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About James Morgan
After closing the door on my 23 years in magazines, during which time I edited many of the best-known writers in America, I've spent the past dozen-plus years authoring or collaborating on six books. Now I'm combining those two aspects of my career into a service that can help editors, agents, and other writers in several important ways:
* Book doctoring - When you or your writer have a manuscript that needs anything from general touchup to time-intensive overall therapy
* Book editing - For swamped in-house editors, I can provide turn-key supervision of a project from concept to copy-edit-ready manuscript; or I can take an existing draft off your hands and work with the writer to produce the book you want to publish
* Concept positioning, proposal writing - Taking the rough idea and helping you shape it into a marketable commodity
* Collaborating and ghostwriting - By a proven author who's written compellingly on a very wide range of subjects, from Virginia Clinton Kelley's makeup routine, to the development of the interstate highway system, to Henri Matisse's depiction of light
As a genre, narrative nonfiction is my abiding interest, and within that I include memoir, biography, history, politics, crime, current affairs, and business. More specifically, I'm personally interested in art and artists (painting, writing, music, movies, architecture, design), why humans behave the way we do, the lives we lead beneath the surface, how things are built (houses, buildings, bridges, stone walls, careers), and powerful personalities in any field.
If you're a writer in need of another pair of hands and eyes, a swamped in-house editor with a particularly time-intensive manuscript or author, or an agent whose client could use a little outside help, please contact me. I'd love to discuss your project with you.
I live in Paris, but don't let that scare you off. It's easy to get in touch with me through email, and the phone number above rings in my Paris apartment. I'm six hours ahead of East Coast time.
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