Cara has been writing and editing professionally for over a decade. She specializes in developmental editing for nonfiction manuscripts, as well as proofreading and copy editing for both fiction and nonfiction projects. She also offers coaching and copywriting services for interested clients. She is the author of The Color of Life and Church Camp and has been published in over 100 media …
Carrie Krause
Carrie has worked in publishing for over 20 years, beginning her career at Baker after graduating with an English major from Hope College. Since joining the freelance world in 2004, Carrie has focused primarily on proofreading and copyediting trade books, both fiction and nonfiction. She has proofread numerous titles for Baker Publishing Group and HarperCollins Christian Publishing, including books by …
Chandra Sparks Splond
Chandra is an editor, speaker, and award-winning author and blogger. She is the owner of West End Publishing, LLC, and was the consulting editor for Arabesque romance at Kensington Publishing. She has also edited for Random House, Moody Publishers, Kimani Press, and Hyperion, as well as several New York Times, USA Today, and Essence bestselling authors. She was a copy editor for Good Housekeeping, Newsday, and The Morning …
Christina Boys
Christina Boys has 25 years of experience as a book editor. She spent 20 years in-house at Simon & Schuster and Hachette Book Group, where she was a senior editor, acquiring and editing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction for the mainstream and Christian markets, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY bestsellers. She launched a …
Christine Anderson
Christine has worked in religious publishing for over 25 years, including staff positions in editorial and marketing at HarperSanFrancisco (now HarperOne), Zondervan, and the Willow Creek Association. In her work as a freelance editor, writer, and project manager, she has served clients such as HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Faith to Action, The Transforming Center, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Somersault Group, Harvest House, …
Darcie Clemen Robertson
Darcie began her work as an editor in 2006 at Thomas Nelson Publishers. She then edited for a media company before she began freelance editing and coaching in 2014. Her clients have included Thomas Nelson, Zondervan, Harvest House, StoryBrand, IF:Gathering, The Readable Bible, Fierce Marriage, and others. The daughter of an artist and an engineer, Darcie finds in editing a …
Ed Curtis
Ed has invested more than 30 years in publishing—part in Christian publishing with Word Publishing, part in the general trade world with Rutledge Hill Press and Cumberland House Publishing, and part with a STEM publisher in South Florida. His genre specialties include history, historical fiction, biography, true crime, political science, and current events. Ed majored in history and religion (with …
Elisa Stanford
Elisa Stanford was an acquisitions and developmental editor with Harold Shaw Publishers and WaterBrook Press (a division of Random House) before joining Edit Resource in 2005. Elisa has a bachelor’s degree in history from Illinois Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in spiritual formation from Wheaton Graduate School. She is the author or co-author of several books and has worked …
Elise Hess
As a lifelong lover of reading and learning, Elise is privileged to have a profession that combines both and allows her to work with publishers from all over the world as they produce works in all genres for the public. As an indexer, she has experience with combined indexes, subject indexes, Scripture indexes, name indexes, as well as index updates …
Erendira Ramirez-Ortega
Erendira is a widely published writer and blogger whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Crosswalk, and numerous other publications. She is the cofounding editor of Burning Bush Press, with years of background in homeschooling and children’s literature development. As a sensitivity reader, she offers guidance about the second-generation immigrant experience, the bilingual experience (English/Spanish), and the bicultural Mexican …