Developmental Editing

Jane Ryder
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We provide friendly, professional, personal support for traditional and indie authors. If you’re like most writers, you have a family, a life, and probably a day job along with all the other adulty stuff constantly demanding your attention, so finding time to write is hard enough. But once you’ve written, there’s even more stuff to do. There’s figuring out which publishing path is right for you, and developing a platform, and creating an author brand, and social media marketing, and book promotion, and a whole bunch of other things that most authors find about as appealing as a chocolate-covered cactus.

We provide all kinds of support services for authors seeking indie and traditional publication: book shepherding, publishing consultation, editing, reviewer and blogger outreach, beta reading ... whatever you need!
Justine Manzano
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Justine Manzano is a YA author and freelance editor living in Bronx, NY with her husband, son, and a cacophony of cats. Her novel, The Order of the Key will be available from Black Rose Writing in July 2020. She can normally be found at her website, www.justinemanzano.com,and she’s on all the usual social media haunts. If you’ve looked in all these places and can’t find her, she’s probably off reading fanfiction. She’ll be back soon.
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From The Order of the Key:
In my dreams, I ran with my father.
Or at least I thought it was my father. I never had the chance to meet him before he took off and kept on running, right away from Mom, from me, from kissing away boo-boos, and sneaking me cookies from the cupboard when Mom wasn’t looking. Or whatever it was people did with their dads. I wouldn’t know.
But in the dream, we were together. His voice light and teasing, an Irish brogue, an accent unlike anyone else’s in my life. He prodded me to hurry, to run faster, to keep up with him.
The air was clear and we didn’t run on a track. Our feet snagged on fallen tree limbs and slick patches of wet leaves, through the clearing in a forest I didn’t recognize. We would take off, so fast it was like flying.
It wasn’t real. For one thing, nobody moved that way. I wasn’t The Flash, though that would be awesome. For another, I’d lived in Bronx, New York my entire life, and the only stretch of open green space like that in the Boogie Down was the Botanical Garden or the Zoo. They didn’t just let you blast through the trees there.
In The Bronx, there were track meets on asphalt schoolyards, or wood gym floors with bad polish jobs. Which was where I pressed my fingertips, my heels resting on the starting blocks, waiting impatiently for the whistle to blow.
Maybe that dream was why I loved this so much.
If I won this eight-hundred-meter race, I’d get the sweet spot in the first city-wide competition of the school year. I rocked up onto my toes and back down.
I could do this.
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.006 cents per word for proofreading to .010 for a developmental edit
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Kristen Corrects, Inc.
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Fiction book editor Kristen Hamilton is an award-winning editor who provides professional manuscript editing services. With astounding qualifications, several awards, and a flawless mastery of the complexities of the English language, Kristen has the manuscript editing skills to bring refinement to any book.

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I am the founder, owner, and sole employee of Kristen Corrects, Inc., where I provide book manuscript editing and business writing services. Working independently allows me the opportunity to interact with my clients and provide them personalized service. I believe there is nothing better than communication and friendliness in a business world that is slowly becoming less focused on people.

At Kristen Corrects, I provide a range of services: I edit book manuscripts, write website content, and provide copyediting, proofreading, and developmental editing services. I also play a pivotal role as Senior Editor at The Modern Gladiator, an online men’s lifestyle magazine.

Being a freelancer means I have participated in hundreds of projects—from editing books to writing web content to teaching immigrants English. I am passionate about what I do and am in a constant state of learning. And that’s the best job there is.

When I’m not working, I’m spending time with my three cats (and working buddies) Sophie, Charlie, and Jack, and am likely planning my next vacation.

Business phone: 208-447-0860

Email: kristen@kristencorrects.com

http://www.kristencorrects.com
Maria Tureaud
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A lifetime reader, and passionate writer, I have accrued over twelve years experience as a freelance editor. I love to get my hands on stories that need that next-level push to make them shine, and focus on coaching writers so they might apply our time together to not only their current work, but future projects. Specializing in characterization, internal/external conflict, and voice, I love to help writers balance craft with creativity in order to produce the best possible product.

In 2019 I became an editor for the Twitter pitch event, Revise & Resub (#RevPit), and am a proud member of the EFA (Editorial Freelancers Association).

I edit most genres of fiction across multiple age categories, but I’m especially passionate about historical fiction, fantasy, horror, and underrepresented cultures/mythologies. On saying that, anything with a high concept that showcases strong, grounded characters will capture my heart.

Price Range
Varies by Package. Full details available on my website
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Tyler Zeoli
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Hey! I’m Tyler.
I’m an editor with a passion for helping people make the story in their head match the words they put on the page. I made the incredibly poor financial decision of going to college for Creative Writing, but that means I literally have a degree in understanding how stories work. Long form or shorter fiction, it doesn’t matter. I love stories. My specialties are speculative fiction, literary fiction, and magical realism – though I have done and will work on other genres and nonfiction pieces.

Things I can help you with: Plot consistency, character arcs, worldbuilding, voice, sentence structure, pacing, anything that has to do with the inner workings of your story. Things I will look out for, but is not my main focus: grammar, spelling, punctuation.
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