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Katherine Kirk @geckoedit.com A hopeless semantic. Copyeditor, line editor, proofreader, book formatter, tentacle counter. (she/her). www.geckoedit.com
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Jampersand @jampersand.bsky.social Copy editor, bookworm, horror fiend. 📚
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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social Author of mild-mannered middle-grade books, including MIND OVER MONSTERS (McElderry/S&S). Agent: Joan Paquette. BetsyUhrig.com
Natalie Tomlin @ntomlin.bsky.social Freelance developmental editor, copyeditor, publishing consultant (social sciences and nonfiction), writer https://natalietomlin.com/ "Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world"—Mary Ruefle
Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
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!
A. J. Hodges @secondworldedits.bsky.social Author & developmental editor | Writes: horror, fantasy & queer romance 🌈 Published by Asymptote Journal & Foofaraw. he/they | PhD Social Anthropology | Academic DE: https://www.thenarrativecraft.com | Fiction: https://www.secondworldeditorial.com
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Luke Finley @lukeaf.bsky.social Editor. Runner. Views three of someone else's in a trenchcoat with a fake ID. 'Dramatic little weasel' 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Michelle Noble | Editor @noble-editorial.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Freelance editor & proofreader | Speculative, historical, lit fic & romance | Narrative nonfiction | Web content | 🚫AI | she/her
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Arlene Miller, The Grammar Diva - Author, Lyricist @thegrammardiva.bsky.social Author of bestselling grammar books/textbooks. 90,000 books sold. Songwriter ("Another Place and Time") and blogger. Coffee lover, dog lover, now in Florida. Interested in politics, books, oldies music, and manifesting. Check me out at bigwords101.com
This Is Done By Humans @thisisdonebyhumans.bsky.social Welcome to Done By Humans, a certification entity where businesses, organizations and individuals can self-certify and get a badge of recognition that their product/service/art is human-made without generative AI.
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Maria Georgiou Fiction Editor @mariageditor.bsky.social Reliable and supportive beta reader and developmental editor for romance stories.Thoughtful, honest and constructive feedback.
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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)🖤
Cindy Bryan @cindybryanediting.bsky.social Lover of words and stories and the songs of life. Also green growing things.
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Taylor Gillie Sawyer @taylorgilliesawyer.bsky.social freelance fiction and academic editor martletediting.com | she/they | AuDHD | posts mainly about books, editing, art, languages, and urbanism | Urban Studies PhD | Wikipedia enthusiast | guardian of a chaotic dog | 📍 Barcelona
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📚 Writer on William Blake & Allen Ginsberg
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"The people have the power
To redeem the work of fools"
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Erinn Pascal Potters (she/her/hers) @erinnpascal.bsky.social NYT #1 bestseller & Eisner-nominated book editor
Children’s, graphic novels, comics & pop culture
Author Stewardship Manager @ PJ Library (@pjlibrary.org)
WFH/freelance. Sometimes Cala Spinner. #ArtByHumans #WritingbyHumans
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Hilton Ariel Ruiz @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social editor of copy:
yale review / harvard up / yale up
princeton up / cornell up / random house
yale school of mgmt / cleveland orchestra
smog veil records / mit press / etc
Sarah @sarahkchasse.bsky.social New Englander, alto, editor. Always learning.
(Also me: @truebluewbb.bsky.social)
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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)
Andrea Benson @heyandreajay.bsky.social Editor and proofreader of self-published speculative fiction. Member of ACES with a Certificate in Copyediting from UCSD. Reader, writer, and neurodiverger. Find me at quirkypenediting.com
Kyle Hester Film Maker @kylehester.bsky.social Actor, producer. Preacher Six, Zombie W A Shotgun, Haunted Lake Lanier
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Pagan
No hate! ⚜️WhoDat!?
Married to Tracy Ray Author
Haunted Lake Lanier on Amazon!
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Muad'dweeb🏳️🌈 @ictomar.bsky.social Certified proofreader, science fiction and horror geek, Little Free Library steward. No love for fascists or their enablers.
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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social project editor at UNC Press; music studies PhD; lifetime jazzhead; Queens (NY) native, Durham (NC) resident
Joe Haining (he/him) @joehaining-editor.bsky.social Developmental and copy-editor, specialising in HaSS non-fiction.
Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP (@the-ciep.bsky.social).
Sports tragic. Music/literature obsessive. 🏳️🌈
https://www.blenheimeditorial.co.uk/
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 ✨
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H Noss @hnoss.bsky.social fiction proofreader, inclusivity & neurodiversity advocate, queer & non-binary. they/them.
https://hnossproofreads.co.uk
Kristina L @editrixk.bsky.social Editor, bookworm, Edmontonian
she/her
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
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
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
Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social 🖋️Academic #proofreading and #copyediting
www.cocoproofreading.com
📚Book jewellery www.coryographies.etsy.com
#DysguCymraeg 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
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Rita (Proof It) @proofitwithrita.bsky.social Let me help you tell your story.
