Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - COMING AUGUST 2026
Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
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Greg Ioannou @gregioannou.bsky.social Worked on over 4,000 books (edited, ghost-written or published), 30+ board games (edited and playtested), and corporate and government docs. I was the first member of Editors Canada and the Editors' Association of Earth. And I collect stamps & records.
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
Kristin | Detailed Draft @detaileddraft.bsky.social Editor and writer. Résumé specialist (CPRW). Book award judge. Dog hugger. Science fiction, kidlit, and anything else with themes of possibility. she/her
#SCBWI #ACES #EFA #IBPA
detaileddraft.com
Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social Freelance medical editor, alto, digital packrat, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. If you tell me a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable, you’ll get a lecture. 🇨🇦 She/her. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick
Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com Certified Professional Editor • cookbook indexer • plain language trainer • mental health researcher • adjunct prof • #AngryJellyDonut • #LyricsPrompt prompter • #ParticipateInResearch booster • author, #AfterTheFeast • she/her • www.ivacheung.com
John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social Retired Baltimore Sun editor, flaneur. Author of “The Old Editor Says” and “Bad Advice.” Kentuckian transplanted to Baltimore. 
Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social Copy editor (ProPublica, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN), baker, cross stitcher, cat furniture. she/her
Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻♀️🧁 @karenyin.bsky.social Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books, including The Conscious Style Guide (Hachette). I open my own jars. KarenYin.com/links
VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company
Jonathon Owen @arrantpedantry.com Editor • Writer • Linguist • Ironic meta-pedant • Villain • Cat person
Blog: https://www.arrantpedantry.com
Merch: https://arrantpedantry.myspreadshop.com
Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social Assistant Director of the Institute of Advanced Columbo Studies; Certified Meth(eny) Head
(the handle is a clue)
Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social Jewish romance writer; sci-fi, fantasy, and romance editor; university writing coach; Jane Austen enthusiast
✍✡️📚
Repped by Christina Miller at Nancy Yost Literary Agency
📍Halifax, Nova Scotia
She/her
Find me professionally at www.rookwoodediting.com
Madeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com freelance editor and proofreader of books, comics, news, and other stuff • author of The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style • co-head and senior editor of @twincitiesgeek.com • she/her
🔗 madeleinevasaly.com/links
📖 comicbookstyle.com
Rachel Lapidow @editrix-rachel.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader, & developmental editor of TTRPGs, comics, board games, sci-fi, & fantasy. Newbie indexer. Lover of apple cider doughnuts. Knitter. Generative AI sucks. She/her 📚 www.rachellapidow.com
Brainstormer in Chief: #StetChat @stetchat.com
Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social Streamlining the author platform and strengthening the author brand.
www.virtualauthorsassistant.com
Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
Iroise Tracy @wavesofwords.bsky.social 
Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social (she/her) Poet, songwriter, finder of lost things. Lover of the amphibious. Endearingly uncool. Occasional open mic performer. Visit https://prairievixenpress.ca/about/ for a list of places to find my poems.
Madam Grammar @madamgrammar.bsky.social Professor, editor, grammar evangelist in the Sunflower State. Finding the joy in language and walking the fine red line between prescriptivism and descriptivism. She/her.
heath @marigolds.bsky.social words mechanic. mute me when skating’s on
Kristine Hunt @henitsirk.bsky.social I teach history (US & world) to undergrads. A scholarly copy editor for 20+ years. Northwest Editors Guild board secretary, Friends of the Lebanon (OR) Public Library vice-president. Gardener, cat wrangler. Opinions mine. She/her
On Santiam Kalapuya land
Karen Wise @wisekaren.bsky.social Book editor (mostly cookbooks). Bostonian. Liberal Democrat. Lover of cats and word puzzles/games of all kinds. she/her
JuliaEdits @juliaedits.bsky.social Careful book editing for indie romance authors. My resting bitchface brings all the boys to the yard. JuliaEdits.com - julia@juliaedits.com (she/her) 
Heather E. Saunders @h-e-saunders.bsky.social 🧡 That space-loving, orange-haired editor 🌟Here for edibuddies, space stuff, doggos, sustainability, inclusion & kindness🔸she/they/Mx
James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social Deadlines are my lifeline! Solo copyeditor (academic, scholarly, textbooks, trade/narrative nonfiction) and proofreader (any genre!). 🍩 appreciator. Enthusiastic New Jerseyan 🤌🏻 user. Trivial Democratic apparatchik. He/him.
