MICHAEL MOHR BOOK EDITOR & PROFESSIONAL WRITER
“Michael has been the savior that my project needed. He is very professional, extremely intuitive, and an amazing editor that catches every detail and asks the right questions. He has not only provided a great service, but he has also made me a much better writer in the process. I will hire him for every editing and copy editing job I ever have. Period.”
—Christian Picciolini, author of BREAKING HATE and WHITE AMERICAN YOUTH: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out
About Me
I am a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, former literary agent’s assistant and freelance book editor. My latest nonfiction about Covid-19: (Click Here). My fiction has been published in: The New Guard; Concho River Review; Adelaide Literary Magazine; Bethlehem Writers’ Roundtable; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; and much more. My articles have been included in Writers’ Digest, Writer Unboxed, Creative Penn, MASH, Books & Buzz; and more. I edited White American Youth, a memoir by Christian Picciolini, a former neo Nazi who changed his life (Hachette, Dec 26, 2017) as well as Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism (Hachette Feb 2020). Christian’s MSNBC TV docu-series is airing now (Breaking Hate). I was recently on the cover of Books & Buzz Magazine. I have received a PEN Grant.
I specialize in developmental editing, for novels and memoir, which means I focus on the overall big picture, looking at things like plot; structure; arc; exposition; character-development; logic issues; pace; dialogue; etc. This includes marks on the pages and a detailed letter covering what worked, what didn't, why, and the path forward.
I am a member of the Bay Area Editors’ Forum (BAEF), the California Writer's Club (CWC), Duotrope.com, Thumbtack, and the EFA (Editorial Freelancer's Association).
