Paul Weisser, Writer/Editor/Desktop Publisher, Ph.D.

I highly recommend Paul Weisser to anyone who is looking for an editor. He is thorough and, unlike other editors I had tried, doesn’t write what he wants, but polishes your writing to make it read the way you intended.
I first met Paul eighteen years ago, after seeing his ad in a local newspaper. At the time, I had a book all written and desperately needed an editor. I had already tried several, but all they wanted to do was rewrite the entire manuscript – by themselves. So, I called Paul, fully thinking that I would end up with another deadbeat editor.
But Paul was different. And his approach to editing was different. First, he was not judgmental about my work, and second, he explained how we – not just he – would edit the book. He downloaded my manuscript into his Mac, and with me sitting at his terminal next to him (this was before the power of the modern internet), he proceeded to read the manuscript out loud to me. With this method, he located the dangling participles, misplaced modifiers, and non sequiturs. He asked me questions as we went along, to clarify thoughts, events, and stories, and together we corrected the manuscript as we went along. Once we were done, the book was still my book, but one sentence flowed into the other, and each paragraph correctly followed the preceding one, building one complete, coherent chapter after another. In the end, I had a book that was not only published, but it went on to win a major literary award.
Paul and I have just completed editing my second book, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. I sent the manuscript to a New York Times best-​selling author to see if it passes muster. «Your book not only passes muster,» he wrote back, «it is a beautifully written, meticulously researched, and compulsively readable work of history.»
I think that just about says it all in terms of what Paul Weisser can help you to achieve with your writing project.
Henry Dominguez
Author:
«Edsel Ford & E. T. Gregorie»
«The Last Days of Henry Ford»