Erin Brenner (she/her) @ebrenner.bsky.social Author of "The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors." 📘
2024 winner of the Robinson Prize. 🏆
Builder of editing teams for small and growing organizations. 💪
Advocate for conscious language. 💬
KW Thomas - author and editor @kwthomasbooks.bsky.social Very niche combination of steamy contemporary romance author and plain language health editor. North East England till I die. She/her.
mybook.to/TheScoop
Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social Copyeditor & indexer specializing in books on birds/birding. Writing a NJ moth guide. NWS weather spotter. Free-range birding librarian/archivist. She/her.
Sasha F @sashaf.myatproto.social Editor. Literary academic. PhD candidate. Mostly US literature. Theory junkie. Writer. Musician. Cat mom. She/her. Treaty 1 Territory. Palestine will be free.
Raquel ⟡ Fiction Editor @raqueledits.bsky.social ⟡ Editing SFF, Horror, Romance, and LitRPGs
⟡ Story Coach and #RevPit Editor
⟡ Creative Director @StetChat.com #StetChat
⟡ SD/PEN Board, ACES, EFA, etc.
⟡ Wizard Script Scholar: Stet, ⁐, TK, ₰, Ͽ, ⸎
✨️🧿 www.raquelbrown.com
Rachel Fudge @rachelfudge.bsky.social Editor for hire: scholarly nonfiction, public policy, and nonprofit advocacy 📚 Editorial director @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social (she/her)
Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS @kokedit.bsky.social Medical editor helping researchers in 20+ nations get published in 60+ medical journals. No GenAI/LLMs. Member: ACES, AMWA, BELS, CSE, EFA. Ex-Texan; longtime New Yorker. https://www.kokedit.com/
No to fascism & to interference with people’s civil rights.
Nicola Bigwood | Proofreader, Copyeditor, former Translator ✍️📚 @nicolabigwood.uk Proofreader & copyeditor of fiction & non-fiction, with background as a translator into English from French & German • CIEP Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic… slowly! 📍Scotland 🏴
Jen Anderson @jen.clearingblocks.com Teeth shouldn't be luxury bones. Public health comms, Tetris mastermind, catmancer, F1 fan, and freelance copy editor. Lots about brain injuries here. Views my own. She/her. 🏳️🌈
Need an editor? www.clearingblocksediting.com
Jenny Warren | Fiction Editor @jennyeditor.bsky.social Freelance line/copyeditor/proofreader of fiction. Massive romance fan 💕 Professional Member of the CIEP. She/her. https://www.warrenproofreading.co.uk/
Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com Editor: Books, poetry, query letters, content marketing
Host: #StetChat @stetchat.com
Member: @acesediting.bsky.social, @authorsguild.org
Former history major. Writer? Reader
Fan: #Survivor #JetLagTheGame #DragRace
🚫 AI
📍 STL
she/her
carolinavonkampen.com
Ayesha Chari @ayeshachari.bsky.social I-sha/Aaye-sha, n. to be, being | she/they. Sensitive academic editor. Conscious language learner. @The_CIEP | @ACESEditors | @IndieAuthorALLi. Serial🚶🏾♀️ | ❤️ nature | ☕️ fiend | 🚸 parent | occasional doodler ✏️ | https://ayeshachari.com/
Lori Paximadis @loripax.bsky.social book editor • artist • connector
perpetual resting boss face
work smarter, not harder
owner: Pax Studio LLC, Systems & Shortcuts
member: ACES, EFA, CIEP (Professional)
Editors of Words feed > https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:thqvmqvxhwkmz7sxwsy2yqfy/feed/a
Kristen Tate @kristentate.bsky.social Editor and writer at the Blue Garret. Southerner by birth, San Franciscan by choice, Italian by some route I have yet to discover. she/her/y'all
https://bio.site/kristentate
jenny o @jennyo.bsky.social Editor and publications specialist for nonprofit and social impact. 🇳🇿 pākehā / 🇨🇦 white settler posting from Treaty 3 3/4. She/her.
