Editor for Weekly Newsletter

A founder in his late 60s is transferring the M&A advisory firm he spent three decades building, and he's writing a weekly first-person newsletter about it while it happens. He has guided hundreds of owners through this exact transition. Now it's his turn, and the drafts are raw, candid, and good. Your job is to make each issue sound more like him, not less. This is not proofreading. You'll get his draft plus 30 to 60 minutes with him on video each week, and you'll deliver the publish-ready issue: structure, cuts, subject lines, and the judgment calls. The letter has several audiences reading at once: clients mid-transition themselves, referral partners, and the team he's handing the firm to. Knowing what stays on the page and what stays private is half the job. He's a strong personality who specifically asked for an editor with spine, so pushing back is in the description, not a risk to manage. What you will not do is run his words through AI. If we wanted the machine's version we'd already have it. Applications that read AI-written get archived unread. (Yes, I see the irony in the fact that this JD is AI generated. We're not writers, which is why we're here.) This fits you if: You've ghostwritten or developmentally edited for founders or executives, and can show a before/after You can hold a voice: reader can't tell where he stops and you start Candid, emotionally direct material doesn't make you flinch Business or finance familiarity helps, but voice is the skill we're hiring Engagement: NDA, then a paid trial edit on a real draft. If it works, a weekly per-issue retainer. The series is planned to run for years, so this is one client, long horizon, meaty material. Logistics: Working session lands in US Central business hours. Everything else is async. To apply: Include the phrase "reading the water" in your first line so we know a human read this.