Overview
With my editorial assistance, you can concentrate on telling your story and bringing your characters to life. It’s your world, and I won’t try to change that.
My job is to be your final reader before publication. One last set of eyes checking for and correcting oversights in spelling, grammar, syntax, word usage, and punctuation. I will also check for consistency and continuity.
I offer two levels of service: Standard and Enhanced.
In Standard Copy Edit I will fix everything I find that is wrong: misspelled words, incorrect tenses, misused words, nonstandard punctuation, etc. I will also note in the margins words or sentences that aren’t as clear as you would probably like. If there’s a continuity problem, I’ll let you know. I will point out repetitive language but leave the heavy lifting to you.
In Enhanced Editing you’ll get everything I offer in Standard as well as fact checking, substitutions for overused words and phrases, and minor rewriting for clarity, nuance, and flow. I have a knack for imitation, and my clients often can't tell where I've intervened.
I am very comfortable working with translated material and the work of non-native English speakers thanks to a long-term relationship with a foreign book packager and promoter.
Services
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Work experience
Free Range Editorial
In April 2014 I launched a freelance copy editing business called Free Range Editorial. Since then I have edited over sixty books, with clients across the United States and around the world. I work on fiction and nonfiction, short stories and novels, YA and adult. If you can write it, I can edit it.
Through my affiliation with an international ebook company, I have developed a specialty in transforming foreign language translations into American English. I welcome more of this type of work.
LexisNexis (Reed Elsevier)
I prepared court opinions for official publication by editing for grammar, style, spelling and punctuation. I also fact checked and verified quotations and legal citations. I had an audited accuracy rate of over 99%.