(she/her)
editor | proofreader
EFA | ACES | PPN | CIEP | ETC
Philippa Hammond @preciseprosep.bsky.social Word wrangler by trade.
Copy-editor in English. Translator from French, Spanish, Portuguese, if you want the specifics.
I blog about language and communication here: https://www.philippahammond.net/blog
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/philippahammon
Steph 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Editor 🦦✍️ @ottersediting.com Freelance editor, writer, reader |
25 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/she, nonbinary, AuDHD
Leftist, Free 🇵🇸 No AI🚫
Need an Editor? | Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Sci-Fi | line editing, copyediting & proofreading: ottersediting.com 🦦✍️
Zombie with a Shotgun @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social 🎬 Zombie with a Shotgun — watch FREE on Tubi ➡️ https://tubitv.com/movies/100043140/zombie-with-a-shotgun
The Amityville Lost Tape ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/wpacnz2c
Films by @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social
More 🎥 https://linktr.ee/hiltonarielruiz
📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social academic book indexer: interested in how we make sense of the world through the humanities specializing in the arts, esp fine arts, social justice and material culture.
Curler, settler 🇨🇦, she/her, & klutz extraordinaire 🏳️🌈
www.fedorakindexing.com
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
Celluloid Ruin @debased-designs.bsky.social Cult film recommendations.
Monthly themed watchlists.
Full rankings on Letterboxd.
Shane Mulligan @shanem-editor.bsky.social Editor, writer. Fond of wild spaces, dogs, evolution, asters, moss, compassion, books, genuine intelligence. #Free 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🌈
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
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
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
Marissa Earl @earleditorial.bsky.social Copyeditor and Proofreader with confused niches 😂
📚 Nonfiction (including non-evangelical Christian theology)
📚 Fantasy (some sci-fi)
Aro/ace 🤍💜🖤 who's been proofreading romance books?
Band and choir nerd
She/her
EarlEditorial.com
Julie Scheina @juliescheina.com Children's & YA book editor at Julie Scheina Editorial Services | Former senior editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Coffee & book lover
Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social 📚 Book Editor, Fr→En Lit Translator, Educator
🍽📖 Working on/devouring speculative fiction, horror, memoir, contemporary realism, IF, comics
⭐ Teaching and coaching editors and writers
📘 Faculty @ Emerson's MFA in Popular Fiction
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿🪫🇨🇭
🚫AI
www.TanyaGold.com
Hannah McCall @blackcatedit.com Fiction editor: Black Cat Editorial Services. Advanced Professional Member and proofreading tutor at the CIEP. Partner member of ALLi. ACES member. She/her 🇬🇧
www.blackcatedit.com
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
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
Kerrie-Anne Love @kerrieannelove.bsky.social British-Australian editor of fiction and creative non-fiction. Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP). she/her
Living on Bundjalung Country
Talysa Sainz @talysatalysa.bsky.social 
Ellen Jovin is at the Grammar Table @grammartable.bsky.social Roving grammarian hooking up words and phrases and clauses, now in rollicking grammar road trip movie! https://www.rebelwithaclause.com/
Truncarlos @jacarandoso.bsky.social 
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
💚 Spam flag finally removed! 🎉💚
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
JAMBALAYA 🔵 VAL @jambalayaval.bsky.social "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
Freelance editor.
Avid reader.
Occasional writer.
Pro-Roe. LGBTQIA+ ally. Crafter. WhoDat fan. ANTIFA member.
🔵 Read
🔵 Rebel
🔵 Resist
🔵 Raise Hell
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/
Owen Gregory @fullcreammilkman.bsky.social Independent line editor and copy editor; Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP); oboist and cor anglais player. https://fullcreammilk.co.uk
Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social flash writer | educator | computer & application techie | kitchen witch | long-distance runner🏃🏼♀️👟
Words in Emerge Literary (Pushcart nominated), HAD, Flash Flood, Sudden Flash
I typically only follow writers.
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
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
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.
Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
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
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
Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social Editor, writer, reader; aikidoist for 24 years. Advanced Professional Member, CIEP. Co-author: Powerless to Powerful: Leadership for School Change. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475822366/Powerless-to
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
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/
Jaime Sperling @diedofennui.bsky.social Copyediting, proofreading, cats, running, insomnia. Not necessarily in that order.
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.
Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social Copyeditor and proofreader of fiction—lqbtqia+, romance, mystery, historical fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy. She/her. https://www.czedits.com/
Helena Heald @helenaheald.bsky.social Award-winning Commissioning Editor for Ancient History & Classical Studies
@edinburghup.bsky.social ~ she/her ~ various kinds of nerd 🎮🎲📚 ~ views my own etc.
Let's talk books: helena.heald@eup.ed.ac.uk
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
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.
Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social Fellow of the Society of Indexers, ex-archaeologist, also family historian, mum, bell ringer, knitter and learning the cornet. Easily found elsewhere. https://abookindexer.com/