Danielle Urban can be found on Elance, where, in a profile littered with typos, she offers editing services for a minimum of $5 per hour:
https://www.elance.com/s/universalcreativity/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=googleplus&utm_campaign=free&SiteTarget=share_profile&utm_term=8246926&mpid=ref_gplus
Urban's own site is so clumsily written and oddly punctuated I can't imagine why anyone would trust her to edit their work. Here's an extract from Urban's 'new novel project'
Remember Paris, posted the day before yesterday:
Nothing but numbers everywhere. Dead bodies could be found every place you looked. Those that survived were either barley hanging on or buried under many who were dead. Bombs, machine guns, and terrorists were to blame. It’s no longer just fear foreigners but fear your neighbors and now family members. People were so easily turned to the other side. No one wanted to die. Yet so many were killed. Torture and rap were only used on those that were liked by the terrorists. And even then they killed you.
https://universalcreativityinc14.wordpress.com/
Danielle, it might be an idea to give the Paris authorities time to wash the blood off the streets and identify the victims before you post stuff like this.
From one of Urban's self-pubbed books (she claims to be working on eight novels):
Witnesses were all over. So luck for us, neither of us will be going to jail. But once the paramedics arrived and the police started to question us, Matt and I were covered in Angela's blood spatter. I was shaking. And on top of that it started to run...Matt was shaken with awestruck that Angela would just walk right into his mom's car.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01073WEPI/?tag=absowrit-20
The Universal Creativity magazine is
exactly what you'd expect - one of them refers to 'Best Selling Novels in Fiction', another to 'Querry Letters'. ON THE COVERS.
Urban provides a list of her editing credits. Needless to say, the ones I looked at don't inspire confidence in her abilities.
Other credits include:
Reviewed books for Harper Impulse
– Reviewed books for St. Martin’s Press
– Reviewed books for Entangled Press
In other words, she's reviewed books published
by these companies - something anyone could do.
Meagan Kreycik is our new editor for both Universal Creativity Inc. and Urban Literary Agency. Meagan has experience working as an editor for a traditional publishing house as well as freelance editing. She has a B.A. in English with an emphasis on literature and is a full-time children’s picture book author. She is currently seeking new clients, in all genres.
https://universalcreativityinc14.wordpress.com/
I found a LinkedIn profile for Meagan Kreycik, senior editor at Pulse LLC and based in Rennes, but it wouldn't load for me:
https://touch.www.linkedin.com/?ses...//www.linkedin.com/in/meagan-kreycik-43a87a8a
This appears to be Pulse LLC:
http://www.pulsepub.net/home.html
Urban also claims to be a senior editor at Pulse.
A Meagan Louise Kreycik based in France is on Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/meagan.kreycik
She recently published her first children's picture book under the name Meagan Kragovich. It has to be the same person, although nothing on Facebook indicates that she's currently working as an editor (and to be brutally frank neither do the tortured rhymes in her book).
From Urban Literary Agency's website:
A new homor piece will also be featured in Urban Lit Magazine.
September is the month where we think of and honor our grandparents. They are truly amazing people and need to be honoreed, remembered and cherished. September 13th is Grandparents’ Day. So, in honor we are hosting a free publishing contest for our writers to submit a short 500 – 1,000 word short story featuring grandparents. It can be a memior or fiction piece.
Fairy tales don’t exist but that doesn’t that two hearts can’t unite under the right circumstances.
https://urbanliteraryagency.wordpress.com/
The Dunning-Kruger effect strikes again! It's frightening to think that Urban, who is still a student, is
teaching creative writing.
The odd thing is that ULA's services don't include...well, acting as a literary agent:
Our goal: Is to help writer complete their goals to achieve their life’s dream of being published.
There's no mention of contacts in the publishing world or previous experience as an agent. And why is an editor working at a literary agency?
This young lady is heavily invested in the Published Author/Publisher/Agent Role-Playing Game:
Tomorrow, I will be releasing my 4th nonfiction book, called
If I Can Do It, So Can You. Anyone, who is interested in an advance copy for a review, can email me at:
[email protected].
This is the problem. Thanks to the internet and cheap self-pubbing,
anyone can claim to be an author, a publisher or an agent. But there's this thing called 'quality control' without which the reader would be overwhelmed by a sea of pure slush.
Tomorrow, I will be releasing my Hearts Collide novel collection onto Amazon as well. Again advance copies will be $0.99 and then the price will go up to $1.99. https://universalcreativityinc14.wordpress.com/
I can't wait to see how long these novels are. According to Amazon none of Urban's currently listed books are more than 25 pages long, including a collection of six short stories!