About

Wherewithal Press isn’t a book publisher yet. Our work takes several forms. Lately we’ve enjoyed working with terrifically smart professionals who have expertise in one area — say, medicine or architecture, gossip reporting or arts administration — but who want assistance delivering that knowledge to a broader public.

In addition to helping develop and line-edit

• manuscripts
• book proposals
• anything typed in English

we also specialize in what’s come to be called content strategy because it employs the same skills an experienced developmental editor uses, namely helping others answer questions of

• what they want to say
• how they wish to say it
• in what order
• why
• who cares (and if no one seems to care, how the world might be persuaded)

For some clients, these questions lead to copywriting — another job we do well — while others need entire websites (re)written and organized.

Ghostwriting? We’ve done that too, as ghostwriting is simply extremely aggressive and interventionist editing.

We believe many texts, analog or digital, fail to find their rightful audience because the flow from one idea to the next, the cadence from one sentence to the next, could have been improved. We have 10+ years of experience helping published authors and amateur writers alike solve these problems.

Usually by the time a project is finished, both our clients and we have learned something new.

We do not work on genre fiction or technical writing, though we know people who do and gladly offer referrals. For more information or to schedule a phone call about your project, please email us at mh@wherewithalpress.com.

Thanks for reading.