Carol Reed – Editor

I'm a skilled, seasoned New York-area 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, written and produced style guides for top New York-based consumer websites.

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 rewriting and line editing, which is in-depth editing that involves, if need be, restructuring sentences and paragraphs. I'm also fluent in proofreading with InDesign. If you need help getting started, I can coach you through the process either by phone or on Zoom.

FOR NONFICTION BOOKS, I PROVIDE:

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

2. EDITORIAL ASSESSMENT (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.

5. BOOK COACHING that will help you go from idea to proposal to outlining and writing. $100/hour for a minimum of four hours/month.

FOR WEBSITES, I PROVIDE:

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