Editorial Services

Academic background:

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Editing, proofreading, and writing services for health care organizations, government ministries and agencies, publishers, non-profit and commmunity organizations, museums, and private-sector companies.

Lumen Editing offers editing services from the basic to the advanced, including copyediting, content editing, and developmental editing. While I have specialized in academic writing–with over ten years of experience at three academic presses–I have done editing for students, freelance writers, journalists, and businesses. Former coeditor of a scholarly journal and editor of a collection of essays, I am ready to work with a range of writing genres and styles.

Digital communications professional turned editor looking to make novels and websites better for readers. Always open for side projects to gain experience in copyediting or proofreading. Beta reading has also become an interest of mine—especially fiction manuscripts including romance, science-fiction, and fantasy genres or tabletop gaming guides.

Hi, I’m Sara! I am the owner of Thimble Editorial, a copyediting business focused on helping makers and creative businesses produce clear, inspiring, and error-free writing.

Here are just two examples of the positive feedback I’ve received from the authors I’ve had the pleasure of working with:

As the associate editor of Physician Family magazine, I help with assigning articles, as well as with editing and final proofreading before publication. I am also a regular contributor to the magazine, and I am in the process of revitalizing our blog.  My work can also be seen in the oncology-focused monthly digital magazine Strategies. In addition to writing a monthly feature, I am the contributing editor for inserts created for The Mississippi Oncology Society and The Society of Gynecologic Nurse Oncologists.

I specialize in academic editing, offering a full range of services to university presses, publishers, and scholars who need manuscripts prepared for publication.

I’ve earned my living as a writer/editor/columnist for 40 years. I started out as a general assignment reporter working for a now defunct New York daily. I went on to work for McGraw Hill’s Personal Finance newsletter, spun off from Business Week, covering Wall Street and investing. I worked for daily newspapers, and was a stringer for the Daily News, Newsday and the Star Ledger, covering personal finance, business news and entrepreneurship. I have covered many beats including investing, health/wellness, DIY, home improvement, consumer electronics, careers/workplace, self-improvement, travel, music, and crime. I’ve edited newspapers, magazines, newsletters and websites. And I created original content for all of them. I created a weekly syndicated column, Tech Watch, which was picked up and distributed by the Hearst Corporation (King Features). It was published in large daily newspapers throughout the United States such as the Chicago-Sun Times, Houston Chronicle, Tampa Tribune, the Atlantic Journal Constitution, and the Los Angeles Times, to name a few. I created the feature, Making a Difference, which appeared every Sunday in the Los Angeles Times. The feature profiled America’s unsung heroes, ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things and making the world a better place. I’ve written 14 books published by major publishers such as Simon & Schuster, McGraw-Hill, HarperCollins, Henry Holt, Prentice Hall and Macmillan. A few books that did well and received excellent reviews were “Resumes Don’t Get Jobs,” “How to Get a Job in Hard Times,” “I Hate My Boss,” “Money Hang-Ups” and “Death Row Confidential.” I’ve edited, written and ghosted several non-fiction and fiction books on many subjects such as self-improvement, entrepreneurship, investing and careers. I’ve also ghosted many columns for executives. And I’ve profiled hundreds of people from all walks of life, well known celebrities, singers, musicians, and writers, and CEOs of global household name companies.

Maybe you want to write a book, but you don’t know where to begin. Or you’re writing a book, but you’re stuck. Or you’ve written a book, but you’re not sure how to get it published.