Developmental Edits is a newsletter about book writing and editing by editor and book coach Hanne Blank Boyd that debuts in September 2025.
Developmental Edits is a reflection of things I offer my clients in classes, one-on-one book coaching, and as an editor. As someone who occupies three sides of the book-writing desk — writer, book coach, and editor — I have a uniquely synergistic, deeply informed perspective on helping writers succeed at writing books that go beyond “good and engaging” to compelling, transformational, and unputdownable.
Developmental Edits is about all types of books and all kinds of prose writing. Whether they’re nonfiction or fiction, “scholarly” or “entertainment” — as if a book can’t be both! — different kinds of books have more similarities than they do differences.
Whoever you are as a writer, wherever you are on your writing journey, and whatever kind of writing you do, Developmental Edits will show you how to give your writing more power, more propulsion, and more presence.
I tell my clients “If your book doesn’t get written, it can’t change the world.”
Join me for Developmental Edits. Get ready to write that book. Get ready to change the world.
— Hanne Blank Boyd