Eva Maria Dietrich Carreño

Eva Maria Dietrich Carreño – Editor

Developmental editor specialising in children's and YA books. I've worked with British, American, Spanish and German authors. IAPWE member.

Overview

I am the author of The Great Rainbow Hug (Le gros câlin arc-en-ciel, from Samir Editeur, 2011), recognised by La Revue Des Livres Pour Enfants in 2011 as their annual selection. I have recently published Mesopo, a middle grade fantasy novel.

I hold Masters’ Degrees in Children's Literature from the University of Surrey, London and Creative Writing from the Metropolitan University of Manchester, UK, and am the founder and director of a Literary Agency.

I have spent the last 20 years working with publishers, specialising in children's literature, providing consulting services in literary scouting, book reviewing and supporting authors and editors in their day-to-day activities.


I offer the following editorial services:

For Aspiring and Established Authors

Developmental editing: manuscript evaluation, recognising and fixing problems of structure, plot, characterisation, narrative flow, general editorial suggestions.

Line by line manuscript editing: same as above but focus on problems with each sentence or paragraph, detailed editorial suggestions.

Literary Reviews Services: in depth critique & reviews of already published books or manuscripts.


Languages in which this service is offered: English, German, Spanish, French & Italian.


I am a certified member of the International Association for Professional Writers and Editors (IAPWE).


Services
Fiction
Contemporary Romance Dystopian Magical Realism Middle Grade Psychological Thriller Romantic Comedy Social & Family Issues
Languages
English (UK)
Awards
  • La Revue Des Livres Pour Enfants in 2011 annual selection
Certifications
  • MA Creative Writing
  • MA Children's Literature
  • BA Business Studies
  • Member of the SCBWI (Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators)

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2001 — Present

I have worked for three decades in business, banking and publishing. I have spent the last 20 years working with publishers, specializing in children's literature, providing consulting services in literary scouting, book reviewing and supporting authors and editors in their day-to-day activities.

I lead a Literary Agency in providing specialised editorial services. The company offers a comprehensive and integrated publishing service for authors, publishers and works on specific publishing-related projects with international partners.

My working languages are English, German, Spanish, French and Italian.

Eva Maria has 44 reviews

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Reza A.

Reza A.

Aug, 2023

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Working with Eva was an amazing experience for me. Not only Eve is a true expert, but she cares about the work. It was very important to me that she read the work very precisely, tried to connect to it, and then sent her professional opinions. This was not very simple considering I am not a native English writer, and my text is not as smooth and easy as those written by natives. She valued me ...
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Benjamin B.

Benjamin B.

Apr, 2021

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Eva. Is. Amazing. She has an impeccable sense of pacing, character development, and overall manuscript structure. Hiring her to look over my story was easily the best thing I've ever done for it.
Carlos H.

Carlos H.

Nov, 2020

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I was fortunate enough to come a cross to Eva Maria, her vast knowledge in editing, helped me to have a better manuscript, and when I say better, it means the original one was full of errors, passive voice and too much telling without showing. It was hard for me to get to that basic rule of to tell and show, between my self-pride and stubbornness Eva Maria gave me great support, she is a gre...
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Olugbenga A.

Olugbenga A.

Oct, 2024

I am glad I didn't look elsewhere. Working with Eva has been a lovely experience. When you plant a bamboo tree, you wouldn't see anything for four years, then within a year, the tree breaks out and grows up to ninety feet. I believe that's how my experience with Eva was (an in-depth understanding of what my book needed). She is an excellent teacher, mentor and a good EDITOR. She communicates cl...
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Jennifer K.

Jennifer K.

Oct, 2024

Be cautious - we agreed to developmental and copy editing. Her initial review was very superficial copy editing, with no feedback from a developmental standpoint. I asked twice to provide developmental feedback, before going into the specifics of a comma here or exclamation there. After the second ask, she stated this was her developmental editing feedback, so I had to reach out to Reedsy Su...
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Eva Maria D.
I would not recommend working with this client. Be careful, she contacted the Reedsy admin team directly to request a refund before the work was actually completed and well before the agreed deadli...
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