Overview

I have more than thirty years in copy editing both fiction and nonfiction, including two years as the founding copy editor for Entangled Publishing. My copy-edited works include best-selling paranormals by authors such as Laura Kaye and Jennifer Armentrout, and I'm a wiz at uncovering POV slips and run-on sentences. I love editing all genres of romance fiction with experience in contemporary romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, and romantic suspense/thrillers. As an award-winning published author myself, with twenty-plus novels and novellas in romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance, I know what it takes to make your words sing and your story shine.

Services

Copy Editing

Proofreading

Fiction

Fantasy Paranormal Romance Romance Thriller & Suspense Urban Fantasy Young Adult

Languages

English (US)

Awards

Holt Medallion for Paranormal Romance, 2013
Holt Medallion for Romantic Suspense, 2015
Booksellers Best Award for Romantic Suspense, 2015
Nominated for RT Book Reviews Magazine Reviewer's Choice Award, 2014 and 2015, paranormal romance
Linda Howard Award Winner, 2014, for Fantasy, Futuristic, Paranormal
Holt Medallion finalist for romantic suspense, 2017 (winner not yet announced)
2017 finalist in suspense/romantic suspense for the Holt Medallion, Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, and Maggie Award.

Work experience

Copy Editor

Entangled Publishing

Jan, 2010 — Jun, 2012 (over 2 years)

Founding copy editor for Entangled Publishing. Worked primarily on full-length fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and contemporary romance novels, including a number of best-sellers (see portfolio for sample titles I copy edited).

Suzanne Johnson

Self-employed

Jan, 2010 — Present

Founding copy editor for Entangled Publishing before committing to full-time writing and freelance editing career. Copy editing, blurb writing, and query services in romance and fantasy genres, including contemporary romance, fantasy, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and romantic suspense. Also award-winning published author of 20-plus novels and novellas writing as Suzanne Johnson and Susannah Sandlin.

Senior Editor

Auburn University

Aug, 2007 — Mar, 2017 (over 9 years)

Copy editor for all materials from the Auburn Alumni Association. Editor of quarterly, award-winning Auburn Magazine. Edited long-form features and department content.

Editorial Manager

Tulane University

Sep, 1993 — Aug, 2007 (almost 14 years)

Copy edited all major print materials for Tulane University and served as editor in chief of award-winning Tulane Magazine. Edited long-form features and departmental materials. Supervised staff of six.

Editorial Services Manager

Rice University

Sep, 1984 — Jan, 1992 (over 7 years)

Edited major print materials for Rice University. Editor of quarterly, award-winning Sallyport magazine. Edited long-form features and departmental materials. Supervised media relations and editorial staff of three.

Portfolio

Once Upon a Time Travel

Sariah Wilson

Once upon a time… Recent college grad Emma Damon knows the Rose Room in Hartley Hall is off limits, which is exactly why she can’t wait to get inside. Once she enters the forbidden room, Emma learns more about the history of the museum than she ever intended t... read more

Release Me (Storm Lords Book 3)

Nina Croft

A thousand years ago, Finn Stanton was given a chance to get back the woman he loved enough to break the laws of Heaven. All he has to do is find her, and all she has to do is say I love you. Never going to happen. Having drunk of the Elixir of Life, Rachel Mi... read more

The Consort: A Fae Hunters Novella (The Fae Hunters Book 1)

Suzanne Johnson

Summoned to the Royal Palace of Faerie, Liandra arrives full of hope—only to learn that Florian, the Summer Prince, has purchased her as his annual consort. The price charged by her father? A horse. Fleeing through the veil into the human world, Liandra knows ... read more

Christmas in Dogtown

Suzanne Johnson

A woman who spent years escaping her rural past learns that Dogtown, Louisiana, hides more dark family secrets than just the recipe for a good boudin noir. Theresa Madere’s on the verge of losing it all. The boyfriend took a hike. The job’s history. Her belove... read more

Frenchman Street: A Novel of The Sentinels of New Orleans

Suzanne Johnson

The uneasy truce between the preternatural species of New Orleans has shattered, with wizards and elves, shifters and vampires—not to mention the historical undead—struggling for ultimate control of the city, including the humans who still think they’re atop t... read more

Pirateship Down: Stories from the world of The Sentinels of New Orleans

Suzanne Johnson

French pirate Jean Lafitte is tall, cobalt-eyed, broad-shouldered, and immortal. What’s not to love? But New Orleans’ most esteemed member of the historical undead is headed for trouble. He’s determined to reclaim Le Diligent, his gold-laden schooner lost at s... read more

Illumination (The Penton Vampire Legacy Book 5)

Susannah Sandlin

He came to Penton seeking peace. Nik Dimitrou joined the Army to escape his family legacy, only to have his psychic abilities exploited as a weapon. Now, as a civilian, he turns to the bottle to veil the images that haunt his mind whenever he touches anyone—ex... read more

Ward Against Death (Chronicles of a Reluctant Necromancer Book 1)

Melanie Card

Twenty-year-old Ward de'Ath expected this to be a simple job-bring a nobleman's daughter back from the dead for fifteen minutes, let her family say good-bye, and launch his fledgling career as a necromancer. Goddess knows he can't be a surgeon-the Quayestri al... read more

Curse of the Phoenix Boxed Set

Rachel Firasek

Book One: The Last RisingAfter paying two millennia's penance to Osiris, world-weary Phoenix Ice has had enough. Saving souls without any hope for her own redemption isn't how she imagined spending eternity. Fed up, she decides her next death will be her last.... read more

