Carol Reed – Editor

I'm a skilled, seasoned New York-area developmental editor, line editor, copy editor, proofreader, and journalist with substantial experience. The mission: Get readers into your text quickly and keep them reading with compelling words, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters that sing. They'll come back for more and that's good for you.

I WORK ON NONFICTION BOOKS OR WEBSITE COPY.

I've edited best-selling nonfiction books for HarperCollins, Intellectual Ventures and other major publishing houses on themes as diverse as business, technology, design, environment, travel, food and art. In the realm of websites, I've edited and written a lot of website copy and have produced style guides for websites associated with top New York-based consumer magazines.

I'm there for you to polish language, banish wordiness, restructure text, change spellings and idioms from British to US style, check facts, or cast a fine-tooth look at style, tone, pace, grammar, punctuation and all the other little details of elegant prose. My services include: developmental editing, editorial assessments, copyediting and proofreading. I also handle line editing, which is in-depth editing that involves, if need be, restructuring sentences and paragraphs. If you plan to seek an agent, I'll be happy to provide guidelines for your query letter and edit what you've written. For websites, I've edited all kinds of text and multimedia content, including the HTML code behind it all, and I can do the same for you.

FOR NONFICTION BOOKS, I PROVIDE:

1. DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING (See the Reedsy definition here: https://reedsy.com/editing/developmental-editing.)

2. EDITORIAL ASSESSMENTS (See the Reedsy definition here: https://reedsy.com/editing/editorial-assessment.)

3. COPYEDITING (See the Reedsy definition of US copyediting here: https://reedsy.com/editing/copy-editing.) The UK definition varies from the US, where copyediting is the highly detailed intermediary step between broad-brush developmental editing and speedier proofreading. Copyediting is not the same as proofreading.

4. PROOFREADING (See the Reedsy definition of US proofreading here: https://reedsy.com/editing/proofreading.) Proofreading is not the same as copyediting, which is much more detailed and time-consuming. To be clear, proofreading is a final, detailed read to make sure nothing was missed during copyediting.

FOR WEBSITES, I PROVIDE:

Any writing and/or editing services required, including checking HTML coding.