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Recommended Editors for the
Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit™

Getting your book edited by a professional book editor is critical to its ultimate commercial success.



Editors are on your team. Their job is to make your book better. Professional book editing is an artform as much as it is an objective exercise.

Common Book Editing Questions / Considerations


  • Do you know the difference between active tense and passive tense? Which one do most writers write in? Which one do most readers prefer?

  • What tense is your book written in? Consistently?

  • Do you have a favorite word? Probably. You have probably overused several words in your manuscript and it probably takes another set of eyes to see that.

  • Show don't Tell...

  • Do you inadvertantly betray your point of view?

  • For non-fiction authors, are you writing to your audience or above them? Does it sound condescending?

  • Do you own a style book? Do you turn to it with grammatical questions while you are writing?

  • Can your book be made tighter?


Patti Thorn will be speaking the Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit - What you need to know before you hire a book editor!
(See event info for the whole line up of speakers).

Patti is professional book critic and can help shape up book projects. SHe served as the Books Editor and chief book critic for the Rocky Mountain News for 12 years, prior to the Rocky's closing in 2009. An award-winning writer and editor, Patti is now offering her skills to authors interested in a manuscript critique or editing of all kinds, including structural, line by line and copy editing.


We are sure you'll have many more relevant questions for the editors of the Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit.

If you have a question you would like an editor to answer, please go to the 'Contact us' page and send it in. We will do our best to get it answered for you.

These editors have shown high quality, high integrity of service to authors involved with the Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit and they are the recommended editors for the Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit™.



  • Amy Casey
    amy@textclarity.com
    Text Clarity
    Specializes in technical writing


  • Patti Thorn
    Thorn Communications
    303-290-0811
    patti.thorn@gmail.com





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Writer's Summit Tip #4:

Resist the temptation to freely talk about your book while it is in the development stage. Typically people will offer you suggestions and their input could create confused thoughts, leading to writer's block.

I took this farther than most people when I wrote Angel On Board. During the three years it took me to write the book, I didn't tell anyone I was working on it and I didn't watch Angel movies or TV shows. I wanted the book to be its own creation without letting in influences from other works.

Other people also 'dream steal' - usually without meaning to, however, if you talk about your work and someone isn't supportive, it can negatively influence your project.

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Writer's Summit Tip #2:

Treat the creative zone from which you write with the utmost respect. It is a special place and you can't always get there on a schedule. As long as you feel like writing, write... When you don't feel like writing anymore, revise or 'write around your book' (write about the project - your bio, your synopsis, your press releases, your twitters, your blog).

Remember, the creation space is sacred!
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