Welcome! I'm book editor Jean Kavich Bloom. I've been part of the publishing industry for thirty-six years, including freelancing full-time the last dozen years. I work collaboratively with Christian publishing professionals and authors to help make the written word accessible and editorially excellent.*
At the same time, I help ensure that the authors' vision, story or message, passion, and insight shine, whether in fiction or nonfiction. Unique for some freelance editors, I offer both line editing and copyediting at the same time, a "combined edit" that can save time and in some cases money for my client.
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- my background
- my experience and accomplishments in the publishing and editing fields
- projects I've edited, both fiction and nonfiction
- my clients
- the types of editing and writing I do
- what some authors and publishing professionals say about my work
- the services, processes, and rates I offer
- how to contact me
*Because of my workload with publishers, at times I'm unavailable to work with authors not publishing their books traditionally.
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To get the
right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused
light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy
to rank as a prize composition just by itself . . . Anybody can have ideas—the
difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea
that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. ―Mark Twain