Ernest Russell - Editor

Name: Ernest Russell
Address: Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Telephone: +1 407-233-3331

Blank pages need no editing, tell your story and together we can build a world.

Overview

My services include providing a thorough and in-depth review of all elements in a manuscript. A good Content/Developmental edit can strengthen a story by examining everything from a single word choice, phrases, plot gaps, characterizations continuity and more.

Books in which I have been either the editor or part of an editing team include:
"Tales of The Interstellar Bartenders Guild" - Winner of the 2019 Best New Pulp Anthology at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention.

Black Pulp II, The Bronze Buckaroo, Johnny Rich, Lostborn, Dillon Odd Jobs and more.

Services

Developmental Editing

Copy Editing

Editorial Assessment

Languages

English (US)

Fiction

Action & Adventure

Anthologies

Fantasy

Horror

Mystery & Crime

Science Fiction

Short Story

Awards

Winner of the 2019 Best New Pulp Anthology at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention.
Winner of the 2020 Best New Pulp Novel at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention.

Work experience

Submission, Developmental and Copy Editor

Self-employed

January, 2017 – Present (about 4 years)

Portfolio (17 selected works)

Tales of the Interstellar Bartenders Guild

Aubrey Stephens, Morgan McKay, H. David Blalock, Dale Kesterson, Kimberly Richardson, R. L. Jones, Herika Raymer, J. H. Fleming, Tommy Hancock Robert J. Krog Bobby Nash, Terry Alexander Phillip Drayer Duncan

The Future. Humanity has spread through the galaxy, along with innumerable other races and creatures. In the thousands of solar systems that men have reached you’ll find monarchies, dictatorships, anarchies, utopia, dystopia, and utter chaos. But one slightly stumbling thread weaves through every world, every society– The Interstellar Bartenders Guild.As man took the leap out it seems that bar... read more

Black Pulp II

Gary Phillips, Kimberly Richardson, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael A. Gonzales, Adam Lance Garcia, Sean Taylor, A. K. Kuykendall, Milton J. Davis, Balogun Ojetade, Christopher Alan Chambers

BLACK PULP returns with BLACK PULP II, a new volume of stories featuring characters of African origin, or descent, at the forefront. Developed by noted crime novelist Gary Phillips, BLACK PULP II brings together familiar authors and characters from the first anthology while introducing new creators and concepts crafting exciting new fiction with heroes of a darker hue. Between these covers are... read more

Lostborn

Chris Jowers

LOSTBORN by Chris Jowers is the epic story of a warrior who must summon all his courage and fury to kill a horror his people refuse to believe in. When he was a younger man, Thulric Lostborn stood against a monster that hunted his people. He barely survived and lost those closest to him. In his older years he becomes the village blacksmith and his victory has faded from memory. A mist rolls ac... read more

Derrick Ferguson's Dillon: The Odd Jobs

Derrick Ferguson, Joel Jenkins, Mark Bousquet, Erik Fromme, Russ Anderson

A soldier of fortune gifted with an astonishing range of remarkable talents and skills that make him respected and feared in the secret world of mercenaries, spies, and adventurers. A world inhabited by amazing men and women of fabulous abilities that most of us are unaware even exists. Fueled by a taste for excitement, driven by an overpowering desire to protect the innocent, to see that wron... read more

All That Weird Jazz

Richardson, Kimberly, Allen, Sharae, Farnsworth, E. W., Barnard, Mark, Mana, Davide, Morgan, McCallum J., Monnin, M. A., Hopwood, James, Russell, Ernest