Christine L.

FICTION COPY EDITOR AND PROOFREADER--US BASED Hi! Welcome to my profile. For more than 30 years, I have been a professional fiction copy editor and proofreader. In addition to six in-house years with a publisher, I have more than twenty years of freelance experience and have worked with publishers, companies, and writers in the US and all over the world. As a Chicago Style expert (that's the style used by most major US fiction publishers), I edit and proofread adult, YA, and children's fiction (all genres). With a strong background in fiction editing, I am--unlike many editors--an expert at dialogue punctuation and paragraph breaks, and I know how to edit and proof without messing with an author's style. I edit MS Word documents using track changes, PDF files using Adobe's highlight/note function, and hard copy using the old-fashioned red pen. If you hire me, you'll get a detail-oriented copy editor and proofreader who is easy to work with. I appreciate your time! Please feel free to contact me for a detailed quote.