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Keith M.

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Seasoned editor with twenty years of experience at established publishers. I’m here to take your book to the next level. I offer proofreading, editing, and writing services at competitive rates. Books I have worked on have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the World Fantasy Award, the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, and the Arabic Booker. Clients include NYU Press, AUC Press, and Heinemann Publishers. I have edited books published by Pearson, Hachette, Macmillan, Routledge, Praeger, Rowman & Littlefield, and Penguin, as well as a number of smaller presses. I received a $45,000 advance from Penguin for my first novel, The Book of Flying. It has been published in a number of countries. My second novel, The Book on Fire, was selected as one of the hundred best fantasy novels of 2010. My fiction, translations, and articles have been published in a variety of journals and magazines. I am a fastidious and conscientious proofreader and editor, familiar with The Chicago Manual of Style, AP, APA, MLA, Hart's Rules, and the Bluebook. My primary focus is fiction, but I have edited manuscripts in the fields of history, architecture, political science, biology, and law. Accustomed to writing and editing against deadlines, I offer fast turnaround on projects.

🇺🇸Harrisonburg, United States$40/hr100% JSS4.98 (92)Since Oct 2015

Earnings and projects

MRR
$556

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#73,541 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#11,061 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$765

Last 6 months: $3.3k

World#51,154 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,213 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$35k

Billed in all: $89k

World#100,205 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#17,513 / 62.1k
Per project
$279

$834 in the last 6 months

World#237,319 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#38,419 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
4
75% fixed25% hourly
World#51,813 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,181 / 62.1k
Projects in all
124

Across 136 contracts

85% fixed15% hourly
World#20,782 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,367 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$89.1k+$765 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$88.0k$88.5k$89.0k$89.5kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 10% in Creative Writing

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  8. #1,063Creative Writing10,453 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #324Top 10%