Book Editors & Proofreaders List (* Recommended by Bruce)
Most are members of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild http://www.edsguild.org/members_frame.htm
Emily Reed
oatmeal@rockisland.com
360-378-2750
Editing and proofreading services. Emily is our favorite local proofreader. Her rates are reasonable and her work is superb. We cannot say enough about Emily. Contact Bruce for a list of Emily's client endorsements.
Carolyn Acheson
carolyn.acheson@verizon.net
425-771-8933 (ph/fax)
Editing and indexing services by former senior editor of college textbook publisher turned freelancer. Experience with books and periodicals: developmental, substantive, and copyediting, rewrites, indexing, fact-checking, page mark-up. Special affinity for independent publishers. Specializations: health and medical, veterinary medicine, legal, psychology/counseling/social work, fitness/sport/outdoor, self-help, guidebooks. Hardcopy or online using Miscrosoft Office XP 2000, Word for Windows, PowerPoint. Style manuals: Chicago, AP, APA. Member, American Society of Indexers.
Cynthia Ahlquist
bmoviegirl@comcast.net
Fourteen years of experience in substantive and copyediting, writing, proofreading, and page design/layout on projects ranging from solution sheets to books to Web publishing. Six years of experience in book publishing with a major metaphysical publishing house. Five years of experience in writing, editing, and laying out Web publications. Experience writing and editing marketing materials for technical products. Areas of special expertise include education and curricula (master's in secondary education with a focus on English and theater), art, hobby crafts, performing arts, herbalism and natural healing, gardening and the organic gardening movement, astrology and other "new age" subjects, and animals and the environment.
Jane Alynn
mail@janealynn.com
www.janealynn.com
360-293-4184 (Anacortes)
Services: copy editing at all levels, light to substantive and developmental editing: writing, coaching, and teaching of writing. Experience with books and magazines. Specialties: fiction and nonfiction, fine arts, Northwest, psychology and psychotherapy, personal growth, health and mind/body healing, spirituality, travel, and women. Chicago, AP styles.
Pat Andrews
pat@draftcrafters.com
206-842-1685 or 888-842-3348
206-842-4798 (fax)
Copyediting, developmental editing, proofreading, indexing, research and fact-checking, writing. Specialties: Academic works, education, fiction, gardening, history, Northwest, periodicals, reference, textbooks. Clients include (and have included) Fenwick Publishing, Bainbridge Island Historical Society, Sasquatch, Sound Publishing, White Dog Press. Chicago, APA, and AP styles.
Amy Smith Bell
amy@asbeditorial.com
www.asbeditorial.com
206-634-2329
Editorial consulting, substantive and developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading, project management, writing, and fact-checking. Clients are typically trade and university book publishers, book packagers, nonprofits, and Internet companies. Selected clients: Beacon Press, Copper Canyon Press, Houghton Mifflin Company, Marquand Books, National Museum of American Art, Oxford University Press, Random House, and Sasquatch Books. Steering Committee member, Northwest Independent Editors Guild.
Janey Bennett
janeybennett@yahoo.com
360-738-3560 (Bellingham)
Proofreader, copyeditor: fiction, academic/scholarly, arts, history, reviews, interviews. Former editor of award-winning regional magazine. Published author. BA, Theatre Arts, UCLA. MA, Architecture History, SCI-Arc.
Allana Joy Bourne, MA, I Love To Edit
allana.bourne@gmail.com
206-226-2916
An awarding winning journalist--I won an Newspaper Association of America (NAA) award in 2001, a Best in Print in 1990--in 2002 I left The Seattle Times after 20 years to start my own editorial service, "I Love to Edit," to further develop my writing and editing skills. Currently a part-time news editor for a national publication, I devote the rest of my time to substantive editing for both fiction and nonfiction books, content editing for Web sites, and copyediting. My clients have included: The Seattle Times, PCC Sound Consumer newsletter, World Tribune (published by the international Buddhist organization, SGI) and the Northwest Craft Center, as well as many private clients. Writing services include feature and news articles to ghostwriting memoir and everything in between. Always on deadline. Accuracy is paramount. Careful attention to detail. Sensitive to your feelings. Joy is my middle name and I truly love what I do.
Kyra Freestar
kyrafreestar@yahoo.com
206-300-2601
Copyediting, proofreading, research and fact-checking. University of Washington Editing Certificate. Precise attention to detail. Areas of interest and experience include education, training materials, funding proposals and press releases, classical music, food, academic writing (especially social sciences, environmental sciences). I enjoy working with authors as well as publishers, and have experience working through difficult projects by focusing on positive, proactive, and nonjudgmental communication.
