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About Me

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My Story

I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and am the author of two traditionally published books. My fiction has won many awards, including the Glenn Balch Award and the Stephen R. Kustra Fellowship. I am also an experienced medical editor. I started editing in 2021 after I worked with two budding authors in a Twitter contest called Pitchwars. They later got an agent and book deal. Since then, I have helped many authors reach their publication goals. I’m excited to talk about your book!

“Melissa mentored us during Pitch Wars, a novel writing mentorship programme that paired unagented novelists with published authors. We learned so much from Melissa during this time. She helped us through the entire editing process, suggesting everything from structural edits that majorly improved the novel as a whole down to line edits that polished our prose. This manuscript went on to land us multiple agent offers, something that truly would not have been possible without her input. We now have a two-book deal with Bloomsbury. 

Melissa is incredibly smart, creative, skilled, and most notably, an absolute delight to work with. If you’re on the hunt for an editor to help you get your manuscript ready for querying or submission, look no further. She is the best of the best.”

Kelly and Kristina Mancaruso, authors of Rumored

Contact

I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.

melissa@melissawoodsediting.com

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