John David Kudrick – Editor

Your words are important -- important enough for you to spend seemingly endless hours getting those words typed up as you chain-drink whatever keeps you going, all while your friends and family wonder what in the world you're up to.

Now you've typed the very last word of your novel! Hope you took some time to celebrate, maybe with a big bowl of ice cream, a special dinner out, or a glass of your favorite happy-time drink.

So ... you did it. You wrote your novel, and you're eager to share it with the rest of the planet -- and you naturally want it to be the best that it can be before it gets into the hands of your readers. Enter the realm of editing and all the emotions that come with handing over your manuscript to someone else ...

As a fiction writer myself, I get the feelings that go along with letting someone else edit and polish all those words you've spent so much time and energy on, so I'm here for you as an editor who can relate, which is why I specialize in fiction copyediting and proofreading:

Copyediting -- Line-by-line editing for grammar, word usage, tone, format, mechanics of style, and consistency of facts, spelling, capitalization, and numerals. Also includes recommendations to author. Revisions made within Word document using tracking feature. Includes at least two rounds of editorial review.

Proofreading -- Final polish to clean up typos, inconsistencies, misspellings, and punctuation problems. Revisions made within Word document using tracking feature. Includes at least two rounds of editorial review.

Finally, some fast facts about me for you:

-- Editorial portfolio of 300+ published books by authors from around the globe

-- Master's degree focused on fiction writing

-- Familiarity with a variety of genres (see below), as well as using the Chicago Manual of Style and Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Please feel free to drop me a line with any questions or if you're ready to start working together. Happy to dialogue with you and then provide a free editing sample if it sounds like we might be a good fit for each other as author and editor. Thanks for stopping by!

peace, love, and life to you ... jd : )

[CURRENT AVAILABILITY: I'M NOW BOOKING FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER 2026.]

***** PLEASE NOTE *****

I do NOT offer critiques/evaluations or developmental/substantive/content editing for fiction; I do NOT work on nonfiction; and I do NOT work on partial manuscripts.

So if you're happy with your overall story as it stands and seeking an editor to smooth out, enhance, and polish the entire tale's text, then please feel free to drop me a request with the FIRST 25 pages and LAST 25 pages of your manuscript as a Word file so that I can get a good feel for the level of editorial work involved and put together a sample edit for you.

Thank you kindly for your consideration of this note. : )