From Concept to Manuscript:
Book Writing, Editing, and Advisory Services
Katie Roberts provides book writing, editing, and proofreading services centered around a personal, human-driven approach to storytelling and communication.
Rather than simply marking up a manuscript or applying rigid fixes, she partners closely with authors and business leaders as a true collaborator—taking the time to understand their unique goals, capture their distinct voice, and refine their messaging in a supportive, empowering way.
Whether ghostwriting a manuscript, addressing big-picture style and tone through editing, or carefully catching fine grammatical details in proofreading, Katie combines a keen eye for detail with deep empathy. This hands-on, empathetic process ensures that the author's vision shines through cleanly and authentically, turning ideas into engaging, polished books that connect with readers.
Highlights
Katie served as the ghostwriter, lead editor, and project advisor for “The Disciplined Leader” by John Manning, former CEO of Management Action Programs. Soon after, she ghostwrote and edited “The Sitting Disease” by Heidi Roberts, PT/DPT, owner of Motion Therapy and Online Somatics.
She's also been thrilled to provide proofreading services to Meg Gray, Amazon bestselling author of "The Way We Are" and The Baskin Falls Series, as well as Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz, Amazon bestselling authors and co-publishers of many sales, marketing, and thought-leadership books.
Ghostwriting & Developmental Editing
The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
What do the best leaders have in common? As the former president of Management Action Programs (MAP), John Manning should know. MAP has helped tens of thousands of top executives accelerate their leadership and management performance. Manning says the answer is one word: discipline. But for Manning, discipline has a very specific meaning.
All leaders have scores of things they could do. But a disciplined leader identifies and focuses on the Vital Few: the 20 percent of activities that will drive 80 percent of the results. And the results that are most important are those tied to the organization’s most precious asset: its people.
The Disciplined Leader offers fifty-two succinct lessons ...
The Sitting Disease: Restore Your Posture and Eliminate Body Pain in 10 Minutes a Day
Is pain forcing you to put your life on pause? Are you holding back on major life goals or adventures or hobbies because you’re always in pain? If you spend most of your day sitting, you’re likely suffering from back pain, neck pain, chronic body pain, obesity, heart disease, even depression.
You wonder what it would feel like to truly be pain-free. You’ve tried exercises, stretches, massages, chiropractors, pain pills, and everything in between, but you don’t know how the pain will ever go away, if you’re sitting at your desk working all day.
The Sitting Disease is a science-backed, simple, action-oriented system for sustainable pain relief. In this book, you’ll learn how ...
Copyediting & Proofreading
Hired either directly by the authors or their publishing company, Katie has provided copyediting and/or proofreading services for these and other books:
