Work with Eliza
ABOUT WORKING WITH ME
EDITING
I offer editing to authors of fiction and nonfiction. I start by clarifying each writer’s goals, and I let those goals inform the editorial work. Services available include structure and content editing, manuscript consultations, and mentoring editing for projects in early stages of development. Each author is unique, and each project has its own requirements; I take in those specifics and honor them. If you are interested in discussing how we might work together, please contact me.
WRITING
I also provide writing services to clients on occasion. In addition, if you are interested in proposing a collaborative writing project, please feel free to get in touch. I’m always interested in exploring possible collaborations that make sense and are a good fit. If you have an idea, please feel free to say hi.
CONTACT INFORMATION
eliza@elizamason.net
TESTIMONIALS
“Working with Eliza was an all-around fantastic experience, and she’s a first-rate editor. She catches everything, and her intellect, precise eye for detail, and facility with big-picture thinking helped me meet my goals for my manuscript successfully. She has a refined sense of what works and what doesn’t in a text, and she brings her intuition and sense of humor to the work as well, which makes the process that much more pleasant. She easily grasped my goals for a book that occupies a space where technological and sociological concerns overlap, and deftly helped me sculpt it. She also taught me a lot about writing, and always explained her edits as we moved through the manuscript. She’s a gem!”
— Dr. Phil Howard
Director, Oxford Internet Institute
Professor, Oxford University
Author, Pax Technica
“Eliza is an excellent editor. She encounters manuscripts as an exercise in transformational change and is respectful of the author’s intent. Throughout the process, she brought to this work her substantive intellect and a fully appreciated attention to detail. Eliza was able to work well the tension between my not always well-stated ideas and her sense of the point I sought to make. She was easy to work with, sensitive to deadlines, and her fees were reasonable. I always felt we were well attuned, and the final manuscript was much improved over the original. I look forward to working with her on future manuscripts. ”
— C. Jama Adams, PhD
Author of Africana People in China: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences,
Identity, and Precarious Employment
“Eliza is a wonderful writer. The nonprofit arts education organization I work for needed a writer who could successfully communicate with schools and collaborate to design programs and present them concisely and eloquently—making each one stand out as distinct and deserving of funding. Thanks to Eliza’s great work as a writer and editor, we received the grants we were seeking. Eliza helped us to share and refine our language in a way that made our organization stand out. She is convincing, sharp, dynamic, and highly skilled at crafting writing that yields the desired outcome. She easily understood our program needs, our way of thinking, and our history of language use. She made edits both subtle and substantial to bring out the best in our organization. Eliza’s work was essential to helping us stand out and meet our goals.”
—Kelly Donovan
Director of In-School Programs
ArtsConnection