Six decades of editing, publishing, and marketing experience. Two or three authors at a time. Highly individualized. Fiercely in your corner.
Close-read notes on plot, character, pacing, and consistency.
Flow, rhythm, language, and punctuation, delivered in AP style.
Audience research and honest marketability insight.
Author brand, platforms, and content that garners pre-sales.
"We only work with people we believe are worthy of being highly successful — and we stay your advocate after the contract ends."
Dr. Cassy Burleson — reporter, professor, poet, and editor. Ph.D., UT-Austin. Army brat (and still sassy); 10th-generation Texan.
More About CassyEach tier includes everything before it. Manuscripts up to 80,000 words.
A full read-through and first-level edit with collaborative notes on plot, pacing, and believability.
Full detailsThe edit, plus target-audience research and strategic, affordable ways to reach your readers.
Full detailsThe complete package: platforms, author brand, collateral, and audience-targeted content that drives pre-sales.
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Questions
Usually, yes. We work best with authors whose manuscripts are completed — that's when editing, marketing analysis, and launch planning can do the most good. If you're close, tell us where you are.
Two or three, never more. Our approach is highly individualized, and every book gets our full attention.
Tiers start at $500 for beta reading and line editing on manuscripts up to 80,000 words, $750 with marketing analysis, and $1,000 with a full PR/social campaign. Larger projects are quoted individually.
Dr. Burleson has published and edited across poetry, journalism, fiction, academic writing, and books — from Rowable Classics to Her Texas. If your story is good, we're interested.
We stay your advocate. We only work with people we believe are worthy of being highly successful, and that doesn't stop when the invoice does.
We only take a few authors at a time, so every book gets our full attention.
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