Great writing demands great editing.
Editing and coaching by an award-winning historian with books with Penguin, Oxford, & Beacon Presses & NEH, ACLS & Mellon Fellowships.
Publication is not easy. I’ve been there. I wish I had known how much an editor could help. With 20 years of experience at R1 schools, I know how hard it is to balance writing with all the other demands of the job, especially as a parent. I also know how reviewers, agents, editors, journalists, dissertation committees, fellowship committees, and tenure committees evaluate scholarship.
Writing is collaborative. But there are too few colleagues or press editors with the time or expertise to collaborate. That’s where freelance editors come in.
“Jake is precise, insightful about argumentation and craft, and highly skilled. My book is much better as a result.”
—Dr. LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University
“Beautifully written”
—The American Historical Review
“Masterfully written”
—The Journal of the GAPE
“As both an editor and a scholar, Jake is one of the best in the business. I recommend him to all my colleagues.”
—Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar, UCONN
Jacob S. Dorman, Ph.D.
Stanford BA UCLA PhD 2x NEH Fellow 2x ACLS Fellow AHA Book Award Winner
Editing that meets your needs.
Development & Structural Editing | Copyediting | Agent Aquisition | Formatting | Proofreading | Coaching
My job isn't to rewrite your work. It's to help your strongest arguments emerge with greater clarity, precision, and persuasive force. I preserve your voice, enhance narrative, and improve scene-setting and storytelling.
Coaching for every career stage.
Sometimes you know what you have to do, but you need help getting yourself to do it. Sometimes you don’t know what to do because you have not done it before. Whether it is creating a regular writing practice, transforming a dissertation into a book, or landing an agent, I can help because I’ve done it and I’ve taught others as well.
Talk is cheap.
Free, actually.
