Emma Cooper - Editor

Emma has worked so hard to get to where she is today. Her determination, writerly instinct, and enthusiasm are injected into her editorial reports. She’ll bring out all the best parts of your work, whilst showing you how to make their manuscript even better. We love Emma so much that she’s an editor, a mentor, a webinar guest speaker (members can view the replay here), and a tutor on our Ultimate Novel Writing Course.

I love discovering where a writer’s talent lies. Everyone has their own unique strength as a writer, my aim is to help you identify yours and make sure you are using your talent effectively.

Firstly, I will look at your book as a whole while asking key questions: do I care about your characters? Will your readers relate to them and their predicament? Am I engaged right up until the very last page?

I will then analyse your work more closely, looking at genre, pace, voice, checking that you are raising the stakes enough to keep your plot moving forward and if you are making the very best out of a potentially emotive/dramatic scene. Essentially, I will be looking for what, if anything, is pulling me away from the reading experience as well as congratulating you on the parts where I can’t turn the pages fast enough.