Hanna Richards

I’m a copyeditor and proofreader who works with both self-publishing authors and traditional publishing houses. My clients include Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Coffee House Press, W. W. Norton, and more. The authors whose books I’ve worked on include Nobel Prize–winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Pulitzer Prize–winner Sebastian Smee, New York Times bestselling authors Clare Pooley and Roxane Gay, and comedian Paul Scheer.

I’m also an instructor for the University of Washington’s Certificate in Editing program, where I teach the ins and outs of grammar to up-and-coming editors. We cover topics such as sentence geography, subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, parallelism, parts of speech, punctuation, and other common writing pitfalls.

As an editor, I strive to enhance your manuscript by eliminating errors, not your voice.

What I look for when copyediting:

• Obvious gaps in logic and larger inconsistencies (e.g., page 16 says that a character has only one sister but on page 114 that character suddenly has two)
• Confusing or awkward phrasing
• Consistency in spelling, hyphenation, numerals, fonts, italics, and capitalization
• Errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax

What I look for when proofreading:

• Consistency in layout and main design components (running heads, footers, chapter headings, folios, etc.)
• Consistency in spelling, hyphenation, numerals, fonts, italics, and capitalization
• In-text design errors (bad line breaks, stacks, widows, orphans, etc.)
• Text errors (missing text, words, or punctuation, correct use of homophones, etc.)
• Glaring, non-subjective grammatical errors

Please reach out for more information about my rates or to receive a free editing or proofreading sample.

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Coupeville, WA
US

Email: hrichards.edit@gmail.com

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Years in the field: 4
Years freelancing: 4