SIRIUS PROSE EDITING & CONSULTING
WHAT WE OFFER
Line Editing
Detailed
AttentionWe help spruce up your prose on a line-by-line basis. Great for mostly finished works that could use an extra level of polish.
Copyediting
Grammar and
Sentence StructureWe ensure that grammar and syntax work perfectly. Great for works that need one last pass to tighten them up.
Sensitivity Reading
Consulting on
Sensitive TopicsWe work with you at any phase of writing to ensure that your approach is socially responsible. Great for all kinds of manuscripts.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE,
PERSONAL ATTENTIONOur mission is to bring you top-notch editing and consulting with special attention to your project's particular needs. Each editor on our team has more than a decade of experience working professionally with writers on all kinds of projects.
We focus on editing and developing fiction, nonfiction, academic manuscripts, and journalism. We are also one of the few editing companies offering sensitivity reading and consulting. Other services that go beyond the editing basics include assistance for English-as-a-second-language writers and advice on marketing your work.
Reach out today to let us know what kind of project you are working on.
Developmental Editing
Developmental editing is a consultation between editor and author designed to improve a work on the macro-level.
A developmental edit largely ignores questions of grammar or awkward phrasing (here developmental edits are distinguished from line editing) in favor of structural concerns such as consistency of argument and theme, whether characters are interesting or likable, and whether the plot is gripping or makes sense.
A developmental edit will typically result in suggestions for significant rewrites. Depending on the desires of the author, a developmental edit may involve ongoing conversations between author and editor and multiple reviews of the manuscript.Line Editing
Line editing reviews your work at the sentence and paragraph level for issues of style, tone, and consistency.
For example, we might suggest rewording of awkward sentences or a change in sentence order. We might flag jarring shifts in tone, confusing wording, pacing problems, or inconsistencies in arguments or character motivations. This is sometimes called a substantive edit.
Because a line edit may result in significant changes to a work, a copyedit is usually recommended after this stage of revision.
Copyediting
Copyediting looks for technical issues rather than content issues.
It should take place only after you or someone else has performed at least one full line edit on your work.
We will review your work for errors in grammar and spelling, ensure consistent style, do light fact-checking, and flag problematic areas that require further review from the author.
Sensitivity Reading & Consulting
Sensitivity reading reviews work at any phase of development and offers advice on avoiding misrepresentation, bias, or harm.
Sensitivity reading rates start at $50 per project.
Our specialties: Indigenous people, Latines/Latin Americans, Jews/Judaism, common offensive tropes in all categories (race, gender, orientation, disability, etc.)
Areas where a writer may unknowingly incorporate harmful stereotypes or tropes include race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, national origin or status, and many others. These tropes can creep into character descriptions and actions or even entire story premises. The effects of such misrepresentation can range from simply making your characters feel unrealistic to actively contributing to psychological or political harm of vulnerable populations.
Hire a sensitivity reader to review your work for common offensive tropes and misrepresentation in all categories, as well as more subtle problems within our specialty areas. We will flag troubling depictions and suggest potential solutions. If we identify a particularly problematic area, we will point you in the right direction for further research or consulting. As with all forms of editing, final decisions are always left to the author.
Contact us if you are trying to decide if this service is right for you!
MEET YOUR EDITORS
A team of writing-obsessed professionals working in sunny Tucson, Arizona
Daniel Delgado
Line Editor, Copyeditor, Sensitivity Reader
Daniel Delgado (he/him) has been a professional writer and editor since 2004. He is a former editor of the Earth First! Journal. His fiction has appeared in publications including Cossmass Infinities, Lamplight Magazine, and Whigmaleeries and Wives’ Tales. His nonfiction has appeared in publications including Earth First! Journal, Writers Journal, and The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet. His editing and sensitivity clients include Learning A-Z, Junior Achievement USA, and the Koboa RPG setting, for which he is also a writer and designer.
Daniel is Quechua, Latine, and Jewish, and has an extensive professional background in the topics of racism and colonialism. He is excited to help writers with sensitivity reads of their work, especially speculative fiction. On the editing side, he prefers to work with book-length fiction or nonfiction.
Find him on Twitter (@DDelgadoVive), Mastodon (@DDelgadoVive@zeroes.ca) or BlueSky (@ddelgadovive.bsky.social).
speculative fiction • Indigenous people • Latin America • Judaism • ecology/environment • health • folklore • radical politics • decolonization
Sophie Strosberg
Line Editor, Copyeditor, UX Writer, Content Strategist
Not taking clients - contact me for a referral.
Sophie Strosberg (she/her) is a journalist, UX writer, and content editor with 15 years of experience. She holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Vermont.
Sophie has experience editing in the fields of business, psychology, anthropology, geography, fine art, engineering, and beyond. She has held editing positions at the Better Because Collective, Tikkun, the Child Neurology Foundation, and the Earth First! Journal, and her writing has appeared in Raising Arizona Kids, Undark, Huffpost Personal, Laptop Mag, 30pin, Parents, and other venues.
Visit Sophie's personal website.
UX writing • content strategy • brand design • blogs • writing coaching • microbiome • health • parenting/pregnancy • social theory
Gabbriel Schivone
Developmental Editor, Story and Theme Specialist, Writer's Market Consultant
Gabriel Schivone (they/them/he) is currently a Literary Fellow/Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona. In Jan. 2020, Schivone's investigative reporting earned an inaugural New York Review of Books/Robert B. Silvers Foundation Work in Progress grant. Schivone's work in fiction, drama, and journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Thriller Magazine, The Florida Review, Yes! Magazine, The Guardian, The Nation, Huffington Post, McClatchy Newspapers, Electronic Intifada, and elsewhere. His forthcoming book, Making the New “Illegal”: How Decades of US Involvement in Central America Triggered the Modern Wave of Immigration, includes a forward by linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky.
Gabb works with authors to develop concepts and refine ideas. They also coach writers in framing and marketing a story idea or manuscript. This kind of "marketing" is not the kind done after publication, but rather is something that Gabb believes should be a fundamental part of the writing process from start to finish. Gabb also has contacts at numerous popular publications across the nonfiction, journalism, and fiction (graphic and literary) worlds, and works with authors on short- and long-form pieces. Twitter: @GSchivone
Politics and current affairs: Central America, im/migration & homeland security policing, Palestine/Israel, ethnic studies • literary and genre fiction • graphic narrative • playwright and screenwriting • lyrical nonfiction • literary journalism
