Lauren Humphries-Brooks has worked as a freelance editor since 2015, amassing a resume that includes literary fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, romance, LGBTQ+, mystery/thrillers, academic publications, and film and television. She’s worked with St. Martin’s Press, Tor, Prometheus, Intellect Books, Amazon Publishing, Kirkus, Audible, and Erewhon Books. Her clients run the gamut from experienced, award-winning authors, to new writers looking for guidance through the editing process, and include Pulitzer Prize nominees, first-time fantasy authors, family historians, and film critics. A writer herself, with a master’s in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh, Lauren is passionate about editing and helping authors create something splendid, something of which they can be proud.

SERVICES

• book coaching

• line editing

• copyediting

• ghostwriting

• ghost editing

• agent query services

Genres

science fiction & fantasy/speculative fiction, mystery & suspense, crime fiction, short stories, young adult, historical fiction, action & adventure, literary fiction, thriller, romance, erotica, horror, LGBTQ+ fiction, women's fiction, philosophy, religion & spirituality, politics & social science, academic books, memoir & autobiography, history, LGBTQ+ nonfiction, poetry, creative nonfiction

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