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When editing the work of others, my mission is always to guide the author in developing an entertaining, informative, or persuasive piece while preserving the author’s intended meaning and voice. The services I offer include:

• Proofreading
• Copyediting
• Developmental editing

Sending a manuscript filled with errors and inconsistencies to an agent will render all of your hard work for naught, as you can be sure that the agent won’t bother to read beyond the first few paragraphs. No matter how large or small a project is, having a second set of eyes look over your writing – especially one trained to catch mechanical errors and inconsistencies – is imperative to creating a positive first impression.

When hours are spent working on a project, it becomes difficult for even the most skilled writer to pick up mechanical errors, misspelled words, and holes in logic within their own writing. Why? Because the author tends to be too close to the project to catch errors and inconsistencies; they see their own work as it appears in their mind instead of how it reads on the page or screen.

Spelling and grammar checkers have come a long way, but these tools won’t pick up on homonyms, extra/missing words, or passages that are too wordy or confusing. An editor acts as an objective third party who reads through a piece of writing specifically to catch errors and inconsistencies in grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, language, and voice. For both the author and the editor, the desired outcome is the same: error-free writing which clearly conveys the intended meaning.