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Editor and food writer with over 10 years of experience creating cookbooks on a wide range of cooking subjects.
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment Query Letter Review
Genres: Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Writing & Publishing
Intuitive, expert editor with 30 yrs experience teaching fiction writing at a major university. Well-published, knowledgeable, honest, kind.
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment
Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Story, Middle Grade, Children's, Fantasy, Young Adult
I am passionate about the written word! I have nearly 20 years in editing in all genres, with special attention to business and travel.
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment Proofreading Query Letter Review Book Coaching
Genres: Romance, Fiction, Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Travel, Poetry, Mystery & Crime
Skilled nonfiction book editor and book coach in business, true crime, self-help. Get from idea to published. I love first-time authors.
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment Proofreading Book Coaching
Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Psychology, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, True Crime
I'm a detail-oriented editor, specializing in children's nonfiction, with 10 years of experience at publishing houses and literary agencies
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment Query Letter Review
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Picture Books, Children's, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Education & Reference
Bestselling nonfiction book editor. Formerly at Penguin Random House, Macmillan, and Callisto Media.
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment Query Letter Review
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, True Crime, Political Science & Current Affairs, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences, Math & Science, Sports & Outdoors
Former Senior Editor at Ballantine Books; specializes in content editing of non-fiction (self-help, memoir, parenting) and fiction.
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment Query Letter Review
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Parenting & Families, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Sex & Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Romance, Fiction, Women's Fiction
Experienced developmental book editor specializing in parenting books as well as children's PB, MG and YA fiction.
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Services: Editing Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's, Parenting & Families, Non-Fiction
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Finally finished the first draft of your book, and ready to enlist manuscript editing services? If you’re about to embark on your very first round of editing, look for a developmental editor — someone who will look beyond surface errors like typos and perform a “big picture” edit, offering suggestions for a coherent plot structure and intuitive flow. Put simply, they’ll assess your manuscript on a whole-book and chapter level.
Once you’ve worked with a developmental editor, it’s time to move on to a copy edit, or the section/paragraph level, where your editor will closely review tone and language style, offering feedback and advice on how you can best revise your own work. They’ll closely examine the text and point you toward helpful resources like a style guide that can help the quality of your writing remain consistent.
Finally, we advise all authors to work with a proofreader. The last round of manuscript editing before publication, proofreading serves as quality control that confirms the readability and presentation of your project, getting rid of any remaining spelling or grammar mistakes.
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