Editing and beta reading services

I offer beta reading and developmental editing services in the romance genre. I specialise in editing contemporary romance, YA romance, romantic comedy, fantasy romance, romantasy, paranormal romance and romantic suspense stories.
I can help you improve the big-picture storytelling elements in your manuscript, such as theme, plot, characters, point of view, pacing, setting, genre conventions, show vs tell and dialogue.
"I first engaged Maria’s services for a partial discovery evaluation of my fantasy romance novel when I had written around three quarters of it, and later returned for a full evaluation once the manuscript was finished. Both experiences were excellent.
Maria was professional, insightful, and always on time with her feedback. Her comments were thoughtful and very helpful in strengthening the manuscript and clarifying key elements of the story.
She also scheduled both follow-up calls very quickly after delivering the evaluations, and we went through all of my questions while she helped me brainstorm ideas for the next steps.
I highly recommend Maria to any author looking for thorough, professional, and genuinely helpful editorial feedback."
First-time indie author (pre-publication)
  • For writers who need detailed and thorough feedback to help them improve their manuscript.
  • Get constructive feedback on the theme, plot, characters, point of view, pacing, setting, genre conventions, show vs tell and dialogue of your story in a marked-up manuscript with suggestions and an editorial report to further guide your revision.
  • Get follow-up support to discuss your story (email or Google Meet).
  • For writers with partial or first drafts who want to see what is working or not in their story and the potential directions it could take.
  • Get constructive feedback about the things that are working well, things that are not working well, compelling elements that can be used to make the story more powerful, perspective concerns and romance genre conventions in an evaluation report.  
  • ​Get follow-up support to discuss your story (email or Google Meet).
  • For writers who don't need thorough guidance or don’t have the budget for full developmental editing.
  • Get constructive feedback about the theme, plot, characters, point of view, pacing, setting, genre conventions, show vs tell and dialogue of your story in an editorial report.
  • Get follow-up support to discuss your story (email or Google Meet).



  • For writers who need feedback from the reader's point of view and have no idea how to improve their story​​.
  • Get honest feedback from the reader's point of view about the plot, characters, point of view, pacing, genre conventions and overall impression of the story in a reader's report.​
  • Get follow-up support to discuss your story (email or Google Meet).
"Maria offered me feedback on my YA coming-of-age romance novel. It was clear to me that Maria read my manuscript thoroughly, and she gave me thoughtful feedback... I found her feedback useful and would recommend her..."
Sophie Bernbaum, YA romance writer
"... I couldn't be happier with the feedback she gave.... her suggestions were very valuable and I hope to use her again."
Pamela Dean, romance comedy writer
​​​                                           Free discovery meeting
Book a free discovery meeting to discuss how I can help you improve the big-picture elements of your story and to see if we are a great fit to work together.
                             Interested in working with me?
Fill in this form and send me your completed manuscript along with any other related documents (synopsis, summary). I will respond to you as soon as possible to discuss how I can help you improve your manuscript and provide you with a no-obligation project quote.