Helping your words take flight.
Welcome to Rookwood Editing. Let’s work together to enhance your authorial vision and make your writing shine.
How I can help you
Beta Reading
A beta read is an affordable manuscript review in which the editor provides basic feedback and a brief developmental edit with comments on plot, characters, and conflicts.
Developmental Editing
Also known as content editing or substantive editing, this is where the editor works with the author to strengthen a story’s plot, character, conflict, and more.
Stylistic Editing
While substantive editing reworks chapters, the arc of the story, and characters, stylistic editing works on the paragraph level to smooth sentences and help your words shine.
Copyediting
Whereas stylistic editing ensures that writing flows smoothly from one sentence to another, copyediting looks at each sentence individually to correct spelling and grammar.
Jewish Sensitivity Reading
Jewish sensitivity reading helps non-Jewish writers ensure that they are portraying Jewish characters, topics, or tropes in the most sensitive and authentic way.
Molly is a skilled and thoughtful sensitivity reader. She helped me shape my Jewish main characters in my third and fourth novels in an empowering way that boosted my confidence. Her knowledge and expertise were evident in her feedback, and she offered extra support during my revisions. I highly recommend Molly’s services!
Brenna Bailey,
Forever in Flowers
When I came across Molly’s website she seemed like the perfect fit for When The Stars Alight. It pleases me to be correct in that assumption and I couldn’t be more happy with her level of effort, diligence and communication throughout the editorial process. You can count on her to provide thorough feedback and intelligent critique, as well as encouraging praise. I heartily recommend her services.
Camilla Andrew,
When the Stars Alight
I was seeking an editor who was familiar with classic literature (specifically Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre), and was both relieved and delighted when referred to Rookwood Editing and Molly. Huzzah! Molly knew exactly what I needed and handled my manuscript, Sophie in the Shadows: A Jane Eyre Story, with expertise and loving care! I can’t wait to work with Molly again in the future and recommend her services full-heartedly.
Gabrielle Molyneux,
Sophie in the Shadows: A Jane Eyre Story
I approached Molly as my novel contained Jewish characters and themes, and I wanted an expert to check that my research was correct. I chose Molly for her friendly, positive approach and her literary expertise. Molly provided sensitive, thoughtful and accurate edits to my text as well as suggestions which both lifted and deepened my themes and characters. I’m hugely grateful to her for her professionalism and positivity and warm approach to working with writers.
Leonora Meriel,
Mbaqanga Nights
Molly's work on my novel has been invaluable. Her suggestions just seemed so right, and helped me raise the book to a higher level, helping me to add context, important relationship threads, and emotional depth into the protagonist's central story. I am SO GLAD she was recommended to me!
Susan Forest,
The Shadow Spy’s Daughter