Ana M.

I’m a skilled and versatile developmental editor, line editor, copy editor, proofreader, and ghostwriter with nearly twenty years of experience in all fiction genres (with a particular love of contemporary romance, paranormal, fantasy, science fiction, rom com, cozies, and thrillers, including LGBTQ+) as well as in nonfiction, business books, and marketing. FOR FICTION If you’re publishing on KU, I’m up on all the best-selling genres and tropes of romance—mafia, boss, billionaire, dark romance, sports (esp. hockey), western, paranormal (including omegaverse), sci-fi/alien, romantasy—as well as thrillers (including domestic thrillers), mysteries, cozies, fantasy, science fiction, and horror. I'm happy with all heat levels from sweet to super spicy, incuding menage/poly/RH/why not. Whether you publish on KU or wide, I can help you structure your plot, deepen your characters, use POV to your advantage, improve your pacing, and correctly lay out mystery clues and timelines. For fantasy and SF, I can help you make sure your worldbuilding and magic or tech is consistent and logical. I'll assist you in refining your prose, hitting the tension, suspense, humor, emotion, and conflict in your scenes. If you use AI, I can help you weed out the common tells and make sure your scenes don't drift. Whatever your process, I'll make sure your book hits all the genre tropes readers love. It'll hook them from the start and keep them turning the pages long into the night. If you're just looking for a copy edit, I'll maintain your voice while making sure everything's correct at the sentence level--syntax, grammar, spelling, etc. I'll check for consistency and continuity, making sure the blue eyes aren't gray in chapter five and that the character who's already sitting in the room doesn't suddenly enter. If you want a deeper line edit, I can help you fine-tune and improve your prose for tension, pacing, humor, better dialogue, etc. And if you just need a proof, you'll get clean, error-free copy. If you're looking for a ghostwriter, I do that too. I'm a professional writer (previously agented, first published in 2010). Since then, I've written or ghostwritten over forty books in contemporary, paranormal, fantasy, and SF, from 10K to 110K words. Books will come to you with all the tropes, trends, and sizzle you're looking for, customized to your author brand, target audience, house style guidlines, and preferred voice and tone. And every milestone I complete will be fully self-edited. FOR NONFICTION I’ve provided editorial proofs, copyediting, cover and descriptive copy, and final production proofing for Forbes Books, Entrepreneur Press, and Advantage Books, as well as for self-published authors. I’m skilled at working with photos, tables, charts, and other graphics, including captions and credits, and at correcting citations in both the notes and bibliography and author-date systems. I’ve worked extensively with AI-generated content to humanize and improve the quality of writing. I’ve also worked extensively with marketing and promotional copy. I’m an expert in Chicago Manual of Style 18th ed., Word’s track changes, comments, and advanced layout and design features, as well as in working with PDFs and online services such as PageProof. I’m fast, thorough, and dependable, and I’m absolutely dedicated to helping you make your work the best it can be—in your own style and voice and no one else’s. Let’s work together to make your publishing projects shine!