Copy edit romance novels

I have worked with several romance authors to polish their prose, improve clarity, correct typos and grammar gaffes, and eliminate inconsistencies. Along the way, I include explanations and tips and tricks so that future books will also benefit, and I highlight scenes and sentences that illustrate the writers' strengths—things I loved that I think readers will too. Among the things I’ve fixed/pointed out:

• The translucent glass wall through which an assistant watches her boss (transparent)

• A character whose name is sometimes Ava, sometimes Ana

• Decadent deserts (desserts)

• Chapter 9 … twice

• The correct uses of em dashes and en dashes

• Unnecessary dialogue tags

• Comma splices

• Repeated words or sentence structures

• Overuse of italics for emphasis

• Formatting inconsistencies

• Impossible physical feats

• Close-but-no-cigar words (orgasm/organism, condensation/condescension)

• Too much telling rather than showing

• Dangling/misplaced modifiers

• A timeline that doesn’t add up

• Incorrect homophones (rein/reign/rain)

• Tense and POV shifts