Welcome! I'm Julie L. Greene, I'm based in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN metro area, and for ten years I've worked as a professional editor and have edited more than thirty published books.

My latest position was as a Senior Editor at Publications International Ltd., and I now offer freelance editing services full-time.

With my experience and skills, we can work together to make sure your manuscript is exactly the way publishers need it to be.

My resume

Editing and Proofreading Service Levels

• Basic Editing/Proofreading
  Review manuscripts for spelling and typographical errors, grammar, punctuation, and consistency.
  
  Basic copy editing does not include checks for content organization, sentence structure, clarity, word choice, or style. Should an author need these services, a thorough edit is suggested.
  
• Thorough Editing
  Basic copy editing (checking for spelling and typographical errors, grammatical errors, punctuation, and consistency), as well as looking for problems in tone, flow, dialogue, word choice, tense, point-of-view, sentence structure, and clarity.
  
  A thorough edit may also include suggestions for restructuring the manuscript to ensure proper transitions, presentation, and organization of the content.
  
  
• Final Manuscript Reviews
  After basic or thorough editing changes have been suggested by an editor and then incorporated by the author, a final manuscript review is often needed. This final pre-publishing step is intended to ensure that the author incorporated the editor's suggestions correctly and that any amended work has a final proofing.
  

Editing Styles

• AP Style
  Most newspapers base their styles upon the Associated Press style.
  
  
• Chicago Manual of Style
  The most widely used style guide.
  
  
• Words Into Type
  My preferred style, which is a clearer and more precise version of the Chicago style.

If you live in the Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota area and need freelance editing services, feel free to give me a call at 651-236-0533 or drop me an e-mail at julesgreene107@yahoo.com, and we'll talk about your editing needs!