Christine Fadden Writing
Christine Fadden is a writer, ghostwriter, editor, and writing coach specializing in memoir, personal growth, spirituality, and organizational culture.
Sharing your story transforms you and impacts others. Let me help you conceptualize, organize, clarify, and write the story only you can tell.
What I do
As your creative partner, I will ghostwrite your book, edit your existing draft, or coach you as you move your story forward. Whether it’s memoir, creative non-fiction, or fiction, I sift through and identify the most pivotal and energetic elements of your story to help you organize and flesh them out. In the body of a book, I focus on voice, detail, cohesion, and clarity. I care about crafting an unputdownable opening, rendering geography palpable, developing nuanced characters, polishing sentences, and weaving the personal with the universal to illuminate other worlds and bring about a better-imagined one.
Who I Work With
What have you questioned, struggled with, braved, loved, and learned? Nature and spirituality; trauma, health, and wellness; the psychology of team building in the workplace or in sports—bring me your experiences, expertise, and commitment, and I’ll bring you mine. I work with educators, entrepreneurs, and executives; psychologists and medical professionals; anthropologists and activists; artists, screenwriters, and athletes; as well as home designers and the storytellers who live next door. Don’t fit neatly into any of these niches or titles? How intriguing—I’d love to learn more!
Who I Work With
“How will I know unless I go?
-Flannery O’Connor
Choose Your Starting Point
Ghostwriting Books
and Book Proposals
Developmental &
Line Editing of
Existing Manuscripts
Story and Creative Coaching
“Thank you, Christine, for being my copilot in bringing this book to life. I brought my story and you brought your talent, and together we’ve created a book that I hope will make a difference for whoever reads it. You are a writing goddess, and I feel immensely blessed to have found and worked with you.”
— Eileen Robertson Hamra
Memoir, Time To Fly: Life and Love after Loss”
What other clients are saying
“I cannot imagine how I could have written my book, forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press, without Christine's excellent guidance about the order of various conversations, stories, and sections. Christine has an excellent sense of how readers will respond to the narrative, and her expertise is especially valuable if one's goal is publication.”
Jill Derby
“Your feedback was so precise and to the point that it raised my writing to a whole new level.”
S. S., developmental editing client
“Yours is the voice I want in my head while I’m writing.”
C. B., developmental editing client
“I thought writing a book about a subject most people dread—visiting the dentist—would be more challenging than making it through dental school! Thanks to Christine’s diligence, intelligence, and wit, I came out with a book that not only helps people make wiser and safer decisions when choosing a dentist, but one that makes them laugh.”
Dr. M. DMD, ghostwriting client
“Christine Fadden can offer you sound advice about the content and structure of your manuscript. She has good instincts about where to cut what is unnecessary and can help you shape a forceful presentation that combines the impact of meaning with poetry and metaphor.”
Emmy Savage, Author of Walking the Stations in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (forthcoming)
“Thank you for being my editing Bodhisattva.”
S. S., developmental editing client
