Book Publishing Freelancers from Diverse Communities Database

I am freelance editor who offers the following services to academic, higher education, and trade publishers:

• Editing: substantive, stylistic, copyediting, editing to design
• Proofreading: against copy, cold read, pre-print sweeps, transcripts (legal and medical)
• Indexing: back-of-book, embedded, pictorial, bibliographical, electronic, concordances, unique
• Research: picture research, content research, clearing permissions and rights
• Manuscript preparation: typesetting, applying tagging

I have over fifteen years’ experience, and my project list consists of monographs and academic publications, journal articles, higher education textbooks, trade fiction and non-fiction books, guidebooks, and gallery and museum catalogs (art books). I have experience editing and indexing titles in the humanities and hard and soft sciences.

Client list and samples of work available upon request.

Email: dina.theleritis@outlook.com

Simon Thibault has worked as a Developmental Editor focusing on LGBTQ+, food, and Acadian titles at Nimbus Publishing, as well as a manuscript editor at Nimbus. His work has appeared in places such as The Globe and Mail, Huff Post, XTRA!, as well was radio work for CBC and Radio-Canada. He has also been a judge for the James Beard Awards as well as the IACP Cookbook Awards.

Clare Thorbes is a certified French to English translator, with more than 25 years of experience in translating government policy, business, legal and personal documents from French and Spanish to English. Her translation of Capital coolinaire, an essay by Nora Bouazzouni, was published in issue 94 of Ellipse Magazine. Her non-fiction translations include a theologian’s book on an ancient artifact and its sequel. She was a founding board member of the Victoria Interpreters’ and Translators’ Association (VITA), where she managed multilingual translation projects. Clare is also a freelance editor, former co-owner of a small press, and a published writer, with essays in three anthologies on creativity: Inside Creativity Coaching and The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives, both edited by Eric Maisel, PhD, and The Coach’s Guide to Completing Creative Work, edited by Eric Maisel and Lynda Monk.

Email: clarethorbes217@gmail.com

Lesbian feminist anti-racist killjoy with experience in educational publishing (textbooks) and other non-fiction.

I am a Toronto-based freelance editor with experience in proofreading, copy editing, and supplement creation/editing, particularly in Higher Education publishing. I am a graduate of the Innis College Writing and Rhetoric program at the University of Toronto, and I have over one year’s experiencing working in-house as an editorial assistant at a reference publisher.

I am a chronically ill, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse woman, and I have experience working on projects related to chronic illness/disability, sexuality and gender, and intersectionality. I am also particularly experienced in and interested in taking on projects related to the social sciences, humanities, Indigenous studies, criminology, education and pedagogy, research design, social work, early childhood education, and health studies.

Email: sarahtooleyeditor@gmail.com

My experience is in academic editing/publishing. I specialise in papers/documents from the economics and management fields. I’m adept at formatting for journal submissions. I also have considerable experience working with students and their statements of purpose, admissions essays, etc.

Email: draftedservices@outlook.com

I am a bi/queer woman living and working in Kjuptuk/Halifax. I am an artist and I have a background in political organizing. I am now working as a graphic designer and bring my experience organizing people and campaigns and trying to get a message across along with formal art training to graphic design. I am an illustrator and designer and recently graduated from the NCSS Graphic Design program.

Email: sarah.trower@gmail.com

I’m a theologian of disability, liturgist, and poet from Prince Edward Island, Canada. I specialize in proofreading, line editing, and copy editing. I’ve edited some short stories, and self-published “Contours of Eternity,” a book of poetry (2013); I’ve also published a devotional booklet on “Disability, Faith, and Justice” through the Student Christian Movement of Canada (2016), co-written and -edited a Guide for Accessible Congregations through the Ontario College of Art and Design (2018), and published three academic articles through the Political Theology Network (2019), the Journal of Religion and Disability (2019), and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2020).

Yilin Wang (she/they) is a queer Chinese Canadian writer, poet, editor, and literary translator. Her speculative and literary fiction, poetry, and translations have appeared in many journals, including Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Words Without Borders, POETRY, Guernica, The Mahalat Review, CV2, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the 2021 class of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

She is currently the co-editor-in-chief of the slice-of-life fantasy magazine Tales & Feathers, and has been an editor for Room Magazine and guest edited Strange Horizons’ Wuxia and Xianxia Special Issue. As a substantive editor, she specializes in speculative fiction, poetry, and graphic novels. As a sensitivity reader/editor, she specializes in Chinese Canadian and diaspora representation, history, folklore, and popular culture, and has also used her bilingual skills to complete Mandarin Chinese and Pinyin copyediting. Her clients include publishers and game studios such as Penguin Random House (adult and children imprints), HarperCollins, Candlewick, Douglas and McIntyre, Brace Yourself Games, and Devolver Digital Games.

As a translator from Chinese to English, she specializes in translating speculative fiction, poetry, picture books, and graphic novels. She the translator of the poetry anthology The Lantern and the Night Nights (Invisible Publishing, 2024), and has completed translation work or consultations for the Writer’s Union’s Write Magazine, the Canada Council for the Arts, UNIT/PITT Society for Art & Critical Awareness, and elsewhere.

Email: yilinw@gmail.com

Natalie Wee is an editor with over six years of experience as a developmental editor, copy editor, and proofreader at publishing houses, magazines, and journals. She has worked on a wide range of projects ranging from poetry, genre and literary fiction, non-fiction, young adult, kidlit, and journalism / news. Her editorial clients and work include Penguin Random House, Counterpoint Press, Arsenal Pulp Press, Annick Press, and Sourcebooks.

Previously, Natalie served as the poetry editor for LooseLeaf Magazine, a magazine for pan-Asian creatives. She is especially interested in continuing to work with communities of colour, especially queer writers of colour. She also wrote two poetry collections, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (San Press, 2021) and Beast at Every Threshold (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022), which was named a Lambda finalist for Lesbian Poetry.

Email: natalieweewrites@gmail.com