Freelance Editors

These freelance editors are professional members of The Word Guild. Before contracting with a writer or editor, The Word Guild recommends that potential employers follow normal hiring procedures such as reviewing resumés and work samples, asking questions about the person's experience, and checking references.

This listing serves as a starting point to help you identify prospects who share your professional standards and understand your Christian perspective. Rates for services are negotiated individually. Listing of members does not constitute endorsement by The Word Guild.

Hugh Cook

www.redeemer.ca/~hcook/

Janet Dimond

Dimond Consulting

Audrey Dorsch

Audrey Dorsch, former editor of Faith Today and coordinator of a communications program at Tyndale College, is a self-employed editor. Some of the 200 books she has edited have won awards.

Dorsch Editorial

Services: manuscript critiques (guidance for author in revising), substantive editing (structure, flow, substantiation, gaps in logic, etc.), copy editing (line-by-line editing for clarity, grammar, punctuation, spelling, word choice, etc.) and proofreading (final check of printer-ready layout to catch errors missed in editing and introduced in layout).

Heather Hepplewhite

www.hhcommunication.ca

Krysia Lear

Krysia Lear is a seasoned editor and a certified proofreader, and member of the Editors’ Association of Canada (former board member). She helps clients produce material that changes lives.

The Editorial Suite

If you need to polish a report, focus a document, bring a book to life, or produce website copy, Krysia can help you increase the clarity, consistency, and relevance of your material. She also provides insightful manuscript evaluations. Clients include authors, publishers, non-profits, associations, and corporations.

N. J. Lindquist

N. J. Lindquist is an award-winning author and columnist as well as a popular writing teacher. She co-founded The Word Guild and was one of the editors of Hot Apple Cider.

N. J. offers substantive critiques of general fiction and Christian fiction for adults and teens. Two options: (1) a short story or (2) the 1st chapter of a novel. In either case, 5,000 to 7,500 words.

Also check out her website – http://writewithexcellence.com – for advice on writing fiction and nonfiction, publishing, and marketing.

Sandra Reimer

As a managing editor of several quarterly newsletters, Sandra Reimer works well with staff contributors, freelance writers, copywriters, and proofreaders to produce effective communication pieces.

Reimer is The Word Guild’s former Managing Director.

Reimer Reason Communications helps organizations with world-changing products and services tell their stories effectively.

Our Services:
-    strategic communication planning
-    website design and content development
-    writing, editing, and project management of newsletters, brochures, and other printed materials

Colleen Taylor

www.siretona.com/writing.html

Carolyn Wilker

Carolyn Wilker is a freelance writer, editor and speaker/storyteller. Member of Editors' Association of Canada, Toastmasters International, and Baden Storyteller Guild. Publication credits: articles, opinion editorials, book reviews, devotionals, poetry, creative nonfiction.

FineTune Editing

Copy editing and proofreading for business, industry, non-profit newsletters, and annual statements. Also website copy, fiction, nonfiction book manuscripts.

Projects have included Africa Bible Commentary; Fathered by God, by Steve Bydeley; Making the Bitter Sweet, by T. L. Wiens. See my website for additional projects and information.