Editorial
Freelance Editor specializing in Epic Fantasy, YA Fantasy, Romantasy, Dark Fantasy, High/Speculative Fantasy, and New Adult authors.
I engineer structural pacing, eliminate rhythmic dissonance and narrative drag, and audit your manuscript's lore integrity — through developmental-to-line editing built on stylistic precision and poetry-honed cadence analysis.
Editorial services, cast in candlelight and Chicago style.
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Tier 1 — Developmental Editing: High-Level Structural Audit & Blueprint
Macro-level evaluation of narrative pacing, character motivation, and plot structure, run through the 4-Part Story Audit (Skill, Promise, Progress, Payoff). This is where I identify where narrative momentum stalls — multi-POV history-logging, worldbuilding info-dumps, overlong travel sequences — and hand back a blueprint for the structural work ahead.
$300 flat deposit to book.
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Tier 2 — Line & Copyediting: Voice & Continuity Precision
Line-level tuning so your dialogue tags and prose rhythm carry lyrical, poetry-honed immersion without losing clarity. Every project includes a custom style sheet checking your conlangs, proper nouns, and character motifs, checked against your own established magic-system rules across the series.
50% deposit / 50% final balance.
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Tier 3 — Proofreading: Final Mechanical Pass
A final, close-line pass focused on mechanical correctness — grammar, punctuation, formatting consistency, and CMOS-fluent polish — after developmental and line-level decisions are already locked in. This is the last set of eyes before a manuscript goes out the door.
50% deposit / 50% final balance.
I am currently booking upcoming editorial production windows for speculative fiction and fantasy manuscripts. To inquire about availability or request a 1,000-word sample edit, contact me at admalecha@gmail.com.