Lindsay (she/her) @topazlit.bsky.social www.topazliterary.com
Editor and writer, conscious language advocate, library assistant, cat valet, bookworm. 🌈📚
Jess Shulman @jessshulman.bsky.social Freelance editor, crossword constructor, also busy with kids, music, books, paddleboarding, youth baseball, TV, cats/dogs... she/her
Alicia Chantal @freshlookediting.ca Copyeditor/proofreader/authenticity reader. Lover of good books, good TV, and good music. And hockey. My fave story reps all 4! Words matter. she/her
Treaty 6 Territory, Edmonton, AB, Canada
https://campsite.bio/freshlookedit
Joel Tillman @jtillman.bsky.social he/him 🏳️🌈 IBS 💊 New York City 🗽
linguist, editor, educator 🤓
Jewish/Quaker 🕎☮️
Adult ESL Adjunct Instructor
EdM — Teachers College, Columbia University 🚕
MA — The University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰
sings karaoke and in piano bars 🎤
video games with friends online 🎮
Melissa D. Hellman @hellmanmd.bsky.social Omnivore. Editor. Cat person. Ice hockey. Gymnastics. Knitting. Cookbooks. Dessert and baking. Science. She/her. I post only for myself.
Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com Helping authors and businesses polish their text for publication: non-fiction editor and proofreader. Diploma in Egyptology. Random nature photos (not AI-generated). In the UK. She/her
https://www.suzannearnold.com
https://linktr.ee/suzannearnoldeditor
Literary Laura @literarylaura.bsky.social Writing coach, fiction editor, author. #ACES and #EFA member. Weird fiction writer. #Neurodiversity speaker & ADHDer. Human editing only - no AI involved. I bake spooky treats, powerlift & hike in search of forest groves. www.literarylaura.com
(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social Editing social science and social science fiction since 2005.
Following dragons, dictionaries, and disability justice.
Hope is a decision.
Find me at Bridge Creek Editing | Academic Editing Circle | Mightier (she/they)
James Gallagher @castlewallsedit.bsky.social Castle Walls Editing (Copyeditor, Proofreader) / Editor at Evident Ink / Pens & Pilcrows / ACES and EFA / Editor of Horror and Romance / Presenter at ACES VCON24 & ACES Salt Lake City 2025 / 400+ Books Edited
Matt Stebbins @stebbinsmatt.bsky.social Ghostwriter. (Developmental) Editor. Author coach. Helping authors bring their books (~200 so far) to life. Co-founder trails nonprofit (EndlessTrails.us) w/ wife Kerri. INTJ. Man City fan, cyclist, runner. Idaho.
Laura Poole @laurapoole.bsky.social Editor, baker, modern quilter, pluviophile, pasta enthusiast, rhubarb lover. Retroflex r. Short and mighty.
She/her
Jill 😷 @jillysull.bsky.social Copy editor, conscious language advocate, cat person. Probably not here very much.
Christine Ma @mschristinema.bsky.social Copyeditor and proofreader | she/her | Conscious Style Guide Advisory Council member
Alicia Z. Ramos @aliciazramos.bsky.social Freelance line/copy editor specializing in queer genre fiction. The hand in my user icon belongs to Jared Padalecki. No longer local to the Pike Place Market, but it remains in my heart. She/her/ela.
aliciazramos.com
Sara Donaldson @northerneditorial.bsky.social Copyeditor and writer. Theatre bod. Researches dead people. Art history student. Obsessed with old photos.
Northerneditorial.co.uk
Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social Non-fiction editor of award-winning and bestselling books and other media 📚 Freelance. Also photographer 📸 Loves writing ✍️ art 🎨 and the guitar 🎸
CIEP Advanced Professional Member
ACES full member.
Find me: lisacordaro.com
Barbie Halaby @monocleediting.bsky.social My keen eye for your best words. Editor/proofreader/bibliophile/mom who loves black tea, brookies, and sarcasm. EFA & ACES. She/her.
Kelley Frodel @kelleyfrodel.bsky.social Copyeditor of science fiction, fantasy, and YA/MG books. Pacific Northwest. She/her. 
Lourdes Venard @lourdesvenard.bsky.social Education Editor, The News Literacy Project
Kate Nascimento - Editor and Proofreader @katenascim.bsky.social Editor (kneditorial.com) and lover of all things dark, magical, and weird 🖤 I edit fantasy, horror, comics, games 🖤(she/her)🖤
Amy J. Schneider @amyjschneider.bsky.social Copyeditor. Crazy dog lady. Singer. Wife. Runner. Wino. Not necessarily in that order. (she/her)
Jennifer Dinsmore @jenniferdinsmore.bsky.social Editor & Professional Proofreader; Vice Tea Mistress of The Editors Tea Club; Member of ACES & the EFA; Lifelong bookworm & lover of "weird" fiction. (she/her)
Let me help turn your manuscript into a masterpiece: https://jenniferdinsmoreeditorial.as.me/
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
🚂 fan!
