Helen Armalas

Helen Armalas – Editor

efficient, thoughtful, diligent, and agile editor | literary fiction, memoir and biography, current affairs and history titles

Overview

A lifelong reader, I started my editing career in 2023 after working as an accountant and then executive assistant for over ten years. Disenchanted with the business world and the strictures of the nine-to-five routine, I quit my job and enrolled in the Editing certificate program at the University of Chicago. Since then I have worked with university presses editing scholarly journals, traditional and indie publishers editing book manuscripts, museums editing exhibition text, and select other clients editing anything and everything thrown at me.

While I copyedit, line edit, and proofread all different types of work, from middle school novels to self-help books, my expertise and passion resides in literary fiction, women's fiction, horror, current affairs and cultural criticism, biography and memoir, history, and art titles (I also have a background and degree in art history). Please refer to my portfolio for a selection of my editing work.

I would love to hear from you if you need help with any one of these genres!

Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences History Political Science & Current Affairs
Fiction
Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
Languages
English (US)
Certifications
  • Editing certificate, the University of Chicago

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2023 — Present
—Provides copyediting, line editing, and proofreading services to traditional publishers, university presses, independent authors, and museums as well as select business clients. —Clients include the Feminist Press, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Seven Stories Press, Simon & Schuster, Verso, and Yale University Press.

Portfolio

The Savage Mind: An American Legacy

Treuer, David

Little, Brown and Company

Copy Editing
Copy Editing
Dear Dealer: A Memoir

Bowers, Nadia

Gallery Books

Proofreading
Proofreading
Copy Editing
Driven

Wolff, Susie

Henry Holt and Co.

Proofreading
The Definitions: A Novel

Greene, Matt

Henry Holt and Co.

Proofreading
Under Water: A Novel

Menon, Tara

Riverhead Books

Proofreading
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye: A Novel

Bennett, Claire-Louise

Riverhead Books

Proofreading
Proofreading
I'll Follow You: A Novel

Wang, Charlene

Mindy's Book Studio

Copy Editing
Eye of the Monkey: A Novel

Tóth, Krisztina

Seven Stories Press

Copy Editing
Copy Editing
Little F

Tea, Michelle

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Copy Editing
Proofreading
Heavy Cream: A Novel

Blakley-Cartwright, Sarah

Simon & Schuster

Proofreading
Copy Editing
What Architecture Is

Rybczynski, Witold

Yale University Press

Proofreading
Copy Editing
Copy Editing
A Right to Housing?

Stein, Samuel

Verso

Proofreading
Copy Editing
Copy Editing
Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth

Cox, Stan

Seven Stories Press

Copy Editing
Copy Editing
A Line You Have Traced

Dunnett, Roisin

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Copy Editing
Daddy Was a Number Runner (55th Anniversary Edition)

Meriwether, Louise

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Proofreading
Return to Fukushima

Bass, Thomas A.

OR Books

Copy Editing
Proofreading
Copy Editing
The One Day You Were My Husband: A Novel

Walsh, Rosie

Pamela Dorman Books

Proofreading
Copy Editing Proofreading

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