Hi, I’m Emma

and I love working with words. My aim is for the editing process to be a partnership and a dialogue. In addition to correcting errors and polishing prose, I strive to bring warmth and humour into my work, give you the tools you need to improve, and help your story grow into its best self.

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About Me

Frequently in trouble as a child for secretly reading late into the night with a torch, Emma has always loved books. She wrote her first ‘novel’ before she was ten, a deeply terrible story about a ghost horse called Misty, and continued to read obsessively throughout her school years – even in the corridors between classes.

During a Creative Writing module at university, Emma first realised how much she enjoyed exchanging critique with fellow writers in a positive, uplifting way. She followed that joy first to an independent publishing company, and subsequently launched Emma’s Edit in 2018.

Services

Copy Editing

Polishing and correcting a finished manuscript

Developmental Editing

Focusing on plot, characterisation and world-building

Proofreading

Quality control of an edited text

What people are saying

“Very safe hands”


Sarah L Richhelm
Author – Control my Night

“Exactly what I had been hoping for”

Sonya Blake
Author – Under the Surface

“An absolute pleasure”


Jason Thompson
Author – Death in Traveler’s Rest