Go adventuring. Tell your story.
Maybe you’ve walked Te Araroa or the Pacific Crest Trail. Perhaps you’ve cycled from Alaska to Argentina, or kayaked from source to sea. Or maybe your adventures are closer to home.
Whatever you’ve done, wherever you’ve travelled, it’s been an adventure.
You’ve kept a journal and documented every moment, and you’ve written your manuscript.
And now you want to share your adventure with the world.
That’s where I come in.
Kia ora, I’m Deborah.
I guide travel and adventure writers like you through the book editing process so you can publish with confidence.
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Without Deborah’s amazing help my book Chasing Tigers would never have been as good. That’s a fact. She’s so damn good that I’ve already hired her awesome services for my future book projects.
Chasing Tigers, by Stu Tripney
Latest posts
- How to write scientific names for animals, plants, and fungi
As an adventure writer, you probably don’t often use scientific naming in your stories, but occasionally you might want to use the scientific name of a creature that you come across during your travels. Here is how those names are formatted. - How to avoid overloading your descriptions
It’s tempting to load your adventure scenes with detail-rich descriptions that capture what you experienced in the moment. But too much detail can overwhelm a scene and slow the pace. - The problem with colonial charm
The phrase “colonial charm” often pops up in travel writing, such as in accommodation listings, descriptions of architecture, or the general vibe of a town. There’s just one problem with it. Or rather, three problems,
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