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Storia Book Editing and Coaching

​​​                   A good editor doesn’t rewrite words, she rewires synapses.​​ —S. Kelley Harrell

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                                          Hi there! I’m Jalina & I’m a writer just like you.

                                                            

                                                             As writers, we’re all vulnerable to all of the pitfalls, spells of

                                                isolation and existential woes of the writing life. I love helping

                                                writers like get past all that BS and to develop faith in themselves

                                                while creating winning manuscripts.

 

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               Working with Jalina is like having

                  an angel editor on your shoulder.

     

                                                                                                    —Lynn Cole, Author

 

My goal as an editor is to be the person I would want to have at my side while I’m writing a book—a motivational combination of cheerleader, coach, colleague, & co-conspirator!

​​I’m intensely involved in my authors’ writing routines and stories, and sensitive to their personal Achilles’ heels; procrastination techniques, bad habits, and blind spots. I gently

call them out on their BS and inspire them to move forward. 

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Grazie infinite to my amazing editor, Jalina Mhyana. No one could have asked for a better friend, compatriot, collaborator, listener and champion.

                                                               

                            – Angela Guido, Author of Interview Hero: How to Ace your Interviews, Find your Voice,

                             and Direct the Narrative of your Life

 

 

As your editor, it’s my job to hold your hand while holding you to account, to reassure and guide you through the rough patches, and to inspire you to hone your craft as well as your manuscript.

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After carrying a memoir around on my shoulders for seventeen years,  I found Jalina. She is more than an editor. She is a visionary who expresses ambitions for her authors’ work they dare not dream for themselves.

                                                                                    – Joan Kovach, Author, 100 Mondays in Budapest​​

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