First hired as a copy editor in 1992, I have worked for 16 years copyediting or proofreading for several publishers, including PublicAffairs Press, Westview Press, Basic Books, CDS Books, Da Capo Press, and Perseus Books (all now part of the Perseus Books Group); GGS Book Services; ABC-CLIO; Sopris West; and Energy Futures, Inc.
The range of publications I have edited is equally broad: everything from fiction to textbooks, biographies to in-depth investigative reports, book series to quarterly journals and even newspapers. Just a few of the titles I have been involved with, either copyediting or proofing, include Scott McClellan's
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception,
Exploring Microsoft Office 2007,
Secrets of Mary Magdalene,
The Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2007,
The 9/11 Investigations, Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond, several titles in ABC-CLIO's Weapons and Warfare series, actor Michael York’s
Are My Blinkers Showing?, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Hydrogen Energy Transition, and
The Woman at the Washington Zoo. You can see more samples by
clicking here.
I am capable of both traditional editing (using hard copy and the ubiquitous red pencil) and electronic editing, marking up Adobe Acrobat files (or any number of other e-files, including Quark XPress, Word, and many others). This streamlines the editing process and eliminates the cost of sending 300+ pages of manuscript via UPS or FedEx back and forth; it also saves time, two or more days in the editing process, usually lost in transporting hard copy between offices. I charge the same rates regardless of the form in which the pages are edited.
My current rates for editing run roughly $17/ten pages for proofreading and $20/ten pages for copyediting; rush fees (including more than 60 pages per day or work over weekends for a tight publishing schedule) are generally $2/ten pages beyond the normal rates. My fees are negotiable, however, so please contact me for additional information.
In addition to “normal” editing, I have also translated books from British to American English, including the American edition of
Talking to Tweens for Da Capo Press. I am certainly available for further translations between British and American (and the other way round).
I also have over sixteen years' experience in publication design; please see my
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