Brenna Bailey-Davies @brennabaileybooks.bsky.social Queer Canadian romance author as Brenna Bailey ~ Fiction editor of SFF and romance ✨🇨🇦
Paula Breger @paulaebreger.bsky.social Copyeditor and librarian. Lover of books, tea, and theatre. Tolkien and Austen. She/her/hers.
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
Neil Holdway @nholdway.bsky.social Writer/editor, suburbanchicagobicycling.com. Former Daily Herald (Chicago) DME/late news. Past President of ACES: The Society for Editing. Possibly obsessed with U2, and with shrimp and chowda. Opinions expressed are my own.
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
Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social Editor, publisher, dachshund fan, hoping to make my bit of the earth in southern lutruwita Tasmania a bit better.
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Laura H @readhead.bsky.social copyeditor, reader, childfree millennial (but don't tell my cats) 
ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social We are the nation’s leading organization of editing professionals, educators, and students. Follow us for #editing news, events, & training. https://linktr.ee/aceseditors
Eva Kelly Hall @atxeva.bsky.social Logophile and ✡️ freelance book editor @ www.atxeva.com. ☕️📚🖍️ ❤️ Contemporary romance, middle grade, Jewish lit, and gothic fiction. Member of the EFA, ACES, Editors Tea Club, and Jewish Book Council. Team Oxford Comma. ❤️ Chicago Style.
Laura Hirsbrunner 🍉😷 @laura-hirsb.bsky.social 🎲 ttrpg editor & designer
✍️ lead editor @ Cosmere RPG; also freelancer @ Daggerheart, D&D, MCDM, Twogether Studios & more; 6x adamantine bestseller
💬 opinions her own
🔗 https://laura-hirsb.carrd.co
🧠🌶️▪️🌈▪️♾️💜▪️🥄▪️😷
Elyssa Gavin @elyssagavin.bsky.social JUNKO’S CLIMB (Union Square Kids)
SCOOP! (Fall 2027, Red Comet Press)
Rep’d by Page Turner Literary Agency.
https://linktr.ee/elyssagavin
Sarah @sarahkchasse.bsky.social New Englander, alto, editor. Always learning.
(Also me: @truebluewbb.bsky.social)
linktr.ee/sarahkchasse
Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social Developmental editor for academic authors. Author: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (UChicago Press). Workshop facilitator. She/her. Comp lit PhD. https://www.allisonvandeventer.com/
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain.
My Book!
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994
Calendars!
https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Lourdes Venard @lourdesvenard.bsky.social Education Editor, The News Literacy Project
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.
Laura Skorczeski @lauraskor.bsky.social Nonfiction Editor 📑 Geographer 🌏 Bibliophile 📚 Library Assistant 📖
Iroise Tracy @wavesofwords.bsky.social 
Rachel Oestreich @racheloestreich.bsky.social Editor & writing coach for independent authors, specializing in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. She / her
www.thewallflowerediting.com
Chelle P (they/them) @chellenator.bsky.social Freelance Canadian editor of many things. (Hire me!) Disabled neurospicy trans queerdo. Very sweary. Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. linktr.ee/chellenator
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
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.
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
Andy Bechtel @andybechtel.bsky.social Journalism professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Copy editor. NOLA native, Durham denizen. Member of AAUP and ACES: the Society for Editing. https://editdesk.wordpress.com/
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.
Erin Willard @erincopyeditor.bsky.social Intersectional feminist. Fiction copyeditor. Books, pencils, dogs, shopping small, San Diego, and MCFC. she/her
(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)
Kelly Lonesome @kellylonesome.bsky.social Executive Editor of nightmares at Nightfire / Tor Publishing Group. Working hard on my sea witch vibes. I have such sights to show you. (she/her)
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.
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
LKH @lkh.bsky.social Oxford comma enthusiast. Dog person. Athletic supporter. Pop culture consumer. Book girl. Always on the lookout for patience. ☘️⚽️📚🐶🏃🏻♀️
Copywriter, copy editor, dev editor
Culer forever 💙❤️
Editorial Freelancers Association @efafreelancers.bsky.social EFA freelancers include editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators. Free job listing service. Courses & webinars for members & guests. https://linktr.ee/efa_editors
Ayshea Wild @writewild.bsky.social Book Editor at Write Wild
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
Anya Hastwell @editorialcat.bsky.social Editor of non-fiction ⏃ Writer of whimsy ⏃ Yoga Siromani certified ⏃ Wanderer of enchanted landscapes ⏃ Incense and insensibility (She/Her)
⏃ https://linktr.ee/languawitchery
Catherine @cateditorial.bsky.social Editor. Indexer. EAC member, certified copy editor. A finalist for the 2012 Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. (Oh, and I love cats.) 🇨🇦
Jane Simmonds @janesimmonds.bsky.social Non-fiction editor and proofreader. Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading. www.janesimmonds-editorial.com
Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social Copy-editor extraordinaire.
