Jessica D.

While I am a recent addition to Upwork, I am a 20-year veteran of the publishing industry. I specialize in professional book typesetting and interior layout design using Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, and Canva, delivering clean, publication-ready files for print and digital distribution. I work with long-form manuscripts for authors, schools, educational and community organizations, journals, and small presses, producing print-ready PDFs, accessible digital PDFs, and EPUB files that meet industry standards. I do not provide basic Word document formatting; instead, I focus on creating professionally designed, publication-ready book interiors. I also bring deep editorial expertise to my layout work. I’m a copy and line editor with a PhD in Rhetoric, an MFA in Creative Writing, and 13+ years of experience teaching advanced composition. I specialize in sentence-level clarity, rhetorical effectiveness, and voice-preserving edits for academic and creative writing, helping strong drafts become polished, coherent, and submission-ready without overwriting or disrupting the author’s intent. As a professional educator, I’m especially experienced in translating academic and instructional content into clear, polished layouts suited for classroom and institutional use.