About Sasha

I’ve always had a deep passion for literature. As per my family, my very first toy was a book. The catch? I wasn’t even a year old.

In 2015, I asked myself, “How can I make money doing what I love?”

The answer? I started reviewing novels for $5 a piece. Seven years later, I’m a professional book editor. I’ve worked with many clients from various backgrounds. When people ask me how I got here, I often tell them that I don’t know.

Services Offered

Editorial Assessment

An editorial assessment is typically the first step in the editing process. With these assessments, I’ll offer you broad feedback about your manuscript. This can cover comments on your plot, structure, or characters. I pay particular attention to your tone and character development. You can have the best plot in the world, but it doesn’t matter if the reader isn’t sold on your characters. Have I repeated characters enough?

The primary benefit of an editorial assessment is that it provides you with quick feedback and identifies areas of improvement.

Developmental editing

Developmental editing provides more detail than the editorial assessment. It still addresses big-picture issues in the manuscript, but it focuses more on helping you shape the novel into something that the reader will be willing to buy and recommend. This is significantly more detailed than an editorial assessment. It includes both comments throughout your manuscript and a review of each chapter. For example, I’ll address whether a character’s behavior is reflective of the situation they’re in, whether a scene truly benefits the overall story, and how your themes develop over time.

When you choose this type of editing, you can typically expect a document full of comments and suggestions rather than a clean manuscript.

Copy Editing

Copy editing typically comes after developmental editing. This focuses on any inconsistencies in tone, characters, or plot. I also review the manuscript for repetition and try to optimize the readability of your manuscript. This type of editing can be broad. I’ll cover topics like spelling, grammar, capitalization, dialogue tags, and verb tense.

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Proofreading

Proofreading is the last step in your editing journey and is much more specific than copy editing. I always recommend that you have proofreading completed before self-publishing or sending your manuscript to a publishing house. This is because proofreading will catch any errors that the copy editing didn’t catch. This requires two, three, or even four reviews of the manuscript before it’s sent back to the author.

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