Do you have a manuscript in progress that requires substantive structural work? Do you see organizational problems, redundancies, or unclear transitions that muddy the story you are trying to tell? Do you have multiple concepts and theses that are not yet well connected within and between chapters? Are you still trying to decide on the key themes of your project? If so, then I can help you shape the manuscript you envision.

Is your manuscript strong organizationally, but needs some tidying up at the sentence or paragraph level? Do you need to tighten your argument? Do you need to reduce manuscript length but don’t know what to cut? Do you want to make your ideas clearer or inject more energy into your style? We can achieve these ends with line editing.

Have you completed your dissertation, fulfilled the requirements of your dissertation committee and university faculty, and now find yourself free to recast your project for a much wider audience? What an exciting prospect! I have read many manuscripts crafted from dissertations as part of my service on the award committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies Book Prize, for best first books on India-related topics in the humanities and social sciences. I look forward to taking what I have learned and applying it to your first manuscript.

I offer flat fee dissertation-to-book consultation. I will read your dissertation carefully and offer substantive suggestions for reshaping your dissertation into a book or, if preferred, a set of discrete articles.