Hellsbane

Paige Cuccaro

Twenty-three-year-old Emma Jane Hellsbane just found out she's not human—or, at least, not only human. She's half angel, too, and now Heaven's got a job for her: round up all the Fallen angels and their red-skinned, horned devil-demon minions and boot their bu... read more

Break Out (Dark Desires Book 1)

Nina Croft

Break Out by Nina Croft Dark Desires (book 1)The year is 3048, Earth is no longer habitable, and man has fled to the stars where they've discovered the secret of immortality--Meridian. Unfortunately, the radioactive mineral is exorbitantly expensive and only a... read more

Touch of the Angel (Demons of Infernum Book 3)

Rosalie Lario

After months of no work, interdimensional bounty hunter Ronin Meyers jumps at the chance to locate an incubus who's using succubi as murder weapons. Faced with deportation to hellish Infernum if he fails, Ronin will stop at nothing to take out the incubus and ... read more

Heart of the Incubus (Demons of Infernum)

Rosalie Lario

Biochemist Cresso Taylor lives the sort of lifestyle most men would envy—he has wealth, natural incubus charm, and more women than he can handle. But it's not enough anymore. Not after meeting Genevieve Russell, the sexy scientist who works with him at Elcorp ... read more

Mark of the Sylph (Demons of Infernum)

Rosalie Lario

Half-demon Taeg is desperate to free his pregnant sister-in-law, who is spellbound to an indestructible book that will create an army of the undead. He is convinced that an ancient sword can destroy the book and the spell forever, but this relic has been hidde... read more

Blood of the Demon (Demons of Infernum)

Rosalie Lario

Keegan lives to exact revenge on the evil demon who sired and abused him. When his father devises a plan to bring on the apocalypse, he and his three half-brothers, interdimensional bounty hunters for the Elden Council, are charged with capturing and deliverin... read more

Paradise 21 (A New Dawn)

Aubrie Dionne

Aries has lived her entire life aboard mankind's last hope, the NewDawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where mankind can beginanew- a planet that won't be reached in Aries' lifetime. As one of thelast genetically desirable women in the universe,she mus... read more

West of Want (Hearts of the Anemoi)

Laura Kaye

Betrayal is all he's ever known, but in her, he'll find a love strong enough to be trusted…When Marcella Raines' twin brother dies, she honors his request to be buried at sea, never expecting the violent storm that swamps her boat. Though she's gravely injured... read more

North of Need (Hearts of the Anemoi Book 1)

Laura Kaye

Desperate to escape agonizing memories of Christmas past, twenty-nine-year-old widow Megan Snow builds a snow family outside the mountain cabin she once shared with her husband, realizing too late that she's recreated the very thing she'll never have. Called t... read more

Radiant Desire (Handmaid’s Seduction)

Inara Scott

The object of every man's fantasy just lost her wings…Kaia Verde is one of the four Faerie Handmaids of Zafira, Queen of the Fey. To redress an ancient wrong done to Zafira by a human king, the Handmaids make sport of mortal men, seducing and humiliating them.... read more

Touch (A Denazen Novel Book 1)

Jus Accardo

When a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing the mysterious hottie with ice blue eyes home. Except there's something off ... read more

Shield of Fire (Bringer and the Bane)

Boone Brux

Protecting humans is the Bringers' duty. Sending demons to the Shadow World is their pleasure. In one night, Ravyn's life plunges from barely tolerable to deadly. Forced to flee the only homeshe's known, she stumbles headlong into the clutches of Icarus, a pow... read more

Blood of the Demon (Demons of Infernum)

Rosalie Lario

Obsidian (A Lux Novel Book 1)

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Book One of the bestselling Lux seriesStarting over sucks.When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring...until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his... read more

The Fallen Queen (The House of Arkhangel'sk, #1)

Jane Kindred

Heaven can go to hell.Until her cousin slaughtered the supernal family, Anazakia's father ruled the Heavens, governing noble Host and Fallen peasants alike. Now Anazakia is the last grand duchess of the House of Arkhangel'sk, and all she wants is to stay alive... read more

Night Walker

Lisa Kessler

2012 San Diego Book Award Winner Best Published Fantasy-SciFi-Horror2012 Romance Through the Ages Winner Best Paranormal & Best First Book2012 "Book Seller's Best" Double Finalist for Best Paranormal Romance & Best First BookHe gave up his soul for a second ch... read more

Suzanne has 65 reviews

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Lynn E.

Mar, 2023

Great collab as usual. Clear feedback and on deadline.

Reply from Suzanne J.

Always a pleasure—great communication, great writing.

Dana C.

Feb, 2023

Suzanne is the best. She's quick, supportive, detailed oriented, and easy going. She was able to adhere to my schedule and fit me into hers perfectly.

Reply from Suzanne J.

Thanks, Dana! It was great to work with you again.

Liz E.

Oct, 2022

I highly recommend Suzanne and she has earned 5 stars from me. One of the things I request when searching for an editor is a sample of their work. During our initial collaboration and much to my surprise, she sent me a sample page and I didn’t have to ask! After going over her edits on my sample page, I knew that she was going to enhance my novel and was successful at doing so. She is professio...

Reply from Suzanne J.

Thanks, Liz! It was a great collaboration. Hope there are more to come!

Lynn E.

Jun, 2022

A thorough proofread once again!

Reply from Suzanne J.

Always a total pleasure!

Lynn E.

Apr, 2022

Great collaboration once again. Thorough and attention to detail outstanding as always.

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