Ivy Editing Services
Copyediting and Proofreading Fiction and Nonfiction, All Genres
Foundations
Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Erin Ivy earned a Bachelor of Arts specializing in English and Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as a Master of Arts in English, Creative Writing, at the University of Kansas. She worked in academic publishing for over fifteen years, specializing in packaging and book production.
Erin would love to help perfect your work for whoever your targeted audience may be: casual readers, professors, agents, or publishers.
Erin Ivy is a talented and experienced writer as well as a meticulous proofreader and skillful and deeply caring editor. I had the pleasure of reading her writing when she was an M.A. student at the University of Kansas, and subsequently worked with her on several projects when she was at Palgrave Macmillan. She in fact introduced me to that publisher, and I eventually published ten or so books with Palgrave. I especially appreciated her assiduity as well as near-perfect sense of style (we disagree only on the use of italics for emphasis, which I no doubt abuse). Honestly, far from being able to think of that single fault, I can only sing her praises.
G. Douglas Atkins, author of E.B. White: The Essayist as First-Class Writer
I would say that Hollywood’s Stephen King and The Films of Stephen King are two of the best of my twenty-three books ever published. And the reason for that is in no small part due to Erin Ivy’s involvement with them. Both books Erin worked on for Palgrave were beautifully copyedited and proofread. She taught me that a good editor is invaluable to finishing a publication properly.
Tony Magistrale, co-editor of Violence in the Films of Stephen King
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong morał principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the Street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.