Alyssa Wejebe @alyssawejebe.bsky.social Writer + Editor. Current/Previous clients: Unwinnable Monthly, Yen Press, Tapas, J-Novel Club, Ideas on Fire, Strange Horizons, ArtStation Magazine, SOLRAD Magazine + more. Tessera Editorial alum. Website: https://alyssawejebe.carrd.co/
Dave Nelsen @thegrammargeek.bsky.social Copy editor, proofreader, deputy editorial manager at Dragonfly Editorial. Oxford comma agnostic. What you learned in ninth-grade English might be wrong. He/him.
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
SciEditor—Adrienne Montgomerie @scieditor.ca Awesomer of hard words, teacher of tech and editors, sea-kayaker, SciEditor.ca, eiw365.com
Katherine Kirk @geckoedit.com A hopeless semantic. Copyeditor, line editor, proofreader, book formatter, tentacle counter. (she/her). www.geckoedit.com
linktr.ee/kirkldk
🦎🏳️🌈🧠🌶️🖖🏻💙📚👀✍️🔥 #amediting
Typos inserted deliberately in posts so you can practice your editing skills, totally.
Wes Cowley @wes.wordsbywes.ink Academic, technical, and nonfiction editor, specializing in computer science, ML, AI (policy, legal, and technical), economics, finance, math, statistics, and related fields.
Member EFA, ACES
Home: www.wordsbywes.ink
Email: wes@wordsbywes.ink
Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social Writer, freelance editor / nonprofit admin / web content person, walker, knitter, museum docent, mom. She/her. RTs=/=endorsements. Opinions are my own. jengrogan.com
Nicole Wayland 🦋🧚🏼♀️ @nicolewayland.bsky.social Owner of Nicole Wayland Editing 💛
Copyeditor & proofreader of children’s, YA, and adult fiction and nonfiction
ACES board member at-large ✨
Ballerina 🩰 | outgoing fae 🧚 | enneagram 6️⃣
Christian @cwwilkie.org ACES-certified editor, dissident, void-screamer, liability multiplier, localthink. #slogan #slogan #bumpersticker
pyramnesiac @pyramnesiac.bsky.social She/her. Fiction editor on the spectrum, specializing in sci-fi and fantasy. Poet. Writer. c̷a̷s̷u̷a̷l̷l̷y̷ ̷d̷i̷s̷a̷p̷p̷e̷a̷r̷i̷n̷g̷
https://www.threefatesediting.com
Dotty Eyes (aka Patty Boyd), she/her @dottyeyes.bsky.social Founder and owner of Steel Pencil Editorial. Helping writers share their very best!
She/her
Rachel Herbert @herbertstyles.bsky.social Happy editor, ACES member. Team Singular They. Foul-mouthed church lady. she/her.
Ema@TheClarityEditor @theclarityeditor.bsky.social Editor and plain language advocate. Edits for the social sciences and international development. Based in Bangkok/Tokyo. AmE/Japanese speaker (and some Spanish, German & Thai). Amateur classical singer. https://linktr.ee/theclarityeditor
Vee White @veewhite.bsky.social Pronouns: they/them
Editing | Writing | Social Justice
Founder LGBTQ+ Editors Association: @LGBTQEditors
www.LGBTQEditors.org
Mentorship program: https://lgbtqeditors.org/mentorship
Plagiarism Survey: https://veewhite.com/plagiarism-survey
Christy Karras @christykarras.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, traveler. Loves the arts, the interesting stuff people do, and the weirdness of words. Dream life: getting paid to know things. She/her. 
Heather Romanowski🌟 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Editor @bookrealmrevisions.bsky.social 🌟Developmental and Line Editor for Publishers, Authors, & TTRPG Creators.
🌟Specializes in Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romantasy, Recipes/Cookbooks, & RPGs.
🌟Bibliophile, Gamer, Cosplayer, & Wanderer.
🌟President of the ETC.
🌟https://linktr.ee/bookrealmrevisions.
Kat Friedrich @katfriedrich.bsky.social Seeking out cutting-edge innovation in energy, journalism, physics, & engineering. Editor in chief of Solar Today. Previously at Popular Mechanics.
