Jamie Johns - Editor

Specializing in Developmental Editing and Editorial Assessments, I also possess a sensitivity to language and its usage that makes me adept at Line/Copyedits in a variety of genres and styles to ensure that language is strong and meaningful for a reader. Whether you're writing a 30-page comic, a memoir, or a fantasy trilogy, let me help you make your writing—and even more importantly, your STORY—the very best it can be!

Creators who work with me frequently note my creative power and eagerness to explore even the most minute details which, when combined, produce a unique attention to detail that elevates storytelling to the next level and ensures that your message reaches your readers. With an innate sense of the nuances of linguistics and language, a lifetime of reading and a passion for storytelling as an art form makes me the type of editor who understands works far beyond their surface details: someone capable of pulling out themes and ideas within a story that even you, the story's creator, may not have been fully aware of! Working with me, you will have a mentor, teammate, and cheerleader invested in your story's success.

As a Production Editor for Rowman & Littlefield in Lanham, Maryland, I worked on numerous titles geared toward multinational audiences, providing both editorial and administrative support. As a freelancer, I have worked on a variety of comic books, visual novels, novels, memoirs, and short stories both geared for self-publishing and more traditional publication. This wide range of experience gives me the insight to help you route your story toward whatever audience you envision, be it for the underground indie scene or toward pitching to agents and becoming the next bestseller from a top publishing house.

Interests and specialties of mine include character-driven works of literary and creative fiction, particularly in the Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance, and Magic genres, as well as the Young Adult (YA) and emerging New Adult (NA) genres. I am currently working on my own Fantasy series, a multi-volume illustrated series that melds the spirit of the Japanese Light Novel with western Romance and Monomythic traditions for a literary-inclined NA audience. I work frequently with stories that don't fit squarely within singular or more traditional genres, and especially appreciate atypical or unique works that push me to use all of my skills.

I can't wait to work with you next!

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What others say:

Working with Jamie is such a amazing experience. From start to finish, the process Jamie works by is a writer's dream. She goes into full detail. . . constantly asks questions on the plot, the characters, the details of each outline. Keeping in constant communication with the buyer throughout it all and always being polite and professional.

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Jamie is always full of ideas on how an outline, chapter can be improved, but always runs it by you first to see if you are happy or what you think of it. Jamie has a wide range of words to use in her writing, drives full passion into exploring a character's appearance, their mindset, background and how their environment affects them and the items speaks of them as people.

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Every commission Jamie has worked on with me has shown her talent for understanding POV structure, themes of each chapter, planting the seeds of foreshadowing, exploring relationships. Writing engaging action, expressive dialogue and being able to flesh out a world in various ways. Jamie is truly a unique writer and Editor and one of the best I have ever met. It is an honour to work with her every time and it's a true privilege to have forged such a close working relationship and friendship with her.