Michael Jauchen

artful editor

Michael Jauchen has been a freelance editor for over twenty years, working with authors at all skill levels and across many different genres. He has a PhD in English, with a specialty in fiction writing, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Santa Monica Review, and the Rumpus. As an editor, Mike’s clients have published books with Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, and numerous other outlets. As a senior editor at Belt Publishing, books he edited were longlisted for the PEN America Award for Nonfiction and shortlisted for the NBCC Award for Autobiography. He currently lives in Texas.

SERVICES

  • manuscript critique

  • developmental editing

  • line editing

  • copyediting

  • writing coaching

  • agent query & synopsis review

  • agent research & submission assistance

  • book proposal review

  • ghost editing

  • ghostwriting

  • copywriting

  • beta reading

genres

literary fiction, commercial/upmarket fiction, contemporary realist fiction, mystery & crime, historical fiction, women’s fiction, science fiction & fantasy, short fiction

memoir, biography, creative nonfiction, self-help/prescriptive nonfiction, health & wellness, business & money, philosophy, religion & spirituality, history, politics & current events, art/music/film, cookbooks, craft/DIY/how-to books, travel books, academic books, online course materials

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