George De Stefano – Editor

If you’ve searched the internet for an editor, you know there are countless numbers of us out there advertising our services. There’s no shortage of editing talent for a writer to choose from.

So why hire me?

I have 30+ years of editing (and writing) experience, having worked with experienced and well-known authors (rock musicians, historians, social scientists, literary critics, constitutional law experts, media critics, and other nonfiction writers) for major trade and academic publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Hachette, Palgrave Macmillan, The Nation Books, Monthly Review Press, and Perseus.

I also work with first-time authors who have great ideas and compelling stories but need a knowledgeable and supportive editor to turn their manuscripts into publishable books. I have a track record of success in my clients' manuscripts being sold to trade and academic publishers.

My services include copy editing (spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, usage), line editing (language and paragraph-by-paragraph organization of content, and rewriting), and substantive editing (structural work, including rewriting, on an existing manuscript or development of a new one).

I also provide manuscript evaluation services, as the first step in a substantive edit.

My subject matter expertise is broad, encompassing social science, the humanities, popular culture, social and political issues, health, and public health. I do not, however, edit politically conservative material. If your prospective book title is "How Woke-ism is Killing America," I'm not the editor for you. I also don't edit religious material.

I am not intimidated by technical material, and I am used to working with authors whose first language is not English.

During the editing process, I regularly check in with my authors to share edits and communicate about any issues that need attention.

Nonfiction Genres:

* Social/political issues

* Arts and popular culture

* History

* Sociology

* Memoir

*Biography

* LGBT

*Health and public health