BEST-EVER Edit and Index offers copyediting and line editing services for fiction and nonfiction writers that preserve the author’s voice as well as subject-savvy indexing of general trade books and scholarly/academic titles (please inquire about services not listed here).
Editing and Indexing
Fiction: YA; action and adventure; romance; LGBTQ+; contemporary fiction; short story
Nonfiction: memoirs (personal and professional); history; religious/spiritual; academic texts
Specialties:
- MUSIC
classical, contemporary classical, rock/pop, Americana, folk and traditional, performance, recording, composing, theory, pedagogy - HOME/GARDEN
organic gardening, fruit growing, pruning, composting, cooking, home food preservation, home brewing, maintenance, DIY and maker - AGRICULTURE
organic, regenerative, sustainable, market gardening, no-dig, micro-farming - FATHERHOOD AND FAMILY
raising boys, nontraditional relationships, house husbanding, working from home
“When readers in bookstores browse indexes of similar titles,
Daniel’s index will surely pull readers into its book
and convince them to choose that title over a competing title.”
Kari Kells
Experience:
- UC Berkeley Extension copyediting certificate
- 20-plus years of performative and narrative fiction authorship
- Master of Music degree
- 30-plus years of composing, performing, and recording in various musical genres
- 20-plus years of organic gardening, cooking, and home food preservation
- 14 years as an importer/US distributor of a European food preservation device
Feel free to contact me with questions and for a quote.
Please see my profiles at these professional organizations:
American Society for Indexing
Northwest Editors Guild
Editorial Freelancers Association
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