Dana Keller – Editor

I’m a native English speaker with over 20 years’ experience in traditional and digital publishing across North America, the UK, and Europe. I enjoy working with a broad range of genres, but the bulk of my experience lies in dark and paranormal romance, literary fiction, fiction in translation, YA, film journalism, and academic essays in the humanities. LGBTQIA+ stories are especially important to me.

I see myself as the reader’s representative, so my edits focus on elements that improve the reader’s experience of your work—for example, vivid descriptions in fiction or smooth transitions in nonfiction. Clarity and consistency are key regardless of genre or format.

My approach to editing is collaborative, and I’m happy to adapt to meet the needs of each writer and project. I’m also happy to work with different style guides. I’m most familiar with Chicago, MLA, and Oxford, but I’ve also worked with AP, APA, CP, MHRA, and various house style guides.

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“We want to give a special shout-out to copy editor Dana, who is so good at her job that she made a couple of veteran authors fangirl over her attention to detail. We’re afraid she’s set a standard that’s going to be hard for other copy editors to match.”

“We would like to pay special thanks to Dana for her outstanding work on the text and determination to work through a range of … issues as they arose. She is surely one of the best editors around today.”