Susan Greenman offers highly personalized, customized editing. She has worked in publishing for nearly twenty years, in all aspects of the process-from acquisitions and developmental editing to copyediting and proofreading. Captivated early on by the idea of other worlds, she has worked for highly regarded publishers of science fiction and fantasy such as Ace, Baen, Bantam, and Random House Spectra and was a managing editor at Macmillan Children's Books. A writer as well as an editor, Susan has published nonfiction children's books as well as short fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, and technical articles. She has also been heavily involved in producing award-winning CD-ROMs for Microsoft. She believes her role is to offer feedback that helps bring the writer's vision into reality and maximizes the story's chances of consideration by an agent or publisher. Says one client, "I've come to rely on Susan for that gift the very best fiction editors have for recommending that one small change that dramatically improves the whole work"—an editorial ideal Susan strives to consistently meet.
Susan is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association.
Specialties
Susan’s post-graduate education is in biopsychology and clinical psychology. Other interests and areas of expertise include:
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror
Young adult
Gay & lesbian
Jewish fiction/nonfiction
Comparative religion and alternative spirituality
Biology, psychology, and physiology
Botany, herbalism, and conventional and alternative medicine
Ecology, ecosystems, evolution, animals, and animal behavior
Art history and folk music
Cultural anthropology and folklore
Computers and technology
Susan's services include:
Critiquing
Developmental and substantive editing
Copyediting
Mentorship
Feedback
"Thank you for having introduced me to Susan as it has been an extraordinary experience to work with her. I thought that an editor would go over grammatical mistakes, punctuation and perhaps obvious faults in the plot. But Susan exceeded all my expectations. Not only did she do the expected corrections, but she tirelessly encouraged me to work on my manuscript with valuable additional information and amazingly insightful comments. I also found her to be very sensitive and inspiring with her critique, and as an extra bonus, she brightened my days with her precious humour. Like a true mentor, she went out of her way to be supportive and encouraging. She never let me get away with taking the easy way out of a 'sticky spot' and gave me unstinting support until I found a workable solution. I am very impressed with her knowledge and impeccable professionalism. I will never be able to thank her enough for broadening my vision, increasing my critical thinking and changing my work ethics from a naïve amateur to a serious researcher into my own work. I would like to recommend Susan as an editor to any aspiring or professional writer who wishes to improve his/her manuscripts to the highest standard possible." — Angelika Jamal
"Working with Susan Greenman was a pleasure and an education. Not only did Susan line edit my work with infinite care and insight, she also helped me to understand when I was undermining my own goals. . . . Susan was gentle with me and hard on my shortcomings, making sure neither us of confused the two. " — Jacques Freydont
"Susan is simply the best editor I know. I think this is significant because as a professional writer in business and technology for the past twenty years I have worked with perhaps sixty or seventy editors." — Laurie Freeman
"Your editing was exactly what editing should be—thorough without being painful, responsive without being suggestible, and creative without being intrusive. . . . While you made a number of constructive suggestions, I never felt like you were wresting my work from me. I feel as if you magnified my work instead of altering it. " — Arden Rowell
"You did a wonderful job. I'm very glad I had you edit my manuscript. You found things that no one else had noticed—even the tiny mistakes that most people don't even realize are wrong because their brain subconsciously fills in the missing gaps." —Matthew Peterson
"Wow, what an improvement." —Karen Richart
"Well worth the investment. That was just the kind of input I needed." —Coy Blair
"You did a wonderful job. I'm very glad I had you edit my manuscript. You found things that no one else had noticed—even the tiny mistakes that most people don't even realize are wrong because their brain subconsciously fills in the missing gaps." —Matthew Peterson, Winner, 2004 Writers Weekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest; Author, ParaWorld Zero, to be published by Windstorm Press
"Your suggestions were fantastic and quite helpful!" —Kim Messina, client
"You provided many suggestions that lifted this manuscript enormously." —Hal Malchow, client
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Susan Greenman offers highly personalized, customized editing. She has worked in publishing for nearly twenty years, in all aspects of the process-from acquisitions and developmental editing to copyediting and proofreading. Captivated early on by the idea of other worlds, she has worked for highly regarded publishers of science fiction and fantasy such as Ace, Baen, Bantam, and Random House Spectra and was a managing editor at Macmillan Children's Books. A writer as well as an editor, Susan has published nonfiction children's books as well as short fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, and technical articles. She has also been heavily involved in producing award-winning CD-ROMs for Microsoft. She believes her role is to offer feedback that helps bring the writer's vision into reality and maximizes the story's chances of consideration by an agent or publisher. Says one client, "I've come to rely on Susan for that gift the very best fiction editors have for recommending that one small change that dramatically improves the whole work"—an editorial ideal Susan strives to consistently meet.
