Who I am:
After nearly a decade in the industry (and many more years as a reader!), I’m an editor who wholeheartedly believes in authorial purview. That just means that because you've written a book, I believe that it's yours entirely. I believe you should get to make every tiny decision about it, down to the very last comma, no matter what grammar or your mother or ANYONE says…
…including me.
My goal is to take your story and help you make it better — NOT to make it into what I believe it should be. Your goals and autonomy will be supported at every step! I do plan to give you the honest truth about genre norms and what I think, but what you do with that information is entirely up to you.
A bit about my process:
I read every book that I edit at least four times. Once forward, for comprehension. I want to meet your characters and understand your plot structure first and foremost. Once backward, because reading in a way that doesn’t center comprehension allows me to find the tiniest problems, like typos, extra letters, or extra spaces. Once via text-to-speech, because hearing the story instead of reading it can help me with a new perspective. And then a staggered read that is kind of two reads in one — this is when I note everything subjective within the file, including all the thoughts I’ve had along the way, and make sure your grammar is in agreement.
For editing, I can accept files in either Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Small fixes like grammar, capitalisation, and typos will be placed in tracked changes, and more subjective items and observations will be nestled into the comments of the doc. This allows you to see every single thing I’ve changed, and to retain control over whether those changes are applied.