About Me

Charlotte Cook is an experienced story editor. She has experience in the worlds of writing,
developing publishable manuscripts, publishing, book selling, and industry consulting. Her own experience with writing has resulted in published fiction and nonfiction works.

Currently Charlotte works with clients developing manuscripts and craft on a one-on-one basis. She also facilitates private workshops and consults with clients on strategies and collateral materials for presentations to agents and publishers. Some some sixty clients credit Charlotte in the publication and resulting awards for their works, which number around one hundred.

Charlotte has been a featured workshop leader/guest speaker at a variety of national and local writers conferences and groups, including:

 California Writers Club, various branches and events,
 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference,
 Willamette Writers Conference,
 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers,
 South Carolina Writers Workshop,
 San Francisco Writers Conference,
 International Historical Novel Society Writers Conference,      
 Jack London Writers Conference,
 Central Coast Writers Conference,
 East of Eden Writers Conference,
 Redwood Writers Conference, and
 Independent Book Publishers Assoc. Publishing University.

Other arenas featuring Charlotte's work include: Writer's Digest Tutorials and Next Generation of Indie Book Awards, for which Charlotte participates as the Head Fiction Judge.

Articles by and about Charlotte have been included in the following publications:
 Writer's Digest,      
 Publishers Weekly,
 Creative Screenwriting Magazine,
 Shelf Awareness,
 Moxie Magazine, and      
 The San Francisco Chronicle.

If you are overwhelmed by all of this, so is Charlotte. She is practical and personal in her approach to working with writers, and never forgets that she herself is a working ficiton and creative nonfiction writer. What she shares with others is from her experience across the many planes of the publishing and writing universe, and this is her passion: To work productively with writers to develop their voice, their stories, their ambitions.