Tiffany Yates Martin is an editorial genius and for some reason, she’s given us the gift of her brain in Intuitive Editing. Her insights are astounding…should be on every writer’s bookshelf.
Kate Moretti
New York Times-bestselling author
How can I help?
Writing tips
My weekly blog offers authors tools and techniques for their writing, along with tips on navigating challenges creatives face.
Online Courses
Learn at your pace: my courses offer deeper dives into areas of craft that authors struggle with most.
Author resources
Free downloadable tools for authors, and my most recommended books, podcasts, websites, and other useful aids.
Intuitive Editing
I’ve spent my career in the publishing industry honing practical, actionable techniques to help authors evaluate how well their story is working, where it might not be, and how to fix it.
With a clear, accessible, user-friendly approach, Intuitive Editing leads writers through every step of deepening and elevating their own work, as well as how to approach the edit and develop their “editor brain,” and how to solicit and process feedback.
Working with [Tiffany Yates Martin] on a book is like going to writing college and majoring in your novel. I’ve never wanted to work so hard for my professor. I’ve never understood my novel so well. It’s helped me understand myself as a writer.
Ann Garvin
USA Today-bestselling author of I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around
Intuitive Editing offers fresh, approachable, clear guidance to making your work the best it can be. It’s an excellent tool that will help writers not just with editing but with the writing process itself.
Annelise Robey
literary agent, Jane Rotrosen Agency
We’ve always asserted that Tiffany Yates Martin has a superpower—the ability to make any manuscript shine. Now she’s sharing her editing secrets. Trust us—don’t revise another novel until you’ve absorbed every word of this book.
Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
bestselling authors of How to Save a Life
This book is a must have tool every author needs in their toolkit. When you are ready to go deeper, to dig into the revision process, using Tiffany’s Intuitive Editing strategies will help you take your writing to the next level.
Steena Holmes
New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author
Blog
Identity and Character Development
6 Comments
Identity is a powerful driver of the choices we make, the way we conduct ourselves, how we react.
It’s also deeply relevant to storytelling and characterization.
Doing Creative Work Amid the Sh**tstorm
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Hello, friends. Have you missed these guys? These are the demons, of happy memory, of whom I…
Read More Upcoming Events
August 31: “How to Train Your Editor Brain,” Free Expressions Writing Success Series with Lorin Oberwerger
September 15: “Writing Multiple Storylines, Timelines, POVs,” Jane Friedman
October 18: “Master the Flashback,” Jane Friedman
November 6-10: Writer Unboxed UnConference, Salem, MA, featured presenter and speaker (schedule and courses listed here)
November 19: “Pop-up Submissions,” Litopia with agent Peter Cox
April 4-6, 2024: Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, Dayton, OH
Client Testimonials:
I hit the jackpot with…editor extraordinaire Tiffany Yates Martin, who asked the best questions at every turn.
Good as Dead
Thanks to…Tiffany Yates Martin at FoxPrint Editorial for your wise advice in early and late drafts.
Deer Season, 2022 Edgar Award winner--Best First Novel; finalist, Midwest Book Award for Fiction; Macavity Award nominee; Publisher's Weekly starred review
My developmental editor, Tiffany Yates Martin, is a dream come true. There were moments when I thought this project was slipping through my fingers, and she jumped with me into the trenches, offering abundant and brilliant guidance. From helping me find the exact purpose and direction of the story to your incredibly wise and subtle suggestions that served as last-minute brushstrokes to bring a painting to life, this book is far better because of you. Thank you, my friend.
The Singing Trees
Thanks, also, to my agent, Jill Marsal, as well as to my patient editors, Chris Werner and Tiffany Yates Martin, who take the lumps of coal I turn in and help me turn them into diamonds. In this case, their insight helped me stay on track with the story I wanted to tell.
For All She Knows
Some say a book is only as good as its editors, and if that’s true, I’ve been fortunate to have worked with some of the best…. Tiffany Yates Martin piloted my story into safe harbor, with notes and suggestions that have proved invaluable.”
Water Memory
Special thanks to Tiffany Yates Martin for her incisive edits delivered with humor and grace.
The Family Ship, Publishers Weekly starred review
To the deeply talented Tiffany Yates Martin for yet again walking beside me on the editing journey and deftly guiding this story to levels beyond my expectations.
Memories in the Drift, Booklist starred review, #1 Amazon bestseller
A particular thanks to Tiffany Yates Martin, who had an inordinate amount of confidence in my capabilities and said, ‘What if we did the craziest thing ever?’ and then we actually did it. I would not have had the courage for this book on my own.
The Girls of Brackenhill, Publishers Weekly starred review
I am indebted to my developmental editor, Tiffany Yates Martin, who saw potential for a resonant work of art when it was rough marble, and whose invaluable feedback helped me sculpt this novel into shape.
Purple Lotus, American Fiction Award winner, International Book Awards finalist, Newsweek, Ms., and Travel + Leisure magazine featured pick
Thank you for all the hard work and good ideas! I think this story is so much more solid now after your input.
Problem Child, Publishers Weekly starred review
I credit…Tiffany Yates Martin, the best developmental editor, who over a year helped bring the book from good to published. A friend told me that working with Tiffany would be like taking a mini MFA, and they were right.
The Exit Strategy, #1 Amazon Charts bestseller, winner 2021 American Fiction Award in the Women's Fiction category
I’m wildly grateful to…Tiffany Yates Martin, who help[s] make my work shine so much brighter.
When We Believed in Mermaids, Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.