CARLY CANTOR is a meticulous hands-on editor who “becomes one” with every project, paying close attention to both the big picture and the small details. For several years, she was an acquisitions editor at Carol Publishing Group, a mid-sized press in New York, where she acquired and edited numerous hardcover and trade paperback titles on a variety of nonfiction subjects, including Judaica and other ethnicity-focused books, memoir, self-help, and psychology.
She currently represents authors as an agent with a well-established NYC agency (Joëlle Delbourgo & Assoc.), which provides her with a foot in the New York publishing world (and access to the current thinking about what is hot and what is not!).
Carly has authored two books: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and The Mexican War (The Child’s World, 2003).
Some of the Jewish-themed books she has edited include:
- Two Jews Can Still Be a Mixed Marriage
- The Jewish Family Fun Book
- The Jewish Woman’s Book of Wisdom
- The Moses Mystery
- A Thriver’s Journey
- God-Optional Judaism
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ADINA PORTMAN is a published author, columnist, and book editor of numerous award-winning fiction and nonfiction titles. Her editorial role is to help you reach your goals as a writer by bringing your work closer to your ultimate vision. In addition to providing an overall manuscript review, she can offer a thorough developmental edit and critique that gets into the nitty-gritty of how to improve your work. She checks for tone, continuity, word choice, correct sentence structure, and any “author ticks” that emerge. On a larger scale, she can ensure that the narrative is smooth and progresses naturally, pointing out where the story needs clarification or the plot is inconsistent. She will focus on the presentation, structure, and organization of your work as a whole, and will make sure that the content is as coherent and effective as possible.
“Working with Adina was like working with a side of my own brain that I couldn’t otherwise access—her edits identified problems I wasn’t able to see on my own, yet they struck me as intuitive and aligned with the overall goals of my book. Crucially, Esther knows how to tread those sensitive waters of being critical without being disheartening, and being supportive without blowing smoke.” —Robert Martin
NANCY ROSENBAUM (BA, English Literature, Mt. Holyoke College) is a deadline-driven Chicago/Turabian, MLA, AMA, IEEE, and APA style expert who specializes in proofreading, fact-checking, copyediting, and formatting:
- undergraduate papers
- comprehensive exam essays
- master’s thesis, capstone, and doctoral dissertation proposals
- final theses, capstones, and doctoral dissertations
- personal statements
- scholarly articles and textbooks
- fiction, nonfiction, and self-help book manuscripts.
As an academic editing and scholarly writing specialist, Nancy:
- double-checks online texts to ensure completeness and accuracy of direct quotations (wording, punctuation) and publication details (author(s), title, publisher, date, page), as well as mirroring of parenthetical references to complete entries in the references section;
- marks and searches for sources corresponding to citations for which details were not included in References;
- marks unused sources in References, allowing students to choose whether to cite or delete them;
- corrects grammar and punctuation;
- corrects presentation of numbers, fonts, and run-in and stand-alone list elements;
- checks word or page limits, as appropriate to EDT or journal guidelines;
- ensures gender neutrality and absence of bias in text;
- formats tables according to type;
- numbers equations;
- ensures completeness and accuracy of sources in References, including confirming the need for issue numbers, edition numbers, digital object identifiers, database names, URLs;
- applies styles to headings and subheadings, allowing her to create automated tables of contents that are readily updated if the document’s contents change;
- automatically numbers table and figure captions to generate readily updated lists of figures and tables;
- corrects section/page breaks to ensure page numbering follows APA or university-specific schemes;
- explains the nature of the errors made (in comments and/or cover memo notes).
Subject experience includes business administration, computer science, diet, education and learning, finance, history, information technology, industrial technology, marketing, medicine and health care, nursing, religion, philosophy, politics, social science, and psychology. Nancy also edits self-help books, works of fiction and nonfiction, children’s books, and peer-reviewed journal articles.
