Overview
Friendly, diligent copy editor and proofreader serving individual authors, major fiction houses, award-winning children's publishers, and academic publishers.
I work with new and experienced authors to polish their book manuscripts, ensuring proper grammar and spelling, concise wording, and consistency in character and plot. I retain the author's voice and style while providing careful editing and proofing. I offer a safe, positive partnership for this editorial stage.
My experience comes from expert work for top children’s publishers and fiction houses. I partner on LGBTQIA+, romance, mystery, paranormal, historical, teen, sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary trade novels as well as teen and YA fiction. I also provide high-level editing for academic work in fields such as psychology, communication, cognition, education, and technology.
SAMPLE CLIENTS
Disney/Hyperion, Candlewick Press, Harlequin, Kensington Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lake Union, HarperCollins, Oxford University Press, Barnes & Noble, APA Books
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
* Proofreader for Candlewick: Timmy Failure book series (Stephan Pastis); Stonewall Book Award winner Fat Angie (e.E. Charlton-Trujillo); National Book Award author M.T. Anderson (Landscape with Invisible Hand; The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge).
* Proofreader for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2016 Coretta Scott King New Author Award winner Ronald L. Smith’s novel The Mesmerist; National Book Award author Han Nolan’s novel Pregnant Pause.
* Edited and proofread work by best-selling authors such as David Sedaris, Fern Michaels, Janet Dailey, Lisa Jackson, and Cathy Lamb.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Great Minds
Lead Editor
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Journal Production Supervisor
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- American Copy Editors Society member
- EFA member
Work experience
Self-employed
Great Minds
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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