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Rebecca Schwartz
Words Words Words Editing, LLC
I’m a freelance editor with over 20 years of experience—longer if you count all the typos I used to find in my early reader books. I love the English language (even if teaching it, or even fully understanding it, is fraught with trouble). My job is to make everything you do better.
I have edited for traditionally published authors, like Elise Title who has published dozens of romance novels for Harlequin as well as psychosexual thrillers like Romeo, and I have also worked with self-published authors and authors who just want to make their passion project perfect for themselves.
“What about nonfiction books, Rebecca?”
Yep, those too; everything from business manuals like Code–Measure–Improve by Adam Schwartz and Deborah Walsh, to self-help relationship books like Relationship Cleanup by Jeffrey and Elise Title.
A special place in my clichéd heart is reserved for children’s and YA lit. I would call it nostalgia if I didn’t still read them for my own enjoyment. There is room in that aforementioned clichéd heart for my first love—poetry. When I was a child, my big brother read Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss to me until I memorized all my favorites. In sixth grade, when my English teacher read “Suicide’s Note” by Langston Hughes—my trajectory immediately changed. I studied poetry and poetics in college for my final thesis. I think that knowing the way words work in poetry gives me a unique perspective that serves to enhance my editing skills.
Amherst, MA
US
Email: rebecca@wordswordswordsediting.com
https://wordswordswordsediting.com/
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Years in the field: 20
Years freelancing: 20
Rebecca Schwartz
I’m a freelance editor with over 20 years of experience—longer if you count all the typos I used to find in my early reader books. I love the English language (even if teaching it, or even fully understanding it, is fraught with trouble). My job is to make everything you do better.
I have edited for traditionally published authors, like Elise Title who has published dozens of romance novels for Harlequin as well as psychosexual thrillers like Romeo, and I have also worked with self-published authors and authors who just want to make their passion project perfect for themselves.
“What about nonfiction books, Rebecca?”
Yep, those too; everything from business manuals like Code–Measure–Improve by Adam Schwartz and Deborah Walsh, to self-help relationship books like Relationship Cleanup by Jeffrey and Elise Title.
A special place in my clichéd heart is reserved for children’s and YA lit. I would call it nostalgia if I didn’t still read them for my own enjoyment. There is room in that aforementioned clichéd heart for my first love—poetry. When I was a child, my big brother read Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss to me until I memorized all my favorites. In sixth grade, when my English teacher read “Suicide’s Note” by Langston Hughes—my trajectory immediately changed. I studied poetry and poetics in college for my final thesis. I think that knowing the way words work in poetry gives me a unique perspective that serves to enhance my editing skills.
