Wordsmithing Services
Pile of crumpled letter drafts up to your chin? Perfect for the job, but baffled when it comes to resumes? Would you rather poke your eyeballs out than write that website copy?
RELAX. WE’VE GOT THIS.
Whatever it is, there’s a way to write it—together.
Consult. Create. Refine.
As a published author and editor with over 17 years of business writing experience, Kristi is adept at creating, reviewing, and re-drafting the written word. She excels at understanding your communications goals and working with you to achieve them.
Business Solutions
What does your business need to say?
Tell Your Story
Communications Packages
Creation and development of written and electronic correspondence, advertising copy, informational \ user resources, brochures, templates, applications, processes documentation, procedural handbooks or manuals
Conflict Resolution
Create professionally worded, standardized correspondence for use with stakeholders in appeals, complaints, or other decisional processes.
Editing and Consulting
Revamp your business correspondence to bring it in line with changing priorities or new goals and practices. Simplify, improve, or clarify your messaging to stakeholders.
Web Site, Social Media, Press Releases, and Blog Writing
Is there something immediate you want to say? Are you looking for a short ‘wordbite’ to promote one or more of your services?
writing with you… not for you
Kristi is an experienced and talented business writer and editor. Her strategic, organized, and clear style ensures the understanding of a diverse audience. Her writing expertise spans a multitude of documents from client correspondence to business procedures, plans and reports. Her skill as an editor is unique. She takes complex ideas and communicates them in an understandable, efficient manner. Speaking as her former manager, it was a privilege having worked with Kristi. She made challenging writing assignments enjoyable.
- Lonnie McInnis, Former Manager of the Home and Vehicle Modification Program, March of Dimes Canada
Kristi's wordsmithing skills are truly exceptional. She not only helps edit and create a document that is grammatically correct, reads well and communicates expertly, but she uses words to great effect and arranges them with flair. Thank you Kristi for your artistry of words.
- Wanda Davis, Personal Growth Alchemist, Speaker, Author
As a women’s life coach I’m always working on copy and how to really resonate with my ideal client and sometimes I just get stuck. I retained Kristi for her copywriting services to assist me in creating marketing copy for a workshop I was creating. I had a draft and she brought the words to life. The results were astounding. Working with Kristi was an easy, playful and joyful experience. Kristi really took the time to understand what I wanted to achieve with my messaging and helped the words dance on the page. She was very open to collaboration and digging in with me when some thing just didn't feel quite right. Ultimately the end product brought results way beyond what I could've expected. I can’t recommend her enough to any one needing to spice up their copy. It was an amazing experience.
- Misty Lucas, Life Coach and Restorative Yoga Educator
It was such a pleasure working with Kristi! She has a real gift with words and made the process so easy. She took our dry press release content and brought it to life using language that will resonate with our audience. If you are looking for someone to create content or wordsmith existing content, we highly recommend Kristi!
Heather and Jenny, Co-Founders, Soul Full Camp
Personal Solutions
Dream into action.
Making it happen
Fiction and non-fiction editing services – short stories, novels, essays, resumes and CVs, cover letters, correspondence. Compose or refine your work with input from a seasoned editor.
Consultation and completion of application forms for charitable organizations, grants, institutions.
words from the wordsmiths…
Kristi brings a breadth of insight and experience to the feedback process that, without doubt, made all of my books better, all delivered with respect for my intentions, and with a strong desire for the book’s success.
— Kurt R.A. Giambastiani, Author of The Fallen Cloud Saga, Unraveling Time, Dreams of the Desert Wind, Ploughman’s Son, and Ploughman King
Kristi Corlett is a fantastic author and editor. Few satire authors are capable of keeping a reader laughing throughout the book, but Ever your Servant goes above and beyond in that accomplishment. As an editor, she has the unique ability of being able to sense what the author is attempting to portray, rather than editing in the realm of how she would write the story. She’s honest and straightforward, which makes a more powerful end result. I would have never been able to achieve my goals without her help, and as a result, I have grown tremendously as an author.
— Kim Murphy, Author of Promise and Honor civil war historical fiction series, The Dreaming / Circle in Time, and I Had Rather Die: Rape in the Civil War (non-fiction)
Kristi is not only an excellent writer, but a highly intuitive editor who brings a unique spiritual sensibility to her work. She has edited several of my novels, and her input was both technically proficient and emotionally attuned to the content. Her careful balance of these skills helped me retain the work's original tone and ideas while improving its structure, flow, and pacing. Highly recommended!
— Laura Mazzuca Toops, Author of The Latham Loop and Hudson Lake
Start taking charge of your communications today—and leave those eyeballs in your head.
Freelance Wordsmithing Rates
basic hourly rate
$80 per hour
marketing emails, newsletters
$150-$300 flat rate per email
website copy
$80 per hour
social media posts
(5-150 words)
$15-$300 per post
e-books
$2,000-$6,000
per word rate blended with need for research, sources, media, interviews, estimated number of hours
blog posts
$200-$500
full length book project, ghost-written or co-written
minimum $10,000
Time, complexity, and research may increase cost.
Interested in a look at Kristi’s writing?
As K.A. Corlett, Kristi is a novelist, poet, and wordsmith of many stripes. You can pick up a copy of Ever Your Servant, her dark urban satire, on Amazon.
an excerpt from Ever Your Servant
by K.A. Corlett
Joelle sailed out of the Ladies' Cloakroom, eyes fixed on her watch. Just in time to get the nine-forty—
"Damn!"
Max Lambert had a very hard chest; she'd managed to run straight into it. His shirt was pleasantly rough and smelled faintly of patchouli, but that didn't stop her from trying to disengage herself. She wasn't having much luck—he'd grabbed her arms to keep her from falling. Even through her jacket she could feel the cool bands of his fingers.
"Tsk, tsk. Where is your mind, Mademoiselle? Certainly not on your feet."
She tilted her head so she could look him in the eye. "I've got a bus to catch."
"Ah. So you are living in the future."
"The future's going to pull away from the curb in a minute if you don't let go." Joelle put her hands on his chest and pushed. She might as well have tried to move a steel girder.
His lips curled at one corner, and he released her. "Are you intact, ma chère?"
"Just peachy, thanks. I'll be even better when you get the hell out of my way." She studied him for a moment and wondered whether his use of possessive pronouns was just a French thing, or a personal thing.
"Fort bien," said Max, stepping aside, "if you are so set on taking your bus. But I would gladly play the chauffeur."
"Sorry. My mommy told me never to accept rides with strangers, and you definitely classify." Joelle glanced at her watch again. Nine forty-five. Bloody hell--she'd have to wait another half-hour now.
"You are mistaken.”
"Pardon?"
"Your bus driver. While you have thrown me over, he still awaits your pleasure."
She glared at him. "You are sooooooo full of shit."
"Hardly. See for yourself." He folded his hands behind his back as she slipped past. "Adieu, Mam'zelle."
Joelle exited the sliding employee doors and rounded the end of the department store at a deliberately slow walk. Crazy sonofa—her eyebrows shot up. Damned if there wasn't a bus waiting like he'd said.
She sprang up the steps and flashed her pass. The driver, same guy as every night, grinned at her out of his sallow, Marlboro Man face. Usually he grunted non-committally at her hello and hit the gas before she even managed to grab a seat. Tonight she actually found a place near the back before the old vehicle heaved away from the curb. Feeling a bit like Lot's Wife, she threw a glance over her shoulder. Max Lambert stood at the stop, following her with his gaze. He whistled something she couldn't make out over the racket of the bus engine. Joelle turned around quickly. Hair rose on the back of her neck. It was that song again—she'd bet the Eiffel Tower, and toss in the Champs Elysées to boot.
the breeze
by K.A. Corlett
the Breeze stirs the dust
of my vanities and fears
and the Light, like a flame
ignites it