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Stephanie Riva - Editor
Norwalk, IA, United States
Copy editor and proofreader since 2010, specializing in the romance genre.
Overview
I'm a fiction copy editor (basic and line editing) and proofreader who has worked with both traditional publishing houses and independent authors. I accept work in all genres, but I particularly enjoy copyediting romance novels. My experience includes line editing of varying levels of heat in the following romance categories: contemporary, historical, Regency era, suspense, sci-fi, paranormal, western.
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Riva Reading
Please see my website (www.RivaReading.com) for a list of my past projects or contact me for a copy of my resume. The majority of my work for the past two years has been through Crimson Romance, for whom I have copyedited over two dozen manuscripts on a freelance basis.
Portfolio (4 selected works)
100 Days in Deadland (Deadland Saga)
Rachel Aukes
THE #1 BEST-SELLING POST-APOCALYPTIC NOVEL The world ended on a Thursday. In one day, the world succumbed to a pestilence that decimated the living. In its place rose a new species: vicious, gruesome, wandering zombies with an insatiable hunger for the living. Still in her twenties, Cash has watched her friends die, only to walk again. An office worker with few survival skills, she joins up wi... read more
THE #1 BEST-SELLING POST-APOCALYPTIC NOVEL The world ended on a Thursday. In one day, the world succumbed to a pestilence that decimated the living. In its place rose a new species: vicious, gruesome, wandering zombies with an insatiable hunger for the living. Still in her twenties, Cash has watched her friends die, only to walk again. An office worker with few survival skills, she joins up wi... read more
Redeeming Rafe (The Brothers of Beauford Bend)
Alica Hunter Pace
To the world, professional rodeo cowboy Rafe Beauford is the fearless rider with an easy smile who never backs down from a challenge. But when a buckle bunny he knew back in Odessa dies in a motorcycle accident and Rafe learns he's the father of twin baby girls, he finally gets a taste of real fear.There's not much call for a Shakespeare scholar in Beauford, Tennessee, so widowed single mother... read more
To the world, professional rodeo cowboy Rafe Beauford is the fearless rider with an easy smile who never backs down from a challenge. But when a buckle bunny he knew back in Odessa dies in a motorcycle accident and Rafe learns he's the father of twin baby girls, he finally gets a taste of real fear.There's not much call for a Shakespeare scholar in Beauford, Tennessee, so widowed single mother... read more
Surrender the Past: Traditional Regency Romance (Loring-Abbott Series Book 1)
Elizabeth Johns
Edited Second Edition published 14 October, 2014 Elinor Abbott was only 14 years old when she and her father left England for America. Six years later, with war at their doorstep, Elinor Abbott is forced to return to her land of birth and a life amongst the aristocracy she abhors. A return to England also means facing the man who brutally attacked her as an adolescent. Viscount Easton came to ... read more
Edited Second Edition published 14 October, 2014 Elinor Abbott was only 14 years old when she and her father left England for America. Six years later, with war at their doorstep, Elinor Abbott is forced to return to her land of birth and a life amongst the aristocracy she abhors. A return to England also means facing the man who brutally attacked her as an adolescent. Viscount Easton came to ... read more
An Unconventional Courtship: A Cotillion Ball Novella
Becky Lower
Find out how the Fitzpatrick family began in this exciting prequel novella to the Cotillion Ball saga.Charlotte Ashcroft knows her family would never approve of her attending a women's rights speech in New York City alone. So when a busybody from back home confronts Charlotte, she grabs the man in a jaunty blue hat nearby and introduces him as her escort.George Fitzpatrick had boarded the new ... read more
Find out how the Fitzpatrick family began in this exciting prequel novella to the Cotillion Ball saga.Charlotte Ashcroft knows her family would never approve of her attending a women's rights speech in New York City alone. So when a busybody from back home confronts Charlotte, she grabs the man in a jaunty blue hat nearby and introduces him as her escort.George Fitzpatrick had boarded the new ... read more
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