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“Over the last ten years I have depended on Deborah for her expertise in writing and editing and especially for her knowledge on how to approach complicated writing projects. I trust her thoroughly and recommend her wholeheartedly.” “Deborah Shouse helped me take a good manuscript and make it better. She added lively personal stories, tightened the focus, and strengthened sentences, all the while maintaining my voice in the text. She was flexible, easy to work with and conscious of our deadlines. It was a pleasure working with her. “I would wholeheartedly endorse Deborah Shouse’s critiquing service. As a first-time aspiring author, I was looking for a broad range of support for my manuscript. I received everything I was looking for from Deborah: grammatical correction, advice on basic sentence, paragraph, and story structure, as well as advice on flow and readability of dialogue and prose. Even more importantly, I received valuable insight from Deborah into matters of plot and content. "Deborah Shouse is the consummate professional. She is oh-so competent and completely ethical. I strongly recommend her at every turn." “What a delight it has been to work with you over the years. Your skill in honing in on the purpose and intent on any project with which you are presented is so efficient and effective. You just seem to know the right questions to ask to lock on to my critical thinking path and invite my creativity to join in the process. In a recent project, I brought you our rather sketchy story line and vaguely developed characters and overnight you breathed life into those characters and gave our story legs. This ability to capture the essence of our intent, our hopes and dreams for a project, a book, or speech is such a gift of yours. I have already begun the process of creating what I believe is my life’s work and am so delighted you have agreed to guide me through this journey. “When we selected Deborah Shouse to edit our book, we did so expecting her to be thoughtful, insightful and invested in our success. We were not disappointed. We balked, however, at her suggestion that we might re-order our chapters. We were certain they were in the only logical order possible. After considerable evaluation, we changed the order three times—she did know what she was talking about. |
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Deborah Shouse and Ron Zoglin
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Deborah Shouse helps both newer and experienced writers make their fiction and non-fiction manuscripts stronger. She provides line editing, revising strategies and overall manuscript critique. Depending on your needs, she highlights areas such as sentence readability, manuscript focus, visual writing, chapter flow, and more.