Carly Smith 📖✍️

@carlysmith.net

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Writer, freelance light novel/manga editor. 🌈 She/her. 📖 Editor for Until I Meet My Husband, Qualia the Purple, Reborn to Master the Blade, My Magical Career at Court, I'm a Terminal Cancer Patient, and more! https://www.carlysmith.net/

Screenshot of tracked changes in a document in which a cat stepped on the keyboard to suggest an insertion of a cluster of letters and numbers, which reads: "weeeee=---cv -00000"
Cover of Volume 1 of the manga Magical Girl Dandelion by Kaeru Mizuho. Its primary color is yellow and features a yellow and orange magical girl at the center with a shadowy figure behind her leering at the viewer.
Collection of covers for light novels and manga that Carly Smith worked on (or published) in 2025. Light novel editing: The Legendary Witch Is Reborn as an Oppressed Princess (volumes 3–5), The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods (volumes 1–3), My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages' Guild! (volume 6), Buying You on the Day You Were to Die, and 1 gray box stand-in with the text "Coming Soon." Manga editing: After School Etude (volumes 2–3), Otonari Complex (volumes 3–5), Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire (volume 6), Throw Away the Suit Together (volume 3), Death's Daughter and the Ebony Blade (volumes 5–7), and 2 gray box stand-ins with the text "Coming Soon." Copy editing and proofreading (both light novels and manga): Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools (Side Stories, volumes 10–11), Lucia and the Loom: Weaving Her Way to Happiness (volume 3), Goodbye, Overtime! This Reincarnated Villainess Is Living for Her New Big Brother (light novel; volumes 3–6), The countess Is a Coward No More! (volumes 3–4), The Beginning After the End (volume 9), A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires (light novel; volume 1), Lady Bumpkin and Her Lord Villain (volumes 3–5), This Gyaru's Got a Thing for...Vampire Hunters?! (volume 1), The Fearsome Witch Teaches in Another World (light novel; volume 1), Liar, Liar (light novel; volume 7; coming soon), Even a Replican Can Fall in Love (light novel; volume 4; coming soon), and a gray box stand-in with the text "Coming Soon."
Front cover of Buying You on the Day You Were to Die
Orange cat with one front paw covering half of his face while he sleeps on a bed
Anime NYC 2025 Pro badge with a badge ribbon from light novel/manga company J-Novel Club that says, "I have no shelf control."
Screenshot from Seven Seas Entertainment's website, the page for the manga After School Etude, volume 3 by Hirune Cyan, translated by Jan Cash, adapted by Carly Smith, and lettered by Carolina Hernández Mendoza, published on June 17, 2025. The cover art on the left shows a lean, short man in dark hair and his arms stretched out behind him as he dances with his partner, a taller young man with light hair who embraces him. Back cover copy: SWEPT OFF HIS FEET! Minobe is the type to give everything his all, whether it be his daily ballet practices or his relationship with Ichinomiya, an upperclassman with an awe-inspiring gift for dance. When their friend Takarai posts the pas de deux the couple danced to the internet, an American ballet troupe comes knocking at their door looking to recruit them. Soon the two young men are thrust into a new environment, and find their love for each other deepening. But while they might be on the same page as lovers, as dancers they still need to get in the same groove!
Cover of the English print version of Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire, Volume 6.
Screenshot from X from the account MangaAlerts that states, "Ai Localization Company Orange Inc announced they’ve partnered up with VIZ Media, Kodansha USA, & Yen Press to add their titles to the newly launched Emaqi Manga App • It’s available now on IOS/Android"
The front cover of the manga Otonari Complex volume 3. Story and Art by Saku Nonomura. There is a tall, masculine-looking young woman on the left and a feminine, shorter young man on the right with various sweets around them as decoration.
The J-Novel Club cover for The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods on the left shows a young girl with long blonde hair in a big witchlike hat as she sits at a cauldron. The summary to the right reads: Misha is a young girl living in the forest with her mother, learning how to make medicine. However, when tragedy draws her out of her forest home, she quickly learns how much more her world will expand.
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post reads: "It broke my heart because [McArthur] didn't have to do that," Evelyn said. "What are you gonna gain from that aside from a few thousand likes on Elon Musk's masturbation platform? I don't understand dogpiling on someone to make yourself look better for decisions [Werry] might not have been responsible for. We're only a single person. We can only do so much."
A screenshot from the Editorial Freelance Association's rates page, accessed January 29, 2025. The table shows rates for Line Editing with columns of rates by the word, by the hour, and by the page. Highlighted are the rates for Fiction (2.5 to 4.0 cents per word, $45 to $60 per page, and $6.25 to $10.00 per page) and Graphic novels (2.5 to 4.0 cents per word, $40 to $55 per page, and $6.25 to $10.00 per page).
A graphic of completed work edited in 2024, which has the covers of many light novels and manga (all published in 2024). Books that have not published yet have a gray box that says "COMING SOON." In the top left is a box that reads "Carly Smith" with a pink border. Below that reads "2024 Edits" and Carly's bluesky handle and website (carlysmith.net). Reborn to Master the Blade manga volumes 2 through 4 are listed as now in print as well as volumes 2 through 4 of the light novel. The next section of books is the list of edited light novels (including My Magical Career at Court, Reborn to Master the Blade, The Legendary Witch is Reborn as an Oppressed Princess, and The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady). The rightmost section at the top is the section of edited manga volumes, which includes After School Etude, Otonari Complex, Reborn to Master the Blade manga volume 5, and Throw Away the Suit Together. Below that is a line of light novels that Carly proofread, which inclues Goodbye, Overtime!, Lady Bumpkin and Her Lord Villain, Lucia and the Loom, My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex, Miss Nicola the Exorcist, and The Countess is a Coward No More!
Screencap of Anime NYC's professional badge registration page. On the left, it says "4-Day Pro: The 4-Day Professional Badge is intended for industry professionals attending Anime NYC for business purposes. $80." On the right, it says, "Friday Only Pro: The Friday Professional Badge is intended for educators/librarians attending Anime NYC for professional purposes. Complimentary."
Orange cat sits on top of a desk, his butt on the numpad of the keyboard.