Editors
Looking for an editor to work with on your book? First Choice Books suggests the following well qualified “book whisperers”, “book doulas”, and editors. These are all round experts in proof reading, copy editing, and structural redesign. Please contact these editors directly.
PEAVI
Professional Editors Association of Vancouver Island
website: peavi.ca
If you are looking for an editor to help you with a project, you can browse through their list of members and contact individual PEAVI members directly. Each PEAVI member has provided their contact information and many members have included a listing of their skills, subject areas, and a short personal biography.
Sylvia Taylor
Sylvia Taylor
Sylvia Taylor Communications
Writer, Editor, Educator, Consultant
Business Communications Specialist
Public Relations, Royal City Literary Arts Society
604-807-5358
www.sylviataylor.ca
[email protected]
Sylvia Taylor is an award-winning freelance writer, editor, educator, and communications specialist in Metro Vancouver, with a passionate commitment to communication.
From conference keynotes to literary coaching, book editing to business websites, ghostwriting to Life Stories, Sylvia offers writing-related expertise “Taylored” to every literary need and purpose. Whether supporting others in their self-expression, collaborating in commissioned work or creating insightful commentary and reportage, Sylvia draws from her professional background in education, administration, healthcare, and creative arts.
With 400 magazine and newspaper articles in print and 75 commercial and business writing projects, she consults with a diverse range of entrepreneurs, organizations, and businesses. She has edited over 100 manuscripts in all genres and works extensively with Canadian and international authors through all stages and phases of writing and publishing.
Marial Shea
Marial Shea
Marial Writes – Words that Work
Persuasive writer, precision editor and catalytic writing coach.
https://marialshea.com/
Marial Shea is a freelance writer, editor and writing coach. For 25 years, she’s been writing for magazines, businesses and non-profit organizations, and has edited and proofread over 150 published books for trade-book publishers and self-publishing authors.
I’ve learned that marketing is really purpose-driven storytelling. My unique gift is for capturing the heart of a business in a fresh, focused website and marketing copy that tells people exactly how it will make their lives better.
Marial gained an insider’s knowledge of the book publishing business, and now offers that expertise to authors who are working to self-publish their work. She shares practical advice and inspiration with the writers she coaches, wherever they are at in their writing journey. She also offers services in manuscript evaluation and editing.
Janet Love Morrison
Janet Love Morrison
Janet Love Morrison Editing
We thrive to give the best with precision, accuracy, and great exactness. janetlovemorrison.com
Janet Love Morrison was born in Toronto, Canada and grew up in Port Coquitlam, near Vancouver. She spent much of her life travelling the world and performing a variety of jobs while living in Switzerland, Israel, India, Japan and Malaysia.
Love Morrison first started editing in 2004 for Masters’ World magazine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since then she has embraced a wide variety of editing assignments including websites, brochures, resumes, magazine articles, etc. Those creative experiences, combined with teaching English grammar for 11 years, as an ESL teacher, are what make Love Morrison a well-rounded editor today.
Editing is about recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of text. The way you use language tells people much more than just the message you are trying to convey. Just like your clothes, the style of your language reveals a statement about you. Presenting your ideas in a clear, well-organized manner adds merit to your professionalism, and your message.
Steve Weatherbe Writing Services
[email protected]
Newsletters, Reports, Media Relations, Memoirs, News Reporting
Steve Weatherbe has edited news magazines and business magazines for a dozen years. Also he has written for newspapers and magazines at the national level for 35 years. In addition to his proofreading talents. He has contributed to half a dozen popular history books. He is a voracious reader, including action thrillers, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns and serious fiction among his interests.
Ann Westlake
Ann Westlake
Writer’s Cramp Editing Consultants
[email protected]
phone: 604-946-3807, fax: 604-946-3803
www.wcediting.com
As an English Major Graduate of the University of Toronto, Ann now lives in Delta, BC. For 24 years, Ann has been an editor. Ann’s specialty is helping new authors navigate the confusing world and process of publishing. And Ann now has many happy return clients around the world. The works Ann has edited include adult novels, children’s books, a cook book, medical self helps, biographies, fictions, non-fictions, personal memoirs, science fiction, a published travel magazine. Ann is the acknowledged editor of sixty-one published books.
Furthermore, as a published author, Ann wrote a collection of children’s books, and a variety of business documents. Ann has been an English Assistant and ESL tutor. Since then Ann has instructed editing skills courses for Delta Continuing Education, and has been a writing skills instructor for private organizations. Ann was under contract for fifteen years with Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, BC campus, working in the Adult Learning Center tutoring ESL students. At Kwantlen College Ann also assisted those wishing to upgrade to Grade Twelve and University course marks. Ann is a co-founder of a writer’s support group in North Delta, BC. Writer’s Cramp Editing Consultants was established in 1992, and is owned and operated by Ann Westlake as a home-based business.
