Story Thread Editorial
Weaving clarity
into every draft.
Available Services
Developmental Editing
Copyediting
Beta/ARC Reading
As your developmental editor, I provide comprehensive manuscript assessment and guidance aimed at enhancing overall structure, content coherence, and thematic development. My goal is to improve overall clarity and impact, ensuring that your work resonates effectively with your target audience.
As your copyeditor, I provide your manuscript with detailed in-line comments aimed at refining your manuscript, ensuring grammatical accuracy, style consistency, vivid prose, light fact-checking, and adherence to applicable publishing guidelines. My goal is to ensure impactful prose while maintaining the integrity of the author's voice and intent.
As your beta reader, I provide a first look at unreleased manuscripts from a reader's perspective, serving as a focus group to gauge whether the story connects with intended audiences. As your ARC reader, I provide early review, build buzz around your new title, and help create visibility through online reviews.
Request a Consultation
Please provide the following information where applicable:
1. The genre and brief overview of your manuscript
2. The approximate word count of your manuscript (determines cost of each editing pass)
3. The type of editorial services you're interested in (developmental, copyediting, etc.)
4. Any timeframe or deadline requests.
Editorial Portfolio
Since 2020, I have been proud to provide editorial services to diverse clients across a range of genres.
Currently excited to read: engaging adult or young adult fantasy and sci-fi with immersive, well-developed worlds, and narratives where magic or technology influences society, power structures, and character identity. Found family is my favorite trope—especially bonds built through shared hardship, moral tension, or unlikely alliances.
I’m eager to edit projects with strong female leads who are active, capable, and complex, and who drive the narrative rather than orbit it. I love propulsive plots with high stakes and well-earned twists. I’m open to both epic and more intimate stories, as long as the narrative balances heart, danger, and a sense of wonder.
Above all, I’m looking for stories that are compulsively readable, emotionally grounded, and bold enough to take risks.
Reign by Bethan Croome
Cosmo Reads, Sourcebooks
Coming 2026
X-Thium: Unleashed
by CB Sted
Salt Water Media
Coming 2026
Kindness Heroes
by Jackie Kurtz
Salt Water Media
Coming 2026
58 Missions
by Lucilla Esham
Salt Water Media
Coming 2026
Into the Night
by Stephanie Fowler
Salt Water Media
Nov. 2025
Rainy Day Miracle
Jill & Matt Cheatham
Salt Water Media
Oct. 8 2025
Your Words Are Fire
by Lissette Jacobson & Maurice McDavid
Times 10 Publications
May 2025
Your Small Business Blueprint, by Ron Neary
Times 10 Publications
Mar. 2025
Learning Lifeguards
by Sherri Nelson
Times 10 Publications
Nov. 2024
Small Wins, Big Health
by Bryan Holyfield
Times 10 Publications
Sept. 2024
Anti-Racist Teaching
Symone James Abiola
Times 10 Publications
Aug. 2024
Hacking Student Motivation by Tyler Rablin
Times 10 Publications
Feb. 2024
Ode to Cleve
by John McKinney
My Word Publishing
Feb. 2024
Hacking School Discipline
by Jeffrey Benson
Times 10 Publications
Jan. 2024
Vain and Valor, Vol. 1
by Justan Autor
Fiverr, Self-Publishing
Dec. 2023
Gratitude
by A.H. Morris
My Word Publishing
Nov. 2023
The Duke's Moonlit Seduction by Emme Albright
My Word Publishing
Sept. 2023
Pebbles and the Biggest Number, by Joey Benun
My Word Publishing
Sept. 2023
The Last Light Before Extinction by Coty Schwabe
Fiverr, Self-Publishing
July 2022
Flames, Theft, Car Crashes by Coty Schwabe
Fiverr, Self-Publishing
July 2022
Bearing the Burden of Existence, by Coty Schwabe
Fiverr, Self-Publishing
July 2022
Hello, It's Me
by Ariyana Rogers
Fiverr, Self-Publishing
Apr. 2022
Love is a Mental Illness
by Franco Cardiello
Fiverr, Self-Publishing
Mar. 2022
About Me
My name is Tarah Threadgill.
As a developmental and copy editor, I collaborate with authors to bring their manuscripts to life. I provide services and feedback on narrative structure, plot, pacing, product design, fidelity to CMOS guidelines, and research on market trends. I also conduct background research to ensure the accuracy and quality of each title. With years of editorial experience, I honed my skills working with diverse genres, styles, and voices. I believe in the power of words, and that the right ones in the right order can mend or break a heart.
I am also a secondary English teacher with over a decade of teaching various courses. I gained valuable skills in project management, leadership, team building, communication, curriculum development, instructional design, assessment writing, and data analysis.
I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University and an MA in Secondary Education from Georgia College & State University. My mission is to inspire and empower students and writers to express themselves creatively and confidently.
