Brooke Goode – Editor

A career editor with more than 30 years’ experience, I bring both professional expertise and an international perspective to every manuscript I work on. I love working with my clients to help them get their work to the next level.

My background spans major publishing houses (Henry Holt, Rutgers University Press, Rowman & Littlefield/Globe Pequot/Lyons Press), consumer magazines (IPC Media in London, Johnston International Publishing in NYC), radio broadcasting (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) and many years as a freelance journalist and magazine editor. I've lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Africa, and the US--which means I understand firsthand how place and culture shape a story.

I have a particular passion for travel memoir and narrative nonfiction that takes readers somewhere--geographically, culturally, or both. If you've lived an unconventional life and are trying to get it on the page, I'd love to hear from you.

I work across the full editorial spectrum: developmental editing, editorial assessment, copy editing, proofreading. I can help you overhaul your manuscript if you've hit a rut, refine it at the paragraph, sentence, or word level, or tidy up the spelling, grammar, and punctuation as the final step before publication. Once your manuscript is agent ready, I can also help with the query letter, synopsis, and publishing strategy.

I take pride in being meticulous, easy to work with, and communicative. I'm not happy until my client is.

NB: I'm not interested in working on AI-generated manuscripts, but AI-assisted ones are fine.