For more than twenty years I've provided editing, proofreading, project management, and book consulting services to businesses, publishers, individuals, and self-publishing authors. All of my projects — books, marketing communications, journal/magazine articles, websites, resumes, proposals, and more — are approached with dedication and the highest professional standards.

Areas of specialization: business and book editing (fiction and nonfiction), manuscript evaluations, book development, proofreading, resume writing, and publishing/writing consulting.

Content expertise: health/fitness, nutrition, environment, business, natural/organic products, history, popular culture, social sciences, education, cooking, music, and spiritual traditions.

Jody Berman, Owner of Berman Editorial

I have extensive experience teaching, editing, proofreading, writing, managing projects and people, facilitating panels, planning events, and speaking to writers groups. My articles have appeared in local and national publications. I'm a member of Boulder Media Women and a past president of the Rocky Mountain Publishing Professionals Guild. In 2010, I started Boulder Editors, an association of professional women editors along Colorado's Front Range.

Strengths:

• Sensitive to a writer's voice: gentle, constructive, supportive.
• Adept at making complex material easy to understand.
• Enthusiastic about helping clients achieve their goals.
• Insightful and attentive to detail.
• Efficient, fast, and flexible.

 

“Jody, you were the perfect balance of professional editor and thoughtful coach. Not only did you make my book better, I believe I am a better author as I approach future projects.”

— David Cass, author of The Strategic Student: Successfully Transitioning from High School to College Academics

 

“We appreciate your professionalism and talent so much! You always make FIG look good.”

— Sylvia Tawse, owner and president, The Fresh Ideas Group

 

“Thank you so much for such a fine job in copyediting Girl in Hyacinth Blue. You have a keen eye for detail and a careful sensitivity.”

— Susan Vreeland, New York Times best-selling author