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Merrill is an award-winning fiction writer with more than a decade's experience teaching creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate levels. A savvy storyteller seasoned in narrative problem-solving, Merrill has worked with hundreds of writers in generating, revising, and publishing fiction, nonfiction, and memoir—and with an extensive background in branding and advertising, she has helped many individuals and companies develop engaging content, strengthening brand identity by delivering better brand stories.

Manuscript Consultant • Author Coach • Developmental Editor • Book Doctor

Merrill offers incisive editorial feedback, targeted and inspired generative guidance, and insightful strategies for generating narrative momentum and forging narrative cohesion. She helps writers discover the heart of their stories and offers guidance for effectively and inventively realizing their ideas on the page.

Ghostwriter • Content Developer

Dexterous storytelling, structural innovation, and remarkable tonal control have equipped Merrill to write and edit a wide range of works, including memoirs, essays, fiction, business books, reference manuals, cook books, branded content, and corporate histories. Hired by authors, book packagers, and publishers, she can develop outlined material, brainstorm from a concept to offer a range of narrative threads and structural possibilities, or draft a manuscript in its entirety and revise according to client feedback.

Relevant Experience

Merrill's first book Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes won the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices, Virginia Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, and  McSweeney's Quarterly, earning short-list recognition in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. 

She earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University and has taught creative writing at Pratt, SUNY Purchase, Colorado College, California Institute of the Arts, and served on MFA faculty at University of Maryland-College Park and California State University-San Bernardino.

An established teacher of creative writing and branding consultant, Merrill has also worked as an assistant at a literary agency; a proofreader at Business Week magazine; a senior copywriter/brand voice at Poppin Inc.; and as an academic studying fiction and nonfiction narrative. (References and ghostwriting/manuscript development specifics available upon request.)

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Author Coaching Business & Corporate Content Copyediting & Line Editing Developmental Editing Ghostwriting Manuscript Critique/Evaluation Web Content

Lori Kozlowski is a writer, editor, and media executive, exploring storytelling in all of its forms.

She founded More Light Media, a content studio and storytelling company. She was the producer and head of content for the virtual reality film series called Project Empathy, which uses VR to explore human rights and social justice issues. The documentary project was funded by Google and premiered content with The Atlantic and at the Democratic National Convention.

She served as Editorial Director at entertainment and music management company Atom Factory, leading the company's media division. She also co-founded and served as Editor-In-Chief for Smashd, a publication and platform about the merger of culture and technology.

Previously, she served as an editor and columnist at Forbes. Before then, she spent five years as a senior editor at the Los Angeles Times.

In addition to her journalism work, she has worked with several authors on their manuscripts. As an editor, she works with nonfiction and fiction. In the realm of nonfiction, she has specific interests in music, culture, technology, environment, science, and business content.

She has also worked with several companies on content and digital strategy, helping them to launch and shape digital storytelling platforms.

As a writing teacher, editor, coach, and collaborator, she has helped hundreds of writers and authors express what they are trying to say and bring original works to life.

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Author Coaching Business & Corporate Content
Copyediting & Line Editing
Developmental Editing
Ghostwriting
Manuscript Critique/Evaluation
Web Content

Jenna Rose Robbins has made a career of turning writers into authors, pixels into websites. As a writer and editor, Jenna has extensive editorial experience both online and off. She has ghostwritten more than 12 books, including two New York Times bestsellers, and was a finalist for the BookLife Prize (awarded by the independent-publishing arm of Publishers Weekly) for her own memoir, Faithful and Devoted: Confessions of a Music Addict. She has managed editorial for such companies as AOL and Disney.

While the majority of Jenna's experience has been entertainment and travel-related, the scope of her projects has ranged from politics and finance to sports and religion. Whether it's working with first-time writers or ink-stained veterans, Jenna enjoys all stages of the creative process. In addition to editorial services such as manuscript critiques, Jenna helps clients develop an internet presence, including building websites and managing social media.

When she's not helping writers realize their goal of becoming published authors, Jenna oversees the web-consulting company Siteseeing Media, which caters to small and medium businesses. Services include newsletter development, content creation, social media, content strategy and marketing, and project management.

Jenna's full-time positions have included senior editorial producer at Disney Family, head of marketing for FIJI Water, senior editor at AOL CityGuide, and interim editorial director stints at Where Berlin (print magazine), DJZ.com (an electronic dance music site), and Trucks.com, among others. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Jenna received her Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California. She travels as often as she can and considers Semester at Sea's ship her second home, although she would prefer it were her first.

Specialties: Memoir, Music/Pop Culture, Travel/Cultures, Young Adult, Social Consciousness, Nature/Environment

Jenna offers a free half-hour phone consultation to first-time clients.

“Jenna Rose Robbins is an outstanding ghostwriter and co-writer with impeccable editorial skills. I have trusted her with projects spanning a wide range of topics and have always been thrilled with the results.” – Michael Levin, CEO of BusinessGhost.com “Jenna is an amazing writer, editor, and social media expert. Her range of experience makes a huge difference and we always love the results when we work with her. The very best!” — Beth Doane, author of From The Jungle: Stories and Original Art From Children Living in Rainforests

"I turned to Jenna for a major book edit because I knew I could trust her to take care of details, from the minutia I might be apt to pass over to big-picture stuff. I was positive she would be 100% pro, top to bottom. And that was exactly the result. Not only did she deliver my book ahead of deadline, but her suggestions, grammar edits, clarity tweaks, and helpful comments enhanced every page. She is both efficient and creative, two qualities one doesn't always find in a single package. Jenna is also refreshingly frank and forthright when she sees something isn't jiving, and she'll say so. In short, she doesn't let stuff slide. Brains? She has got them, boy." — Alysia Gray Painter, Author of the Wilfair series (Wilfair, Redwoodian: Wilfair Book 2, and Stay Awhile: Wilfair Book 3

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Author Coaching Business and Corporate Content Copyediting/Line Editing Developmental Editing Ghostwriting Manuscript Critique/Evaluation Web Content