Dedicated and astute developmental and line editor with over a decade of experience. Specializes in literary fiction.
I enjoy making sentences sound better as well as pinpointing and fixing a manuscript's structural issues. The author Karen Osborn says, “Rachel King's attention to detail was unsurpassed. In addition, she had a thoughtful and accurate grasp of the larger intentions of the novel, and that grasp informed each of her smaller suggestions and notes, so that the result was a tighter, leaner, more powerful, and more focused manuscript.”
I would love to work with you on your manuscript!
I manage the editorial production process and approve all content published. My duties include hiring genre editors, evaluating manuscripts in Submittable, line-editing content, formulating product copy, and writing a quarterly editor’s note as well as my duties I performed while managing editor: maintaining the schedule, copyediting content, communicating with the printer, and managing the genre editors.
I managed the production process of eight to fourteen books simultaneously. For each book, I evaluated the manuscript and requested a copy editor, created a design extract and submitted it to composition, reviewed the copyedit, communicated with the author while s/he reviewed the copyedit, prepared the files for layout, reviewed the files once they were laid out, sent the galley file to the author and proofreader, combined corrections from the author and proofreader and submitted them to the designer, proofread the designer’s work, submitted the final file to the manufacturing department, and reviewed the ebook.
I copyedit/line-edit fiction and nonfiction for West Virginia University Press, Counterpoint/Catapult/Soft Skull, Melville House, and Perseus Books Group. For each manuscript, I make sentences grammatically correct and meanings clear, I create a detailed style sheet specific to the project, I write a letter to the author before his/her review, and I clean the manuscript by accepting or rejecting edits after the author’s review.
I oversaw the production schedule; served as the production contact with authors, editors, typesetters, and proofreaders; edited and proofread manuscripts, utilizing Track Changes and preparing a style sheet; inserted text and photos into InDesign, applying styles and integrating corrections; assisted the marketing manager in formulating frontmatter; and participated in press-wide brainstorming and planning sessions about book ideas and marketing strategies.
Browne, Wesley
Araghi, Ali
Austin, Lana K. W.
Geni, Abby
Brown, James
Hoagland, Sadie
NIEMAN, VALERIE
Sypolt, Natalie
Fancher, Hampton
van Eerden, Jessie
Monks, Sheryl
Mann, Jeff, Watts, Julia
Jiri Klobouk, December 2020
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Efficient, thorough, and highly experienced editor with freelance and in-house background in educational publishing.
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
Experienced copy-editor available to edit both fiction and non-fiction, specialises in the the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Wiveliscombe, Taunton, UK