Nancy Rawlinson knew exactly what my book needed and exactly how to tell me. My work with her made my book easily twice as good as it would have been otherwise.

Joel Derfner
Author of Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever

The creative coaching and editorial guidance that I have received from Nancy Rawlinson has helped me immensely; my work and my life have been elevated to a whole new level. With Nancy's assistance I was able to complete my second book and actually start making my living as a writer. Her editorial guidance was invaluable — I felt that she truely understood my work, and knew how to bring out the best in it, and she communicated her insights with real warmth and compassion. She helped me deal with the confusion and conflict that was getting in the way of my creative life. I stopped procrastinating and now I'm producing new work, making more money than ever before, and living my dream.

Anita Naughten
Author of Tea and Sympathy

Nancy is excellent at identifying the message the writer intends to convey and then finding the places in the piece where it breaks down. She framed her feedback in a way that gave me a much better understanding of my own work and allowed me to maintain ownership of the piece. Yet Nancy is willing to occasionally lend her opinion on how she might fix a piece, and I learned a lot from understanding the differences in our writing styles.

Nancy is a pleasure to work with. She's insightful, enthusiastic, and efficient. She does not sugar coat her feedback. She's an honest critic, and I wouldn't have wanted anything else. Her feedback helped me significantly improve the pieces I showed her. More importantly, she helped me get to know my own style, its strengths and its weaknesses. For me, she was a writing teacher as much as an editor.

Miriam Schiffer

I have been a professional writer for ten years, and Nancy Rawlinson is one of the best editors I know. You'll be hard-pressed to find a better writing instructor.

Sam Apple
Author of Schlepping Through The Alps

Nancy works with me one-on-one on my short stories and memoir. She has taught me how to develop writing skills, including tightening my control of language, establishing characters, editing cliches, identifying themes and producing pages. Working with Nancy has been a successful experience for me – she has kept me focused and motivated to write. I have learned to look at my writing from many different perspectives and how to tap into and identify emotional themes, bringing them out as subtexts or exposition. Nancy has been a supportive force in my writing career.

Emily Klemmer

I worked with Nancy on a book proposal and appreciated her knowledge about proposals, her professionalism, and her encouragement. She's a careful and perceptive reader, and, with my project, I felt like she was able to accomplish a lot in a relatively short amount of time. I received from her a several-page written assessment--very thorough--with specific suggestions for focusing and strengthening my proposal, and was able, in turn, to write a stronger book proposal.

Diane Morrow
One Year of Writing and Healing

Nancy Rawlinson is an excellent writing coach. Over the last few years, Nancy has helped me with my first novel. For me this has been a big and scary undertaking and Nancy has steered me through several bleak patches where I lost faith in my ability as a writer and in the validity of this particular project.

Nancy knows what it is to write, what it is to be a writer, and she brings this understanding of the creative process to the particular fears and knots you get into, helping you to loosen them and progress. Having Nancy there to remind you of the wider context is refreshing and necessary.

She is an excellent reader: alert, aware of what you are trying to achieve in the work as a whole and able to spot places in the writing where this is weak or strong. Because she is also highly articulate and sensitive, she is also able to communicate her reading of your work to you in a way that you can not only learn from but feel excited and encouraged by.

Thanks to Nancy, I am enjoying the process as well as looking forward to completion.

Anna Linehan

Nancy's sharp, insightful reading and critiques have been invaluable to me in my work on both my novel-in-progress and short nonfiction pieces. She is always able to step back and look at the big picture — the larger goals and themes of the piece, the overall strengths and weaknesses of my writing — while at the same time addressing line-by-line issues rigorously. She is a great resource for writers — use her!

Shannon Barr

Nancy Rawlinson is a fantastically gifted editor. She has the rare and enviable capacity to zero in on the most important structural and thematic issues and the uncommon ability to unearth and articulate clearly the essential purpose of a piece of writing. Her edits are spot on and she has helped my writing process immensely.

Mandy Rice

Nancy really got me focused. That was the main thing. I had spent years without narrowing down what I wanted to be. Years. Nancy got me thinking in a different way about my direction. Sounds vague? Far from it. This is a difficult thing to achieve in oneself and even harder to help another individual to achieve. Especially me. My writing has now become something else. I feel in control of it and am able to pour positive energy into my work. That positive energy has come back to me many-fold, a rippling surge of goodness. Previously, I had held onto so many negative excuses. I pushed as far as I could, but always hit some kind of self-imposed barrier. Nancy showed that barrier to me and helped me lift it off. I feel free now. Thanks Nancy.

A writer in London, England