Editorial services talent directory
The Authors A.I. team has vetted or worked with the following book editors and writing coaches who work with both self-published and traditionally published authors. We can wholeheartedly recommend the following individuals to authors looking to bring a professional sheen to their manuscripts. All are open to new clients. Contact them for rates and more details about their services.
Have you had a good (or poor) experience with a fiction editor or writing coach? Please let us know.
Olivia Bedford
Rhode Island
Credentials
Olivia Bedford is a developmental editor, writer, and educator. After several years teaching creative writing, she founded her business, Olivia Helps Writers, to empower aspiring authors with supportive, actionable feedback. She specializes in helping fiction writers find the magic in their messy manuscripts and loves working with all things fantastical — whether that’s world-shaking epic fantasy, sweeping historical fiction, or heart-melting romance.
Services
Olivia offers developmental editing, manuscript evaluations, revision coaching, and outline critiques. Line editing is also available as an add-on service for editing clients. Olivia works with a variety of fiction genres but is a particularly great fit for fantasy (all subgenres), historical fiction, and romance (all spice levels welcome). You can learn more about her services at oliviahelpswriters.com.
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Kelly O’Leary
Central Florida & Australia
Credentials
Kelly O’Leary is a writer of historical fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction, and a developmental Editor certified in Developmental Editing of Fiction with the Editorial Freelancers Association. She is a pilot, history enthusiast, avid traveler, and speaks English, Italian, and Spanish.
Services
Kelly edits all genres of fiction, specializing in historical fiction, high fantasy, science fiction, military fiction, and Romantasy. Her work includes developmental editing, manuscript evaluation, and professional beta reading. She also offers developmental coaching from the earliest stages to the final draft and querying process.
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Denver Murphy
England
Credentials
Denver Murphy transitioned from academic to literary editing a decade ago and is also the author of several bestselling novels. Equally adept at editing for UK and US English readers, Denver works with both debut and experienced authors across a range of genres, including nonfiction and those for whom English isn’t their first language.
Services
Denver offers a range of professional editing services encompassing the four main areas of developmental, line, copy editing, and proofreading. He also helps authors on their journey to publication, assisting with synopses and submissions.
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Tenesha L. Curtis
Atlanta
Credentials
Tenesha is a publishing manager and founder of Writerwerx University. She has helped thousands of writers take their first steps toward indie authorship. Beyond her experience writing and editing professionally since the early 2000s, she is regularly hired to teach her fellow editorial professionals and budding authors about the art and science of writing and publishing at events such as the Atlanta Self-Publishing Conference and the Editorial Freelancers Association Conference. As both an indie author and an editor, she patiently guides her clients using first-hand experience from both sides of the book development and publication processes.
Services
Tenesha and her team provide writers with a wide range of services including book coaching, transcription, outline creation, outline review, ghostwriting, manuscript evaluation, developmental editing, copy editing, illustrations, cover design, book design, book promotion, publication assistance, proofreading, screenwriting, and screenplay coverage. All this is offered while she provides a consistent point of contact and support at every stage of a project’s development.
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Elise Chidley
Connecticut
Credentials
Elise Chidley’s first novel, Your Roots Are Showing, received a six-figure advance and was nominated in two categories of the 2009 RITA © Awards: Best First Book and Best Single Title Contemporary Romance. She received her MFA from Penn State and her MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She has taught creative writing at Manhattanville College, Writopia. and Silvermine Arts Center. She currently teaches a course on novel writing at The Westport Writers’ Workshop. Although she was born and raised in sunny southern Africa, she now lives in Connecticut, where she has learned to love snow days. When she isn’t writing, reading, or editing, you can usually find her throwing sticks for her dogs or playing pickleball.
Services
Elise offers manuscript assessment, ghostwriting, developmental editing, and copyediting. She has experience with thrillers, women’s fiction, romance, fantasy, and YA. If you’re interested in working with her, she will first read a sample of your work, and will then discuss whether you’re looking for a manuscript assessment (a one-page response to your novel, identifying problem areas and opportunities for revision), a developmental edit (more detailed feedback on plot, character, pacing, and marketability), or a copyedit (line-by-line editing of language usage, continuity, etc.). Her fees are assessed on a project-by-project basis.