Rhiannon @rhiannonroot.bsky.social Copy editor. Cat mom. Sushi fiend. Romance novel aficionado. (She/her)
Davy Kent @emberediting.com Copyeditor for fantasy, sci-fi, thrillers, and romance. Also an editor for dScryb.
Housebound ME/CFS.
https://linktr.ee/davykent
Eliot @eliotedits.bsky.social Editor, educator, word nerd with a specialty in inclusive language and storytelling and a big love for romance fiction. (Maybe I can help you with your writing! https://www.eliotwesteditorial.com/) Joy matters too 💖🌈
Gráinne Treanor @editorgrainnet.bsky.social Editor / proofreader / Advanced Professional Member of CIEP and Full Member of AFEPI / Former teacher / Walker and swimmer / Supporter of Breakthrough Cancer Research / Wife and mother, owned by three cats / Dabbling in writing / She/her
Kat Betts | Element Editing Services @elementeds.bsky.social Editor, mother, latte lover. Buyer of boots and books.
www.elementeds.com and @elementeds on almost all socials. Join me!
Sohini Ghose @sohinighose.bsky.social Editor. Author. Digital collage maker. Travel seeker. Tea lover. Editors Tea Club Events Co-Coordinator. @ACESEditors. EFA social media volunteer. BookFest Windsor programming committee member.
🇮🇳➡️🇺🇸➡️🇨🇦
www.sohinighose.com
Shannon | Editor of Words | Writer of Words | Lover of Words @editorshannon.bsky.social 👩🏾🏫 Contemporary Fiction Story Coach 🔎 LGBTQ+ Romance + Thriller Developmental Editor 🧠 Neurospicy AF 🏳️🌈 Queer AF (she/her)
Website: https://sageediting.com
Alter Ego (LGBTQ+ Romance): @authorkalibenson.bsky.social
Rita (Proof It) @proofitwithrita.bsky.social Let me help you tell your story.
(she/her)
editor | proofreader
EFA | ACES | PPN | CIEP | ETC
@karenh42.bsky.social @karenh42.bsky.social Writer, parent, spouse, editor, teacher, reader (sometimes in the same afternoon). All about inclusion. EFA member.
Jennifer Navarre (she/her) @jenavarre.bsky.social Kidlit Editor and Book Coach | Once a teacher, always a teacher | Kidlit writer with too many ideas in her head | Historical CB series coming 2025?
EFA, ACES, SCBWI, 12x12, Courage to Create, CIEP (Professional Member), ALLi Partner Member
jenavarre.com
EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social Dev editor, SFF and romance writer, forest dweller. PhD British History/STS. Clarion West '19. Lambda Literary Fellow '26. Nonbinary/transmasc. They/them.
Editing & Coaching: lodestareac.com
Writing: eacrawley.com
Patreon: patreon.com/eacrawley
Laura Bontje | Preorder Marian's Big Dig! @laurabontje.bsky.social Fiction Editor | Author: WAS IT A CAT I SAW? (Amicus), WHEN THE AIR SANG (Annick), MARIAN'S BIG DIG (Groundwood), and more | she/her | Rep: James McGowan, BookEnds | No AI
https://bio.site/laurabontje
Gael Spivak @piglita.bsky.social Editor, writer, collector (squirrels, tiny books, and articles on the singular they).
AMA re: the ISO plain language standard.
she/her/elle #TeamSingularThey
Wendy @normaloqwendy.bsky.social Editor, plain language wonk, and knitter. Also traveller when that’s possible. Seeking first to understand.
Kristen Tatroe @kristenedits.bsky.social Editor and Instructional Designer, culinary enthusiast, outdoor adventurer, photography fan. KristenEdits.com
Shifra Diamond @shifradiamond.bsky.social Freelance editor of scholarly nonfiction. Humanities, critical theory, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity. Member @efafreelancers.bsky.social. Education chair for EFA/Editors Canada Academic Editing Chapter.
Michelle Ellen @editingbyme.bsky.social Freelance Editor and Proofreader at Editing By ME. She/Her. ISTP.
meediting@gmail.com
Rachel Oestreich @racheloestreich.bsky.social Editor & writing coach for independent authors, specializing in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. She / her
www.thewallflowerediting.com
Annie Percik @apercik.bsky.social Author and freelance editor - fiction and nonfiction
Podcaster and blogger
Knitter and geocacher
Website - https://alobear.co.uk
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