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Amy B.

Amy B.

Sacramento, CA
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LION BY THE TAIL | Literary & Editorial | Tenacious Editing By Amy B.

You’ve finished your manuscript. Excellent! I’ll be your trusty & collaborative editor. Memoir: Hard Stories, Bold Edits You’ve written your memoir and want to share it with the world. Whether you go traditional or self-publish, a good edit can make all the difference. I’m skilled at editing and writing memoir, which means I understand what it’s like to pour your heart into a personal story and know how to make sure your voice shines through on every page. Speculative Fiction: You Write It, I Wanna Edit It Bring it on! All your wild plots and fantastic worlds are welcome here. Let’s work together to make sure your narration, dialogue, and characterizations tell your story the best way possible. Hybrid Tale? Misfit Novel? Yes, and Yes, Please Hey, maybe you don’t know where your story fits. That’s okay. I’m an open and curious reader and editor, ready, willing, and able to tackle your weird little text monster. It’s All About That Sentence Level Love (Line Editing) You’ve written your novel or your memoir (or your strange creature) and put your all into telling the best story you can. Now let me help you make sure every sentence is tightened and packs the punch needed to keep readers invested all the way to the last line. I offer these services: • Line Editing • Manuscript Evaluation • Developmental Editing • Copyediting • Pro Beta Rea Recent books I’ve editied (both picked up by Clash Books): 1. In Defense of Ska by Aaron Carnes (2021) (Amazon Best Seller in Punk, One of Pitchfork’s best music books of 2021) 2. What I Was Arrested For by Keith Lowell Jensen (out in 2022) EDUCATION: • Writer’s Digest Copyediting Certificate (2021) • Poynter ACES Advanced Editing, Audience-Focused Editing, & Editing Certificates (2021) • Editorial Arts Academy Developmental Editing for Fiction (2021) • Editorial Arts Academy Copyediting Fiction & Nonfiction (2021) • Page Two Editorial Line Editing for Fiction & Nonfiction (2021) • Vast and diverse writing classes • Writing and beta reading writers • Voracious reader of all kinds of fiction and nonfiction (My first love is fiction) Various Writings: • A Brief Reporting of Tiny Conflagrations -Atticus Review • Trail Magic -HeartWood Lit • Somewhere Outside Loveland -New Ohio Review • Ugly Pumpkins -WOW! Essay contest runner-up • The Girl Who Knew Shit -Ozy • Cookie Season -Salon • Menopause Checkup -Salon • Adult Section -Sunlight Press CNF contest winner Many articles on music & food for Good Times Santa Cruz & Sac N&R (2015-2020)
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Feb 6, 2022 - Mar 8, 2022

"My main concern was that my voice would be changed by the editing process. The manuscript was delivered in a clean, fresh read while keeping my voice intact. The changes and suggestions were right in line with the type of style consistent with my writing. There was a lot of work put into this. Amy did an excellent job."

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When Love Sticks Around by Danielle Dayney
When Love Sticks Around by Danielle Dayney
What I Was Arrested For by Keith Lowell Jensen
What I Was Arrested For by Keith Lowell Jensen
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Amy B.

Amy B.

Sacramento, CA
Job Success
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LION BY THE TAIL | Literary & Editorial | Tenacious Editing By Amy B.

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You’ve finished your manuscript. Excellent! I’ll be your trusty & collaborative editor. Memoir: Hard Stories, Bold Edits You’ve written your memoir and want to share it with the world. Whether you go traditional or self-publish, a good edit can make all the difference. I’m skilled at editing and writing memoir, which means I understand what it’s like to pour your heart into a personal story and know how to make sure your voice shines through on every page. Speculative Fiction: You Write It, I Wanna Edit It Bring it on! All your wild plots and fantastic worlds are welcome here. Let’s work together to make sure your narration, dialogue, and characterizations tell your story the best way possible. Hybrid Tale? Misfit Novel? Yes, and Yes, Please Hey, maybe you don’t know where your story fits. That’s okay. I’m an open and curious reader and editor, ready, willing, and able to tackle your weird little text monster. It’s All About That Sentence Level Love (Line Editing) You’ve written your novel or your memoir (or your strange creature) and put your all into telling the best story you can. Now let me help you make sure every sentence is tightened and packs the punch needed to keep readers invested all the way to the last line. I offer these services: • Line Editing • Manuscript Evaluation • Developmental Editing • Copyediting • Pro Beta Rea Recent books I’ve editied (both picked up by Clash Books): 1. In Defense of Ska by Aaron Carnes (2021) (Amazon Best Seller in Punk, One of Pitchfork’s best music books of 2021) 2. What I Was Arrested For by Keith Lowell Jensen (out in 2022) EDUCATION: • Writer’s Digest Copyediting Certificate (2021) • Poynter ACES Advanced Editing, Audience-Focused Editing, & Editing Certificates (2021) • Editorial Arts Academy Developmental Editing for Fiction (2021) • Editorial Arts Academy Copyediting Fiction & Nonfiction (2021) • Page Two Editorial Line Editing for Fiction & Nonfiction (2021) • Vast and diverse writing classes • Writing and beta reading writers • Voracious reader of all kinds of fiction and nonfiction (My first love is fiction) Various Writings: • A Brief Reporting of Tiny Conflagrations -Atticus Review • Trail Magic -HeartWood Lit • Somewhere Outside Loveland -New Ohio Review • Ugly Pumpkins -WOW! Essay contest runner-up • The Girl Who Knew Shit -Ozy • Cookie Season -Salon • Menopause Checkup -Salon • Adult Section -Sunlight Press CNF contest winner Many articles on music & food for Good Times Santa Cruz & Sac N&R (2015-2020)
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Feb 6, 2022 - Mar 8, 2022

"My main concern was that my voice would be changed by the editing process. The manuscript was delivered in a clean, fresh read while keeping my voice intact. The changes and suggestions were right in line with the type of style consistent with my writing. There was a lot of work put into this. Amy did an excellent job."

Private earnings

Portfolio

When Love Sticks Around by Danielle Dayney
When Love Sticks Around by Danielle Dayney
What I Was Arrested For by Keith Lowell Jensen
What I Was Arrested For by Keith Lowell Jensen
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"Amy is easily the best editor I've ever worked with. She has edited countless essays of mine, and every time she manages to dig the best writing out of my head so I can get it onto the paper. Amy has amazing attention to detail, in-depth comments for strengthening and shining, and I can tell that she truly cares about the craft of writing and editing. I would recommend her to any writer out there, no matter the genre."

Danielle D.
Dec 2021
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"When I was working on my book "In Defense of Ska" in early 2019, I was completely lost. I had so many ideas and big picture concepts but it wasn't coming out how I wanted it to. Amy did a full developmental edit with me in the Spring of 2019. In more developed chapters, she gave me great line edits. In ones that needed a lot of work, she asked me questions that I needed to think about so I could focus them correctly. She greatly improved my book! After submitting the book to my publisher and going back and forth a few times, Amy gave me a 2nd edit, this time just line edits (I recommend hiring her a second time if she worked with you on development). After that 2nd edit, my publisher had almost no comments for me. Amy is extremely insightful, a pleasure to work with and very helpful!"

Aaron C. | Author of In Defense of Ska
Dec 2021
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