A Smörgåsbord of Authorial Services

You could waste epochs looking for professionals from the far corners of the internet to provide the assistance you need for each stage of your writing project--or you could find everything right here, in the Wyrdhoard, and spend those priceless eons actually crafting sentences.

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Our Mission

Our goal is to provide authors with a single place they can go to hire professionals for every stage of their authorial journey--whether they are writing academic prose, popular scholarship, fiction, poetry, or other genres--and provide expert advice to polish and perfect their final work.

CHOOSE YOUR

SERVICES

All of our services are à la carte, and we are all freelancers. You can choose any or all services that you need from our menu below.

CHOOSE YOUR

CONSULTANT

Hire one of us at a time or put together a package whereby several of us will accompany you all the way from idea to ISBN.

GET IT

DONE

You will work directly with your consultant(s) one on one and pay them individually. Are you ready to take your work a step further?

Our Services

Wherever your project is on its adventure from idea to publication, we would like to help you professionalize your work and continue maturing your skills. Perhaps you need a beta reader for a draft of a novel or a developmental editor for an academic book project. Maybe you are almost ready to submit an article to a journal but would like someone to help wrangle your citations into house style. It might be that you want to hone your abilities in formal poetry or conference-paper presentations; the time may have come to streamline your syntax and up your grammar game. Perhaps you have self-published a fantasy series and need aesthetic advice on redesigning your website or crafting a social media strategy. Maybe you need a proofreader for your commentary on a favorite literary work, then a Virgilian guide through the dark forest of distribution. The consultants at Wyrdhoard can provide all of this and more!

EDITING

We provide developmental, substantive, or copy-editing services and can help you choose which you need.

PROOFING

If you have a finished manuscript, send it to us for that final check and polish.

TUTORIALS

For those who want to increase their authorial skills, we provide lessons in form, narrative, grammar, and much more.

BETA READING

Get valuable feedback on your finished manuscript from a reader with fresh eyes.

MARKETING

Book marketing is hard.
We can help you demystify and simplify your marketing.

DISTRIBUTION

We can navigate getting your book to market, including choosing formats, designing the look, and deciding on distributors.

TRANSLATION

Expand your audience! We work with English, Portuguese, Italian, and German, and have a network of translators from other languages as well.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Need advice on which networks to use, what to post, when to publish, and how to develop a strategy? We can help!

& MORE

Academic advising, research, fact-checking, indexing... Take your pick! If we can't do it ourselves, we have a wide range of professionals to connect you with.

Not sure what you need?

Let's talk!

The Consultants

Sørina Higgins

Developmental editing, authorial education, & academic advising

Kira Tregoning

Editing, marketing, &
proofreading

Sarah Monnier

Editing, research, proofreading,
& distribution

Giovanna Chinellato

Translation (EN, PT, IT), beta reading, & ecocritical reading

What People Say

"“Kira has made a profound change to my use of social media. She is working with my budget and gives me the tools I need. I recommend her highly."

Anne Social Media Client

"A team leader of unparalleled imagination and energy, and an editor for all seasons, Sørina Higgins' roster of works produced speaks for itself. I was lucky enough to work with her, and the results were more than I hoped for."

Verlyn Author

"Dr. Sørina Higgins is one of that rare breed of academics who brings the same blend of infectious enthusiasm and eye-opening insight to both her published writings and her work in lectures and podcasts."

Shawn Author

"Giovanna idealized and coordinated social literary projects at Instituto Fazenda São Pedro, she is currently in charge of our literary translations, bilingual communication, art, formatting, and editing of our books. She is highly efficient, creative, and delivers everything on schedule."

Eliana Founder, Instituto Fazenda São Pedro

Blog

ONLINE CLASS: The Architecture of a Short Story

September 9, 2024You are invited to sign up for Dr. Søri Higgins’s inaugural independent online class! She’s offering this course herself, rather than through any organization or institution. If it’s successful, she’ll offer more like it–and the topics can be chosen by popular demand. Please think about joining, and she’d be very grateful if you’d help spread […] [...] Read more...

Upcoming Workshop Schedule

February 22, 2024Greetings and salutations. The Wyrd Wymen of Wyrdhoard are offering some upcoming training sessions and classes for Wryters? Here are the upcoming ones. All times are U.S. eastern. Contact Sørina for more information. Monday, Mar 25th @ 6pm — Workshop #2: Giving Voice to Characters Just as various people speak differently from one another in […] [...] Read more...