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Jason Kirk
Seattle
Credentials
Jason Kirk (online @brasswax) is the award-winning editor of 100+ books. In addition to 20 years of editing and publishing experience, he has taught university writing classes and managed a team of online, email, and social-media marketers responsible for an extensive catalog of books and magazines in five formats and three countries. He was a senior editor for Amazon Publishing’s 47North and Skyscape imprints. Books he has worked on have hit the Wall Street Journal best-seller list nine times; won the Arthur C. Clarke, British Science Fiction, and dozens of other awards; and moved more than 9 million units. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan.
Services
Jason offers a variety of professional editing services from reading and consultation to full developmental and line editing, across a range of fiction and nonfiction genres. Reduced fees are offered to select clients.
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Katrina Diaz-Arnold
Dublin, Ireland
Credentials
Katrina Diaz-Arnold is an editor with more than a decade of professional publishing experience. Previously with the editorial team at Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, she worked with numerous New York Times bestselling authors before founding her own full-service editorial company, Refine Editing, in 2015. She specializes in a variety of adult genre fiction and select young adult/new adult fiction. Passionate about books her entire life, Katrina has a BA in English and creative writing from Northwestern University and a MA in Shakespeare from University College London. She loves nothing more than helping an aspiring or established author refine their work into the best, most vibrant version of itself.
Services
Developmental editing, book coaching, manuscript assessments (both comprehensive and mini), manuscript assessments with margin commentary, and line editing (developmental).
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David Bushman
New York City
Credentials
David Bushman is a writing coach and freelance editor and is co-founder/co-president of two indie publishing houses, Fayetteville Mafia Press and Tucker DS Press, distributed internationally by Simon & Schuster. He is the author of five traditionally published nonfiction books, two on true crime and three on pop culture.
Services
David offers a full suite of developmental and line editing services for aspiring, debut and experienced authors.
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Maria A. Arana
California
Credentials
Maria A. Arana is a bilingual editor who enjoys collaborating on different projects. She offers a host of services for your editing needs. Maria earned certificates for proofreading, copyediting, line editing, and developmental editing. As a former teacher, Maria knows the importance of coming across well when presenting content and being a good communicator, and she is motivated to take your writing to the next level. Maria is a writer, too, which means she understands about the heart and soul you put into your book.
Services
Manuscript assessment, developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, proofreading—see the full list of genres I can edit on my site.
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Paul Dinas
New York
Credentials
45 years of editorial experience. I’ve held the positions of editor in chief, executive editor and senior acquistions editor at Reader’s Digest, Kensington Publishing, Avon, Harlequin, and Penguin and published New York Times bestsellers.
Services
Developmental and line editing
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Roz Morris
London
Credentials
30+ years’ experience as developmental editor, copy editor, proofreader, author, journalist, and ghostwriter. My book series Nail Your Novel is recommended by university creative writing departments. Have taught master classes in self-editing for The Guardian and at retreats in Europe. Have been a bestseller as a ghostwriter. Have been senior editor with Cornerstones Literary Consultancy in London.
Services
Developmental editing, manuscript appraisal, line editing, copy editing, ghostwriting.
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Mark Posey
Location: NA
Credentials
I have nearly twenty years of experience working with Amazon bestselling authors and national award winners, as well as authors just starting their journey. With more than 400 books edited, there aren’t too many issues I can’t help with.
Services
Developmental, copy edit, and proofreading or any combination of those.
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Kristen Tate
San Francisco
Credentials
Kristen Tate has been a freelance editor for a decade, helping authors transform their work from rough draft to finished book. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University, with a focus on publishing history. She is the author of Novel Study: Decoding the Secrets and Structures of Contemporary Fiction and writes a regular newsletter full of craft advice and encouragement for authors.
Services
My service for authors, The Blue Garret, offers developmental editing, copy and line editing, as well as coaching.
