Literary Services
If your book doesn’t get written, it can’t change the world.
If your book doesn’t get written, it can’t change the world.
I can help you with that.
I’m Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd. I’m a writer, editor, ghostwriter, and literary project manager. My skills are built on 25 years of industry experience and nearly a dozen books in print. (Click here for a bio.)
Get bold, get productive, and get published with the right blend of high-leverage support, editorial insight, and technical expertise in your corner.
Who uses literary services?
I work with all writers of all experience levels, from those just beginning to explore their craft to seasoned professionals with bestsellers under their belts.
What genres do you work with?
I work with all nonfiction genres including memoir, travel, history, self-help, health/medicine, essay, long-form journalism, spirituality, creative nonfiction, and scholarly/academic writing. She also works with genre fiction, especially fantasy, science fiction, romantasy, and romance.
A free consultation is available to help you determine the right service(s) for you.
What clients say…
“Incredibly thorough; her keen memory and sharp smarts enables her to become extremely familiar and fluent with long documents. This remarkable skill allows her to provide both extremely detailed and big-picture feedback. The process of working with her has been transparent, direct, and powerful."
“I really can't say thank you enough for the heavy lift you have done here.”
“Hanne is generous, encouraging, and kind. She is a delight to work with as she weeds through even the most complex and messy manuscripts.”
For Writers
Developmental Editing and Substantive (Line) Editing
Developmental editing is a thorough editorial review process involving a complete or near-complete book or article draft. The goal of developmental editing is to give the writer insight, actionable feedback, and strategy for maximally effective revision. Developmental editing does not make direct changes to your manuscript, but gives detailed and carefully engineered advice and direction for your revision process.
Substantive editing, sometimes called line editing or “book doctoring,” is in-depth, hands-on direct editing of your manuscript, geared toward polishing the prose, honing the voice, improving readability, and sharpening tone, argument, and other aspects of the writing. It also ensures accurate mechanics like spelling, punctuation, usage, syntax, quotation, referencing, and so forth.
Book Coaching
Book coaching provides a writer with an experienced guide to support, motivate, and provide expert perspective on the process of writing a book. Whether someone is just beginning to wonder what to do about this idea they have for a book, are looking for support figuring out questions of genre and structure, want to improve goal setting and accountability, or are looking for frequent feedback on drafts in process, these options get people moving in the right direction and keep them going with their projects and their writing process. Some people want book coaching from the very beginning, others look for a coach when they are somewhere in the middle of their book writing process, and some find coaching most useful when they are working on revisions or proposal-writing. There’s no wrong time in the process to work with a book coach.
Ghostwriting
Authors choose to work with ghostwriters — writers who work with you to develop your ideas and do the writing for you — for drafting or revision for many reasons including deadline conflicts, time/energy constraints, or as a disability accommodation. This is a fully confidential service. Authors retain full control and copyright of all contracted materials.
For the Trade
Editorial Management
Some projects require expert handling behind the scenes to structure, coordinate, schedule, and manage complex written projects (especially those with multiple authors) so that editors and publishers can spend their time editing and publishing.
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