Kiah Sherif provided valuable insight at a time where I felt in a rut, listless, and unable to clearly see my own manuscript anymore. I’d worked on my manuscript for years since graduating from grad school, and found it had become an utter mess, much like an undefined oil painting with so many underpaintings that the artistic design was muddled. What I should have done was contact Kiah earlier, that would have saved much consternation. Kiah’s edits proved incredibly useful on many levels. Formatting edits helped to put things in their proper place, word choice edits helped to clarify sentences. In short, Kiah provided line edits and overarching edits. She read the manuscript twice, allowing me to see edits from her first and second read. And yet, she didn’t over edit. She would make a point and let it stand, coming back to remind me of that point when called for. She focused characters and made the action of the novel much clearer. She is incredibly conscious of the way she phrases – w...