CLIENT REVIEWS
“I got lucky when I found you. Thank you, darling lady, for your help and encouragement.” – Linda Gorwitz
“Nancy was very accessible and easy to work with. She was responsive, and most importantly, I’m very happy with the finished result (edited manuscript).” —Steve Todd
“Nancy has been extremely helpful and professional.” —David Cole, author of Voegelin and the Voegelinians (philosophy/politics academic retrospective).
Services provided: Developmental editing, proofreading, APA formatting, and indexing.
“Nancy did an amazing job of making my manuscript much more polished and professional. Her services included rephrasing, tightening text, and proofreading. Nancy was a joy to work with. I highly recommend her services to anyone.” —McCarley Slater, author of I’m Good Enough for Me! (self-help/psychology).
Services provided: Content editing, proofreading, and formatting.
“Nancy is a top notch professional in every sense of the word. She is kind, insightful and understanding. Her work, advice and comments are invaluable.” —Richard Karrel, MD, author of Dial 911 (dark comedy/fiction).
Services provided: Content editing, formatting, proofreading, critique, and query letter.
“The network’s prompt response detailing potential editors allowed our text to be in the hands of an editing professional in no time. The knowledge, professionalism, and editing service offered by Nancy greatly enhanced the content and flow of the textbook. Additionally, Nancy provided comments and insight that went well beyond the service paid, and returned the ~44,000 word textbook within weeks. I highly recommend the network and Nancy.” —Stephen J. Elliott, PhD, Associate Professor, Purdue University Department of Industrial Technology, author of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (technology textbook).
Services provided: Content editing, proofreading, and formatting.
“You did a superb job. I look forward to working with you again.” —David Lieberman, author of Real Power (self-help psychology).
Services provided: Copyediting, proofreading, and formatting.
“I found Nancy to be one of the most honest individuals I have ever conducted business with. Her work is excellent.” —Larry Dillon, CEO, DillonGray, author of Finding Heroes (business development/HR).
Services provided: Substantive editing, proofreading, formatting, query letter, and book proposal.
“Nancy was fast, efficient, and a joy to work with. Thank you so much for referring her to me.” —Norma Haskins, author of Unleashed (personal memoir in short-story format).
Services provided: Content editing, formatting, fact-checking, proofreading, query letter, critique, and automated table of contents.
“I’d like to thank you so much for your service leading me to Nancy. Nancy is a true professional in every aspect of her work. Through her thorough, concise, no holds barred (at my request) editing my resulting manuscript was levels beyond anything I hoped to produce as a first time book writer. I not only received editing services but an education from a teacher whose insights lead me, without directing me to improve every aspect of my writing through this process. I couldn’t recommend Nancy more highly and when I lift my head from this project in the hopes of pursuing another writing project I will be recruiting her expertise again.” —Tony Pallante, CEO, Performance Capital Services, LLC, author of From Your Wallets to Their Pockets (finance/economics).
Services provided: Content editing, proofreading, formatting, fact-checking, query letter, and critique.
“Nancy was the perfect copy editor for my project. She had the relevant knowledge to understand the topic and provided important help and information on key points throughout the document. Nancy quickly responded to my questions about certain points of the editing in a clear and professional manner and completed the assignment very quickly. I look forward to working with Nancy on future projects and acknowledged her work in my completed book.” —Consuelo Meux, Ph.D, author of How to Organize For Safety: The Step by Step Guide for Emergency and Disaster Preparedness (self-help e-book).
Services provided: Content editing, formatting, and proofreading.
“The network and Nancy Rosenbaum was a great asset in assisting the editing of my manuscript about an African American cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina. This was my first attempt at writing on this level and Nancy guided me through the hazards of self editing. She also provided objective encouragement from a person who was a friendly stranger to my project. The lesson learned was THOU SHALL NOT SUBMIT SELF EDITED MANUSCRIPTS FOR PUBLICATION because the writer is too close in terms of emotion and experience to the work.” —Reginald W. Brown, author of Oakdale/Union Hill Cemetery, A Study of a Twentieth-CenturyAfricanAmericanCemetery (historical memoir).
Services provided: Content editing, fact-checking, formatting, proofreading, and critique.