“I’d been querying and revising my novel Backwater for several months, but something still wasn’t quite there yet. After Tauri and I traded manuscripts, she recognized that the existing plot wasn’t driving the story forward. I worked to find that new plot, and Tauri helped me shape it into something believable and compelling. Once my rewrite was complete, I had an agent offer within days.”

– Kate Boudreaux Strawther, Author of Backwater, Represented by Lane Heymont at of the Tobias Literary Agency

GENRES

Based on the age groups in which I have the most experience – editing, writing, and reading – I only edit YA and adult fiction. Beyond that, I am not limited by genre, although my favorites are fantasy, romance, thriller and women’s fiction.

“Tauri’s insights into my query and synopsis gave me the focus I couldn’t find on my own. She clarified conflicts and drew connections between my subplots that better represented the story I am trying to tell. It’s so difficult, as writers, to take our 80,000-100,000 word novel and condense it into a short query or synopsis—we are too close to the work to see it clearly. Tauri has the skill as a writer AND reader to accomplish this!”

– Bradeigh Godfrey, Writer and Blogger

QUALIFICATIONS

• I earned a Bachelor’s degree in English with minors in Rhetoric and Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin
• I am editorial intern at Entangled Publishing.
• I was a fiction editor for the award-winning Hothouse Literary Magazine.
• I manage public relations and editorial in North America for a billion dollar company.
• I have beta read and critiqued for several aspiring authors, two of which have gone on to self-publish with success and others who are now represented by their dream agent.

“After receiving multiple agent requests for my manuscript but ultimately no bites, I needed to figure out why my story was falling flat. Tauri saw immediately that it was a structural issue. I used flashbacks too extensively in the beginning and did not focus enough on the present plot, which led to problems with tension and a lack of clear stakes for the main character. Her detailed notes on my first few chapters jump-started my rewrite and led to a much stronger novel overall.”

– Taylor Hobbs, Blogger and Writer