Robin Ireland
robin@robinireland.com
www.robinireland.com
360-647-7036 (ph/fax) (Bellingham)
Areas of interest include children's chapter books; sci-fi/fantasy; historical or romance fiction; humor; psychology; spiritual memoir; mind/body connection; and travel. Chicago style.
Marti Kanna
info@newleafediting.com
www.newleafediting.com
206-729-6265 (ph/fax)
866-729-6265 (toll-free)
Substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, critiquing, tutoring. Specialties: fiction (novels and short stories, all genres) and literary nonfiction (memoir, autobiography, biography), particularly when authored by unpublished or first-time writers. Master's in creative writing. Chicago style.
Debbie Leung
dleung2@earthlink.net
360-493-1107 (ph/fax -- call first if faxing)
Copyediting, proofreading, developmental and substantive editing, editor for organizational newsletters, and nonfiction writing for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and books. Published author in books and magazines, newspaper columnist, and newsletter editor for the Olympia Farmers Market. Specialties: agriculture, gardening, environment, food, health, women's issues, sports.
Jim McCormick
jimmc@rockisland.com
360-378-4833
San Juan Island. Copy, content, and developmental editing. Editor of winning novel in $5,000 Harper New Fiction Award contest. Technical editor, Lockheed Propulsion. Editor, Inside English quarterly, California higher education. Co-author, four editions Basic Grammar & Usage (Harcourt College Text). Two plays staged in San Juan Playwrights Festival. Specialize in fiction, visual arts, science, education.
Karen Parkin
kdparkin@comcast.net
206-533-1717
Fifteen years of in-house and freelance experience in publishing project management, substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, writing and map checking. Special expertise: Northwest travel, health care, and general nonfiction. Current focus: copyediting Northwest guidebooks. Edited an annual travel guide, which was an award-winning regional best seller. Background in book promotions, public relations, marketing and print buying. Have worked with Alaska Northwest Books, AAA (Automobile Association of America) Washington, Fodor's Travel Publications, Mountaineers Books and Sasquatch Books. Other clients have included Virginia Mason Medical Center, Swedish Medical Center, Nonprofit Works, YouthCare, MusicWorks Northwest and International Chaplains' Ministry. Pro bono work for nonprofits, as time allows. PC and Mac environments. Chicago, AP and various in-house styles.
Sherri Schultz
sherrischultz@earthlink.net
www.wordswithgrace.com
Substantive editing, copyediting, and proofreading of books, periodicals, Web sites, brochures, and more. Fifteen years of experience. Also offer translation from French to English. Specialties: arts, environment, food, Northwest, periodicals, politics, travel, women's issues. Well versed in Chicago, AP, and Microsoft styles. Clients include Design for Wine & Food, Island Press, PhotoMedia magazine, the Poetry Foundation, Roaring Forties Press, and Sasquatch Books. Co-founder of this wonderful Guild and member of its Steering Committee.
Sharon Sneddon
ssneddon@verizon.net
425-776-4478
Writing, copyediting, developmental editing, and proofreading in the areas of business, education, natural history, public relations, and travel. Freelance articles and photographs have appeared in many national and international publications over the past eighteen years. Some experience with PageMaker.
Heidi Thomas
suncat@ispwest.com
360-336-5803
Copy editing, substantive editing, manuscript critique, non-fiction and fiction. B.A. degree in Journalism, University of Montana, two-year fiction writing certificate, University of Washington. Experience: Seven years at The Missoulian newspaper, Missoula, Mont.; 15 years freelance writing, newspapers and magazines; 10 years desktop publishing—newsletters, brochures, flyers, published Western Montana Sports Preview Magazine; Anthology Editor and/or layout four books; Critique group member: developmental and substantive suggestions; Teacher, community adult fiction writing and memoirs classes; Manuscript Editing: developmental, substantive and copy editing for several first-draft novels; Novelist: three manuscripts completed.
Julie Van Pelt
julievp@earthlink.net
360-379-9161 (Port Townsend)
Project management, substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, and research for trade and scholarly book publishers and periodicals. Proficient in both Chicago and AP style; comfortable with complex manuscripts. Subject areas and genres include travel and outdoor recreation (e.g., hiking, climbing, mountaineering), natural history and the environment, art history, fiction, and literary nonfiction. Selected clients are Mountaineers Books, Sasquatch Books, University of Washington Press, Gale Group/Charles Scribner’s Sons, Fulcrum Publishing, and Paris Press.
