Writing a memoir means working with material that is deeply personal, often complicated, and sometimes painful to revisit. The fact that you’ve written the draft at all is not incidental—it reflects courage, commitment, and the belief that this story deserves to exist beyond you. Done-for-you memoir revision honors that reality. This work is not about stripping your experience of its truth or sanding it into something marketable at all costs. It’s about shaping lived experience into a narrative that can be received—by readers, agents, and acquisitions editors—without losing its emotional integrity or authority. Your story matters. My role is to help it land with clarity, intention, and care.

You already know your life story—but are struggling to shape it into a book. Or you’ve taken a draft as far as you can and are running into barriers on submission: vague feedback, form rejections, or uncertainty about where the memoir fits in the market. You bring the lived experience. I bring decades of narrative craft, editorial judgment, and industry insight, so the story on the page matches the power of what you’ve lived.

Let’s say you’ve written the draft. Revised it, probably more than once. You know there’s something meaningful here… but also that something isn’t quite working. This is where most memoirists stall—not because they lack honesty, courage, or insight, but because professional-level memoir revision is no longer about “telling the truth better.” It’s about shaping meaning.

Seeing the manuscript clearly—structurally, emotionally, ethically, and commercially—and making decisive, confident changes that transform lived experience into a compelling, readable, publishable narrative. Many writers can’t bring this perspective to their own memoirs because they’re too close to the material. A done-for-you memoir ghost revision allows an experienced editor to see both the story as lived and the story as read—and bring them into alignment on the page.