Editorial Services

Feedback that makes the work more fully itself.

I provide close, rigorous feedback for research, policy, and fiction. My fiction work has a particular focus on science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian content. Across genres, the goal is to make the work more effective without sanding away the author's voice, purpose, or complexity.

Services

Choose the depth and lens the work needs.

01

Substantive & Developmental Editing

High-level editing focused on the substance, structure, and effectiveness of a piece—not copyediting alone.

  • Overall structure and organization
  • Argument and logic
  • Narrative flow and clarity
  • Audience and consistency
  • Scholarly rigor where applicable
  • Gaps or underdeveloped ideas
  • Maintaining authorial voice
02

Beta Reading

Reader-focused feedback on the experience of a fiction or other long-form work, without the intervention level of a developmental edit.

  • Reader engagement
  • Pacing
  • Characterization
  • Worldbuilding
  • Narrative clarity
  • Points of confusion
  • Emotional impact
  • What is and is not landing
03

Sensitivity / Authenticity Reading

Focused feedback is available for Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and disabled or neurodivergent framings, with attention to representation, assumptions, language, and context.

  • Representation and framing
  • Unexamined assumptions
  • Language and context
  • Potential gaps or harms
  • Questions for further consultation

Scope clarity

Developmental editing and beta reading are not interchangeable.

Substantive / developmental edit

A deeper editorial intervention. Feedback examines how structure, argument, narrative, evidence, and audience work together and offers a prioritized revision path.

Beta read

A reader-response engagement. Feedback documents the reading experience—where attention holds, where confusion emerges, and what lands emotionally—without redesigning the manuscript.

Current experience

Disability Policy Foundry

I provide substantive editorial review for Disability Policy Foundry work, with attention to argument, organization, clarity, framing, and the implications of language choices in disability-policy writing.

This work reflects the kind of feedback I value: specific enough to support revision, candid about what is not working, and careful not to replace an author's analysis or voice with my own.

About sensitivity reading

A careful read, not a universal stamp of approval.

I can offer one informed perspective on Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and disabled or neurodivergent representation. No individual reader can speak for an entire community or guarantee that a work will land the same way for everyone. When a project crosses multiple identities or experiences, additional readers may be appropriate.

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