I’m a freelance editor with over 20 years of experience—longer if you count all the typos I used to find in my early reader books. I love the English language (even if teaching it, or even fully understanding it, is fraught with trouble). My job is to make everything you do better.

I have edited for traditionally published authors (like Elise Title who has published dozens of romance novels for Harlequin as well as psychosexual thrillers like Romeo for Bantam), I have also worked with self-published authors, and even authors who just want to make their passion project perfect for themselves.

“What about nonfiction books, Rebecca?”

Yep, those too; everything from business manuals like Code–Measure–Improve by Adam Schwartz and Deborah Walsh, to self-help relationship books like Relationship Cleanup by Jeffrey and Elise Title.

A special place in my clichéd heart is reserved for children’s and YA lit. I would call it nostalgia if I didn’t still read them for my own enjoyment.

There is room in that aforementioned clichéd heart for my first love—poetry. When I was a child, my big brother read Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss to me until I memorized all my favorites. In sixth grade, when my English teacher read “Suicide’s Note” by Langston Hughes—my creative and academic trajectory immediately changed (I was somewhere between wanting to be a stage actor or an Egyptologist). I studied poetry and poetics in college for my final thesis. I think that knowing the way words work in poetry gives me a unique perspective that serves to enhance my editing skills.