Emma Lammers
Editor
Writer
Authenticity Reader
About
As a structural (developmental) editor, I help writers perfect the key elements of their work, such as pacing, plotting, and character development. I also provide stylistic (line) editing and authenticity/sensitivity reading services for characters with certain disabilities and neurodivergences.
For more details, visit my about page.
Want to work with me? You can contact me here.
From Emma’s blog:
3 Crafts to Make with Paper: Stars, Bunting, and More
How do I decorate with little to no money? Scrap paper and wallpaper! Fun fact: stores selling paint and other décor throw away their wallpaper sample books at the end of each season – but if you ask nicely, they might give the sample book to you instead. Apparently teachers have been using them for…
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Review: Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
The unconventional approach to describing the legal battle, the juxtaposition of satirical characters against the cutting realism of the setting – this will definitely be a favourite book of 2021.
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Review of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins
My tangling together of value and production, identity and respect paralleled a similar phenomenon in Canadian literature as a whole. Refuse has shown me what lurks behind the façade of my dream job.
Keep readingReview: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth mixes genres with glee. Its title character, a teenage girl trapped in indentured servitude on a dreary planet called the Ninth, is desperate to join the army (here called the “Cohort”). Harrow, her employer and the de facto ruler of the Ninth, is desperate to keep Gideon at her side, apparently out…
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What Kind of Fiction Editor Do You Need?
Don’t settle for the convenience of AI – find out which (human) editor can bring your work to the next level.
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My Novel in Progress: A History (Part 2)
From my year in Europe to the final excruciating days of writing draft two.
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My Novel-in-Progress: A History (Part 1)
Around age 9, I decided to write a novel. Over 20 years later, I’m still working on it.
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Review: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Originally posted in 2021. Since then some of Woolf’s writing (a 1915 diary entry in particular) has been widely criticized as ableist. As impressive as Woolf’s prose may be, I do not agree with her opinions on mental illness and do not support the killing or incarceration of people because they have higher support needs. Anyone who has had to study classic literature knows which websites…
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