Your Voice. Your Vision.

Helping writers make their stories as effective, engaging, and compelling as they can be has been my life’s work and my passion since I started working in the publishing industry in the early nineties.

I’ve helped thousands of authors find the best version of their vision.

Together, let’s explore ways to make sure the story in your head is the one on the page, and that your prose is as polished as your story.

I’ve helped thousands of authors find the best version of their vision.

Together, let’s explore ways to make sure the story in your head is the one on the page, and that your prose is as polished as your story.

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.

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Author resources

Free downloadable tools for authors, and my most recommended books, podcasts, websites, and other useful aids.

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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.

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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

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

Don’t Build Your Network

March 23, 2023

Inspiration, Publishing business, Writing life

My introverted husband likes to tease me about the way I plunge into meeting new neighbors whenever we’ve moved. I joke that I want to make them casseroles to say…

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Do Less Than Your Best

March 16, 2023

Inspiration, Writing life

We’re inculcated, particularly in American culture, with messages that exhort us to do something 100% or not do it at all: Go big or go home. Give it your all.…

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March 22: “Mastering POV,” Jane Friedman

May 3: “Dialogue,” with Jane Friedman (link tk)

Client Testimonials:

I hit the jackpot with…editor extraordinaire Tiffany Yates Martin, who asked the best questions at every turn.

Susan Walter

Good as Dead

Thanks to…Tiffany Yates Martin at FoxPrint Editorial for your wise advice in early and late drafts.

Erin Flanagan

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.

Boo Walker

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.

Jamie Beck

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.”

Daniel Pyne

Water Memory

Special thanks to Tiffany Yates Martin for her incisive edits delivered with humor and grace.

Sonja Yoerg

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.

Melissa Payne

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.

Kate Moretti

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.

Veena Rao

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.

Victoria Helen Stone

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.

Lainey Cameron

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.

Barbara O'Neal

When We Believed in Mermaids, Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.