Are you looking for professional developmental editing, line and copy editing, or proofreading for your fiction manuscript?
The Celtic Muse offers editing services for writers who take their novels seriously. We do not use generative AI technology in the editing process. Our editors work ethically with writers to improve the quality of their work. We support our writers in building confidence in their creative practice, as well as improving their writing techniques to take their novels to the next level.
The Celtic Muse
The Celtic Muse is a safe space for writers, artists, and musicians to create and connect. We promote ethical AI-free collaborations in the creative industries and are currently supporting creatives in the craft of writing by offering the following services:
- Multiverse Writing Courses, beginning with a deep dive into writing multiple point of view speculative fiction for intermediate writers
- Writing coaching for speculative fiction writers
- Manuscript assessment for speculative fiction writers
- Developmental and line editing services
- Copy Editing and Proofreading Services
- Pathways for authors from help with honing your writing style, to bringing your manuscript to a publishable standard, and publishing and marketing your finished masterpiece
Our goal is to expand this space in the future to embrace other genres and the broader arts, supporting the Greater Creative Community.
At the heart of The Celtic Muse we understand that creativity stems from the human desire to express our experience and emotion, based on themes and philosophical conflicts driven by imagination.
Writing Multiple POV Fiction Workshop
This eight-week workshop will guide you through the essentials of story structure, from the Single-POV novel through to methods of structuring a Multiple-POV novel in speculative fiction. You will explore how the writer becomes an architect of story by embracing the essential principles of how stories are crafted. This workshop will help you to craft novels that are both original in form to fit the theme and scope of your story, as well as grasp the time-aged principles of story structure. You will come out of this course with a completed Story Bible that will help you to navigate your revisions to produce a polished manuscript you can be proud of.
This value-packed workshop offers:
- An understanding of multiple point of view novels, including character development, story structure, plot, theme, world building, and setting
- A Story Bible for your Multiple-POV novel
- Directions for your manuscript
- Feedback and critique on 1000 words of your prose or story outline
- Critique skills to create and participate in a supportive writer’s community
- Connection with a like-minded online writers’ community on Discord, including write-ins and mentoring for managing bite-size online support groups after the course
If you are contemplating writing a Multiple-POV speculative fiction novel, are partway through your manuscript, or have finished a first draft and are feeling lost, come and join us to take your novel to the next level. Once you’ve finished the course you will be invited to join The Celtic Muse Community to support you through revisions.
About Us
Phoebe Wilby: Phoebe has a Bachelor of Journalism from QUT, awarded in 2002, and a Diploma of Copy Editing and Proofreading with Distinction, awarded in 2025. She won the 2002 Golden Key International Honor Society Award for Excellence in Fiction. Her published books include: ‘Point of View: It’s all relative, really’, published August 2015, ‘Time is of the Essence’, published October 2017, ‘Always One Step Ahead of the Storm: an 8-year-old’s Down Under Adventure’, published September 2020, and ‘Storms’, published September 2024. She spent some time as a freelance journalist writing for newspapers and magazines, including Redcliffe and Bayside Herald, Kids in Brisbane, and North Brisbane News. Phoebe has extensive knowledge and experience in formatting and desktop publishing for magazines, books, and promotional material.
Neasa Nic Dhómhnaill, pseudonym: Nyssa Baschel (https://nyssabaschelauthor.com): Neasa worked for 20 years as a psychologist and, more recently has a Master of Arts in Creative Practice in Creative Writing from the Atlantic Technologies University, Sligo, Ireland, awarded in 2022. She tutors emerging writers at The Writers’ Studio, Sydney, facilitates writing workshops, and is a fiction writing coach & editor at The Celtic Muse. She is currently writing an epic fantasy novel, FateBound, the first book in the Psytellexion Chronicles. And she is editing an urban fantasy novel for publication called, The Evening the Moon didn’t Rise. She has short speculative fiction stories published in anthologies in ‘Futurevision’, ‘The Evil Inside Us’ and ‘Like a Woman’, 2015, 2016, and her self-help book, ‘Don’t Tell Me To Get Over It: A woman’s guide to navigating emotional overwhelm,’ was published under the pseudonym, Vanessa Bushell. Her magazine feature articles on mythology and the Irish language were published in Tinteán, June & Dec 2018.