Kathleen Martin
Writer and editor
Editing
I help individuals and organizations tell stories that compel and engage readers' trust and actions. As an editor, I do everything from sleuthing out comma splices and helping you find the missing piece of your argument to simply encouraging you to keep going.
My philosophy: Work with integrity. Ask questions. Be a good human.
“She caught so many things I had missed, and I ended up really glad we had invested in the editing process.”
- Eric Jorgenson, creator of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
“Kathleen is a superb editor, helping to improve your writing with succinct feedback ad creative tips — all while being a true pleasure to work with.”
Tiago, founder of Forte Labs and the course “Building a Second Brain,” publishes his writing on Praxis. I worked with him on his book summaries, personal essays, and informational articles about note-taking.
David founded and leads the course Write of Passage, which helps people develop daily writing practices and start their own newsletters.
I gave feedback big and small on his weekly Monday Musings newsletters and essays about news consumption, the Boeing crashes, social media usage, and the changing American Dream.
Growth Machine creates content to increase traffic for their clients. I edited hundreds of articles for dozens of clients in health, SaaS, B2B services, education, cybersecurity, and beyond. Roughly 160 earned a page one ranking for the Google search term we targeted.
At Growth Machine, I hired, edited, coached, and cultivated relationships with many teams of writers. I still work with some of the freelancers from Growth Machine.
I copy edit manuscripts for sentence-level writing and give feedback for any larger concerns
Manuscripts I’ve work on:
The Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationship Journal by Karen CL Anderson
Write to Restore by Jen Cross
Badass Black Girl by MJ Fievre
Back from the Future by Brad Gilmore
The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers edited by Mitzi Szereto
Naval Ravikant via the book’s website, NavalAlmanack.com
Eric Jorgenson: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
A long-time fan of Angel investor Naval Ravikant, Eric compiled and rearranged Naval’s extensive online content into a book of Naval’s advice for wealth and happiness.
My challenge was to improve the manuscript on a sentence level while preserving Naval’s voice and language. I also reduced repetitiveness and offered organizational feedback.