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Testimonials
"Maia and I collaborated on my award-winning memoir, Crossing the Line. With her guidance and brilliant writing, she helped me deliver a powerful book that has touched so many lives. Her ability to digest years of information and put it into story form impressed me. She did an incredible job at helping me articulate sensitive topics that I was hesitant to share. Furthermore, she treated my family's story as if it was her own, with respect. I have and will continue to recommend Maia. She is a true professional."
"Maia and I collaborated on my award-winning memoir, Crossing the Line. With her guidance and brilliant writing, she helped me deliver a powerful book that has touched so many lives. Her ability to digest years of information and put it into story form impressed me. She did an incredible job at helping me articulate sensitive topics that I was hesitant to share. Furthermore, she treated my family's story as if it was her own, with respect. I have and will continue to recommend Maia. She is a true professional."
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Kareem Rosser
Author of Crossing the Line
"Maia is an exceptional editor, and I don't know where I'd be without her. Of course she is a master of craft and structure, but also incredibly supportive, honest, and always kind. She has a wonderful way of helping me steer my way out of tight corners and away from the road blocks I've set up for myself. I can't imagine writing a book without her counsel."
"Maia is an exceptional editor, and I don't know where I'd be without her. Of course she is a master of craft and structure, but also incredibly supportive, honest, and always kind. She has a wonderful way of helping me steer my way out of tight corners and away from the road blocks I've set up for myself. I can't imagine writing a book without her counsel."
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Alysa Wishingrad
Author of The Verdigris Pawn
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Between Monsters and Marvels
"The way that Maia formulated narratives that were loosely based on my life in The Second Course for Simon and Schuster helped me recognize my shortcomings in the past. I am still learning from her lessons every day. And I still look to her for guidance. Love you Maia!"
"The way that Maia formulated narratives that were loosely based on my life in The Second Course for Simon and Schuster helped me recognize my shortcomings in the past. I am still learning from her lessons every day. And I still look to her for guidance. Love you Maia!"
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Kelly Killoren Bensimon
Author of The Second Course
"Maia is a BRILLIANT editor. Her clarity, precision, and passion were absolutely invaluable to me. Whenever things felt hard, her support and beautiful sense of humor carried me through to the other side. From her big-picture perspective to those finer line edits, Maia's skills can't be beat. Hire her now!"
"Maia is a BRILLIANT editor. Her clarity, precision, and passion were absolutely invaluable to me. Whenever things felt hard, her support and beautiful sense of humor carried me through to the other side. From her big-picture perspective to those finer line edits, Maia's skills can't be beat. Hire her now!"
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Claudia Zuluaga
Author of Fort Starlight
"I can honestly say collaborating with Maia has been a career highlight. She is simply brilliant, with an astonishing sense of grounding both human drama and wry comedic tone. Maia elevates absolutely everything she touches, and is warm and unfailingly honest and encouraging at every step in the process. There is no writer or human being I could recommend more highly."
"I can honestly say collaborating with Maia has been a career highlight. She is simply brilliant, with an astonishing sense of grounding both human drama and wry comedic tone. Maia elevates absolutely everything she touches, and is warm and unfailingly honest and encouraging at every step in the process. There is no writer or human being I could recommend more highly."
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Yana Gorskaya
Executive Producer and Director, What We Do in the Shadows
"From romance to literary fiction to award winning memoirs, I am constantly impressed by the wide range of Maia's skillset both as a writer and as an editor. There isn't a genre in fiction or nonfiction she can't tackle. When she writes as a ghost, she completely disappears into the voices of her clients, and when she edits (as she often does for me), she knows exactly how to best enhance the writing that is already on the page. Her ease, sensitivity, and obvious enjoyment of every kind of writerly collaboration makes her a true pleasure to work with. "
"From romance to literary fiction to award winning memoirs, I am constantly impressed by the wide range of Maia's skillset both as a writer and as an editor. There isn't a genre in fiction or nonfiction she can't tackle. When she writes as a ghost, she completely disappears into the voices of her clients, and when she edits (as she often does for me), she knows exactly how to best enhance the writing that is already on the page. Her ease, sensitivity, and obvious enjoyment of every kind of writerly collaboration makes her a true pleasure to work with. "