children’s book editing

In part four of my interview with Emma Walton Hamilton, which was recently featured in a Thursday series, we talked about her editing services. Emma offers a range of editing services for writers of children’s books, including manuscript evaluations and line edits of picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult novels, query critiques, even one-to-one mentoring sessions. Today we’re going to hear from two writers who have great things to say about Emma’s editing expertise, Brooks Olbrys and Ed Raarup. Brooks is the author of Blue Ocean Bob Discovers His Purpose, a picture book (2011) and The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob:  A Journey Begins, an early chapter book (2013). A graduate of Stanford University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, and the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Brooks is the founder of Children’s Success Unlimited and a managing director at investment bank Ion Partners. He lives with his wife and son in New York City. You met Ed on Monday, when I featured his book Fireflies and Shooting Stars. Ed studied vocal music and theatre at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, and has worked as an actor in several projects on stage and television. In writing both the text of Fireflies and Shooting Stars as well as writing the music and lyrics for songs on the accompanying CD, he has discovered yet another mode of expression for his multiple creative talents. Let’s see what they have to say about their work with Emma —