Proofreading & Copy Editing

Words
Polished

Careful, line-by-line editing for authors, agencies, and business blogs. Clean grammar, a consistent voice, and copy that finally reads the way you meant it.

See the work
About

The second pair of eyes
your draft deserves

Every writer goes word-blind on their own work. My job is to read it the way your reader will.

Editing a manuscript at a desk

Editing that respects your voice

I have spent the better part of a decade cleaning up other people’s sentences, from full non-fiction manuscripts to weekly blog posts that needed to go live yesterday. The goal is never to make your writing sound like mine. It is to remove everything standing between your idea and the person reading it.

That means fixing the obvious things quietly, and flagging the ones worth a conversation. Awkward transitions, claims that need a source, a paragraph doing the work of three. You get tracked changes you can accept at a glance, plus notes explaining anything I chose not to touch.

Most projects come back within two working days. Longer manuscripts get a schedule up front, so you always know where things stand.

1.2M
Words edited
240+
Projects delivered
48h
Typical turnaround
Skills

What I actually do

Two sides of the same job: making existing writing better, and writing what is missing.

Editing & Proofreading

Proofreading 98%
Line editing 95%
Copy editing 92%
Style guides & consistency 88%

Writing & Content

Blog & article writing 94%
Research & fact checking 90%
Structure & search visibility 85%
Ghostwriting 80%
Work

Selected projects

A sample of the kind of work that lands in my inbox most weeks.

Non-fiction manuscript

A 96,000-word business memoir taken from rough second draft to submission-ready. Two full passes, a chapter-level structural note, and a running style sheet so the terminology stayed consistent across eleven chapters.

Line editing Style sheet Long form

Agency blog programme

Eight posts a month across three client accounts, each edited to its own brand voice and published on schedule.

Copy editing Retainer

Course & workbook copy

Lesson scripts and a printable workbook rewritten for plain language, then proofread against the final layout.

Plain language Proofreading

Brand style guide

A working style guide for an in-house content team: spelling and hyphenation decisions, tone rules with before-and-after examples, and a one-page checklist writers actually use before filing. Ended a lot of recurring arguments in review.

Style guide Team training Consistency
Experience

How I got here

Newsroom habits, publishing discipline, and a decade of other people’s deadlines.

2024 — Present

Independent Editor

Freelance

Manuscript editing, blog retainers, and style guide work for authors, agencies, and in-house content teams.

2021 — 2024

Senior Copy Editor

Independent publishing house

Final read on roughly forty titles a year, and the person who kept the house style sheet honest.

2018 — 2021

Content Editor

Digital marketing agency

Ran the editorial calendar for six client blogs and trained junior writers on self-editing before filing.

2016 — 2018

Staff Writer

Regional newspaper

Where the deadlines were short, the word counts were fixed, and the subeditors taught me everything worth knowing.

Contact

Send me the draft

Attach the file, mention your deadline, and I will come back with a quote and a realistic date.

Let’s get it read properly

Sample edits are free for the first 1,000 words, so you can see how I work before committing to anything. Rush jobs are usually possible, though they are quoted differently.

Marked-up pages during a copy edit