In business and in life, you want to surround yourself with good people. For everything from line edits to large problems of structure and narrative, Darrend's your guy.

Christine Comaford-Lynch
NY Times bestselling author, Rules for Renegades
CEO, Mighty Ventures

Darrend Brown's critiques are thoughtful, insightful, and complete. He's made every piece of writing I've ever shown him better.

T. A. Pratt
Author of Blood Engines

Darrend is a hell of a critiquer: he has a hawk's eye for what's wrong with a manuscript and what might be done to fix it. He'd certainly spot the cliche in my previous sentence, and would probably give me very useful structural suggestions as well for how to write this blurb; in fact, this would be a better blurb if he'd helped me write it, which he didn't. I recommend him.

Tamim Ansary
Author of West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story

My second book was going to be controversial, and I needed my thinking to be rigorous. I made sure my pages passed The Darrend Test. If it didn't pass through Darrend's sharp scrutiny, it didn't belong in the book. He made me do it the hard way, but in the end his sharp eye honed my book into something professional and saved me from putting out some flawed writing. Now I have two years of royalty income. Make your book pass the Darrend Test.

Joe Quirk
Author of Sperm are from Men, Eggs are from Women: The Real Reason Men and Women are Different

Having written six books I've used editors who were falsely touted by other authors and ones who nobody knew. Some were incredibly expensive and others were dirt cheap. Darrend is neither falsely touted nor a novice; neither expensive nor cheap. To quote Goldilocks, "He's just right." If you're fortunate to be accepted as his client, you'll increase your chances of getting an agent. If you already have an agent, publishers will take notice of your manuscript.

Stan Goldberg
Author of Ready to Learn: How to Help your Pre-schooler Succeed

I appreciate that Darrend doesn't try to fit every story into the same mold. He understands different genres, what the writer's going for, and he helps them get there.

Michelle Gagnon
Author of The Tunnels

Darrend has always managed to suggest ways to make my stories better. He's terrific at getting to the heart of a story and figuring out what's wrong with it, and at showing you exactly where your weaknesses lie. I'd recommend him without reservation.

Lisa Goldstein
Author of The Alchemist's Door

Darrend is sharp on dialogue, understands the ebb and flow of emotion, and can also think big picture in terms of plotting.

Erika Mailman
Author of The Witch's Trinity

A strong critique is one that compels the author to see his or her own work with fresh perspective. Darrend Brown provides the insightful, outside set of eyes so many writers crave and need.

Kemble Scott
Best-selling author of SoMa

Darrend's critiques are generous, patient, and above all, useful. With Darrend, it's as though he's not only there listening, but somehow he was involved in the creation and editing phase, he was with you during your re-writes, and now his spot-on critique of your present is polished, thought out, and, well, worth listening to.

Bradley Charbonneau
Author of Urban Travel Guide San Francisco

You've heard of writer's writers--writers that authors read both for pleasure and instruction. Well, in Darrend Brown we have a critiquer's critiquer, one whose critiques are pleasurable, insightful, thorough, and sympathetic to the intent of the piece. This is a man who can make a good story great.

David Cleary
Author of many short stories

When Darrend looks at a piece of writing, he can see what you could only feel during the white-hot excitement, or despair, or frustration, or joy of creation. He can crystalize the necessary next steps you knew you'd have to take but were too close to see for yourself. I find myself nodding along with his critiques, thinking, "Uh huh, oh yeah--right. Oh, hey, that's true!" In other words, Darrend gets it.

Lori Ann White
Author of many short stories