About Jessi
Jessi Rita Hoffman is a former publishing house editor-in-chief and award-winning magazine editor who offers professional book editing services and author coaching to private clients. She has helped hundreds of writers in development of their novels and nonfiction books. She is a published author and a screenwriter with a feature-length script currently in production.
Illustrious Clients
Jessi edited the memoir of U.S. Congressman Dennis Ross and the prize-winning novels of Michael Hurley and Alex Sirotkin–also business books for Fortune-acclaimed investment gurus Andy Heller and Scott Frank, to name just a few of her illustrious clients. Jessi particularly enjoys editing memoirs, historical and literary fiction, and Christian books of all varieties. She’s happy to work with both seasoned authors and those getting ready to publish for the first time. Memoirists, novelists, entrepreneurs, life coaches, pastors, psychologists, teachers, philosophers, and authors of children’s and YA fiction number among the many writers she has helped.
Developmental Editor
A full-scale, senior editor experienced in the art of comprehensive or “developmental” editing, Jessi supervised two staffs of copy editors and proofreaders in her work as editor in chief of a small university press and of a regional magazine. She has a B.A. in English from Loyola University, an M.A. in philosophy, and the equivalent of a master’s degree in fiction writing and screenwriting—subjects she has taught at the college level.
Published Work
Jessi is a contributing editor to Writer’s Digest. Her screenplay Under the Fence is under production as an animated, feature-length, family film by Hollywood producers. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including Language Arts Journal, Digital Science Fiction, Veritas Magazine, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer—also on popular writer blogs and websites, including WriterUnboxed.com, JaneFriedman.com, and StoryFix.com. She maintains a blog for authors on her own website, with over a hundred articles on the craft of writing. A former elementary school teacher, Jessi has authored two children’s books.
She lives in the United States, but her clients come from all over the world. Jessi offers assistance to both fiction and nonfiction writers in need of professional book editing services, private coaching, and screenplay editing/adaptations.
