WHAT WE DO

I am hands-on, working closely with you during the entire process. We go through your pages together as a team, with frequent email and voice communications. I work for you and with you, and your choices always govern. I’ve helped over 30 writers achieve their editing, polishing, and publishing goals since 2012, and edited over 5,000 works of poetry and prose in workshops. I’ve written and published 7 books of my own ranging from memoir to spirituality, to small business, and poetry. Over 275 of my topical articles on current issues are published online at https://bahaiteachings.org/author/rodney-richards/

You will receive quality independent critique and suggestions, complex editing and formatting of text and images, and I can publish your books and ebooks with ISBNs or copyright registration if wanted. Your needs and voice always come first. You are the final determiner of every word and every comma on your pages, and of what, how, and when you publish. You are in control of all steps of the process. Full rights always remain with you.

Our Mission

ABLiA Media helps writers achieve their goals. We work timely, cooperatively, and honestly toward those ends. Your approval and success are our success.

I help writers as both coach and editor, reviewing and improving manuscripts with line, copy, and developmental edits.

  • Grammar, syntax, punctuation, vocabulary, word choice, and spelling will be enhanced, as well as:

Storyline/Plot Point of View Character Development Tone, Voice & Dialogue Style

Pace & Setting Readability Structure Focus Tense Target Audience

  • All formatting and graphics or photos are optimized for the greatest visual and emotional effect for trade or whatever size book wanted.

  • ABliA Media is also a publisher. Your manuscript will be beautifully and quickly self-published on Amazon or elsewhere, in paperback, hardback, or ebook, or under our aegis.

“[I thank] Rodney Richards... for his excellent editorial work, patience, prompt responses and for always considering first and foremost the writer and her work. ”
— Kathleen Flanagan, author, I'll Take You Home Again

SOME ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Rodney has turned nonfiction and fiction manuscripts into marketplace realities for authors since 2012. More than twenty published acknowledgments and dedications praise Rodney for his editing and publishing expertise.

  • BahaiTeachings.org has published over 275 essays by Rodney; 100 each appeared in Solving the World’s Titanic Struggles Vol 1, and Vol 2 published in 2018 and 2022.

  • Rod has volunteered in his community as a court-trained mediator for 24 years, a Hamilton Twp. Environmental Advisory Board commissioner, and a publicist for Friends of the Library.

  • Rod has critiqued and advised on over 3,000 written prose and poetry pieces at weekly in-person or Zoom public workshops.

From 2017 through 2019, Rod was Advisory Board member for the Annual Rutgers University Writers Conferences attended by hundreds of writers and poets.