Shauna Perez – Editor

Let me help you put your vision into words to remember!

The intrepid Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" taught me to edit for direct, engaging prose that communicates clearly to the average reader.

In my most memorable editing projects, I have brought together disparate elements into a cohesive whole. I focus on the big picture and have proven my ability to stitch together the writing of multiple authors in "Designing Effective Women's Ministries" by Jill Briscoe, Laurie A. McIntyre, and Beth Seversen. In recent Reedsy developmental editing projects, I have guided authors toward the best framework for their work (i.e., chronological vs thematic) and offered catchy chapter titles.

I have edited bestselling authors John Ortberg ("Soul Keeping") and Karen Ehman ("Keep It Shut"). I have also found a special love for fact-checking when proofreading heavily documented works such as "The Question That Never Goes Away" by Philip Yancey. First rushed to print as an e-book, I was able to eliminate discrepancies not caught in the first edition. Of the fifty books I have worked on as an editor and proofreader, four made the Christian Bookseller's Association Bestsellers list twenty-two times (Ortberg, Ehman, Melanie Shankle, John Manion). "Keep It Shut" made it onto the NYT Bestsellers in Relationships.

Book which have acknowleded my contributions include:

"Recovering from Churches that Abuse" by Ronald M. Enroth

"Designing Effective Women's Ministries" by Jill Briscoe and Laurie A. McIntyre

"The Christian Writer's Manual of Style," by Robert Hudson (Zondervan)

"The B.U.I.L.D. Project" by Bernard Ruffin

"The Weight of Worry" by Morgan Williams

"Taking the Long View" by Rebecca Shoop

I have an intrinsic desire to bring order to the world I encounter, be it picking up some bit of litter on a hike or cleaning up a manuscript to make it shine. Let me help you polish your writing into clear prose to enlighten and inform your reader.