Jaime Taber – Editor

Hello! I'm Jaime. Pleased to meet you! If you need meticulous line editing for a manuscript in the social sciences and humanities or a memoir, I invite you to check out my profile. For more than 20 years, I've helped historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, ethnographers, and other writers get their work published. Collections, monographs, and articles numbering in the hundreds have made it into print after an author or publisher requested my services. Their authors hail from five continents, and around 75% of them are not native speakers of English.

Of course, you want your work to be free of typos, grammatical errors, and misspellings. That's the easy part. As a line editor I go much deeper, scrutinizing every sentence. Redundancy, ambiguity, and awkwardness are banished. Where the original is hard to understand, I suggest options for exact language in an interactive process of querying in MS Word’s Track Changes. Just as importantly, your discourse will flow smoothly, with well-formed sentences segueing cleanly from one idea to the next. I’m proficient in Chicago and APA styles and accustomed to applying other styles as needed. My services are oriented to one overarching goal: getting your work published!

But don't just take my word for it! Below you'll find some comments that authors have seen fit to include in their published acknowledgments.

“My language editor, Jaime Taber, was ready to embark on the herculean project of editing this book in less than three months. She did a heroic job.”
—Cindy Wittke, Law in the Twilight: International Courts and Tribunals, the Security Council and the Internationalisation of Peace Agreements between State and Non-State Parties (2018)

“Jaime Taber [has] been exceptionally helpful in preparing the manuscript for publication.”
—Stephen Reyna, Deadly Contradictions: The New American Empire and Global Warring (2016)

“I would also like to thank . . . Jaime Taber for expert copy-editing of the final manuscript.”
—Carl A. Maida (co-editor with Sam Beck), Public Anthropology in a Borderless World (2015)

“I would also like to thank the copyeditor, Jaime Taber, for her excellent work.”
—Christian Wicke, Helmut Kohl’s Quest for Normality: His Representation of the German Nation and Himself (2015)

“Thanks also to Jaime Taber for copyediting the book with expert care.”
—Alberto Corsin Jiménez, An Anthropological Trompe L’Oeil for a Common World: An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge (2013)

“I would also like to acknowledge the crucial help from the copyeditor, Jaime Taber.
—Adam Yuet Chau, “Actants Amassing” (2013)

“Jaime Taber carried out the essential service of putting my style and syntax into order, a monumental task. Thank you, Jaime.”
—Stephen Barlau (translator), in Rudolf van Thadden✝, Trieglaff: Balancing Church and Politics in a Pomeranian World, 1807–1948 (2013)

“Finally, we would like to thank . . . our masterly copy editor Jaime Taber, who read the whole manuscript and suggested many helpful improvements.”
—Maarja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen, Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition (2013)

“Jaime Taber proved to be an excellent copy editor.”
—Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried (editors), Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy (2010)

“I have received valuable guidance and encouragement during the final preparation of the manuscript . . . not least from my copy editor Jaime Taber.”
—Arne Kalland, Unveiling the Whale: Discourses on Whales and Whaling (2009)

“Jaime Taber has been a very meticulous editor and always quick in responding to my questions.”
—Dirk Schumann, Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War (English edition, 2009)

“The Berghahn copy editor Jaime Taber meticulously worked through the manuscript, and her invaluable professionalism made our own editing far easier than it would have been otherwise.”
—Heidi Armbruster and Anna Lærke, Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology (2008)

“We are also grateful . . . to Jaime Taber, the copyeditor, for . . . dedication and professionalism in producing the book.”
—Q. Edward Wang and Franz L. Fillafer, The Many Faces of Clio: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Historiography; Essays in Honor of Georg G. Iggers (2007)

“My sincere thanks go to . . . Jaime Taber for her meticulous work as copy editor.”
—Alexander Stephan, The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945 (2006)

“The people at Berghahn Books have been wonderful to work with, including . . . Jaime Taber, a truly amazing copy editor who has made me sound better than I deserve.”
—Lawrence Ziegler-Otero, Resistance in an Amazonian Community: Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy (2004)