Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor
@kourtneyspak.com
Developmental Fiction Editor
Now booking 2026! 🥰
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Now booking 2026! 🥰
www.kourtneyspak.com/links
In these dark times of censorship, hatred, and high-tension, keep creating. Art, of any medium, is powerful.
September 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In these dark times of censorship, hatred, and high-tension, keep creating. Art, of any medium, is powerful.
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! 👇🏻
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! 👇🏻
August 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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! 👇🏻
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! 👇🏻
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
💕 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
August 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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
💕 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
ⓘ This developmental editor only uses her brain (and the years of writing craft and editing education) to edit my clients’ manuscripts.
August 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
ⓘ This developmental editor only uses her brain (and the years of writing craft and editing education) to edit my clients’ manuscripts.
I said “hey, cutie” to one of my dogs and Siri answered 🥲 Boy, I wasn’t talking to you.
August 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I said “hey, cutie” to one of my dogs and Siri answered 🥲 Boy, I wasn’t talking to you.
ⓘ This developmental editor would love to edit some romcoms or gothic fantasies this September.
August 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
ⓘ This developmental editor would love to edit some romcoms or gothic fantasies this September.
Here are some of my favorite books I recommend to help you write your book or improve your writing craft.
August 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Here are some of my favorite books I recommend to help you write your book or improve your writing craft.
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.
Here are the very basics of punctuation regarding dialogue tags and action beats.
July 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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.
Here are the very basics of punctuation regarding dialogue tags and action beats.
Wrote 1300 words of the FMC’s backstory ✅
July 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Wrote 1300 words of the FMC’s backstory ✅
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.
🍁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.
July 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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.
🍁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.
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.
June 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
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.
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.
June 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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.
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.
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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June 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
When you read the word “eliminate” in my marginal comments please read it as if a dalek said it.
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. 🤷🏼♀️
But I’m near-sided, so maybe I’m wrong. 🤷🏼♀️
June 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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. 🤷🏼♀️
But I’m near-sided, so maybe I’m wrong. 🤷🏼♀️
Reposted by Kourt Spak | Fiction Editor
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.
We must stop this in the Senate.
May 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
We must stop this in the Senate.
What I use to edit and how I deliver developmental editing feedback.
#writingadvice
#amwriting
#bookeditor
#writingadvice
#amwriting
#bookeditor
April 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
What I use to edit and how I deliver developmental editing feedback.
#writingadvice
#amwriting
#bookeditor
#writingadvice
#amwriting
#bookeditor
Despite this dystopian recession nightmare he’s sending us into, don’t stop creating. Whatever your medium, do not stop creating.
April 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Despite this dystopian recession nightmare he’s sending us into, don’t stop creating. Whatever your medium, do not stop creating.
As editors “our suggestions are always just that, suggestions, not cudgels used to browbeat the author into submission.”
- Jennifer Lawler
#fictioneditor
- Jennifer Lawler
#fictioneditor
April 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
As editors “our suggestions are always just that, suggestions, not cudgels used to browbeat the author into submission.”
- Jennifer Lawler
#fictioneditor
- Jennifer Lawler
#fictioneditor
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
#writingtips #writingadvice #romanceauthors #romancewriters #romantasywriters #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorcommunity
April 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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
#writingtips #writingadvice #romanceauthors #romancewriters #romantasywriters #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorcommunity
Writing fanfiction is a valid form a writing.
March 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Writing fanfiction is a valid form a writing.
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.
What did I do about it?
✨Nothing. Kept reading.✨
Because human error is a feature, not a failure.
March 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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.
What did I do about it?
✨Nothing. Kept reading.✨
Because human error is a feature, not a failure.
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.
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.
March 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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.
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.
Your weekly reminder to check your spam inbox if you recently reached out to me for editing.
Gmail hates the link to my questionnaire.
Gmail hates the link to my questionnaire.
March 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Your weekly reminder to check your spam inbox if you recently reached out to me for editing.
Gmail hates the link to my questionnaire.
Gmail hates the link to my questionnaire.
The predictability of Romance novels’ happily-ever-after isn’t a flaw—it’s a feature.
The comfort of knowing love wins is the ultimate dopamine hit. ❤️🔥
The comfort of knowing love wins is the ultimate dopamine hit. ❤️🔥
March 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The predictability of Romance novels’ happily-ever-after isn’t a flaw—it’s a feature.
The comfort of knowing love wins is the ultimate dopamine hit. ❤️🔥
The comfort of knowing love wins is the ultimate dopamine hit. ❤️🔥
Here’s the No. 1 rule I hold myself to when editing my authors’ manuscripts: Don’t be prescriptive with my feedback.
I’ll never mandate my authors to change anything.
Editors are not in creative control. Sometimes we’re teachers. But mostly we’re in partnership with our authors.
I’ll never mandate my authors to change anything.
Editors are not in creative control. Sometimes we’re teachers. But mostly we’re in partnership with our authors.
February 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here’s the No. 1 rule I hold myself to when editing my authors’ manuscripts: Don’t be prescriptive with my feedback.
I’ll never mandate my authors to change anything.
Editors are not in creative control. Sometimes we’re teachers. But mostly we’re in partnership with our authors.
I’ll never mandate my authors to change anything.
Editors are not in creative control. Sometimes we’re teachers. But mostly we’re in partnership with our authors.