Analysis
Based on two decades of publishing experience, I’ll carefully read your finished, or in-progress, manuscript, with an eye toward emotional content, tone, pacing, plot, character development, voice, and use of language.
Editing
As a fellow writer who understands how personal editing can be, and with an eye for what editors look for, I’ll go through your manuscript, line by line. Once reviewed, we’ll schedule a Zoom meeting to talk through everything together.
Guidance
Engaging in a serious writing project can be stressful and overwhelming. No writer goes it alone. Whatever stage you find yourself in, I can help you find the right path, whether to your next draft or discussing the submission process.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Nora was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start in 2001 and has since published fifteen novels for young adults. Her books have earned a number of recognitions, including the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award in 2008 and the International Reading Association’s Notable Books for a Global Society in 2016.
She has taught creative writing classes and workshops around the country for over twenty years, in such places as Manhattanville College, S.U.N.Y Purchase, Gotham Writers Workshop, Fairfield County Writers Studio, The Hudson Valley Writers Workshop, University of Massachusetts, and CCSU’s International Literacy Conference.
She has also written several short stories, essays, and personal narratives which have been published in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Writer, and NCTE’s Voices in the Middle. Her first novel for adults, “You Brave and Glorious Thing,” is currently out on submission.
Testimonials
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“Nora knows how to locate the beating heart of a story more assuredly than any writer I know, and is able to maintain its pulse through the entire work. She’s an emotional Geiger counter!”
~Lorraine Gengo, 2021 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellow~
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“I’ve worked with many editors. Nora Baskin outshines them all. Her review of my manuscript was insightful and constructively creative and her attention to my work was tremendously help-ful.”
~Dave Donelson (Author, “Journal of My Seventieth Year)~
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“Nora broke apart the old, stale thoughts, and helped me take it in a fresh, fun direction. She knows her stuff, and doesn’t hesitate to challenge everything. I will call her the minute I need more help!”
~Rob Dircks (Author of “Where the Hell is Tesla?”)~
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“Nora was the first author I ever worked with. Her critique is constructive, thoughtful, and insightful and helped me publish my first creative piece.”
~Haley Nicole, MFA Graduate~