Deanna Hoak

Someone asked in the comment thread: I wondered about that–what is the etiquette. I think it’s possible a huge project of mine is at last going to get read and a pub date…and if so, I was wondered this past week, as I wait to find out, if I could request you or if the [...]

Do authors ever hire a copy-editor personally, for preliminary work?
I’m asked about this quite often. I have on occasion been hired by authors to edit their book before it went to the publisher or before they started shopping it. In general though, honestly, I try to discourage authors from this when they ask (a few [...]

Sorry for the delay in responding to comments. I’ve been a busy girl! I’m going to pull some of the questions posed in comments to my last post up top to respond to them, though, for the benefit of those reading through a blog aggregator.
Are there preferred margins for copyediting? What about lines per page?
Standard [...]