Editing

Contact: hookofabook@hotmail.com

STATUS of 05/01/23

I am now scheduling novels, novellas, short stories, and poetry collections as well as websites, articles, and blog editing for publishing and for businesses on or after May 2023 and beyond. I’m booked prior but if you’ve worked with me before please feel free to still ask.

Stay tuned here and social media for any special offerings.

What can I do? 

I do developmental/content, line and copy edits, and some proofreading. I usually encompass the first two together in my editing work so you get a two-for-one deal. I work with most all genres, but prefer historical, horror, fantasy, mysteries, and thrillers, but please don’t hesitate to ask as if I have availability, as I will consider all. I believe in and am an advocate for diversity and am a proud supporter of women and people of other races, colors, religions, and the lgbtq+ community.

Please feel free to inquiry with me via e-mail at hookofabook@hotmail.com for questions, availability, and pricing. Payment plans are accepted. I use PayPal.

Info/Bios

Erin is an author and an award-winning business woman and has 30 years direct experience each in editing for journalism – print and online news, magazines and newsletters, professional media tabloids, blogs, marketing copy, full websites, and as well over a decade with fiction – poetry, short stories, novellas, and novels – for all sorts of organizations in business, non-profit, and for publishers as well as one-on-one for authors looking to sell their manuscript or story (or even if they are self-publishing).

Erin started her editing journey as editor of her high school newspaper, earning a significant scholarship to a private university where she earned a job as news editor (and then, senior news editor) for an Associated Press award-winning university newspaper as she studied and completed bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and English both, as well as one in History! While in college, she also edited for the university’s notable Poetry Press under several esteemed Ohio poets and professors.

After college, she worked in other facets of books while raising children, such as spending time as a reference librarian, a bookseller for a popular US and UK publisher, as well as working for almost a decade coordinating public relations and marketing for a 30-department, 70-physician staff of a regional health system doing PR, countless press releases, marketing plans, media relations, advertising across all mediums, and among many duties, produced three large newsletters full of articles for which she wrote the articles, edited article submissions from others, created budget, etc. and wrote and edited copy for three website overhauls. She also edited and curated a major healthcare tabloid she created with the local newspaper as a partnership between she and the hospital that went out to over 15,000 people.

As a businesswoman, she has been awarded the Ashland County Women of Achievement award and earned the spot as Business and Professional Women’s Ohio Young Careerist of the Year representative to their National Conference as well as Ohio’s speech competition runner-up. She’s been featured in SUCCESS magazine and has spoken at many venues on topics concerning women, health, and marketing and PR.

For the last ten years, owning her own businesses, when not developing copy or editing it for business or non-profit clients, she has been immersed for the last almost ten in the publishing world critiquing and editing books both fiction and non-fiction across a wide range of genres and subjects and assisting and teaching publishers and authors in publishing, branding, and professional PR and promotion. Erin has worked on titles that have been nominated for or won Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Edgar, Goldie, IPPY, Ladies of Horror Fiction, and other awards!

As far as editing, she has edited for some well-known and acclaimed indie authors in horror, historical fiction, fantasy, contemporary, thriller, mystery, and some experts in their fields in non-fiction genres. In non-fiction she is particularly qualified in self-help, memoirs, essays, lifestyle, and health-related titles. She is an editor of poetry as well.