, and white-collar crime.
What else interests you?
On my manuscript wish list is the desire to write about education reform, artificial intelligence, the Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, the 1978 Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, reparations, gun control, the right to bear arms, constitutional rights, privacy laws, infertility, aging, adoption, love & marriage, polyamory, sexual orientation, sex work & prostitution, and being young and inarguably non-binary in a non-affirming home environment.
Where do we begin?
Some clients come to me with a book outline and story beats they’ve devised. Others arrive with a head full of stories and a sense of urgency. I work with clients drawing from sources as varied as federal and state archives, DNA databases, transcripts of hearings, medical records, investigative case content, academic research, and previously published writing as building blocks for a fruitful collaboration.
What is your favorite book?
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Which memoir do you wish you were entrusted to ghostwrite?
Surrender : 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
What memoir are you currently reading?
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
What was the memoir you read before that?
Biting the Hand by Julia Lee
Which memoirs resonate most deeply with you?
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hunger : A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Which memoir communicates the Black Experience and being a person of color with stunning clarity?
I'm Still Here : Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
What Christian memoir speaks plainly & poignantly to you?
A Thousand Resurrections by Maria Garriott
What faith-based memoir skillfully addresses church trauma & deconstructing Christianity?
God Is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland, Ph.D.
Which memoirs are rendered so skillfully that they are spellbinding in their effect?
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri and Ann Goldstein (translator)
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
What books have your clients asked you to read?
Assata by Assata Shakur
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Called : My Journey to C.S. Lewis’s House & Back Again by Ryan Pemberton
Educated by Tara Westover
The Body Keeps the Score : Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Barracoon : The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neal Hurston
White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
WILL by Will Smith with Mark Manson
Around The Way Girl by Taraji P. Henson
The Beautiful Struggle : A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
A Terrible Thing To Waste : Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
What else are you reading?
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
High Notes by Gay Talese
Madly, Deeply by Alan Rickman
Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis