“After Ellen’s sensitive read of my memoir, I was able to quickly tighten up the flabby places and rework the book’s opening. Ellen sniffed out the book’s ‘heart’ and showed me how to point the reader toward it from page one. Her help with the project – both in early planning conversations and in her read of the final draft -was invaluable.”Lee Strickland, author of the memoir, Girl, Ruined