The best developmental editors for hire near Houston

Becky

Houston, Texas, USA

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Award-winning editor who provides feedback and specific direction to help you develop the best possible novel. Sample edits w/every project!

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's, Middle Grade Fantasy, Chick Lit, Women's Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, and Romance.

Work experience:

• Team Marketing Report
• Simon & Schuster/ Page Street Publishing

Gene

Houston, United States

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Creative, experienced editor of novels, children's books, and poetry. Let's prepare your manuscript for publication together.

Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, LGBTQ Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Poetry, and Literary Fiction.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Uptown Stories
• Simon & Schuster
• Scholastic
• HarperEntertainment
• Daniel Weiss Associates/17th Street Productions
• Denver Quarterly
• San Jacinto College South

Miriam

Houston, TX, USA

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I have a passion for effective communication in science, health, and nonfiction. Editor in the Life Sciences (BELS), RN, published writer.

Genres: Health & Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, Life Sciences, Math & Science, Medicine, Nursing, & Dentistry, Children’s Non-Fiction, Nature, Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, and Inspirational.

Work experience:

• Baylor College of Medicine
• Lone Star College
• Self-employed

Laura

Houston, TX, USA

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The award-winning author of sixteen children's and young adult books, I enjoy working with writers to bring their manuscripts to life.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's, Picture Books, Christian Fiction, and Historical Fiction.

Work experience:

• Lerner Publishing, Enslow Publishing, Pelican Publishing
• Self-employed
• Lone Star College and Home Run Ministries

Joy

Houston, TX, USA

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Seasoned developmental editor in multiple genres who's also authored YA, picture books, and horror stories. Ready to make your book shine!!

Genres: Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Young Adult, Romantic Suspense, Romance, and Contemporary Romance.

Work experience:

• Harper Collins, Sourcebooks, Soho Press, Chronicle Books, Lerner/Kar Ben
• Lone Star College
• Writespace Houston
• JBP Editing
• Conroe ISD

Doris

Houston, TX, USA

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Picture Books R Me! Edit and write picture books of 1000 words or less & queries. Fiction, nonfiction, prose & poetry. Nationally published.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Self-employed

Ray

Northampton, United States

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Developmental editing and copy editing for the nonfiction world: health, nutrition, fitness, tech, and entrepreneurship.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Health & Wellbeing, Sports & Outdoors, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Business & Management, Computers & Internet, and Technology.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Winning Edits
• Rocket Code
• Amazon Services (Amazon.com)
• Smart Passive Income
• Buy Box Experts
• The Storied Future

Michael

Houston, TX, USA

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Versatile editor of award-winning fiction and nonfiction with 20+ years' industry experience.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Humanities & Social Sciences, Political Science & Current Affairs, Writing & Publishing, and Historical Fiction.

Stephanie

Bedford, United States

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Don't ever fall for the trap of thinking you can be rigorous and academic OR engaging and clear--you can absolutely be both. I'll help you.

Genres: Nature, Non-Fiction, Life Sciences, Math & Science, and Children’s Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Keep Learning
• National Center for Science Education
• BiteScis

Erin L.

Seattle, Washington, United States

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24+ awards in writing and editing • 30+ books edited • Specialties include nonfiction and poetry • Ph.D. student, lit and creative writing

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Story, Poetry, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, History, Nature, and Children’s Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Cavendish Square, Wiley, & other publishers
• Open Books: A Poem Emporium
• Killer Visual Strategies
• Various magazines
• The Kentucky Standard
• Sarabande Books
• Entre Ríos Books

Kate

Cleveland, OH, United States

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Versatile, collaborative nonfiction editor with a master's degree in creative writing and seven years' experience editing education books.

Genres: Education & Reference, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, and Parenting & Families.

Work experience:

• Solution Tree
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Solution Tree Press

Marah

Washington, DC, United States

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Incisive editor and collaborative, results-oriented project manager of health, food, and lifestyle books

Genres: Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, and Self-Help & Self-Improvement.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
• Scribner

Matthew

New York, United States

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Editor and writing coach specializing in literary fiction, thrillers, memoir and other narrative nonfiction, business books, and self-help.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Short Story, Mystery & Crime, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Science Fiction, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

• Graduate Writing Program, Columbia University
• Self-employed

Lindsay

New Jersey, United States

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I'm an enthusiastic freelance editor with experience across the industry--bookselling, marketing, publicity, agency, editorial, and writing.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Picture Books, Children's, Christian Fiction, Women's Fiction, Short Story, Middle Grade, Dystopian, and Science Fiction.

Work experience:

• Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency
• Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Margaret K. McElderry Books at Simon & Schuster's Children's Publishing Division
• Abrams Books for Young Readers/Amulet Books
• Candlewick Press
• Borders Books and Music
• Verily Magazine

Christopher

Gallatin, United States

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Accomplished editor specializing in general and Christian non-fiction. Editor of 60 published books. Here to help you tell your story!

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Christian Non-Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Political Science & Current Affairs, Philosophy, Education & Reference, Inspirational, and Writing & Publishing.

Work experience:

• B&H Academic
• Moody Publishers
• Lexham Press and Kirkdale Press
• Self-employed

Anne

Los Angeles, CA, United States

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I'm a former LGBTQ+ Editor in Chief with a film background and years of success nurturing star writers and beginners. Let's tell your story!

Genres: LGBTQ Fiction, Fiction, Plays & Screenplays, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, LGBTQ Non-Fiction, Humor & Comedy, Historical Fiction, Inspirational, and Entertainment.

Work experience:

• The Advocate
• Senior Arts & Entertainment Editor
• Well Again
• self
• Self-employed

Nevin

Portland, OR, United States

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My goal is to guide writers to their best work, to coach them in eloquence and clarity, to lead them to their best stories and storytelling.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Picture Books, Children's, Middle Grade, Fantasy, Children’s Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Scholastic
• Penguin Random House
• Government Technology magazine
• Self-employed
• Green Bean Books
• Portland State University