Editorial and marketing counsel

Find the truer sentence before you publish.

The Orthodox Snake offers a focused first conversation for authors with work in progress and mission-sensitive organizations whose words need to carry their work more clearly.

Two paid discovery calls

For authors

Editorial discovery — $10 / 30 minutes

For organizations

Copywriting and digital-marketing discovery — $10 / 30 minutes

The Orthodox Snake

Careful words for consequential work

A useful first meeting

A small conversation before a larger commitment.

Bring the actual question

A manuscript, proposal, homepage, campaign, or unsettled point of emphasis is enough to begin.

Leave with a next step

The aim is a clearer diagnosis and an honest sense of what further work would require.

What the calls are for

Make the work legible without making it smaller.

The first conversation is not a substitute for editing or strategy. It is a place to name the real problem, weigh the material at hand, and decide whether there is a fitting next step.

View the discovery calls
For authors

Editorial discovery for a work that is nearly saying what it means.

Use the call to look at structure, audience, argument, tone, or the point where a draft has begun to resist its own purpose.

For organizations

Clarify the invitation before asking more of the reader.

Examine a homepage, service offer, campaign, or digital path that is true to the work but unclear to the people it needs to reach.

The scope

Thirty minutes. Ten dollars. One question taken seriously.

Choose the call that fits your work, then book through the current catalog.

Current offerings

Choose the conversation that fits the work.

The catalog holds the current call details and booking path. Select the offer that names your question most closely.

Begin with the work at hand

Start with the question that has been slowing the work down.

Whether the question belongs to a manuscript or a mission-sensitive organization, a discovery call gives it a careful first hearing—and makes the next decision more concrete.