Substantive Editing, Developmental Editing, Line Editing, Copy Editing, Rewriting, Ghostwriting, Evaluations E. M. Levy, a professional editor for over thirty years, has edited books for Doubleday, Random House, Princeton University Press, Macmillan, Paulist Press, Prentice-Hall, SUNY Press, Scholastic, Scholars Press, Praeger, Solution Tree Press, and many other publishers and private individuals. His projects have received …
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Hannah Earthman
Hannah Earthman is an experienced editor whose clients' books have been sold to traditional publishers and have become Amazon best sellers. She frequently helps clients with multiple aspects of the publishing process, calling on her experience as not only a book editor but also a book reviewer (for Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Indie), acquisitions editor (for Sotto Voce Magazine and Scout …
Jo-Ann Langtree
Developmental Editing, Copyediting, Proofreading Jo-Ann has been in the writing and editing business for 25 years, specializing in self-help, holistic health, metaphysical and spiritual topics. Throughout the ’90s, she served as Associate Editor of Body, Mind & Spirit, a national New Age magazine for which she edited all copy and wrote features and celebrity …
Indexing: Construct a Topic Tree
by Aubrey Otero Copy Editor, Developmental Editor, Ghostwriter, Writing Mentor, Memoir Writer Book-Editing.com, Editing-Writing.com Indexing is not for the faint of heart. It requires superb mental organizational skills, and an ability to discern the big picture while sorting out the minutiae. Without proper organization, you might go mad. Especially with academic books, organizing topics can …
Build A Scaffold for the Index
by Aubrey Otero Copy Editor, Developmental Editor, Ghostwriter, Writing Mentor, Memoir Writer Book-Editing.com, Editing-Writing.com An indexer must be able to grasp the themes of the book, as well as the subthemes, a task more easily stated than accomplished. Especially in academic books, the themes and subthemes can be interwoven until they are almost impossible to …
Indexing: Job Security Because a Computer Can’t Do It
by Aubrey Otero Copy Editor, Developmental Editor, Ghostwriter, Writing Mentor, Memoir Writer Book-Editing.com, Editing-Writing.com Indexers have job security. For the time being, anyway, and likely for some time to come. Computers can’t “think” well enough to do an index yet, so robots aren’t going to replace us any time soon. Many years ago, with the …