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.
Every writer goes word-blind on their own work. My job is to read it the way your reader will.
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.
Two sides of the same job: making existing writing better, and writing what is missing.
A sample of the kind of work that lands in my inbox most weeks.
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.
Discuss a manuscriptEight posts a month across three client accounts, each edited to its own brand voice and published on schedule.
Lesson scripts and a printable workbook rewritten for plain language, then proofread against the final layout.
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.
Ask about a style guideNewsroom habits, publishing discipline, and a decade of other people’s deadlines.
Manuscript editing, blog retainers, and style guide work for authors, agencies, and in-house content teams.
Final read on roughly forty titles a year, and the person who kept the house style sheet honest.
Ran the editorial calendar for six client blogs and trained junior writers on self-editing before filing.
Where the deadlines were short, the word counts were fixed, and the subeditors taught me everything worth knowing.
Attach the file, mention your deadline, and I will come back with a quote and a realistic date.
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.
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