Angie Kiesling
Seasoned book editor, author coach, and ghostwriter offering manuscript critiques, developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and collaborative writing for memoir, nonfiction, and select fiction in both general and Christian markets.
Angie Kiesling has been drawn to books for as long as she can remember. That early fascination with words eventually became a career spanning more than thirty-five decades in the publishing industry.
A seasoned editor, author coach, ghostwriter, and publishing professional, Angie has worked on hundreds of books—both fiction and nonfiction—and with dozens of authors at virtually every stage of manuscript development. Her experience encompasses developmental editing, substantive and line editing, copyediting, ghostwriting, manuscript critiques, and author coaching. She has a particular gift for helping writers identify what isn’t working in a manuscript and showing them how to make it shine without sacrificing their individual voice. She is equally at home with both general market and Christian/faith-based manuscripts.
Over the course of her career, Angie has worked with such notable publishing entities as Publishers Weekly (religion reporting), Morgan James Publishing, Thomas Nelson, Baker/Revell, Jossey-Bass, Charisma Media, Harvest House, Honor Books, Barbour Publishing, Gale-Cengage, and Abingdon Press, among others. Her varied roles as editor, author, journalist, ghostwriter, and content creator have given her a broad understanding of both the creative and practical sides of bringing a book into the world. And for ten years, she was a final-round fiction judge for The Christy Awards.
Angie approaches editing as a collaboration rather than a takeover. She believes an editor’s job is not to impose her own style on a manuscript but to understand what the author is trying to accomplish and help the work become the strongest version of that vision. She combines big-picture editorial insight with a keen eye for the details that can weaken otherwise good writing, from structural and pacing problems to inconsistencies, unnecessary prose, and those elusive passages an author knows aren’t quite right but can’t easily diagnose.
Her coaching style is encouraging, candid, and practical. Angie asks questions designed to help authors think more deeply about their own work. She offers straightforward guidance without overwhelming them and strives to leave writers not only with a better manuscript but with a better understanding of their craft.
More than thirty-five years after she began her publishing journey, Angie remains fascinated by the process that captivated her as a child: taking words and ideas and turning them into books worth reading. She welcomes the opportunity to help you.