Writing Coach, Copy Editor, Ghostwriter, Facilitator of Post Traumatic Growth
A Different Kind and Scope of Editor.
NOTES as of 12/17/23: I have room for pro-bono short term trauma therapy for folks involved in Palestinian Freedom/Ceasefire movements with me—or Palestinian and other POC from that region. Please link to Changing Stories. I am also open to pro-bono work for any individual or org operating in that frame.
If you are seeking psychotherapeutic services, please see my referrals page at my practice Changing Stories Counseling. I am all full on that side for the foreseeable future…
I know how to support, guide, and edit for writers of various different backgrounds, to ferry their ideas and experiences to the destination of a polished final product. I have worked with published novelists and incarcerated, traumatized youth; college and graduate students and adult writers at private literary centers. In all, I have intensively edited thousands of manuscripts, as this was a mainstay of my manner of instruction. I am particularly passionate about stewarding those writing about personal trauma, and those working with a social / racial justice focus.
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…ELI WILL PUNCH THROUGH YOUR RIBCAGE AND RIP YOUR HEART OUT - AND YOU WILL THANK HIM FOR IT.
- Benjamin Percy, Author of THE WILDING and REFRESH, REFRESH
A suspenseful, darkly funny, devastating journey, this nuanced memoir brings to life the troubled, decade-long relationship between Eli Hastings and his friend Serala.
“As elemental, lyrical, and cringe-inducing a love story as they come.”
- Kirkus Reviews
Falling Room is the tale of how one man matures through the sometimes violent blessing of social change and finds himself--and a sense of purpose--through the loss of innocence and naiveté.
“Rather than psychologize his life…Hastings presents a much more honest look at a difficult problem: how to find meaning in one’s life when, almost by definition, one’s perspective is always distorted.”
- Jason B. Jones, PopMatters
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Come chop it up with me for free for half an hour to see if we’d be a good match for one of my services — what is there to lose? I am pretty generous with any wisdom I might have. In person or pixelated (preference for in person).