Goddess.
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.
Rhiannon @rhiannonroot.bsky.social Copy editor. Cat mom. Sushi fiend. Romance novel aficionado. (She/her)
PerfectIt @perfectit.bsky.social Proofreading software for professionals
Stephanie Doig @stephaniedoig.bsky.social ✍️ Freelance book editor
💕Mostly romance novels
📚Avid reader
Stephaniedoigedits.com
Jaime Sperling @diedofennui.bsky.social Copyediting, proofreading, cats, running, insomnia. Not necessarily in that order.
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!
Kelly Urgan | Fiction Editor @editegrity.bsky.social Fiction editor: historical, fantasy, sci-fi & contemporary novels @Editegrity
Avid hiker, museum goer
In a constant tug of war between coffee and tea
Reading, of course
Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social Fiction editor, creative writer, CIEP member, varied reader, improving cyclist, pop choir singer, neurodiversity and queer ally, socialist (Green Party member), night owl, drinker of far too much tea.
W: justrightediting.co.uk
Reedsy.com/judith-leask
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/
Wendy Toole @wendytoole.bsky.social Writer and Editor | creatively self-employed
Cathy Tingle @doceditor.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader. Publishing Scotland tutor. Membership director of the CIEP. Literature PhD. Tea lover.
Nicky Taylor @nickytayloredit.bsky.social Developmental and line/copy editor for indie authors. Fiction and creative non-fiction. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP, Partner Member of ALLi. nickytayloreditorial.com 
Caroline Orr @cmforr.bsky.social Maths & computing editor. Associate Lecturer in Computing & Communication at the Open University. Also doing a classical studies degree. If there's any time left after all that, I like playing computer games, especially RPGs and strategy.
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
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social Senior editor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University Press. Cofounder Paths in Publishing. Running, books, kids, somewhere out west.
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
Beth Hamer @bethhamer.bsky.social Proofreader. Whitstable resident. Swimmer. Servant to French bulldog. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Evertonian. Thinks the Oxford comma is a style choice. (she/her)
Philippa Ball Lewis @philippablewis.bsky.social Writer, reader, climber, skier, runner, swimmer in Snowdonia, UK. Freelance editor for fantastical fiction, short stories and outdoors literature. CIEP member and partner member of ALLi.
www.lexicalpeaks.com
Janet MacMillan @janetwordsmith.bsky.social Proud Canadian. Editorial professional. Advanced Professional Member, CIEP. Law, international development, politics, international relations, history, social sciences. Former lawyer. Boxer dog lover. Enthusiastic cook. Engaged citizen. Friend. she/her
Lucia Ferrara @luciaferrara.bsky.social Freelance Editor | Editorial Project Manager | Production Editor
YA | Adult Fiction | K-12
Former editor at Scholastic Canada and Pearson Education
https://reedsy.com/lucia-ferrara
Bernadette Kearns │Fiction editor @booknannyeditor.bsky.social Developmental editing, line & copy-editing for indie authors & publishers of historical and literary fiction. Love cats. Speak German. Wish I spoke better Irish. She/her.
Full member AFEPI Ireland.
Website: www.booknannyfictioneditor.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
Rachael Prest @rachaelprest.bsky.social Non-fiction editor (craft, textiles & textile history, fashion history, social sciences). Technical editor (knitting/crochet)
Professional CIEP member. ADHD is my superpower.
Rachaelprestediting.com
She/her 
Paul Neuviale @paulneuviale.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 he/him 👬
📍Toronto, ON 🇨🇦
Eleanor Abraham @eleanorabraham.bsky.social I was once heckled by a mime. Fiction editor, scunner, CIEP APM, she/her.
