Author • Developmental Editor & Mentor
Seven books.
Over half a million copies sold.
And (still!) infinitely curious about the magic of words and the mysteries of the natural world.
As Seen In
People • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Forbes • The New York Times • National Geographic travel
“A real-life Professor Sprout from Harry Potter.”
Forbes
Creative Editing
— to help writers become authors
Your book will thrive if you give it boundaries.
Like a garden, a book needs bursts of color and moments of calm, a carefree edge and a tinge of restraint.
Oftentimes structure is exactly the thing a writer resists or has trouble crafting on their own.
This is where I come in. I’ve kept my sanity planting and pruning while writing seven books, all for Big Five publishers. I know how to help you find and structure the patterns lurking in your manuscript so you can create a book people intuitively understand and are eager to read.
It’s really no different than putting a trellis behind an unruly rose.
Once it’s properly supported, your book will be able to bloom.
“Expansive & laser focused, there is no one I trust more with my pages."
— Steph Jagger, author of Everything Left to Remember and Unbound
Hi. I’m Maia.
When I was thirty-three, I sold my house, left my teaching job, and traipsed off to Ireland to apprentice with a traditional healer. It was a year of damp wool and nettle stings, scented with rose geranium, and fizzing with dandelion wine. I returned home with a head full of plant lore and the first inklings of what would become seven books, selling over half a million copies, in multiple languages.
My hair is grayer now. I’ve sold my apothecary shop and a rather dreamy home in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina to move to Edinburgh, Scotland. A spoof, a lark, a twist of fate… I still don’t know what wind blew me to Edinburgh. But I’m eager to see how this new adventure unfolds, and what books it might unearth.
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Think Dark Academia gone to seed…and root…and flower.
A yearlong experiment that begins at the Autumn Equinox, 2026.
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