More Words from Clients & Students

"I feel like I won the lottery! . . . Thank you for being so much in tune with my learning process and intentions."—Ann Feldman, documentary filmmaker and fiction writer

"I just want to say thank you again. Your comments are consistently insightful. Combined with our conversation, they're like a road map for getting my novel to the next level." —Deborah Turner, poet and fiction writer

"Sometimes I wonder what will become of my novel, but the process of helping it grow under your tutelage has been so fascinating, energizing, and intellectually challenging that the experience has become an end in itself. I have benefited greatly from your endless patience, compelling insights, sensitive guidance, and unwavering support. My best wish for you is that you find a reader/editor who is as stimulating, perceptive, and intelligent as you." —Lynn Bendann, retired history teacher, Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

"This course has been one of the best learning experiences I’ve ever had. Janet Benton is a superb teacher!"—Student evaluation, University of the Arts

"Janet is a gifted editor and mentor. She asks all the necessary questions in a manner that helps me realize I know the answer. If you're ready to finish your project, don't miss the chance to work with her." —Mary Scherf, lawyer and published essayist in venues including Creative Nonfiction

"Janet is a diplomat and handles her students well. While still maintaining control, she lends an air of empathy and sensitivity."—Student evaluation, Temple University

"Janet is knowledgeable, engaging, and approachable. She pushes me to challenge myself as a writer and never settles for anything less . . . She reminds me to tell a compelling story. Her workshops have been the best learning experiences I've ever had." —Elvedine Wilkerson, retired school principal

"I am back to my memoir and so appreciating you as a reader, editor, coach, and teacher. On the micro level you find all these ways to clarify and cut, which I can never do, and on the macro level you 'get' what I'm trying to do and show me how to do it better." —Richard Mandel, former head of school of Miquon and Friends Select and a leader in progressive education

 "With each chapter I go over (and over and over), the comments and notes I rely on most are yours. You have been the one who has made a major difference in my writing. . . . I still have a long way to go, I'm sure, but I am going. Mostly I have you to thank."  --Susan Karol Martel, psychotherapist and author of The Fourth Trimester: On Becoming a Mother

"[Janet] is a genius. She is a wonderful writer and editor. It can all be said so simply, and I just get stuck in a very thick, turgid word-web. It is perfect now. I love it, and I love her contribution to it. The sentences as Janet configured them are nothing I could have ever come up with on my own. My mind seems so convoluted, and her way of solving it was so simple and graceful." —Professor Gloria Orenstein

"Everyone was asking me how I got my novel finished . . . you were the magical ingredient. If my writing has improved at all, it is thanks to you." —Jane Mullooly, communications professional

Editorial Clients

What clients say:  A superb communicator. / Extremely knowledgeable. / Organized and inspirational. / Efficient and rigorous. / A whole different level of language and professionalism. / The voice of honesty, mixed with care and compassion. / I now have confidence in my product, thanks to you. / Very supportive and constructive. / A tremendous source of inspiration and motivation.

"I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all you have done to make my author happy and confident that the Press has done right by him. You’ll now become an adjective in my transmittal memos–as in, ''This book needs a Janet Benton edit.'" —Janet Francendese, Editor in Chief, Temple University Press

"The author is pleased with your work, as well he should be. I spent quite a bit of time going over the manuscript before I sent it to him and was impressed with your thoughtful insights regarding content and the general quality of your work."' —Despina Gimbel, managing editor, New York University Press

"I am deeply appreciative of the care and thoughtfulness of your editing of my manuscript, and I'm in awe of your skills. [You've improved] the book tremendously, line by line, making it easier to read, more clear and compelling."

"I think that your copyediting is very impressive. I've published books with Oxford and Princeton, and the work you did is light years better!"

"Though it has been a bit humbling to work with someone who is at a whole different level of language and professionalism . . ., your tact and care have made it easy for me. . . . I'm going to be a better writer the next time out."

 "I am very pleased with the copyediting. It is careful, thoughtful, and intelligent."

 "You are the best #@*$ editor!"