Whether you’re an aspiring author laboring on your first book or a seasoned author working on your fifth, Katherine Don, The Book Don, can help. I offer personalized editing and book doctoring services for authors writing in the following genres:
Nonfiction including journalism, academic work, memoir, travel, cultural criticism, self-help, and business books
Fiction including literary fiction, commercial fiction, historical fiction, romance, experimental, YA and children’s fiction
As a book editor, Katherine devotes herself to the author’s vision and helps bring it to life—no matter how audacious or ambitious.
Anyone should be gratified by having one’s book under Katherine’s keen readership: she is structurally minded, extremely attuned to a book’s inherent needs, and super-sharp: she gave me a way to imagine the book’s public, general reader and yet remain true to the book’s artistic demands.
GINA APOSTOL
PEN/Open Book winner for Gun Dealers’ Daughter | Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of 2018 for Insurrecto | Winner of the Philippine National Book award for The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
With insightful overarching comments, incisive line edits, and detailed feedback on everything from character development to tone to dialogue, Katherine Don became a fellow caretaker of my novel. The outcome? Even though I sent through the slush pile, and even though I had no previous fiction publishing credits, that novel got placed with a top agent.
Katherine possesses the perfect combination of organizational and creative skills, pressing this first-time author to dig deeper and ultimately create a successful book that captured the reader's interest…
SONJA TROM EAYRS
author, attorney, activist | author of Dodge County, Incorporated
Katherine’s skill, wisdom, care and hard work made all the difference in the birthing of my book...
LISA FITHIAN
social justice activist | author of Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance
As an editor, Katherine is thorough, reliable, and creative, and I enthusiastically recommend her to fellow authors.
A Sampling of Books I’ve Worked On
