Why should I trust you with this work?

Feedback From a Satisfied Memoir Editing Client

“Working with Sonny has been an absolute pleasure. She brought clarity, care, and professionalism to every stage of the editing process. Her thoughtful feedback helped me refine not only my memoir but also my voice as a writer. Sonny’s attention to detail, warmth, and insight made the entire experience both inspiring and enjoyable. I’m deeply grateful for her guidance and highly recommend her to any author seeking an editor who truly understands both craft and heart.”

Testimonial From a Debut Writer-Author

"HIRE SONNY! PERIOD! I am in the process of writing my first book. I needed much assistance from A-Z. I hired Sonny to help me as a Ghost Writer, and it has indeed turned into a beautiful working relationship. I trust her and believe she is the person who will help me bring my stories into people's households. Sonny was able to help tell my story in a way that could honestly relate to my target audience. I never felt judged or overtaken. She was careful to make sure it was my voice that was being translated in our sessions. What I appreciated the most was her care and compassion to get the story right.”

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 artificial intelligence, gun control, constitutional rights, privacy laws, infertility, aging, adoption, love & marriage, polyamory, and being young and inarguably non-binary.

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.

Whose memoirs would you want to be entrusted to ghostwrite?

Choreographer Lyle Beniga

Choreographer Shaun Evaristo

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 deeply with you?

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hunger : A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

What Christian memoir speaks plainly & poignantly to you?

A Thousand Resurrections by Maria Garriott

What memoir skillfully addresses church trauma & deconstructing Christianity?

God Is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland, Ph.D.

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?

Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

Madly, Deeply by Alan Rickman