Line edits are an essential style edit. Some editors refer to these as copy edits. Line edits primarily focus on your word choice, word usage, flow, pacing, and structure of your sentences. If you said the word tepid twice in three paragraphs, a line edit will catch it.
Changes are made in-text via Word’s Track Changes. Please send your manuscript as a Word or Google Doc, 12 pt, Times New Roman, 1” margins, double spaced.
Meet the Editors
Margaret Kingsbury
Margaret Kingsbury is a freelance writer, editor, and book coach with a passion for helping people. She gushes about books monthly at Book Riot, Think Inclusive, Baby Librarians, BuzzFeed Books and more, but she still can’t stop talking about books. You’ve been warned.
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Julia Allen
Julia has nearly 20 years of editing experience, with strengths in character arcs and story structure. She’s also talented at
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Horror Erotica
Cameron Van Sant
Cameron Van Sant is an editor who wants to see every writer succeed. He has experience editing creative works, professional reports, and academic writing.
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April Jones
April Jones has read, written, or edited her way through dozens of fictional worlds. When she’s not working as a teacher or freelance editor, she spends her time pretending to practice Korean by binge watching Korean dramas. She received her bachelors in English and her M.F.A. in creative writing.
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Erotica
Larissa Pienkowski
Larissa Melo Pienkowski is a freelance editor and sensitivity reader, as well as the assistant publisher of Dottir Press. She holds a Bachelor’s in Social Work from Simmons University and a Master’s in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College. As the queer daughter of Brazilian and Polish immigrants,
Read MoreYoung adult, literary fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, romance/erotica, anything LGBTQ+, middle-grade, coming-of-age stories, horror in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, magical realism, social justice essay collections, books on beauty and aesthetics.
Military Slasher horror Fantasy Sci-Fi
Kim VanderHorst
Kim is an experienced and kind developmental editor. Maybe because she’s a mom. Maybe because she’s Canadian. But she has a knack
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Historical Military Nonfiction
Rebecca Blevins
Rebecca Blevins is the author of four published books. She has been freelance editing for several years and enjoys helping
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Erotica Slasher Horror
Mandy Ballard
Mandy reads, writes, leads writers’ education groups, and does yoga in the cracks between all that drives life on a tiny
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Horror Erotica
Candice Roma
Candice has dedicated her life to words. Initially she had dreams of going to medical school, but when she was faced with the choice of Inorganic Chemistry or taking a Creative Writing class, she ran screaming from the science lab and into the amazing world of creative fiction.
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Erotica Christian
Jeigh Meredith
Jeigh is a copy editor with several years of experience. She is super quick and super accurate. Her fiction placed first in the LDStorymakers
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Erotica
Carrie Jacks
Carrie loves the entire process of publishing a novel—from developing that brand new, exciting idea to formatting the words to look perfect on the page.She is sometimes intimidated by editing her own words, but she loves to read other writers’ works in progress to help make them the best they can be. Read More
Young Adult Fantasy Dystopian
Dark Horror Heavy Sci-Fi Erotica
Trinica Sampson
Trinica Sampson is a writer and freelance editor with experience as an Editorial Assistant at Utne Reader and The Antioch Review. She loves working with writers to make their novel, comic, video game dialogue, poetry, or personal essay the best version of itself that it can be.
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Nicole Hawken
Nicole is a passionate storyteller and consumer of stories. She particularly loves building complex worlds and developing compelling characters.
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Trisha Tobias
Trisha Tobias is Associate Fiction Editor for FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology, a freelance editor, and a 2018 Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient.
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Horror Historical
Rochelle Burnside
Rochelle Burnside is a developmental and line editor who works by day as a content marketer, writing ad copy and non-fiction articles. She is also an avid writer of fanfiction,
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