ABOUT
About Dr. Boaz Goss
Dr. Boaz Goss is a certified book editor and published scholar who helps first-time nonfiction authors and academic writers bring manuscripts to publication. He works on nonfiction books, business copy, and scholarly articles, and he reads every manuscript as a whole before he changes a sentence.
EDITING CERTIFICATIONS
Formal training for the full editorial pass.
Certified Professional Book Editor
Competencies in all editing phases: developmental editing, line-by-line editing, and proofreading. Paper Raven Books and the Professional Book Editors Association.
Lifetime Founding Member
Professional Book Editors Association.
Certified Copywriter (Business-to-Consumer and Business-to-Business)
American Writers & Artists Institute (AWAI).
EDITING TRACK RECORD
5
published books edited.
2
doctoral dissertations coached to completion.
RESULTS
Work completed to a defined standard.
Five published books edited.
Two doctoral dissertations coached to completion.
Over $100,000 in grant funding won.
A 76,000-word memoir taken through a complete developmental pass in one week, with roughly 4,500 tracked changes.
800 pages of raw material organized and polished into a publishable manuscript.
IN THEIR WORDS
What authors say
“I couldn't have finished my memoir without him as my editor-on-retainer.”
— Captain John, memoir author
“Boaz did an awesome job! I had 800 pages of rough drafts and notes amassed over the years. Boaz organized them, took the best parts, and we polished them until I had a publishable proof.”
— Bart S., nonfiction author
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Scholarship, teaching, and editorial service.
Joint PhD in Bioethics and Theology
Saint Louis University, defended 2023. Dissertation: “Free Will and Neuroscience: A Thomistic Corrective to Neurodeterminism.”
Peer-reviewed publications
Seven peer-reviewed articles in journals published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Elsevier.
Public writing
Thirty-three public essays on theology, philosophy, psychology, and culture, cross-posted on The Orthodox Snake, Substack, and Medium.
Editorial roles
Guest Editor, Christian Bioethics Vol. 23 Issue 1; Assistant Editor, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 41 Issue 6.
Teaching
University teaching in philosophy, theology, and bioethics; high school science teacher, 2023–2025.
Undergraduate study
BA cum laude in Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University.
Honours
Voted one of the top ten teachers in Tarrant County, 2024.
SPECIALISMS
A focused editorial practice.
He specializes in Christian, theological, philosophical, and memoir nonfiction. He also accepts fiction selectively and offers ghostwriting.
He works in Microsoft Word with Track Changes and also supports Google Drive and Apple Pages. All project files are kept in a shared cloud Dropbox paid for by him, so authors pay nothing for storage or software.
He delivers end-to-end self-publishing support, so authors do not need a hybrid publisher.
WORK WITH ME
A useful place to begin.
If you are considering a book, article, or business writing project, start with a clear description of the work. The Orthodox Snake Writing Agency carries my published essays and offers another place to read before we begin.