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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · 21d

In these dark times of censorship, hatred, and high-tension, keep creating. Art, of any medium, is powerful.

Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Aug 25

Kourtney Spak offers developmental editing to writers looking to have their fantasy, romance, or any genre fiction manuscripts polished.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Aug 25

My editing schedule for 2026 will open September 1st.

But I have one 2025 spot available in December for a developmental edit.

If you write fantasy, romance, historical fiction, or dystopian, we could be a good fit. Check out my website for more info! 👇🏻

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Aug 19

The 3 ingredients needed in every romance novel:

💕 Two characters the reader can understand, care about, and wants them to be together

🥊 Believable conflict

💝A HEA or a HFN

That’s the essential skeleton of every romance novel, no matter the subgenre. It’s up to you on how you tell that story

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Aug 17

ⓘ This developmental editor only uses her brain (and the years of writing craft and editing education) to edit my clients’ manuscripts.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Aug 13

I said “hey, cutie” to one of my dogs and Siri answered 🥲 Boy, I wasn’t talking to you.

Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Aug 13

ⓘ This developmental editor would love to edit some romcoms or gothic fantasies this September.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Aug 13

Here are some of my favorite books I recommend to help you write your book or improve your writing craft.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Jul 25

One of the most common mistakes I see in unpublished manuscripts. It’s mixing up dialogue punctuation and action beat punctuation. And they’re the easiest to fix.

Here are the very basics of punctuation regarding dialogue tags and action beats.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Jul 15

Wrote 1300 words of the FMC’s backstory ✅

Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Jul 13

2025 Editing Availability

🍁SEPT
▪️Developmental Edit under 100k words
▪️Manuscript Evaluation

❄️DEC
▪️Developmental Edit

Let’s see if we’re a good fit!

Head to my website to start the sample editing process and to learn more about me, my services, and my authors.

Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Jun 30

Writers, if you need an example of how the characters’ internal conflict gives deeper meaning to the external plot events, look no further than KPop Demon Hunters.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Jun 29

Some of you never cut your teeth writing fanfiction. And it shows.

Using Character.AI or any sort of genAI to produce new scenes with your favorite characters is theft and shows you’re creatively bankrupt.

Writing is mostly a skill. It ✨can✨be learned, honed, and bettered.

Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Jun 20

When you read the word “eliminate” in my marginal comments please read it as if a dalek said it.

a dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and says `` externi '' .

ALT: a dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and says `` externi '' .

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Jun 20

Unless your characters have magical powers, no one is seeing anyone’s eye color from more than 10 feet away. Or in the dark.

But I’m near-sided, so maybe I’m wrong. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Rep. Morgan McGarvey @repmcgarvey.bsky.social · May 23

Republicans snuck a provision into their budget bill that will make it harder for courts to hold the Trump administration — and any future administration — accountable.

We must stop this in the Senate.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Apr 3

Helllooooooo

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Apr 3

What I use to edit and how I deliver developmental editing feedback.

#writingadvice
#amwriting
#bookeditor

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Apr 3

Despite this dystopian recession nightmare he’s sending us into, don’t stop creating. Whatever your medium, do not stop creating.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Apr 2

As editors “our suggestions are always just that, suggestions, not cudgels used to browbeat the author into submission.”

- Jennifer Lawler

#fictioneditor

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Apr 2

Writing open-door romance novels with intimate scenes can be really hard! And they can break your narrative sometimes.

#writingtips #writingadvice #romanceauthors #romancewriters #romantasywriters #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorcommunity

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Mar 30

Writing fanfiction is a valid form a writing.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Mar 16

Oh no, the horror! I found a misspelling and a missing word in a book.

What did I do about it?

✨Nothing. Kept reading.✨

Because human error is a feature, not a failure.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Mar 12

One of my favorite writing resources?

The Emotions Thesaurus.

It’s especially helpful if you find yourself reusing the same actions over and over again for your characters to express their emotions or internal states.

My copy has coffee stains and teeth marks. And the spine is broken.

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Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor @kourtneyspak.com · Mar 12

Your weekly reminder to check your spam inbox if you recently reached out to me for editing.

Gmail hates the link to my questionnaire.