Cheryl Murphy Lowrance

artful editor

Cheryl Murphy Lowrance has been editing and coaching authors for over thirty years. She started proofreading for the Department of Defense Contracting Office on an army post at fifteen years old as part of a work-experience program, then later earned a certificate in editing from UC Berkeley, and has worked with words ever since. An unwavering descriptivist, Cheryl believes life’s too short to get mad if someone doesn’t use an Oxford comma. She loves helping authors reach those aha moments with their writing, when things suddenly click into place and the heavens open up. Her specialties are science fiction and fantasy, comic books, and screenplays.

SERVICES

• developmental editing

• line editing

• copyediting

• proofreading

• book coaching

Genres

literary fiction, commercial fiction, science fiction & fantasy, horror, mystery, crime fiction, thriller, LGBTQ, historical fiction, women’s fiction, romance, erotica, short stories, young adult, middle grade, memoir, creative nonfiction

selected projects