Lynn Selhat – Editor

Copy editor with more than 20 years experience, primarily editing books in the business category for the academic and practitioner markets.

Overview

I help clients, primarily professors of strategy and management, transform manuscripts into clear, compelling, and easy-to-read books destined for the academic and practitioner market in the business category. I have worked with professors from the world's top management schools, including: Wharton, INSEAD, and MIT Sloan.

Bringing more than 20 years of experience to the table, I work closely with authors to understand their goals, manage deadlines, and guide them toward the best possible end product through careful copy editing.

Recent book topics include private equity, employment trends, teams, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing.

Publishers of the books I have edited include Wiley, Elgar, Harvard Business School Press, Wharton Press, and Cambridge University Press.

Services

Copy Editing

Book Coaching

Non-Fiction

Business & Management

Languages

English (US)

Work experience

Writer, Editor, and Writing Coach

Self-employed

Jan, 2005 — Present

I work primarily with professors of strategy and management at business schools throughout the world to edit books destined for the academic and practitioner markets. I edit for clarity, readability, and consistency of tone. In addition to copy editing, I have conducted interviews and written case studies for clients. An ongoing project since 2012 has been serving as the writing coach for faculty and doctoral students at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In this capacity, I work with authors at various points in the publication process: in very early stages, when authors need help framing the paper and developing the overall story, through to later stages when the paper is ready for copy editing. Beyond making line edits, I always add comments explaining why I made an edit, to provide a learning opportunity for the authors.