Rachael Mortimer @rachaelmortimer.bsky.social Freelance line editor, copyeditor and proofreader of fiction and board games. CIEP Advanced Professional Member. She/her
https://www.rachaelmortimerproofreading.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/rachaelmortimer
Rachel Fudge @rachelfudge.bsky.social Editor for hire: scholarly nonfiction, public policy, and nonprofit advocacy 📚 Editorial director @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social (she/her)
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
Davy Kent @emberediting.com Copyeditor for fantasy, sci-fi, thrillers, and romance. Also an editor for dScryb.
Housebound ME/CFS.
https://linktr.ee/davykent
Amy VO Snyder @avosnyder.bsky.social Professional editor looking for full-time editing, project work. Freelance edit/proof for nonfiction and fiction. Published poet. Prog girl. Nature chick.
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Dayna R (they/them) @yourpublishingbff.bsky.social Inclusion-focused line/copy editor and coach specializing in romance, cozy mystery, and children's books. AuDHD. Fat Liberation. 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
www.YourPublishingBFF.com
Catherine Dunn @catherinedunn.bsky.social I right books. No job too odd! Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Hobbies: snakes, drawing, painting, knitting, crochet, Valheim, gardening, geocaching. Occasional spinner. Noise-maker. She/her. Insta: bearlycat / CatherineDunnArtwork. 📝🐍🎨🧶🐻❄️🫀❤️🔥🎲🌱🫧
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 Advanced Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian and Gaelic… slowly!📍Scotland 🏴
Elyse Lyon @elyselyon.bsky.social Fiction editor (mostly); professional member of CIEP; EFA member; likes cooking and walking. Based in Inverness but speaks American. www.elyselyon.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.
Laurie Duboucheix-Saunders @lds-editorial.bsky.social Multilingual editor & literary translator (Fr<>Engl)
Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Member of the Translator Association (part of SoA)
Fiction, Humanities, FFL and educational publishing.
Dream gig: translating lit that represents disabled peeps
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
Cindy Bryan @cindybryanediting.bsky.social Lover of words and stories and the songs of life. Also green growing things.
cindybryanediting.com
Michelle at Excellent Edits @excellentedits.bsky.social 
Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social Speculative fiction editor and author. In a long-term cyclomance with bikes 🚴🏻♀️ Big fan of peace and compassion. Always learning. Airborne Army veteran. #PNW https://linktr.ee/tammysalyer_writer
Julie "2 Ls" Willson @juliewillson.bsky.social Copy editor, project manager, planner, and dreamer
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social The Northwest Editors Guild is a professional association for U.S. editors of the written word. Based in the PNW, with events for editors everywhere. Sharing editing news, events, #StetPet assistants, and a well-dressed pencil mascot. www.edsguild.org
Nadia Geagea Pupa @nadiageageapupa.bsky.social Podcast Host of The Editor's Half Hour
Co-Founder and CEO of Pique Publishing, Inc.
Aysha Rehm 📚 @aysharehm.bsky.social Freelance copyeditor and proofreader. Avid multi-genre book and short story reader. Poetry writer. Nerd, geek, and cat person. SF, Fantasy, Mystery, Supernatural, and more.
Pronouns: She/her
aysha@wordsbecomeyou.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."
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
Magic Words Editing | Shawna Hampton @magicwordsediting.bsky.social Freelance editor @ Magic Words Editing & Macmillan (Tor, St. Martin’s) & Wizards of the Coast | fantasy, sci-fi, horror | 🚫 AI
📖 Manuscript evals, line editing, copyediting
🌎 www.magicwordsediting.com
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
Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social Copy editor (ProPublica, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN), baker, cross stitcher, cat furniture. 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 of ACES, AMWA, BELS, CSE, EFA. Board-certified editor in the life sciences. She/her. https://www.kokedit.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/
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
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
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)🖤
Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social I edit and index cookbooks and provide indexing and developmental, line, and copyediting services for scholarly materials. I also coach, focusing on supporting early career faculty successfully publish.
http://rudyleon.com
simone @virsamajor.bsky.social En dash advocate & union member 💜 TTRPGs, language, nature, dogs, books, art, &c 🍄 N95s save lives 😷 PNW 🌿 she/they 🌈 Views mine.
Kim Schebler @kimschebler.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Editor. Crafter. Stationery nerd. Letter writer. Editor @BoneParade. Wonder chaser. D&D: impulsive, illiterate barbarian with a penchant for fashion.